“MORAL VULTURES.”

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10751, 23 November 1928, Page 5

“MORAL VULTURES.”

MOTORISTS AND GIRLS,

MARRIED MEN’S DUPLICITY

« LONDON, Nov. 12. The Diocesan Council for Work Among Girls, has broadcast an appeal, urging the public to assist in a. campaign to fight- “the increasing number of motorists who lure girls to outlying suburbs and country disOanon J. Richards, of Birmingham, states that the sight of cars and motor cycles parked at night is familiar in nearly every country lane around the city. “The motor,’’ he declared, ‘has hocome the profligate’s accessory.” Married men, posing as single, enticed the largest number of girls. There had been distressing cases of girls abandoned miles from home because they had ‘refused to submit to these moral vultures.” Expert investigations had shown that tho evil was increasing daily, attacking the: moral fibre of the community.

“HOME TRAINING PROTECTS

“It is obvious that this unfortunate condition of affairs exists here also,” said the general secretary of the Sydney Home Missions Society (Archdeacon Charlton). Archdeacon Charlton thinks that the only way to combat the “motor car party menace” is to clearly warn girls of the pitfalls that await them. It depended largely on the home training which a girl • received he- teaid, as to whether or not she later became a victim of those distressing circumstances.