The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-12-18
PASTOR YOUNG PRAISES
TIMES FOR KEEPING PAGES
FREEFROM FILTH AND FAKES
"Public Doesn't Want News
papers Filled With Seamy and
Rotten Side of Life"
SHOULD "PLAY UP" GOOD.
Says Yellow Journalism Appeals
Only To Those of Low Ideals
and Loose Morals.
SHOULD "PLAY UP" GOOD.

The Rev. T. w, Young, pastor OF
the North Baptist church, in the
course of sermon on The religious
paper In the home" Sunday morning,
commended The Times for its policy
OF clean journalism. He said in part:
Time was when the daily paper
created public opinion. produced pub
lie ideals and stimulated noble en-.
deavor. IL was the purveyor OF public
morals, and contributed nightly to-
ward the triumph of righteousness.
But alas, this high standard of the
daily press has we'll nigh disappeared.
There are some few papers that still
seek to maintain It,
Il am glad TO pay tribute to The
Detroit Times, whose pages are clean
of all liquor and fake advertisements.
and whose columns are purged of the
obnoxious and disgraceful scandals OF
domestic infelicities and the doings
from the lower strata of human life,
TO which we have been treated OF late.
The boast OF public journalists. that
they give the public what 1t demands
is false and vicious one. II Is not
took the pains to find out, they would
better. The public want the news.
but II does not want the papers filled
with the seamy and rotten side OF hu-
man life. II does not want the doings
OF the red light district flaunted in its
face every day. Ii does not want the
divorce scandals pictured in lurid co.,
ors. 1t does not want vice and crime
written up and made attractive. Phere
are some who like this yellow journal
ism. but they are people of low ideals
aud loose morals and form no consid-
erable part of a papers patrons. Give
us the news, but don't make vice at
tractive and virtue hideous; don't
magnify the crimes of few dare
devils and minimize the good deeds
that fill the community.
"A marriage Is OF more importance
than a divorce. A committee meeting
of unselfish people, planning to relieve
human suffering, Is OF more import
ance than a saloon brawl. To read
some of our papers that detail the
crimes or human life. written in the
most salacious style. and make spe-
cial features of the underworld, and
crowd the important and permanent
doings of human life into obscure cor
ners. is enough TO turn one into n
pronounced pessimist. Such papers
have no place in Christian home.
where there are children growing mp.
and they ought TO be shut out till they
mend their morals.
"The religious paper is one OF the
most potent and influential agencies in
the progress of the kingdom of God.
It Is second only in power TO preach
ing. It Is always ready TO speak rs
message. and makes its weekly VISITS
regardless of the weather. II does not
wait for the people to come together,
but goes to the people and erects it's
pulpit in the home.
"It has been suggested by DIR. w. 5.
McElroy, in the Standard, that the re-
ligious paper should take the place OF
the Sunday edition OF the secular pa
pers. The Sunday newspaper is gen.
orally condemned as desecrauon or
the Sabbath day, which 1t tends to
secularize. Its cheap, sensational
stories. its vivid description OF homi-
cides suicides and other terrible
crimes. it's columns OF society chat,
and it's socalled comic supplement, do
not make very edifying reading on
Sundays. There is nothing in 1t that
is appropriate for Sunday reading,
nothing that tends to make the Lord s
day more sacred, TO promote moral
improvement. or to stimulate interest
in the kingdom of God 1t would be a
happy displacement IL the religious
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