business was nowhere more evident than in the following sentence in the original version of his writings which were published by this newspaper: "Why should a group of young men be playing cricket with tennis ball, homemade bat, and fruit box on the sidewalks of the Palmetto Road adjacent to an empty playing field.'' In our series of editorials designed to increase consideration of Mr.

Critchley's writings on the current state of Bermuda, this is a most telling observation. To this newspaper it points out the lack of concern for the needs of people which allows Bermuda to lock away facilities the public has paid for and to preserve them for special usage while relegating the daily needs of the people to the devices of the people.

We have all sorts of facilities like the Devonshire Rec Field which was used in the Critchley example, although technically private, have been financed by the public but are not open for public use. Bermuda has a tendency to build facilities and then to protect them from the very people they were built to serve.

A school hall is of little value if it is only used for school assembly.

Playing fields are places for people to play and not special occasion facilities for the small number of people on winning teams. We build more and more churches, using up more and more of our limited space to congregate a few hours a week because denominations, largely Christian, cannot agree on minor points of liturgy. Church halls are used only a tiny percentage of the week and usually with complicated regulations because we would rather keep them clean than make them function as facilities for the public. We build more buildings, duplicating existing spaces so that each individual group can be proud of what it built and can elect a committee to guarantee that the building is narrowly used and kept free of the public.

And as Mr. Critchley points out, a group of young men play cricket with a tennis ball on the sidewalk beside an empty playing field. What he wants is a response that would care about these young men on the sidewalk. What he calls, "...the overdue necessity of really coming to grips with the inequalities of income distribution and the absence of programmes and services to assure that all have some reason to aspire to the good life.'' He is extremely concerned about racial and economic separation in sports, in education and in schools. He says, "... I do regret Warwick Academy's decision to become private. I believe that it will inevitably contribute to a public/private school system based on race and income.'' Mr. Critchley wants care for all Bermudians so that we do not develop a potentially dangerous significant minority. We think Mr. Critchley is correct.