"HONOR THY FATHER."

NZ Truth, Issue 692, 21 September 1918, Page 6

"HONOR THY FATHER."

"Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days imay be long m the land which the Lord thy Qod giveth thee." "Truth's" representative , had. this portion of the fifth commandment flashed across his mind as the police cleared the ordinary . court last Monday, and declared the Juvenile Court sitting, and then brought m a pale-faced, over-grown lad of 13 to be adjudicated on. He had committed no crime, rather a crime had been committed against him. He had come fresh from the hospital^ having been located' there for rheumatism —probably inherited— and he had no home. His father (said the police) was detained for six weeks— a polite way of saying something else; and his -mother — well, she was "selling her soul to whoever would buy." There was just a semblance of a tear m the lad's eyes as the police recited the wrongs j of the father and mother the boy had to "honor," and when it was definitely decided to consign him to the home at Mt. Albert, the semblance of the tear had grown to a flood as the lad waa taken away to his new "home."