YOUTHFUL FREEDOM

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 May 1925, Page 5

YOUTHFUL FREEDOM

DEAN DENOUNCES FLAPPERS LIKEWISE PICTURE .SHOWS, K" r.:»; (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) ‘Z, f;?' MELBOURNE, May 9. . ’ At the Anglican Church conference,'’ Bishop Cranswick made a strong ap'•peal in favour of allowing women to speak, from the pulpit, lie said that Women had often saved a cr.tical. situation, borne the heaviest burdens, and led the Church’s advance. Dean Crotty, dealing with modern amusements, said that many young people were - making an unmitigated nuisancb of themselves because the length of their freedom had got beyond the strength of their self control. Some girls had -proved their title to the modern designation ofi “flappers” for they were just wildly flapping in mind.

An overwhelming majority of children, .aged over six-years, he added, attended'- picture shows, where they met a display of 'luxury l masquerading under a smudge, of piety and moralising. The parade of sensualism, the exhibition of salacipus .pictures veiled by specious virtuosity, was a moral drug traffic, as. dangerous as the opium traffic.'

MELBOURNE'S, HORRID SLUMS. / MELBOURNE, May 9. '."The Rev. Mr Hayes, who is visiting •Australia in connection with, the Toe ■H movement, told a meeting that he ihad visited';the Melbourne industrial area, where. t ,offal and filth fkrved but of the doors. He was astounded tlrat such deadly places existed in a hew city. They were worse than the Ijondon slums and no wonder that they bred criminals;