PRESS AND PULPIT.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1925, Page 4

PRESS AND PULPIT.

i "In the Church the Pioas is a strange enigma, partly because she is ignorant n| the renditions under which t lie modern newspaper is run and produ ed. Some ol the criticism directed against the Press may therefme le due 111 ignorance. but there are other thing- whleh are ont-idc the province i’a here rriti' i'ili i ea-v because kliow■l' 'lge G absen I . i t is diflielllt. for ; example. t,i understand on what prineiplcs tlie Press decides u hat new s is , deserving of record tmd what news tniist he scored out hy the hllte pen--1 il. Ihe ( h itivhes tin rely deserve some notice, both on meount ef news value, I as well as of the great section of the j public who are interested in their doings. | know that this criticism ;is a iliiuhle-cilged weapon, ft suggests | that the Churches themselves are slack ; m their own publicity organisation, j ami il i. In lie hoped that they will | take I lie lessen to hear!, and no longer I look upon tin; Press as if it possessed j some m'agbal power of getting to ! know what is happening without any I assistance.’’--.Dr Sydney .M. Derry, in j tlie “Westminster Gazette." DFT. PESSIMISTS! "X'lithing whatever is to lie gained I'V malting tilings old to he worse than they are. The present position of Hrittsh trade is Mifliricut.lv had. and its prospects quite precarious enough, without that. When the Federation of British Industries allows a report lo go out in its name flint our Stale today ‘gives every appearance of being permanent' if is not doing itself much credit nor the nation any service. As though anyone could dogmatise as to the condition of trade five years heme. A.s though a country which even in a year ot severe depression sends abroad £1 .01K1.0t111.000 of goods can lie regarded as played out. As though the remedies for a. large part ~i' our industrial distress were not within our own reach. As though their application and some show of imaginative enterrise on the part of our Government of the F olded I lands might not even now work a speedy t ransfornint Lon."—“Sundae Times.”