CRITIC OF YOUTH.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 13 May 1925, Page 13

CRITIC OF YOUTH.

DEAN DENOUNCES MODERN Amusements. •' ''

I At. the Anglican Church Conference at •‘Melbourne, Dean Grotty; "dealing with'Tlio ‘ question’ of ' modern amusements, said thaf' m,any young people >vere making ah unmitigated nuisance of themselves because the length of their freedom had got 1 beyond the strength'"of' their' self control.' Some girls had proved their title to * the modern'designation of flappers, for they wer'A j list \yildly flapping in flic wind. ’An'overwhelming majority of children over the age of six, - lie said, / attended picture .shows, where they met a display of luxury masquerading under a smudge of piety and moralising under fi parade of sensualism. The exhibition of salacious pictures, veiled by sp’ecious virtuosity, l was a moral' 'drug traffic, 1 as dangerous'"as" the opium traffic. The Bishop of Granswick m.ade a strong appeal ih favour of allowing Women to speak ‘ from the pulpit. Wohien, he said, had often saved critical situations, and had borne the heaviest' and most distasteful burdeiis, hiid'liad led the advance of the church.