CRIME WAVE IS AUSTRALIA
ARCHBISHOP MANNIX OUTSPOKEN. (From Ode Own Correspondents.) SYDNEY, April 22. Some outspoken comments regarding whai be described* as the appalling wave of crime in Australia have just been made by Area bishop Mannix, • • ■ Dr Mannix said he was' appalled at the wave of crime which was to-day sweeping over Australia. True, Australia did not stand alone in that respect. These crime# were not the result of the, w%r. It was quite unfair to saddle the people who went to the war with crimes committed by those who did not go to the war—who were too young to go to the war. People who were educated under the State school system committed the crimes. Some people held that picture shows were the cause of tbo crime wave, but he believed the fundamental cause was that the 'education given to-day at the expense of the people of Australia was not what it should be. They were all i proud of the children of Australia, who were their greatest asset. There iwere none better than the young Australians if they were given a fair chance.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18545, 4 May 1922, Page 8
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