Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-05-19
THE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER.

i du2es tae remarks of a certain divine
 concerning his opinion of the Sunday
 newspaper. It shows to what eX- , tent some things will go if permit. ted to do so. The Times Herald aft CT giving the substance of the preach. 1 CTS discourse then proceeds to con- ment and both the remarks and com. ment are not without interest at this time. They are as follows:
 "Rev. W. J. McKenney, of Wash ington, D. C., prominent Anti-Saloon Leaguer, and agitator, has discovered a more menacing foe" than the sa- looms. It is the Sunday newspaper It is more than menacing It is "a fatal foe to the church. Rev Nc Kenney recently appeared before the Laymen's Association of Washington and had his fling. He said:
 ''The Sunday newspaper is infam- ous and iniquitous. It constitutes the one fatal foe to the church to be encountered in this latter day, and is even worse than the saloon. It holds an advantage over the grogshop be- cause the law at least makes a pre- tense of closing the saloon, while the Sunday newspaper is not only per- mitted but encouraged l. sends little children forth in the morning before dawn to draw a small liveli- hood in pennies from the sale of this pernicious publication. The family man, worn out by his labors of the day before, sinks into a. chair with the morning paper, forgetful of his church duties, and nothing that the church can put forth has half the at traction for him that his Sunday pa per has. It is slowly drawing men from their pews, where they formerly sat Sunday after Sunday, content to hear the Word preached. Now they have acquired the Sunday paper habit, and they can no longer be reached. l want every man in this congregation to constitute himself a committee to fight this growing evil that strikes at the heart of the church system.
 'sIt sends little children forth in the morning before dawn according to this holy man. He is correct. It sends them forth to make an honest living and they make it. Thousands of poor boys in the large cities maka the.r own living and this is not all Thousands of newsboys keep the roof over the heads of widowed moth CTS and half-orphaned brothers and sisters. The newsboys make their own way and earn their own living. Were 1t not for the Sunday newspa- pers they would be starving in the l alleys or tenements or inmates of mis- erable asylums fer orphans or state aided reformat0ries or homes. 'The | family man. wornout with his labors 1 of the week, reads his Sunday news paper and if it is newspaper like the Sunday Times Herald he is to be congratulated. It points the way, it 1 contains valuable lessons and inter- esting sermons. It is neither "in- famous nor iniquitous" and it l breaches to more people every Sun
  at large. The Sunday Newspaper is slowly drawing men from their pews" according to the Anti-Saloon pulpiteer Then the Sunday morning newspaper offering must appeal, it must elevate. Readers of newspapers are intelligent men and if the Sunday newspaper is men away from the paws it must be the fault of the men wlo fill t". Iulpits. iLe Sunday mnr',,e newspapers Of Texas are clean, they are uplifting, they are progressive, they have high ideals, and yet the