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...scene was the ballroom of the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec, the province without whose support no party can expect to win in Canada. The occasion: a dinner honoring External Affairs Minister (and Justice Minister) Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Quebec's top-ranking politician in the Dominion Parliament. While some 800 party big& littlewigs whooped it up from the floor. Prime Minister King, as a gesture to Quebec, spoke ten minutes in French before switching to English. He pleaded with Minister St. Laurent to drop his intentions to retire. (The Minister would probably agree.) Then, after some pats...
Both professor Sorokin and Wilfred Wellock, Labor Member of Parliament form 1927 to 1931, deplored the present day materialistic economic system which deprives the mass man of the opportunity to develop his personality and spiritual powers. "The modern mass production system," stated Wellock, "which makes factory workers robots, takes away their individuality, by-passes culture and religion, and leads them to work like machines and play like devils...
...fourth Harvard Forum of the year, a trio which includes a sociologist, a philosopher, and a former Labor Member of Parliament will discuss the degeneration of western society and culture this evening at 8 o'clock in Emerson...
Speaking on a subject announced as "Are We Going to the Dogs?" will be: Pitrim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology; Wilfred Wellock, Labor Member of Parliament, 1927-31; and Henry D. Aiken, associate professor of Philosophy. As usual a discussion period will follow the speeches, with questions from the floor...
Wellock, who is here from England on a nation-wide speaking tour, has lived in India, and while in Parliament was a member of the Select Committee for the Government of East Africa. He is the author of "Mechanistic or Human Society," "Which Way Britain?," and other books...