MAKING CRIMINALS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18549, 9 May 1922, Page 7

MAKING CRIMINALS

SOCIALIST SUNDAY SCHOOLS SEDITIOUS PROPAGANDA. Press Association—By Telegraph—Oopjrlgil SYDNEY, May 8. (Received May 8, at 7.30 p.m.j Mr T. L. Ley (Minister of Justice) is considering the introduction of legislation to enable the police to deal with the disseminating of allegedly seditious and disloyal propaganda by Socialist Sunday schools established in various parts of the State, and which he claims are making criminals out of 'innocent children. He quotes extracts from a Communist Sunday school text book which teaches that a boy Socialist cannot be a boy scout because a scout salutes the Union Jack, which is the emblem of oppression and slavery. Another question from the catechism i*« "Is it true that God has ever revealed Himself?” The reply thereto is: “As there is no God, he could not reveal Himself.” One of the proletariat commandments taught the children reads: “Thou shalt not be a patriot, for a patriot is an international blackleg.” In one of the hymns the children are taught to sing: “Dividends, rent, interest, chicanery, lies, and brag are the gods of the Empire. Their symbol is the British flag. Mr Ley considers that drastic action is necessary to prevent the minds of young Australians being polluted by such, dis-loyal-and blasphemous teaching.