MORALITY IN THE SCHOOLS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23595, 3 September 1938, Page 24

MORALITY IN THE SCHOOLS

'■!&►'• »« TUB EDITOB

Sir.—Although the issue of the morality of the jokes submitted to the ;*4ZB contest is one of great interest, I am much more concerned with the srave indictment made by your correspondent "Rudy" against the morality existant in the schools. From Jnis letter I cannot determine his age, tbut I strongly suspect that he has that period of life, in the 1 vicinity of 65, where he realises his Jimpotency, and to use his own words, jwhere he salaciously licks his lips over ] these very suggestive stories before the finally enters Stygian oblivion. I Be his age what it may—if he is i 65 then I am at the other end of the J road. It is but a few years since I 'left school and while there I used to

.listen with deplorable unconcern to 'stories both sacred and profane that {were then in circulation. At the time H felt they did me no harm and I could {produce many a then valid argument Im their support. On leaving school |I became allied with the Student {Christian Movement and the Theojsophical Society, and my outlook on Isuch matters rapidly changed. My astsociation with clean living, clean thinking people made me realise how unnecessary, to say the least of it, was tall this mental squalor. Christ did 'without it, as did His 12 apostles, and any regret now is that 10 years earlier ♦His teachings were not put before me hn the tangible manner in which I now feee them. Every measure I feel should }be taken by the bodies that stand for (righteousness and eternal salvation, to wombat this insidious evil that has been Jrife in our schools for so long. | There are many societies working for rthe amelioration of conditions, and if Jour children could be educated under (their auspices'then I feel sure that life {would be more intellectually fruitful rthan ever before. So, sir, through {your columns I would make an appeal jL all who have any dealings with children to be absolutely and punctiliously J" morally irreprehensible" in their {presence particularly, but for the sake «of consistence and practice also in Wheir absence. Moralists from time Jimmorial have endeavoured to point fcut the physiological equality of the •bodily functions. In theory and for {the enlightened they may be correct, (but in practice and as things are toWay the truth of their supposition is > Romanus sum. j