MODERN MORALS

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 992, 6 January 1927, Page 6

MODERN MORALS

ME LOG URNE PROTESTS

Trends of modern lile which have a demoralising effect were condemned by two Melbourne conferences recently in session. '

•Drinking at parties, beauty competitions) add boarding advertisements pieturising scantilv-clad figures \\ ere condemned at the ..conference of the Women ’s Christian' Temperance Union Delegates told •' of all-night sly-grog shops, of garages which, specialised in selling liquor to people with cars, and of paftiefc ’lifeTd'in halls were the provision of two or three barrels oi beer was the usual thing. One j.lelegate dec I a reel; even the supj)crs were cllosdrf to stimulate the jaded tliey included' pickles, saveloys, and onions. 'lt was also suggested that certain publican put a large quantity of salt in tlicq. sandwiches in order to make people thirsty an 3 order more drinks.

An even more remarkable protest v\as made by the Melbourne Presbyterian Assembly. It concerned the arrival, in. Melbourne on a Sunday 01 Sir Alan. CobTiam, the British airman.