Propaganda Needed To Suppress Crime

Chronicle (Levin), 1 February 1949, Page 3

Propaganda Needed To Suppress Crime

Ileceived Monday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 31. The Arclibisliop of York,'Dr. Uarbett, in a York dioeesau Jeahet, reixeated the suggestion he made recently in the Lords tliat tliere should be a State organised campaign against the causes of crime. ' ' The immediate task is to arouse the eonscience of the nation to condemit bpenly i and uncompromisingiy, dishonesty and untruthfulness wherever they may be found and in what ever profession, business or industry, There is much confusion over moral standards and it will generally be admitted that the difference 1 between rig-ht and vvrong has become blurred. Proeeedings at the Lynslcey Tribunal show how far this . has . spread. t There ar'e . whole. masses of people beyond the reaeh of tlie churehes and who pay .no attention. to the claiius" of Uod, , so * the.. State sho'uld do what the churehes cannot do Jirough the press, wireless, Cinema and xosters. It should bring before .the tation the extent of crime and it should ihovy the loss,: fear, suspiqion Dfl.d,iu-: lonvenience caused by dishonesty ap.d intruthfulness. It should appeal to- all :o set their faces against and Stamp ^

)iit petty pilfering and all underhand jractices. " Dr. Garbett . gives as ihe, causes ok ,'ho ' increase in . crime^.- unsetfiornent aused by the war, the increas.ed value' ind scarcitv of objeets onee' common,, leserters still on the run, the inabilityit' some parents to control th'eir elxilIreti, and a policc forco too small to ope with all its duties.