CORRECTIVE OF EVIL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 12 September 1913, Page 4

CORRECTIVE OF EVIL.

Mr.; Justice Pring, of New South Wales, wants to see a better moral the-community. This, ibis Honour said at the annual meeting of "the Prisoners'' Aid Association at Sydney was the only way of minimising crime. He most cordially agreed with; the idea that work was the best thing that could be given a prisoner. Work was man's salvation, and it gave' him less time for idleness, which might. result in crime. The Society, however, only helped men when 'tlleygot into gaol. Their aim should be, not isimply to help the criminal but to prevent men from getting into gaol" at all. That was a difficult problem, he admitted. He did not think they could get rid of crime altogether, nor did he believe that Acts of Parliament and polricement would do it. They might do a little, but it was not ■ very much. The only thing to minimise crime was the production of a better moral tone throughout the community. There were many who, fortunately for themselves, had never felt the incentive to commit crime, but a bad example would lead the thoughtless into the path of error. The employer who was guilty of sharp practice in his business might find his employee profiting by the example and committing a crime. The same applied to parents, What was wanted was the inculcation of & higher moral tone.