"GOOD AND BAD EVERYWHERE."

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 222, 19 September 1929, Page 6

"GOOD AND BAD EVERYWHERE."

That the Rev. P. E. Smallfield should ha\V'- ; grave fears for scandal in the fact that young men and young ladies would be residing under one roof with 110 chaperon is ridiculous in the extreme. To begin with, one would hardly expect young folks under the age of sixteen years to engage one of these proposed? bachelor flats. When a room is applied for nt a Hotel, does the proprietor ask the young couple to show their marriage lines, or, if it be a single 1 ;'; man or a single woman, does he ask for a re- . commendation or to see their last rent books!, I understand that these quarters would be run on similar lines to a hotel. Does the reverend' v gentleman think that all people who are forced, to live in rooms or flatp are necessarily bad and that a scandal is caused if a nice-looking young lady occupies the opposite room in : an''.. apartment house to that of a nice-looking young gentleman? There will always be the*' good and bad everywhere. Environment does not count to such an extent. Why, I know of a very respectable married man who had; a lovely home and a beautiful wife and child,! yet this man "went bad" in every sense of the word. If . a man or a maid cannot live .pure lives in an apartment house they will not liW % pure lives in a. palace. 4- T> BACHELOR FLATS. , v