The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-16
SHALL WE ABOLISH SUNDAY9

This is an age of great things; the
worlds history is being made rapidly
even the worlds geography is revised
often. Ammunition plants and gun
makers are far behind with theil
orders; every. commercial enterprise
is short handed and behind with its
work; from the smallest retail mer,
chant to the largest manufacturer
more time is needed to do the work
Labor is scare and work must be done
Students are urged to go to school
intensively and get out into the world
sooner. The University of Missouri
will soon be in session the year
around, with exception of two weeks.
Every institution, commercial and edu-
cational, is speeding up.
With the cost of living going up.
the salaried man and the wage Garner
must cut down their standard of liv-
ing or work more hours a week.
When capital needs more work
DONE, and when the worker need to
do more work to support himself and
family, why should we waste one day
in seven? This is the day of eff
cheney. Are we efficient when We
waste one-seventh of our time?
A man celebrated his; SEVENTEEN
h;rtb6oy n fau- doyc oUo Ha hac al
ways observed Sunday as a day Of
rest; he has rested or wasted ten
years of time. Seventy years ago
time was not of much Importance, as
every man raised his own food, cut
his own fuel, and his wife made the
clothes. But now time is a big item.
Can our young men of today afford
to waste ten years of their allotted
three score and ten?
OF course some persons are senti-
mental and feel that observing Sun
day is a part of their duty, but in the
time of a world-war and in a time
when speeding up is necessary, can
we pause to listen to the sentimental
list?
To stop work for one day. means not
only the loss of the work that might
be done, but it means that fuel is
being consumed just the same as if
work were being turned out. Why
should firemen shovel coal and keep
things in shape when so doing merely
increases overhead expense? Why not
utilize that wasted day and make
every bushel of fuel count?
Students go to school nine months
of the year but do nothing on Sundays;
more than a month is wasted. Think
of every student from the primary
grade to universities wasting more
than month each year when farmers
are calling for help.
Our Allies are crying for food and
we are wasting One-seventh of our
p time because the calendar marks that
seventh day, Sunday.
Business men are letting work pile
up during the week because Il can
take care of that Sunday; students
will loaf a little now and then be-
cause 81 can catch up with my work
Sunday; and the man with the auto
mobile polishes up that car on Satur-
day because I'VE will spend tomorrow
riding"
The tendency is to use Sunday for
things. We don't have time to do
during the week. Let's abolish Sun
day and increase our efficiency one
sixth.
Why not abolish Sunday?
Because the Bible teaches us ITO re-
member the Sabbath day to keep it
Holy" II we had no other reason for |
keeping one day in seven, that would
be sufficient. The Gospel according |
to st. Mark tells us that the Sabbath |
was made for man, not man for the
Sabbath" Theologians tells us that
"the day was appointed even in Para |
disc, as a day of rest; and being now
a blessed season of rest of body and
mind, from earthly care, and pleasure
and toll; a time of special regard to
the interest of our immortal souls,
and of the kind offices to the souls and
bodies of our fellow men,
How about wasting one-seventh of
our time?It that justifiable merely TO
remember the Sabbath day to keep
it HOly?" Most assuredly it would
be even if the time were wasted, but
1t is not On an average we spend
two hours of twenty-four at a table
eating and talking to the other men,
bers of the family; do we therefore
waste one-twelfth of our time?
A man of sixty years has spent five
years at a table and think what a
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