PERNICIOUS INFLUENCE
CHURCH HOSTILITY TO MOVING PICTURES (By Telegraph—Special to “The Mail") AUCKLAND. 23rd November. A strongly hostile attitude to moving pictures in general is taken up by the life and work committee of tho Piesbvterian Church in its report presented to the General Assembly. “On the whole we are. safe in saying that moving pictures continue to exercise a 'most pernicious and demoralising influence oil qjur young people,” states the 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 1 tho 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 the formation qf literary and debating societies and similar organisations. We believe also that it would pay most churches handsomely to provide tennis courts for young people so that they can have their recreations under the shadow of tTTe church.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 24 November 1928, Page 8
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218PERNICIOUS INFLUENCE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 24 November 1928, Page 8
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