Feverish Rush For Excitement

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 183, 24 October 1927, Page 8

Feverish Ru s h For Excitement

Ma re-Racing Condemned

mayor should lead ! T j he . feverish riil, Htc T d oas living ojtcn rads t V, moralUg," W as the lenor A** 1 nted address oirZ i ol «»• Lionet y,etcher a *■ Theatre last evening. L Ma Kr. r pilE speaker first touched UDo „ advances in civilisation the past, referring partic Cac ‘ : practical abolition of ch ld pL, IO 4. was within the memorvlt living mat women used ,r. Plf,c- - Brtttsh collieries half nakJd men and women were burned to death in the it.?* 0 ' 3 ' for theft and murder. ceat ®? so'7nat> m m-^ S u-da r v eX rom ent *** speaker. “It almost seems asA majority cannot live unless ‘ rushing trom one sensation Prize-fights, cabarets. pames. anything and evervthiL can be thought of to brin- nef sations to patrons. and a ne» Y,* 5 " dividends for the promoters” Prize-fights of the pas Thad . more brutal than those of uhlU ■ 1 was not so much the fights' as the attitude of spectators irV mad lust for excitement. The sue' read the leading article from TuV SUN on the subject of the Tunney fight, and said thev ourtF be glad that they had a newsaS,! “ the city that would publish such article, with its striking facts and hi, tone.

“It disgusts me when I see men K our Mayor, who ought to be leadk this city in sanity, purity and nob:!lending their- names and influence bring to this country tin-hare racier remarked Mr. Fletcher. "Thev far the frenzy of gambling that dog r ing has caused in other lands. “ “The feverish rush after dangeroic living often leads to blatant immom ity,” continued Mr. Fletcher, switchijto another aspect.

“There is a pronounced tendenev toward light living, and a light Tie, of marriage. Directly the relate-, between the sexes become less tha holy, then a crack is appearing h civilisation that spells- the doom r that civilisation. Any student o! hit tory knows that God’s Word describe it as going backward, and the whoit warning of divine revelation is tha: such a course will end in disaster."