Vandalism
Sir.—As suggested in your leading article, offering rewards for the detection of vandals is not a very commendable policy, if indeed it does not rather suggest a thoroughly defeatist attitude towards the menace. The trouble seems to be that far too many people just don’t bother about vandalism so long as they themselves are not the victims, as they don’t bother about so many other things that should provoke occasional effective action >n their part. How often does one hear people complaining bitterly about the inefficiency of some organisation or other and how seldom does it appear that they have taken any steps about it. This inertia is rich and fertile soil not only for the inefficiency of public and private institutions but for the shamele precocity of youth.— Yours, etc., SENEX. March 14, 1958.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28537, 17 March 1958, Page 3
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