"EVIL INFLUENCE"

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 116, 23 November 1928, Page 8

"EVIL INFLUENCE"

MOTION PICTURES CONDEMNED (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evenlnj Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day. A strongly hostile attitude to moving pictures in general is taken up by the life and work committee, of the Presbyterian Church in its . report presented to the General Assembly. "On the whole we are aafo in saying that moving pictures continuo to exercise a most pernicious and demoralising influence on our young people,'' states tho report. "When they are not openly immoral they are inane; they exalt problems of sex to a disproportionate plane and by their exhibitions of luxurious living they tend to make young people discontented with their humdrum lot. While it is true that the best people in our churches do not attend pictures to any extent, it is also true that the time is more than !ripe for a stiffening up; of our censorship of films, for the authorities so far have certainly not erred on the side of prudery. "We might also as a church seek to counteract their evil influence by providing healthy antidotes in Jhe formation of literary and debating societies and similiar organisations. Wo believe ( also that it would pay most churches handsomely to provide tennis courts foryoung people so that they can have their recreations under the shadow of the church." ;