Community Service

From Blushes Supplement 18, another R.T.Mason-style story ‘We can go together,’ Diane had said. ‘Then it won’t be so bad. Safety in numbers.’ It sounded like a good idea. They looked through the lists in the papers. As usual there were lots of advertisers offering places for girls to do their Community Service and a number of them were prepared to take two girls. There was not a lot to go on in choosing, though, because they all gave only bare details and tended to say the same things. Good home for a girl doing her Community Service. Pleasant surroundings. Excellent discipline practised. They all said that because that was the point of Community Service. Discipline. A girl had to have a taste of it after school, at the still formative age of 18. The country did not want to produce delinquents and disorderly elements, as in the past, but responsible young citizens. Hence the prescribed periods of Community Service, a three-month p...