PRICE OF PROGRESS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18067, 19 April 1933, Page 5

PRICE OF PROGRESS

A “QUIET CORNER” MR. BALDWIN’S WISH LONDON, Feb. 23. “It is a very sad thought that you have to have movements afoot now lor the preservation not only of what is beautiful in towns but of what is beautiful iu the countryside. It is an appalling thought.” Mr. Baldwin made these remarks last night when he presided at the dinner of the Worcestershire Association, held in London.

Mr. Baldwin had previously spoken of the way in which London was being degraded in places, and he continued : 'l have been told that as a result of this wonderful experiment of running electric trains to Brighton probably within the next 10 or 20 years some of the most beautiful and secluded parts of England will become practically suburbs.

“I give thanks that whatever attempts may be made to electrify the railway systems of this country they may never reach the Bewdley, Cleolmry, Mortimer, Teuhury and Woofferton Railway, which runs through my country and in the recesses of which I hope ono day to bury myself. “We live in a day of mechanical production, and the problem of the world is to find orders. 1 suppose, with luck, we may hope to see the day when we may put billycock hats on all the niggers from Morocco to Capetown, and when every Chinese will be riding his own bicycle along the Great Wall of China. “Whether the world will be a better place I leave to wiser heads than mine to tell us. However the world may progress, however its desires may increase and be fulfilled, I only hope there may he some quiet corner of England left for those of us whose only ambition is once more to see the passing of the English seasons from winter to spring, from spring to summer, from summer to autumn, and from autumn to winter again.”