NOTES AND COMMENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19230, 20 January 1926, Page 8

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

CO-WORKERS IN INDUSTRY. Addressing the members of the Society of British Gas Industries, Sir Alfred Mond, the president, said that those who were engaged in industry would eventually have to carry into practice the general principles of a new psychology of industrial affairs. This new psychology would follow from a realisation of the change which was bound to come in the relationship of those engaged in industry in every capacity. They were still burdened with the phraseology of a definite epoch. They still read about "employers and employed" and about " masters and men," whereas they knew that they were all " employed." Practically all their concerns to-day were I*un by boards of directors, who were just as much employed as the \man who was shovelling coal. All those phrases had no longer any meaning; the true phrase to-day was " co-workers in industry." They were co-workers in different capacities and at different salaries, but all dependent upon the prosperity of the industry for the remuneration or the reward, whatever it might be. They must have a new psychology and a new phraseology, and then they could look forward to an era of economic and mora] success in industry 'far greater than they had yet experienced.

THE KITCHENER CHAPEL. The Kitchener Memorial Chapel in St, Paul's Cathedral, which was dedicated last month, is a memorial not only to the Field-Marshal but also to all the fallen in the Great War. Its main features are the altar with the superimposed 'Pieta,, the recumbent figure of Lord Kitchener and the two military saints, St. Michael and St. George. The Times says the chapel is designed to express the spirit of sacrifice which characterised the great soldier whose memory it enshrines, and permeated the "large armies which rose at his call. As part of the northwest corner of the cathedral, the chapel has two windows, one on the north and the other .on the west, so that it is exceedingly well lighted. The figure of Lord Kitchener, at the foot of the altar, is of white marble. The utmost care has been given to the Pieta, a beautiful work representing the body of Christ supported by Mary Magdalene. In the middle of the north wall is a recess, closed by two small iron gates, in which there is an illuminated roll containing the names of Royal Engineers of all ranks who lost their lives. With it will be kept the smaller volumes recording the names of the officers and men of the Ell-' gineer Corps of the Dominions and the sappers and miners of the Indian Army. The altar, as distinct from the -group of sculpture which surrounds it, is given by the Royal Engineers in memory of the Colonel-in-Chief, Lord Kitchener, and their comrades. On one of the walls of the chapel appears a tablet bearing the following words: —"This chapel is set apart in memory of F.M. Earl Kitchener, His Majesty's Secretary of State for War, and ail who fell 1914-18."