IN DEFENCE OF YOUTH

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 25, 22 October 1937, Page 4

IN DEFENCE OF YOUTH

-Press Association.)

Sound Morality Despite Appearances . A BISHOP'S VIEW . .

(By Telegraph-

DUNEDIN, This Day. A defence of the young people of today despite appearances fell from Bishop Eitchett at tho Anglican Synod yesterday. Notwithstanding an attitude of bravado and a Jezebelisk appearance, there was, he affirmed, a great deal more real good and sound morality 111 modern youth than many people wero inclined to think. Commenting on the opportunities that aro'se for clergymen to give instructioa, the Bishop said that he had attended a danco in coiinection with a wedding celebration. To his Victorian mind many of the young women present looked very much like painted Jezebels. They were different from the girls with whom he had danced in his young days. They had much more on their faces and lesS on their bodies— but he had been surprised when talking with two of them to find a genuine interest in the responsibilities of marriage which each was. contemplating. He was of the opinion that most of the obvioua frivolity was merely "put on. " There was far niore real, good, sound morality beneath the surface than most people knew. The modern attitude was mostly mere bravado and need not be regarded as indicative of the degenerqtion of the race.