ANTI-CUBSING MOVEMENT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 264, 4 August 1919, Page 5

ANTI-CUBSING MOVEMENT

4 TO COMBAT A WAR GKOWTH. The "oursing habit," which prevailed during the war in nil tho Services, and is in danger also of permeating civil life,' is causing much concern among those who liove the moral welfare of tie nation at heart. To oombat the growing evil a League of Hefiuenieat is being started by Mr. F. Phillips, an ex-corporal in the 11.A.1 1 '. The aims of this leugue are set out by Mr. Phillips as follow:— This league, is an attempt to multiply individual efforts and influence with a view of promoting self-restraint and preventing tho. cursing habit becoming a custom among tho men and women now returning to civil life and being further spread by them. The oursing habit infects the Forces from the highest ranks, the effect on lower ranks of being oursed at by a superior is debasing and destructive of moral fibre. Tho effect on the casual hearer ia, that tho ideas and expressions are eomi-consoiously absorbed, with the result that they are produced involuntarily. These effects are most apparent with the women who have come forward so splendidly to help in all branches of tho Forces as well as the munition workers, the large majority, of whom had not previously been in intimate contact with men and women accustomed to tho 1160 of profane language. Tho loaguo intends lo work by public speaking and the distribution of lcaftVts, as well as by individual influencb