MORAL AND SOCIAL HYGIENE.

White Ribbon, Volume 27, Issue 332, 18 April 1922, Page 21

MORA L AND SOCIAL HYGIENE.

Supt.: Mrs Kippenbt rger. The fe*\v reports that have been rereived from our Unions indicate* good work done. Oxford has had special addresses on "Social Hygiene" and "Home Nursing" by visiting lecture rs from Christchurch, Mrs Roberts, and Mrs Watkins. Wanganui East and Petone have distributed literature, and have had pamphlets read at meetings. This, I think, is u good method of dealing with some of the literature, us it arouse* interest In this important work. Many of the members of our Unions do not care to distribute purity literature. Auckland East and Oamaru (a comparatively new Union) set a fine* e xample in thi* particular. The Oamaru Purity Superintendent reports having distributed pamphlets anel leaflet* on a very comprehensive and praiseworthy scale. Mrs Lee-Cowie, Superintendent for Auckland East, sends in a xplendid report of work clone. She has addressed several meetings in the city and suburbs on "Purity" and "Hygiene.'* She secured score* of signatures to the petition asking for the »aisirg of the age of ronsent to 18, and distributed 500 copies of Miss Henderson’s leaflets on "Social Hygien<." Mrs LeeCowic advocates n crusade against the immodesty of the dress or undress of the present day. No thinking woman can close her eve* to the Increase in this immodesty of late years, and it should be a clear clarion tall to more earnest service for the cause of purity. Palmerston North reports a public meeting addressed by Mrs Peryman, which hael the good effect of starting a correspond* nee In the paper*. Christchurch reports an important step forward in our work, w’hen on two

occasion.* our Unfun joined other wo men’s organisations in public meetings. On the one occasion the result was a splendid gathering of men and women workers, clergym* n anel lawyers, to protest against a flagrant miscarriage of Justice in a Court case in which a young girl was concerned. Literature, in the wav of pamphlets was distributed at the Kaiapoi (invention. anel has been se*nt to enquiring me*nibe*rs, principally in the North Island. The re have he*en no enquiries for the larger l>ooks. They are too expensive for Unions or twmlwrs to send for, and I would like to Suggest that the y Ik* transferred to the Dominion Library, when headquarters are established In Wellington. A proce*ele-nt for this proce*elure can. I think, b found in the* fact that In 1920 Ml** McCarthy sent out a parcel of !>ooks anel pamphlets fen* the Dominion Library, some of which were "a gift from the* Associatle»n of Moral and Social llygie*ne*. Lonelon.”