NEWSPAPERS PRAISED
GREAT AIDS TO VITALITY DIVERSITY OF INTERESTS Newspapers as institutions for increasing vitality and combating "despondency and gloom" were praised by Dr. William Lyon Phelps, emeritus professor of English at Yale University, at a gathering at Jefferson [Medical College, Philadelphia,, recently. ■ "The money invested in a newspaper is one of the greatest aids to vitality we have, because the paper provides interests that will take us out of ourselves," Dr. Phelps said when addressing 125 graduates. "The more we are interested in things beyond ourselves the better we can combat despondency and trouble and the longer we live." Dr. Phelps asserted that most ministers, priests and physicians were readers of the sports pages, "because they are the pages of victory." "If we are interested in every page of the paper, we have sources of .information from rail over the world feeding us," he added.—"You cannot get out of despondency and gloom by will-power. You can do it only by diverting the mind to other things." Suggesting that the reader try to find something which interests him on every page of bis newspaper. Dr. Phelps said: "If you find subjects on .10 or 12 pages that divert you, your vitality is increased just that much."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23717, 25 July 1940, Page 10
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