Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-01-18
URGES HOUSING REFORMS
PRIEST DEPLORES LACK
OF THOUGHT FOR MASSES
RRfnks People In siuns Resort e
brink and immortality because OF
Living Conditions.
ny FATHER BERNARD VAUGHAN.


LONDON. Jan. l,.--Wc must human.
fxs people fire, before We can civilize
aud Chris,ianize them. Any one who
looks around him AZ IN. life % today
can see that we arc fast becoming y
pagan people. Little is thought OF
Christianity. If you talk 70 me ."rdi-
nary man about religion he looks at
you as If you were speaking about
some strange thing in strange Ian
&uaSe.r He does no; underSt and.
Ing lived gives little time ioT h!sh
thinking. People seem &c nave no zine
tor long eermonS or ionG PLAYS TncY
want swift words and swittcr impress
aione. That is why ] think there IS a
great chance for The motion picture.
1t Is quick IN movement ana intensely
Value Of tho Movie.
ia love to run a motion picture tho-
ates nyselt-eut I'd take care 70, eie-
from sphere TO sphere, not spiritually
Svt bum snly. to the highest character;
Il saw a him the other DAY called AL c,
l. hope it ~iil TEACH every hoy and
girl 10 keep clear OF vice.
But would 60 further and say that
the motion picture ought 70 have God
IN It. IL don; mean tina; there should
DO no brightness or merrireni ana tun
iu the pictures--we want plenty Of that
they should put Him in.
Films Are Anti-Saioon.
It's power for H' good h0 i, Keeps men and an,
women out OF saloons, and that is lot
81 IT'S favor. Ny pet aversion is The
see il in England today Men and
Women are, suppose. driven TO il in
sseekipE relief from the, sordid Sums
In which they are forced TO live. God
knows, they have little enough happi-
1T Is bold thing to say. but I de-
clare fra nkly that the only pleasures
we in England have 10 offer the peo-
pie in the Sums are immortality and
drink. and unit we 90 se..
ter for them we cannot hope for a
Take the ordinary public house or
saloon Of today; with its bar. jus en-,
enough, to have TO pass these places
when the doors are swinging on their
htnsee- But what must it be 10 b,
All ! can say is that men must have
so-called homes utterly unworthy o.
humanity when they are forced even
from a slum attic to md pleasure il,
bar where the atmosphere is rcck-
tnB from the fumes OF drink and tn,
smoke of shaE tobacco 1t is high
etMe we provided pleasure houses anC
REFRESHMENTS less unworthy of Chris
tan civilization.
spien Sant IL it ' sba, 'rys'5s halls sc
Time they may be open to trap the
eunbeams. / want Il room with palms
and shrubs In it. and fountains play
Ing, and marble tables Ea.orc, where
Z father may take his vile and chill
qren, SO that when he has his glass
OF beer the wife may have her tea and
the children their lemonade and cake
Let there be song and music, bright
and dlperttnS, and let the family party
recreate itself Tor work after rest anl
play.
Clubs for Workers.
Let us give the workingmen and
WorklngWomcn a club in which they
can lounge. read, feed and smoke n,
The lelsurca classes do in Pail Mali oil
Fifth Avenue. We are brothers anG
sisters al, and all sections OF the com.
muntty. according TO the measure o.
their means. should be provided foI
In their leisure hours just as they ar.
In their working time
IN Lot us SHOW tho world that Chris
tianty promotes healthy and legiti
mate pleasures, and let us prove tina
the game of life is not played by top
ping over as many OF Gods comma nd
mehts as YOU can, but by keeping then
np-sttf against the four winds O
,es, Healthy Fun E:Ievatcs
:. Long experience tells me that tn,
happy' family is the one in which there
Is plenty OF fun, brightness and pleas
uIe, and YOU cannot have a better ad
pertisemcnt for Christianity than the
selves together, with God in the mids
That happy family is not going tc
pc created among the poorer classc.
n The cities OF the world so long a
fheir only escape from the sordid real.
ties OF thar wrctchcd homes is the
reskinE saloon and public house i
must be made possible for them tc
lead eaner and more human lives As
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