"PATHETIC VALUES"
AUSTRALIANS CRITICISED
Rec._9 a.m. MELBOURNE, Dec. 1. "If a child developed four legs, a tail, a long head and a turn of speed, the average Australian parent would pour out on its training more money than he would ever dream of paying to educate an ordinary child," declared the principal of Geelong College, the Rev. F. W. Rolland, in his Speech Day address today. "We spend as a nation more to increase our weakness than to increase our strength—the strength that good education would give the country" The average Australian spent £8 a year on alcoholic beverages, Mr. Holland said, but would not contribute £2 to the primary education of a boy or girl in a State school—and primary education was all that most children got. .■-.-■
Mr. Rolland 'said he hoped he was not bigoted in his outlook. He saw no sin in witnessing the Melbourne Cup or in the moderate, use of alcohol, but the relative values of Australians as a people were pathetic. As a nation^ .they spent far too much on what was not necessary and on the essential! they spent far too little. -
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 133, 2 December 1944, Page 7
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