MORALS OF WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23974, 15 June 1943, Page 7

MORALS OF WOMEN

Sir, —In ‘‘The Press” this morning appears a statement by the heads of the churches condemning the morals of women when their menfolk are overseas. From time immemorial it has been the woman who has always paid. ; From a woman’s point of view, I don’t think the men are altogether bjameless. Many soldiers, when they leave these shores, soon forget the women they left behind. Only recently I read of a whole squadron of New Zealand airmen in the United States marrying American women. No doubt many of these men left broken-hearted sweethearts here. Regarding married men, do they live as pure lives as they expect their wives to live? It is about time legislation was passed that when houses of ill-fame are raided, men found on the premises should be brought before the Court and given the same publicity as the women now receive.—Yours, etc., S. JOHNSTON. June 14, 1943. Sir.—On reading the article on the clergy’s appeal to wives and fiancees of soldiers serving overseas, I cannot help thinking they are barking up the wrong tree this time. Why not appeal to the mean-minded people who make the lives of soldiers’ wives and sweethearts miserable by talking scandal about their behaviour? The minds of thousands of these people could be improved by nothing less than actual fumigation. Why a soldier’s wife any more than any other wife, cannot enjoy the company of men friends, old or young, without being thought fast and unfaithful is beyond me. Since coming to town, I have been really disgusted by the attitude of some of these “well-meaning” busybodies. It is the tales fabricated by persons who would be better employed improving their own morals that get under the skin of some of the victims of their vile minds (and tongues), and set them off in the wrong direction.—Yours, etc., ONE VICTIM. June 14, 1943.