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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 798, 5 November 1954, Page 20

ARE POLITICIANS DELINQUENT? People are blaming parents, lack of home training and of religion, and many other things for juvenile delinquency, but the fact remains that the moral climate" created by the entire community from the top downwards is also a major influence in character formation or lack of it. RESPECT FOR LAW is fundamental in democracy: Voters favoured six 0'clock closing (75.5% to 24.5%/ ) yet the Police enquiry con- firmed the fact that this law is being widely broken: THE GOVERNMENT is apathetic about this grave lack of enforcement. THEY HAVE NOT DONE A THING about three amendments for better enforcement recommended by Police Commission of enquiry. they are protecting the Liquor Traffic and vetoing the will of the people by refusing reasonable financial facilities for Trusts and by refusing a National Poll on Trust Control: Delinquent PUBLICANS There were 555 prosecutions last year out of 1,120 hotel- keepers. Licenses granted on strict legal conditions are openly flouted_ This sets a low moral standard in the Community. A VOTE FOR CONTINUANCE CONDONES ALL ThIS: A VOTE FOR STATE PURCHASE AND CONTROL approves spending millions to buy out the liquor trade and E4,000,000 Goodwill Compensation as welll VOTE PROHIBITION and register an effective protest against all this ; giving 4 mandate for improvements STRIKE OUT THE TWO TOP LINES ! Inserted by the NZ Alliance, P.o. Box 1079 , Wellington: SP.135