Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-22
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enough, and there is a movement on foot to secure stricter observance of the Sabbath. This idea has taken firm hold. Even Senator Sherman has lectured be- fore Young Mems Christian assoca- tion on the great benefits of a Puritan Sunday. And now, since the proposition has been fairly started by well. known people, 300 Christian women have met at one of our popular churches and dis cuSSed ways and means of enlsting oth- CTS in the cause. The question has inter- eSted some of the fashionables. Secre- tary Morton's sister is president of the association, and Mrs. Hoke Smith is one of the vice-preSidents. MesdameS Sena- tors Teller, Gray, Cullom, Roach and the wives of Justices Harlan, Shiras, Foster and Mrs. Chief Justice Fuller are also vice. presidents. constitution was adopted, the more important part of which reads as followS
 renewS his warning of year ago to con the American Christian Sabbath as our rightful inheritance bequeathed to us by our forefathers; as the foundation Of our national prosperity; as the safeguard of our social. civil and religious blessing; as the conservator of the rights Of the wage -earner, do hereby pledge ourselves to resist by precept and example what ever tends to undermine Sunday as day of rest and worship; such as the Sunday secular newspaper, Sunday con- certS, Sunday social entertainments and Sunday driving and travelling for person. al gain or pleasure; and we further pledge ourselves to use our influence to create a right sentiment on all aspects of the Sunday question, especially in ref erence to traffic of every kind on that day"
 The government printing office case has, ever since the Ford theater disas- ter, been under discussion, but as yet has not reached favorable settlement. An annex building is being erected, but will not be completed until next summer. In his annual report for the fiscal year ending June 30, Public Printer Benedict pledged to economy will cause him to gress, in which he says that. in spite of various precautionary measures, the printing office is very dangerous place. And he considers it his duty to repeat the warning regarding "the peril that threatens many faithful employees of the government"
 Mr. Benedict suggests that land be purchased adjoining the present site, where a new building can be erected without interfering with the old and where the transfer can be easily made. It will be a great relief to many faith full employees of the government"-hun dreds of them-who are assigned for work to the dsgraceful old dungeon, when the quibbling over the printing office shall come to an end. Every con gressman comedies the justice of the de- mand for a new building as well a s the personal responsibility he assumes in sending men there to work for whom he has secured an appointment Yet the miserable pretense that his party is business in the grimy old white brick vote against the appropriation. Every department of the government is housed in large, commodious, palatial buildings, the great printing office of the govern ment alone excepted. This, the largest printing office in the world transacts its business in a grimy old white brick structure in an out-of-the-way part of the city. looking for all the world like Libby prison, If that had a coat of white paint, with the walls rotten and the floors warped and the shaky old struc- ture buttressed up on all sides to prevent it from falling together into a heap of rubbish and powdered mortar. There are people in Washington who are ac- tually afraid to pass along the street on the same side as the printing office for fear of being buried under the debris. MARIE R. BAILEY-SCHRADER