LIKE SAVAGES

Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9844, 24 October 1924, Page 3

LIKE SAVAGES

PAINT POWDER AND FURS,

'CLERGYMAN’S CRITICISM

ADELAIDE, Oct. 13.. Taking for Ins text the words “Woo to the scandal isor,. tiro giver of bad example—it were better that a millstone were tied about his neck and that lie were cast into the depths of the sea,” Father McManus, of the Redemptorist Order, who is conducting a fortnight’s mission at St. Mary’s Cathedral, made a vigorous attack on Sunday night. Ho said that scandal could he given in various ways. It could he given by women who refused to bear children. .Not only did they refuse to bear clbldren but they openly boasted about it to their neighbors. They paraded themselves in the streets in costly furs and painted and powdered theii faces, an-cl their evidence of guilt adorned them like New Guinea savages. -

Scandal could he given hv parents allowing their children to be locked .up in l a room till early morning with young men of whom they knew nothing. Scandal could also be given by allowing children to frequent places of amusement that the parents knew nothing about. y The Church realised the amount of wickedness and immorality that took place in the world. A had example could ho given by the manner in which women dressed. .The bishops of U.S.A., France, England, ar.d Germany, together with the Pope, were conducting a war against the style of dress because of the s'candal, hut the women persisted in dressing in the same way. •

“'Surely,” he said, “the}' do not regard the bishops and the Pope as a lot of fossilised old fools?”