The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-17

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1f that obligation be honestly dis lis
charged. the results will take care OF
themselves. *,
The Sunday Newspaper.
The Southern churclmnn Of current
Issue contains an interesting article on
the Sunday Newspaper. After expressing
doubt whether or no the Sunday ne VS. rs
paper Is a cause or an effect, Whet her
It lis a large part the trouble that8causes
men to disregard the sacred claim Of the
Lords day. or, has simply come into
existence as a result Of mems disre
FOR those claims, it adds: AS to the
work OF the Sunday newspaper, ne is
worse than blind optlmist-we Sadly
fear that he is a blind partisan-Wno
claims that in any way, It makes for
GOOD. All that is necessary in order
+ to from an Intelligent Judgment ~ the
matter is for any. one Ito buy dozen
samples OF next Sunday issue y of these
papers and Judge for himself. We 81 ms
NV ask him to q naark all that. makes
FOR moral and spiritual Improvement
and then mark all the mass Of stuff that
has a different tend ency, and then com
pare the results. IL the compiler was
j ever an optlnist in the matter, we ven
tnre to predict his prompt conversion
provided hegis not an interested part s's 5s
a The Times-ispatch will checrf,,lly ac--s.
cept this challenge to inspection and in-
vestigation, a secular newspaper Is not
a, religious paper and is not supposed
to- deal only with those subjects which
make for moral and spiritual improve
nent, but we claim for The Sunday
Times-D Dispatch that the mass OF stuff
which It prints In its Sunday. editor 9
does make for the intellectual improve
ment and much Of 1t for the moral nor and
spiritual Improvement Of It's readers and
That none Of 1t lis demoraltzing.
Take, for example, last Sundays issue ls''' g
OF this newspaper. Among the various
items of news published were q re-
port Of the unwilling OF the Confederate o11'
monument, with the addresses OF Gov.
Swanson and others; an outline OF the
exhibit Of the manuel training work in
the public schools; a report OF the Me-
mortal Day exercises at staunton; Judge
Wits warning to barkecpers; numerous
reports OF common cement #Y exercises OF
the Virginia institutions Of learning; an
appeal for the City Ice Mission; an ar
ticIe on pen and ink work, and various
other Items OF like character which
il not Instructive. were at least not
denloralzng. # n
Tho leading article on the editorial
page related to recent improvements In
Richmond. There were other articles on
the value OF public baths, on the evil
OF polygamy, on the advantage Of an.
educational career over n political career.
on New England town government and
there was practical sermon, based
upon scrlptural text. There was q
column OF editorial clippings from the
Virginia newspapers and various other
extracts Of interest and instruction.
The sermon which The Sunday Tines
Dispatch prints reaches a much lnrger5
congregation than all the preachers OF
Richmond address from Sunday to Sum,
day, and Tho Times Dispatch has reason
to believe TINT this feature has conferred
a spiritual benefit In more instances than
one, ltt5 I'LL
Ii; The Industrial Section OF the paper was
devoted to subjects pertaining to the
material welfare Of Virginia, and one en-
tire page was devoted to the subject OF
education. On another page there was q
chapter on Richmond history; there was
a good poem, and there was Mr.. Carpen-
.ter's article on the Flatheads, Another page
was devoted to Confederate history and
queries and answers, Another page was
devoted exclusively to topics OF I'M
terest to women. including many house,
hold hints. Another page was devoted
to tho entertainment and Instruction OF
\ t.hlltlrep. Another page was devoted
to the investigation OF the Pennsylvania
Railroad. another to foreign news, an
other to Ash culture and the plight OF the
Jews IN Russia,
Let the censor come on with his In
vestigat.on. and II he was ever a pess-
mist In tho matter. we venture to pre-
dict his prompt sion-proyided he
Is not an interested party,
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