‘Advertisers perform a useful service to the community’ Advertisers tend to think big and perhaps this is why they’re always coming in for criticism. Their critice seem to resent them because they have a flari f

‘Parents are too permissive with their children nowadays’ Few people would defend the Victorian attitude to children, but if you were a parent in those days, at least you knew where you you stood: children were

‘Only stricter traffic laws can prevent accidents’ From the health point of view we are living in a marvelous age. We are immunized from birth against many of the most dangerous diseases. A large numbe

‘The younger generation knows best’ Old people are always saying that the young are not what they were. The same comment is made from generation to generation and it is always true. It has never been truer than

‘We should all grow fat and be happy” Here’s a familiar version of the boy-meets-girl situation. A young man has at last plucked up courage to invite a dazzling young lady out to dinner. She has accepted his inv

‘New fashions in clothing are created solely for the commercial exploitation of women’ Whenever you see an old film, even one made as little as ten years ago, you cannot help being struck by the appearance of th

‘ Camping is the ideal way of spending a holiday’ There was a time when camping was considered to be a poor way of spending a holiday; OK for boy scouts and hard-up students, but hardly the thing for sophisticated, comfor

‘Any form of education other than co-education is simply unthinkable’ Imagine being asked to spend twelve or so years of your life in a society which consisted only of members of your own sex. How would you react? Unless

‘Television is doing irreparable harm’ ‘Yes, but what did we use to do before there was television?’ How often we hear statements like this! Television hasn’t been with us all that long, but we are already begin

‘World governments should conduct serious campaigns against smoking’ If you smoke and you still don’t believe that there’s a definite link between smoking and bronchial troubles, heart disease and lung cancer, t

‘It’s’ high time men ceased to regard women as second-call citizens’ This is supposed to be an enlightened age, but you wouldn’t think so if you could hear what the average man thinks of the average woman. Women