The Game of Printers' Ink

New Zealand Tablet, 9 July 1908, Page 9

The Game of Printers' Ink

• I feel ', said Bishop McSherry (Port Elizabeth, South Africa), ' that a good paper is better than a good preacher, because it reaches more minds V Germany, (as opposed to*^France) is a standing example of the manner in which a well-supported and vigorous Catholic, newspaper press unites our people, strengthens their faith, and defends the principles and ' policies - for which.it stands. 'There is no cause to-day so lowly', says the New York 'Freeman', 'as not to feel the need of printers' ink. Through it many a bad cause has triumphed, and through the lack of it ' (as in France) 'many a worthy cause has. failed. A wise old priest once remarked to our New York contem- < porary : ' From the very beginning of the art •of printing, the devil has always beaten us at the game ' of printers' ink. We are prone to follow in the old

ruts, and we nearly wait to be hit '. . Those who.conduct Catholic newspapers know all too well abbut this tendency of many of our people to wait until they're hit before r they realise the necessity of the Church having a strong and wide-awake organ and plenty of printers' ink.