The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-10-13
SUNDAY PICTURE SHOWS

(H. E. Largerren in Starke Telegraph)
Col. r. w. Davis-"Our Bob," as
we fondly used to call him when he
gave US a chance to vote for him,
writes the able editorials for the
Gainesville Sun. In the goodness of
his heart he pitied the workers of his
town, who could not, like the automo
bile owners. spend the Sabbath day
travelling around, but must stay at
home and read themselves to sleep or
stand around the garages watching
the men there repairing and provis
ioning the autoes of the rich. He pro-
posed that picture shows and other
innocent amusements be allowed dur
ing certain hours Sunday for the
benefit of those who work six days of
the week and need relaxation on the
seventh. He fortified himself with
argumnts like these:
"Now, what is your idea of keep
ing this day holy? Do you believe that
il you keep this day holy according
to your ideas of holiness you may
break all the other commandments to-
morrow? Do you believe you can be
sanctimonious today and cheat your
neighbor tomorrow? Shouldn't every
day be kept holy?'
But he had not reckoned with
Gainesville. The highborn danes and
pious traders looked at each other and
said -pos-ter-o -ous!" Gainesville is
an anomalous town. One of the old
est in the state, it should by this time
easily be the fourth in size. but it is
not. The working white population
compared with the traders, the law
yers, the idle rich and the negroes is
SO microscopal that the DANES who
their pincenez.
Progressive, liberal, growing Ocala
offers, through the Star, this consola.
tion to the defeated colonel:
eve observe that Col. Bob Davis
of the Gainesville Sun has stirred uI
! the pharisees in that village by rec.
ommending picture shows on Sunday
afternoons. Come, sit in with US pub
licans and sinners, colonel; the Lore
associated with us quite freely wher
he was on earth"
The editor of the Inverness Chron
icle, commencing on the Suns editor
ial, says:
"a very worthy clergyman of othel
days used to put his views like this
Any action which was meritorious OF
a week day, would be equally meritor
ious if performed on Sunday, and By
the same reasoning, any act that i
was a sin to perform on Sunday woulC
be equally sinful if performed on
week day. We gained this reply whel
asked his views on the publication O.
a Sunday newspaper. Lest some O.
our friends miSconStrue our meaning
and charge US with belittling tn,
Sabbath, we like the idea of consider
ing all days as the Lords days ant
one no more so than another"
, The Suns editorial has acted as al
entering wedge and while it is not ap
to have any effect on Exclusive
Gainesville, it was not written in vain
; We know of a town, miniature O
. Gainesville, where some of the fey
white working people dread the com
ing of Sunday, as it passes away s
| slowly for the lack of entertainments
Some of the others sneak away befor
daylight to fish or shoot, and man
lads go off by stealth to play ball be
| hind the cypress ponds. If some harm
less relaxations were not tabooed dun
ing the ex-service hours Sunday:
these people would stay at home an
likely attend the church services. TIL
cause of religion never suffered o
: account of a little liberality. IA
r work and no play makes Jack a du
boy" and he will grow to hate hom
and run away at the first opportunity