The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-05
FAIL IN EFFORT
 TO STOP DRILLS
 ON THE SABBATH
Lords Day League Cannot Stop Harvard Mems Mil
 itary Parades

Boston. May 5.+Efforts on the part
 of the Rev. Martin D. Knee1and. sec retary of the Lords Day League. to prevent the Harvard Regiment from conducting drills and parades on the Sabbath day have proved inenectuaL. IA protest to Mayor Wendell D. Rock wood from MT. Kneeland was turned over to Chief of Police John Murray of Cambridge, who discovered that the Harvard regiment, commanded by an officer of the regular army and es- abolished with the permission of the governor may parade and bear arms in the streets practically unhampered by the city authorities.
 The Lords Day League, Of which the Rev. MT. Kneeland is secretary, is an organization the purpose of which is to force the observance of the Sabbath. The parade of the liar ward students last Sunday did not meet with the approval of the leagues officials, and the protest followed.
 "We had several complaints regard ing the parade of the Harvard Regi- ment on Sunday said the Rev. MT. to me as unnecessary, I at once te1e-
 phoned the mayor to offer my com plaint in turn. There is no reason in 1 the world why these young men
 should take the Lords day to do their
 military preparing, which is in large
 measure only a fad -t best. It is all together wrong to have such an affair on this, the one day of the week set aside for rest and worship. The liar yard men could drill on Saturday just
 as we'll as on Sunday. and the whole
 idea is disrespectful to the Lords day.
 heard that the Harvard men are
 planning to repeat the performance,
 and immediately telephoned the mayor with view to entering the protest of the league"
 @Ho,n
 to the po1ice,'' said Mayor Redwood last evening. They have informed me that as far as t are al ble to find
 out, the Harvard Regiment has the
 right to parade on Sunday or on any
 other day. All that the city can do is
 to 7Asignate the route by which they
 shall march.
 t'The Harvard Regiment is a mill tary organization, established with the
 signature of the governor, are com
 manded by Captain Cordier, an officer of the regular army. As such, it l.SSS
 the right to parade at any time t<1t 1 it chooses, being guided by the police
 simply in the choice of its route.' i Undergraduate members of the regf-
 ment were highly indignant when in
 formed yesterday of the action of the leaguA. c. c. Lund. '16. chairman of the reginental comimttee, expressed himself strongly on the Vnubject. He
 intimated that the regment has thus 1 lar acn10VeQ success largoIy@ Dy strict attention to it's own affairs, and ex-
 pressed the hope that the Lords Day
 League would reach a similar condf-
 tion of prosperity through adherence to the same methods.
 i eff they should be successful in pre-
 venting US from drilling here it would simply mean that we would have to
 go somewhere else,'' he said. ''It is i absolutely impossible fo- us to hold
 drills on any other day of the week. Classes at Harvard are held on Sat-
 urday, as on all other week days, and
 in the afternoons many of our men
 are busy at track, baseball and crew. 1 'T don't want to say anything
 against the Lords Dav League, for
 don't even know what they are. but should think that there was enough
 Sunday fighting going on in Europe
 for them to attend to without bother 1 ing us.
 SIf they want to go to church on
 Sunday I am sure that the regiment will offer no objections Meanwhile of course, we shall keep right on drill ing"
 Captain Cordier, commanding the
 regiment, declared yesterday that he could not discuss the matter.
 T erou1dn't want to express my self.' he said He agreed that 1t would be impracticable to hold pa rades of the regiment on week day.