THE OPUNAKE TIMES “Speaks for the District” FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1928. “THE SIN PARADE.”

Opunake Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 3177, 31 August 1928, Page 2

THE OPUNAKE TIMES “Speaks for the District” FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1928. “THE SIN PARADE.”

To-day at Auckland the Salvation Army will hold its “sin parade” to draw attention to the sinful tendon.irs of the people of the Queen C t%. Yet. in a philosophic way, it may he concluded that the northern city is little worse than other places winch ] ia ve large populations. Decades since Stead condemned London as “a modern Babylon,” and, in a further volume, “If Christ Came to Chicago,” set out the shocking things that occurred in the place where hogs are handled and anti-British mayors i 1 f- n m There is. in short, a de-

cadcnJt side to every city and from New York to Auckland they have been condemned on moral grounds. Zola makes bis provincials shake their fists at the all-devouring French capital, and to-day in New Zealand we have tho Annv shaking their fists at the sinners of Auckland. Crowded cities inevitably produce moral corruption in one or another form, and the remedy seems to be in the direction of keeping the pooillation in the sweeter country air and the quieter and saner environment of the country. ITm strict ores of the Army are not I‘kely to effect a euro.