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CONDEMNED.
POTATO-PIE SUPPERS AND DANCING.
Potato-pie suppers, bridge partics, dancing, and similar me thods of raising money for church purposes wore attacked by M. John B. Gotts. (chairman of the London Congregational Union) at ORTHOPHONIO VICTROLA, in the World Conference on Steward.
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Mr. Gotts said that if giving was, to be holy worship, it followed that all unworthy methods of appeal'and'' collection must be eliminated
Among these he mentioned were e
"The grading and pricing of pews according to the status of the worshipper.t
"Concerts often with doubtful songs borrowed from the music hail
Socials with whist drives and bridge parties and dancing,
Sales of work, with high-pri- ced under clothing, refreshment, and useless fancy articles.
• Stalls, bazaars, with their sideshows of guessing, rafling, and like competitions, bu..
·Talkies' Influence. The coming of sound' has created a new and enormous vested interest for America in the cinema in dustry, and has greatly strengthen ed her hold on the world's" cinema theatres. It is fair to estimate! that she will soon have equipped 20,000 cinema theatres with sound installations, at a totul aggregalė cost of £30,000,000, a minimum figure, and that from those 20,000 theatres, which include most of the world's best, she will draw on annual revenue of £8,000,000 in ro spect of repairs and maintenance. foreign missionary effort.
Sound a new and most powerful ("Shame.g
weapon in the general commercini aspects of film salesmanship.
America, na usual, has been swift
"Missionary dramatic recitals, hot-pot potato pie suppers, imi- tation mayoral banquets," "Ameri can teas and all the other növel money-raising: schemes. for meet- ing the cost of diving worship. "Only recently be said, I heard of a church running a Derby sweep in order to raise money for a
He
most heartily commended womenfolk, who plied their needles
in making garments for sale, young
to realise the strength of this new people who made things for dis
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Sanctified Amusement.
It is estimated by Dr. Klein, posal, and the organist and choir. the trade expert above-mentioned, who gave their services for a reatiaľ that America is now, turning out or concert to raise funds.. 100,000,000 feet per annum of in- dustrial talking filma. If one takes the average length of such indus trial films as 1,000 feet, that means that America has 100,000 direct "salesmen" at work, in addition to the indirect salcamanship of her fiétional films.
Three industrial flms accompany the human salesmen, because they explain things, such as, details of machinery, which cannot be ex-
"I cannot countenance," he con-. tinued, "any method of raising money which is designed as a means of obtaining a kind of sanctified amusement with a problematic pro fit for the church funds. It is the motive which matters.
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"There are people in our churches who will not go to a public dance or whist drive, but who, under the plained by word of mouth alone, guise of doing something for the They are used to instruct selling church funds, will organise these. departments in the best methods of things in the name of their church, selling and to explain to factory and too often the minister and off- workers all the processes of the cera condone their action for fear things which they make.
of giving offence."
Selling Power,
Bailie, Thomas W. Nelson was of the opinion that, if a man were Britain is in the infant class in regarded according to the amount regard to the possibilities of com- given to the work of the Lord it mercial · propaganda through the would not be difficult for rich peo medium of the film, though the ple to enter the Kingdom of selling power of the film has not passed unnoticed by some of our public men. The Prince of Wales, our leading salesman," advised
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"One has to regret," he added, ' that there appears to lie hidden in the breasts of some that the
giying of substantial amounts when take the British film, seriously," ncaring the end of life's journey in and described himself as being an infallible indiention of death-bed "a bit of raw material for the repentance and a sure purchasing of the glories of the Celestial City. Why should it be easier to get money by the sale of lottery tickets, whist drives, guesaing competitions, and suchlike condemnable devices than by direct appógł - to bove, or duty And then sympathy, love, or
Sir Philip Cunliffe Lister, span- por of the "Quota" Act, said: The influence of the cinema is the greatest advertising power in the world
Mr. Stanley Baldwin, during, the debates on the Quota," referred
wonder why thinking, people
to the enormous power which the film has developed for propaganda stand apart from the Church when purposes."
they have been badgered, bullied, The nation has at last become or shall I say kissed, into unwill interested in the British film, but
it cannot yet be said that the ing giving. I am glad to be identi British film is regarded seriously fied with a people who do not re- for propaganda purposes, We have sort to such condemnable expedi nearly 600,000,000 people in this ents to further the work of God." Empire of ours, and the quickest,
(Cheers.) furcat, and simplest way of reach ing them, for any purpose whatever, is through the medium of the films, They arrest the eye, they command: attention, and they linger in the memory.
If Britain and her manufacturers and financiers will whole-heartedly. adopt the talking ploture as a com mercial, selling, medium, and assist in the distribution of British filme
In "foreign crumpler and withứ thứ
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adh
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