RACIAL PREJUDICES.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1926, Page 1

RACIAL PREJUDICES.

INFLUENCE OF' FILMS CRITICISED. DUNEDIN, April 29. “It is positively alarming,” said Dr •T. 11. Mott, speaking on the race problem at the Dominion Missionary Meeting, “to see what fives of racial prejudice are being kindled and fanned by certain films and play's which are tolerated in parts of the world, and which are veritable timler-boxes. Not only is it alarming, hut it is criminal.” Tic referred to the films lie had seen lately in Dutch East Indies, which the natives could not possibly look upon without having racial passions liiflamed. The same kind of thing was going on up and down China, he stated, and it called for international as well as inter-racial collaboration, and he suggested a continuous and intensive educational campaign in connexion with primary and secondary schools. Speaking further on race problems, he urged the. holding of intimate interracial conferences, and stressed the tremendous value of having contacts with the.home life of other races.

In a general survey, the Rev E. P. Blnmires, the Methodist Director of Youth Work, stated that the Bible class movement largely had stopped the previous leakage between the Sunday School and adult Church membership.

Tt was a vigorous movement in the Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist and more recently, in the Anglican Church. New Zealand lacked missionary co-op-oration amnog the Churches. One Church liad its missionary headquarters in Wellington, another in Auckland, and another in Dunedin, and each was preoccupied with internal problems. He affirmed that co-operation was essential for the. maximum attainment.