PRESENT-DAY LIVING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19691, 19 January 1926, Page 9

PRESENT-DAY LIVING

AMERICAN’S BITTER CRITIQUE. FETISH OP ENTERTAINMENT. •‘OUR GREAT GOO IS MAMMON." OPre*» A«Dociatlon~By Telegraph—Copyright) NEW YORK, January 17. One of the bitterest critiques of American life was given by Dr Charles Shaw, professor of philosophy in the New York University, and one of .America’s school of young philosophers. He said that some philanthropist "should offer a 100,000 dollars prize for the invention of the reason for living. There are seven deadly values current in life, namely, speed, radio, sox, over-emphasis of health, jazz, modern psychology and money.” Mr Shaw added: "Another age wontd have hesitated to annihilate space and rime in thejway we grind them up in our machines. They would have feared the envy of the gods. Our octogenarians and centenarians knew nothing about diet — they just lived; but we are striving for Methuselah’s record.- We have come to the conclusion that we must he entertained. It is always entertainment. The time was when psychology was confined to the classroom and the laboratory, but now it is running loose in the streets. This is the age of sex. Our great god is Mammon, as our great man is Dives.”— A. and N.Z. Cable.