"Smut"

Radio Record, 14 April 1938, Page 42

"Smut"

A. E. H.

Harrison

(Auckland) :

I

must protest against the letter of "Savaii" in "Your Side of the Microphone" on March 18. I object to the partially implied connection of sophistication with "smut," and I consider the writer of the letter stands self-condemned both by his inference that "an appreciation of smutty wit" is not evidence of corruption and his actual statement that "no one was ever corrupted by a risque story." I am. I hope, an ordinary man, and as such I ask "Savaii’ whether he does not consider the youth of New Zealand {and its adults) already subjected to a sufficient mass of temptation under modern conditions.