STUDENTS' PROCESSION.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 115, 16 May 1924, Page 8

STUDENTS' PROCESSION.

» I "FLAGRANT VULGARITIES." j (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ' <_H_S_-STOHURCH, Thursday. The students' procession yesterday , was in reality a rather "dud" affair, but ' it has called forth the following editorial " comment in the Christchurch "Star": \ "Only a blind man could have failed to be ' disgusted with many of the vulgarities that were flagrantly exhibited in the ' students' procession yesterday. These vulgar set pieces are an evidence of very 1 scanty brains or wit, and any respect- ! able sign writer would certainly decline • to execute them if he were obliged to ' put his name to the effort. As a matter 1 of fact the students rely on the disguise 1 afforded by fancy costumes and painted ! faces to "get away" with a lot of in- '■ decent nonsense that they would ceri tainly not dare to be associated with '- individually in the minds of decent i citizens, cr even their own circle of • friends. The time has come when an ) effort should be made by the more . decent members in the large, and we . fear, motley body of students, to im- ' pose a strict censorship on the dirty - ; minded elements, of their number, and if k the reform cannot come from within, the police or college authorities will have . to take a hand." ! The feud -between this newspaper office and tbe students is one of standing, and has resulted in Tne . editor's being burned in effigy and t similar demonstrations before to-day. f _________