DAILY PRESS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1933, Page 6

DAILY PRESS

NECESSITY TO CIVILISATION

LONDON, March 17.

In it-s 150th celebration numbe'r, the Glasgow “Herald” gives the following quotation from a speech made in I9jo by the late Professor Sir Henry Jones on the importance of 'the Press ; — “Have you considered into what a small compare the mod own world'would• sink wete it deprived of the daily Press, and how th e environment of the interests of every individual in the Stai-e would contract? That interchange of commodities and commerce of ideas, that rush of resources of : every kind where want cries out would cease. We should lapse back into the old parochialism of the days of ‘The Annals of the Parish.’

“But my imagination breaks down when I try to picture the modern world without its daily Press. Would the business man, unwarned of the movements of th e world’s economic forces, venture to invest in"the dark? What kind of statesmanship could survive, or what kind of democracy, if men ■could know nothing of on e another's moods 'eav e what they'could learn from what they S aw, Or hear from their fellows by word of mouth?”