A HUMAN UGLINES?

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18207, 28 September 1922, Page 3

A HUMAN UGLINES?

Sir, —As a visitor to your city I am charmed with its beauty, to increase which £ I observe that a new movement is under J way. May I suggest that at the same time an effort be made to reirove a human ugliness—the foul language which assails 3 one's ears on almost any footpath. As in I other countries you, no doubt, have a I crop of young men and \ouihi who got J out of hand during the war. As far as 3 I can judge, only stern punishment will 1 keep them in control and save the ears I of decent people and, what is more imI portant, the innocent from outrage. In 3 the crowd at the Domain last Saturday I there were a number of groups of louts Ej whose language and conduct, which was j quite unchecked, spoiled the game for 1 many. In your beautiful Domain on a j recent Sunday I observed idle youths I behaving in such a way as to drive decent I young women home. In making; your * city beautiful, take care that a bad sec-< r tion of the young men does not diminish 1 the pleasure of the gardens for the wholeI some people. Visitor.