"BORROWED” CARS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 29, 4 February 1935, Page 2

"BORROWED” CARS

NIGHT PRANKS OF BOYS. JOHANNESBURGH, Dae. 15. Johannesburgh schoolboys are getting into The habit of spending their evenings driving other people’s cars without permission. This view was expressed yesterday at the breaking-up ceremony of the Yeoville Government sc.hool by Air. H. A. Jack, the principal, who appealed to parent.-- to help him to prevent those escapades. “About four months ago quite a number of our boys got into what I call very serious trouble, because they drove cars whix-h did not belong to them,’’ Air. Jack remarked. There were so many cases that it became evident to him that a number of boys in the school were forming a kind of Ku Klux Klan, and during the evening wore employing their time in this way. Morals of the People. Air. Jack saiid ho then brought together those whom he considered to be the leading men of Yeoville—men who accepted the responsibility of trying to mould t.he morals and secure the welfare of the people living in the Yeoville area. He outlined his trouble to those men, who, he presumed, would 'try to help in this difiicult problem. Last week a father, who was a member of the police force, had come to Mr. Jack and stated that boys had broken into a certain place and gone off with a car, and suggested that Mr. Jack might talk about the matter in the school hall. Mr. Jack replied that this would nto have the slightest effect, for they had Io get down to the individual and could not sermonise to a mass. “ \ou jiarents and I have got to get down to this,” said Mr. Jack. There was not a liner type of boy or girl in South Africa than those born and bred in the Yeoville area, he stated, but it would cost the parents a great deal of thought to handle their boys so that when they grow up people, would be proud of 'them as citizens of Johannes-