THE SOCIAL PROBLEM.
While a section of the community iis deploring the existence in Ma»sterton and other centres of the evil of social I impurity, it is remarkable how- few I there are who take practical steps to | provide an antidote. It is one thing I to announce the outbreak of an epidemic. It is quite another to furnish means for its suppression. A man' may be drowning in a pond; but it is useless to stand on the bank n?id re-id him a lesson on the art of swimming. To save the'human lives that are being sacrificed to ignorance, it is essential that effective measures be taken. As a correspondent pointed out in a recent issme of the Age, a sermon from the pulpit will have no effect in suppressing an outbreak of typhoid fever. Nor will it eradicate a moral disease unless followed by scientific measures. What, are the churches, and other guardians of the morals of the people, doing to extirpate the disease by which society is afflicted? Where is the antidote?
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 11 December 1912, Page 4
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175THE SOCIAL PROBLEM. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 11 December 1912, Page 4
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