DANGER SIGNAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1940, Page 6

DANGER SIGNAL

..0. SWING MUSIC A SYMPTOM. A word of advice to American youth was offered in a recent broadcast to the United States by the Rev. Dr. John Heenan. “I detected in my last visit to you two years ago a certain lack of discipline,’’ he said. “The übiquitious 1 swing music, to me. was symptomatic. It was a danger signal. You cannot swing your way through life. To the youth of all religions and of none, I say that it is time you began to take life more seriously. Your immortal souls are worth some little thought. The cult of the body and of the social graces is not more important than your spiritual and moral health. __ Youth is idealism in action, but. idealism is moulded according to a model. You must choose your model. Choose Christ, Our Lord. American youth! you have not yet been called upon to make supreme sacrifices. Twenty years of-irreligious, easy-going life left Europe weak to resist the forces of evil. One day, perhaps soon, you too. will have to take up the struggle. Maybe by then the Nazi spectre will have been laid, but Communism and other atheistic obscenities are lurking in your country, as in our own, to trap, delude and enslave your spirit. Harden yourselves. Learn discipline. Refuse to allow the corruption of soured age to tarnish your ideals. Know what true Christianity stands for and do not be misled by perverted intellectuals who would make you cynical and bitter by telling you that religion is what they so beautifully call a ‘racket.’ ”