THE BUSINESS MAN

Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1933, Page 6

THE BUSINESS MAN

AVERAGE PERSON’S LIMITATIONS

“Wo have been obsessed for too long with the idea that the busings man is aii'expert in finance and economics. He is not,” said Dr Blunt, Bishop ox Bradford. “The average business man knows enough to run his own business well or badly, blit in regard to. general economic theories he is often a great deal more ignorant than many a working man. Many ot «ur business men do not see how serious the issue is. Perhaps their minds are too much occupied in 'trying to keep their businesses above water. •- If business men do not see it, still less do the female parts of our congregations see it, especially that part which has drawing rooms. Many of theui are apt to say that people are out of .work because they do not want to work and they point to the fact that they • cannot get domestic servants. It is\the working man who sees it. I think he sees it much more clearly than any other section of tho community, because it is upon him the stress mainly falls. Tilings 'are difficult enough for people with fixed incomes and for business men, but they can live. Many a working-class household can barely do that.” Civilisation as they understood it was at tho cross roads, nd unless it were to to take the wrong turning—and if • that were done it j

would load, to unimaginable disaster 1 —it was up to every man of goodwill, and not least the ministers of Christ's' Church, 'to try to got a stabilised opinion as to one direction in which an advance toward a healthier state of things could be made.