"WHERE ARE MY CHILDREN?"

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 330, 16 November 1917, Page 3

"WHERE ARE MY CHILDREN?"

Monday Next. The pictuie which is to be produced in the Premier Hall, Pukekohe, next Monday evening under this title is what the little ones would call "nasty medicine." It is calculated to make people think. It will probably make them think hard and variously The most obvious lesson it conveys is, of course, that ic | pays to ba good, also that the way |of the transgressor is hard. But f there is more than that in it. If the j picture is anything beyond a device j for harrowing people's feelings at so j much a lifting it is an indictment of j our social system. Virtue, it seems, j s.ill resides amongst the and I lowly—when ic resides at aii—but I the tendency of riches to j harden the heart and tuughen the : conscience. Luxury, selfl-haess | and heartiessness are commonly sup- | posed to hand in hard, ami there | is no doubt that that is largely the ; case. (. putence plays havoc with the social ihe nemises of j the wealthy parvenu is too often rej proba:e sous aud dissolute daughters. i But there is another side of the | picture. Vice is not created whol'y by extreme wealth. It attaches also Ito extreme poverty. In the great ! cities of the work the children of the poor are marked from birth as the victims of profligacy and mental and moral degredation. In the kennels of the cosmopoli chastity cannot reside. In the slums the children i "die like ilies." It is the perpetual hideous tragedy of the poor, the classes and the masses. Monday J night will positively be the only opportunity of seeing this sensational picture. The box plan is at the Bookery. Reserve seats 2s (id.