IDEALS IMPERATIVE
BAD MORAL SLIP ROTARIAN’S ADDRESS (By Telegraph.—Press Association) PALMERSTON N„ Thursday “ In this country we need today to listen as never before to the voice of conscience,” declared Mr A. K. North, of Auckland, when talking to fellow Rotarians at the annual conference. “ We must be just as scrupulous and careful in our business relations as we are in our friendships. We must strengthen home life. “ I believe we have slipped badly morally, and if you doubt this look at the Year Bood. Every doubtful business deal, every advertisement which claims for goods attributes which they do not possess, every faulty job, every failure to do an honest day’s work, deals a blow to truth.” Mr North asserted that neither Hitler, Stalin nor Mussolini could drive from the world the ideals of human values, of liberty, justice and truth. They were eternal.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21057, 8 March 1940, Page 7
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