New-York tribune., 1920-11-29
Leading Drys
Enlist i'm Blue
Sunday Fight
Continued from page onsj

Of the Eighteenth Amendment and the
volstead act and who now declares the
District of Columbia Sunday bill to be
tlon or Federal Constitutional amend
ment enforcing nation wide Sabbath
obst rvance
Representative Will D. Upshaw. Of
Georgia, one of the Anti-Saloon League
leaders in that state and a director Of
the International Reform Bureau. Mr.
Upshaw will address the bureaus CON
ference.
p The Rev. James Empringham, of
district superintendent of the New
York State Anti-Salopn League in 1916
and Who is one of the directors of the
International Reform Bureau.
Mrs. Ella A. Boole, of. BROOKLYN,
New York State president of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union.
who will speak at the conference and
whose organization, which fought side
ly side with the Anti-Saloon League,
has indorsed the blue law campaign.
Robert &. Davey, lawyer, who is
ard the Lords Day Alliance.
In addition to Representative Up
shaw the directorate of the Interra-
tional Reform Bureau includes a group
# members of both houses of Con-
gress who fought hardest for the
Eighteenth Amendment and the Vol
stead Act and who, presumably. are
leing counted on to vote and talk for
the District of Columbia blue law
They are:
Senator'S BecRham. Capper, Jones,
Myers, Poindexter, Sheppard, Sherman
and Sterling, and Representatives
~ I
Sims, Addison T Smith and Randall.
The last named, the only Prohibition
party man in tho House, was defeated
for reelection in his California dis
trict at the last ELECTION
The ingenious scheme by which
stock company manipulators, through
lnterlocking directorates, manage to
control various corporations, although
there is no official connection between
the corporations as such, seems to have
been adopted as a convenient device
by which to camouhage the fact that
the drys and the blues are pretty
much the same persons.
Reformers' Common Meeting Ground
The league and the alliance, together
with host of other reform organiza-
tions whose activities range all the
way from urging a Federal motion pic
ture censorship to striving for com
pulsory reading of the Bible in schools
ind their common meeting ground in
the parent corporation, the Interna-
tional Reform Bureau at Washington,
and their inspiration in it's septuacen-
arlan superintendent, the Rev. Wilbur
Fisk Crafts.
DR.. Crafts himself is not averse to
conveying the impression that there is
no concerted plan Of campaign among
the various agencies for the enactment
Of blue laws
II am not member of the Lords
Day Alliance" he told Tribune CORE
spondent at Washington, and let it 20
at that.
Who's Who in America is more ex-
pilcit 1t says in its biographical
sketch of DR.. Crafts:
"Founded American Sabbath Union.
1889; lectured throughout the United
States as its field secretary. 1889 90 "
The name of the American Sabbath
Union was subsequently changed to the
Lords Day Alliance, but it is the same
organization. 1t is not known just
when DR.. Crafts severed his official
connection with it. His continued ad-
vocacy Of its principles. however has
been as pronounced as his co0pcration
with the AntiSaloon League.
Realization that the remarkably eff
cient machinery, which the Anti
Saloon League and other dry organ
izations employed to whip Congress
and forty-five State Legislatures into
line, is to be largely at the disposal
Of DR.. Crafts to push the program of
the Lords Day Alliance, has created
something akin to panic in the ranks
If those who are opposed to blue law
enactment. The opponents fall into two
categores-the amusement, sports and
transportation interests, whose busi-
ness is in jeopardy, and that large
proportion of the public that frankly
lccks with horror upon the prospect of
return to the joyless Sunday of old
Plymouth Colony.
With the exception of the motion
picture industry, which has been fight