CORRUPT LITERATURE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 477, 26 June 1912, Page 5

CORRUPT LITERATURE.

To the Editor. Sir,—A few brief lines to call atten • tion to a subject of impctance to every r.onimunitv. Mew Zealand is yet young, this King Gauntry is very young, Te Kuiti is youngest of ail. It is in the hands of the young people of thi3 youthful country that its destiny rests. Now, all the world over, is convinced that the greatest curr.e of any country, power for evil among its youth is an evil, corrupt and decadent literature. Would it not be, then, n pressing duty for all those who guard the young to exHinine a little the novels and periodicals current among them? If this is done in our township, some startling discoveries will be made. There are on sale, flaunted in the eyes of the public, novels (so-called) whose sole and open aim is to recommend to the young immoral living, scorn of all their fathers' hold sacred in social life, and —worst of all modern curses —race decadence. This is a sweeping statement —it would be a very blameworthy statement if the writer could not prove it. We insist on our food being, as far as maybe, pure; sanitation for the bodily health is held esential; will we yet allow young minds and hearts to be fed on poisonous filth? Perhaps others who have seen and know may corroborate, parents maybe on the alert and you, sir, vvitn your usual public spirit, may lend your journal to oppose the continued sale of such literary abominations. —I am, et., JOHN BRENNAN.