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Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1933, Page 4

“Neglect of boys', or girls is a groat danger to society,” said Mr Ramsay

MacDonald at a gathering organised by the National Association. of Boys’ (Jlubs. “The better the qualities of boys and girls, the greater is the danger of neglecting them. The tendency in these days is to widen the field of communal responsibiity till public organisation supplants individual moral responsibility. It is quite unnecessary for me to remind you that as far as the organisation of communal responsibility is concerned, I am all for it. Yon cannot avoid it. Reason applied to the organisation of social activity is likely to lead Britain and all other countries through the next stage of their social evolution. But never in days gone l>y, and never, I believe, in the days to’ come, whether they may bo long or short, will any organisation oi communal responsibility make it unnecessary for you to exercise to the verv fullest extent your personal responsibility to your fellow human beings, particularly to the youth of the country. The more highly organised vre make social responsibility the wider and wider ought to become the field in which the individual man can find free nlay for the exercise of his moral responsibility, not as a duty, but as a natural and spontaneous exercise .of his own personality.”