PUBLIC OPINION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18012, 24 November 1926, Page 8

PUBLIC OPINION.

WHAT OTHER WRITERS ARE SAYING. Fast and Loose. Do morals and skirts go short together? That is the question which is now agitating Melbourne, with the Women's Christian Temperance Union taking the affirmative, and Dean Hart as advocate for the negative. The dis pute is not confined to Melbourne only, but goes circling i:p and down Australia like a Willie Willie, and it often lifts as much unpleasant rubbish in its track. It is extremely improbable that the most exact scientific psvchologieal examination of the moral and mental make-up of J:he girl of to-day would reveal her, in either aspect, inferior to the girl of her mother’s daw If a silken knee nowadays attracts the beholder, it is no more than a trim ankle did if) the days when Charles O’Malley niffled it. Whether fashion orders a return to crinolines, or goes boldlv forward to something less than plus fours, tbe intrinsic virtue and decency of our yOung womanhood will be neither made nOr marred by the change. On* can go a long way with the dean when he says that with liberty for girls there has come an added responsibility, but it is better to go with him still, and resolve to teach them how to carry that responsibility rather than to deprive them of their liberty’ on the pretext of relieving them of the responsibility.—Sydney “ Sun.”