PICTURES AND WIRELESS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 November 1928, Page 5

PICTURES AND WIRELESS

EFFECT ON THE PEOPLE. OHURiCH 'COMMITTEE ’;S VIE WS. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Nov. 22. Referring in i ts, report to the effeet of wireless on public worship, the life and work committee of the Presbyterian General Assembly said most ministers and. home missionaries thought, it had helped the church more than it. had hindered it. The present system of allotting services, however, was chaotic and unsatisfactory to a church taking a long view. It appeared that, before many years had passed each large denomination would have to own and control its own transmitting station. The same committee said that on the whole it was safe in saying moving pictures continued to exercise a most pernicious and demoralising influence on young people. When the pictures were not openly immoral they were inane. 'They exalted problems of sex to a disproportionate .plane, and by their exhibitions of Luxurious living they tended to make young people discontented with a humdrum lot.. The time was more than ripe, for stiffening the censorship of films, for the authorities so far had certainly rot erred on the side of prudence. Tt was decided that a deputation should wait on the Prime Minister and the Minister of L’aihvays urging the Government to discontinue pleasure excursions oil Sundays and to discourage railway picnics on Sundays.