15 MARCH 1935, Page 6

The verdict in favour of the Rev. S. G. Morris,

of Clacton, and the Evening Standard, in the libel action brought against them by members of a concert-party whose Sunday evening shows Mr. Morris had scathingly criticized, from the pulpit of his Baptist Church at Clacton, is a matter for profound satisfaction. It waS a right and, courageous use of the pulpit, abundantly vindicated in the result. It would be a disaster if fear of the law of libel checked just denunciations of social evils, and the: growing laxity of the stage—not, of course, by any means the whole of it—has been carried to a point at which plain words about it are badly needed.