MODERN AMUSEMENT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 9 May 1925, Page 7

MODERN AMUSEMENT.

A DEAN’S DENUNCIATION

CHILDREN AND PICTURES

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT

(Recet r ed Mav 9, 'lO.lO a.m.) MELBOURNE, May 9. At the Anglican Church Conference, Bishop Cranswiek made a. strong appeal in favopr of allowing women to speak irom the puipit. Women had often saved in critical situations, and had borne the heaviest burdens and led to the. Church’s adiumce. Dean Crotty, dealing with the question of modern amusements, said that many young people were making an unmitigated nuisance 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 of “flappers,” for they were just wildly flapping in the wind. An overwhelming majority of children over the age of six attended picture shows, where they met with a display of luxury, masquerading under a smudge of piety and moralising, and a parade of sensualism, an exhibition of salacious pictures Veiled by specious virtuosity. This was a moral drug traffic as dangerous as the 'opium traffic.