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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1939, Page 5

Youth training is too often on idealistic rather than realistic lines, writes Mr John J. Virgo, the Y.M.C.A. leader, in his book. “Fifty Years Fishing for Men." "Ideals,” he states, "are good, but they arc dangerous. Mental and physical activities should be diverted into common-sense channels rather than toward impossible goals. I believe with Ernest Raymond that, if you examine people's morbid longings, you will arrive at the root idea that, if they would accept the world as it really is, it would be a cure for nine-tenths of the mental sickness and repressions with which it is beset. The evil tendency is for mere slack thinking to disguise itself as idealism, for ideals to become perverted or exploited by selfish leaders toward unworthy ends. Let the dreamer keep his ideals, but keep them unadulterated, and at all times let him face facts.”