DANCE AND-DISTRESS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12748, 27 April 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

DANCE AND -DISTRESS.

BISHQP. OF DURHAM'S APPEAL TO THE WEMv-TO-DO. LONDON^ April 14. The Bishop of Durham, iri view of the trcineudous effects of the strike on the industrial multitudes other than miners, appeals to, the well-to-do. ■■•■to let the. work ing people sep'that they care." "One Avay, ' he states In a letter to the Timcf!. '"Avill be by a manifest ''restraint on their own indulgences. The daily Press records, often Jit -parallels here the labor troubles, there a long series of [social events, dances, and the like. l| still' hold to if that ai .visible- -nwufesta- 1

tion of sympathetic restraint, just nbw would be both right m itself and .salutary m the highest degree m view of common ieeling. "I hear from those who know tliat many people are planning to go abroad, I suppose to Italy; or JEgypt, 1 w^6|i*e/f?py can be 'warrri Avithoii't coal,* senuing their servants "to their liornes, to add, of course,' r by their presence 'to the' iri"eed v 6. rieedirig; families. Such -action, 'avoiil^ /a grave disservice to the Gomjn^unity;, sjieer selfishness without a veil." ' : ' :) .^ "tlie- Avbftihg'tieopte iVote '''ilK'tltie^e thirig^ Ave-I.'* And- tw6 effePtS'fblloAAf'-st'Hfe hbtice,-fdrand AA-ide; a deep, reseiljn'i'ent on- one hand, th_) Qthgr, too,o|ten,j,ah imitative arid' dembralisirig' , craze v for wa'stefvir *piea^ures. ,f M " ' n M> "• ,I1 ""'- " ; '•Paddress riiyfeelf • to' Ull who ' bai*e : fbr neighboir: and -country .,;. I. ,ajjneaL;fpr ,;sie keejxing of ; *a . Avhplesome , . . Lent . (iri" . . Rio merely . ecclesiastical '."* sense j a -Ijent.'i'iifplaiVt" living,'* of* itris'._fis.i, pub-ic-^pirit'^d tliinking, and of that Aviso b;rit*AVi_liri|; giving, (hot of money only)>:'whiQli'*pl*^h living facilitates;, M1 /, yy „^. "I appeal fora'AA'atchTul Ftarii-lirlg v bf pu^'m'-aW arid"»ur' haliits^'- a^ l^'£Boi Avh6 l know* that avo all, - persjoii- '>jam_ classes, are. members of. one anbth er r alritt therefore inexorably responsißle. tb "diie another, able Itb 'help or hurt^W M other' iridefihi't-lv _s '•wb : rerri^ai-b6r' '"t_-& cv forg-t'it.'* :'"- ':; , ? : -' y ' ..**;-