MORALS OF COMMUNITY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 6 July 1925, Page 10

MORALS OF COMMUNITY.

LKKKd OK THE WAIT HOX. G. M. THOMSON'S VI KAYS. The offers of the war upon the moiai.-s or the community w,g.-. leierieu in by. the Hun. 0. Al. i nomson m ihe con*>e of tiie Artdi e>.~.-iu-iiepiy debate in the Legislative Council. ••-Many ot me ie.--.-ions ol the (Beat Wat .seem if. have been lost on the ji.-dng geneiation,” observed Air. Thomson. • •an t -see that the Icshous of tiie wai receive any ce.o.sidei at ion They are forgotten. 'I hose can be no question bin tli.it the gieai lessening 01 moral <.b ligations which. Tin.l the t-mnniunity loge.lhei is the lOsint of the war. Dishonesty, for example., is rile to-day. i hat- ili-jli<mc>'Cy which mean si that a man does, not give lair value lor the money lie receives for Inis woik.”—(Hear, hear.”). Thin, said the speaker, was c ue of the crying troubles of the day. 'file motto ol the employee should he: “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do. tlo with all thy might.” But it was net the thought of to-dav. Mr. 'I hom-so-n was also of the opinion chat the model n young girl had too much freedom. An amount ol Ireedom;. in f->c,c. which would have shocked her grandmother. The gill in em/p'loyment wa- getting more money than was good for her. 'lhe majority of girls were sipeiiding their money idly and fool.inhly, “'this is a question which, we mere men can't- tac-kle, ’ he said, “but we have an enormous, number of excellent women in the community. and ninnv are claiming rights epial with the men. I sny let these women consider wliat kind of service they can render .that will teach, our growing girlis that tliev are getting their education free, and that there is a moral responsibility resting on them to do something in return. We want to bring home to them a sense of their own importance and responsibility to the country.’’ Mr. Thomson .said he thought some form of legislation should be brought forward to deal with the matter. Objiumfitbing • on juvenile crime, ho advocated more birching-s as. a corQfitjve maaiNUie and less, moral suasion and reformative treatment. ‘