CRAZE FOR AMUSEMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2632, 13 September 1923, Page 4

CRAZE FOR AMUSEMENT.

In connection with the often expressed opinion that people to-day have a craze for amusement it is interesting to note that the South Dakota Legislature passed the following • series of resolutions recently:—“That the people of South Dakota ! bo enjoined to at once address themselves to renewed effort to restore the balance between the spiritual and the material; that our children be reared up in the precepts of fundamental righteousness. That the Churches and Sabbath schools be constrained to intensify their work and to extend it to every child within their respective spheres of influence. That parents be adjured to exert every effort to restore the old-time influence of the home in moulding the lives of their children for the development of conscience and morality; that the family altar be restored and that in self-sacrificing love the little ones be trained in the simple virtues of truthfulness, honesty and respect for the rights of others. That the schools promptly reform their methods, so that the rudimentary studies, as well as the sciences, be taught only as subordinate to righteousness. That it is the judgment of the Legislature of South Dakota that only upon the lines herein suggested can the true balance be restored and the crime wave checked and civilisation preserved.”