The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-12-18
IUE LAW MEN
DECLINE DEBATE
powlbv and Crafts Tell
Critic He Had Better
Go to Missouri
|SlANDERED THE JEWS
rs,bolics and Adventists Also
Objects of Attacks and
Movies Decried

NEW YORK. Dee. i7.--Dr. Harry
= uovlby, secretary OF the Lords
nsy alliance. and the Rev. Wilbur
Sosns OF the international reform
S,reau decline the invitation or El-
NOR \. FRANKIE, evange eilst' 10 appear
no ,a nruadhurst theater and de-
a. ,heir position in reference to
ea.y enu "bluc laws" Doctor Crafts
suuacd as his reason: II could not
sss you for courteous Christian
s,ment. advise you TO go to
Nssonri" A large adience greeted
Mr.. FRANKIE.
nrbs real object of the Lords Day
.ilanre and Kindred reform organi-
',,onsr said Mr.. FRANKIE in his lee
,r. rs to bring about union OF
b,rch and state In America. And
~ sunday laws are the entering
,,o When corncred they admit
,',s They will tell you they do not
uan. A church and State, but are
,oating religion and state. What
Tho difference fan to sea
Some day the members of con-
cross will have the manhood to meet
the decision of Justice Brewer OF
ho f'rited states, In which he de-
Cbristian nation | am opposed TO
ynkinr Nd Jesus Christ with the
STATE The reformers tried twenty
ySars ago TO get congress to pass
avs touching on this point, and
sow they are again renewing their
s,or.s, yield to them once and YOU
,ill soon have professional spying
committees looking into your win
dcvs TO see If you have gone to
church or are observing Sunday as
rev believe. The whole idea OF
,hsse reformers may be summed up
| IN yhe resolution:
Resolved. That the meek shall
| Inherit the earth.
"Resolvcd. That we are the
neck
Mr. FRANKIE asked what about the
Jews and Christians, such as the
seventh Day Adventists and Baptist.
who recognized Saturday as their
abbath, or those among us who
recognized no day and yet were
rood citizens, despite their unbelief.
Mr. FRANKIE detailed his expert
,nces covering more than thirty
Years fighting sunday laws. Giving
names and places he told how in
| Tennessee, Arkansas and Maryland
men whom he knew had been sent
10 iail for such offenses as gather
Ing fodder for cattle and performing
indoor tasks Of a necessary nature
on Sunday.
William 4. Brady. president Of the
| National Association Of the Motion
Picture Industry. replied bitterly
Yesterday to the recent decision OF
the International reform bureau to
remove "the menace OF the movie"
and to rescue the industry from
What they were quoted as describing
Is the hands OF the devil and 500
rn-Christian Jews
Mr.. Brady characterized the or
ssh!zation AS a small group OF self :
appointed guardian angels called
The statements of DR.. Wilbur II.
Crafts and Edward u. Clark admir-
able examples OF bigoted fanaticism
run riot" and continued:
These self-styled reformers
whose Christian-,ike qualities are
seli.evldent in their profiteering In
morality, demonstrate conclusively
The lengths to which they will go
and the means to which they will
s,oop to accomplish their ends wher
they attempt, as they are now do
Ing, 10 arouse race preJudices
against the Jews. am not p Jew
! am a Catholic. And ] make no
eriet for the Jew except that which
Is due the record OF his race in this
country, and that is record OF
which the Jews and all other citi'
lens may be proud"
Mr., Brady accused the Crafts or,
ganlzation of forgetting that every
0rganization associated in upbuild'
Ing the morale OF the American
army In France was only too glaf
IN having the hearty cooperation o'
The industry in supplying motion
pctuies that the men in France
might be dccently entertained or
Sunday nights"
The attack went on to take ISSUE
WITH contentious that there are an,
humber Of immoral pictures beint
exhibited in this country. Mr.. Brad,
asserting that when these "self-ap
pointed saviors' of the nation sa,
lhere are, they are saying tina
which is not so, and they know It,
The Brady statement pledged th'
association to eradicate from tn
industry those who transgressed tn
CODE OF business and ethical con
duet.
~" BRADY expressed the Wiling
aess OF the industry to meet tn
'eiormers before congress.
III these slanderers, Jew-baiter
ana Catholic haters are not 81
"hced' said Mr.. Bailey. Eve pro
pose fight to a finish with II
quarter We will put our case Ol
We screen In every nook and corne
this great country and brinI
nome nome to the American people re
aHatlon of what these self-ap
pointed censors of public conduc
about
ms supreme officers OF tn
nHsats of Columbus have decide
PRINT millions of pamphlets I
Sepplement their speakers cam
pa,sh against blue laws.
a, me Rev Or, John Haynes Holme
Me Community church service !
%e Lyric theaters said the psyche
w OF repression Of the new move
".nl was unsound, It's fanatlcisr
saosance hypocrtical and it's sp,
ti proposals based on an utterl
sse and superstitious idea OF wha