The Connecticut labor press., 1920-12-18
LIMBO YAWNS FOR
 SUNDAY BALL AND OTHER VACCINATIONS
Personal Liberty Leagues Must Get Busy if Anything's
 to Be Left.
DRASTIC LAWS IN WORKS
Reform Bureau Plans to Keep Everyone in Church or Bed
 on Sabbath.

| There seems to be strenuous work
 ahead for the Connecticut Personal | Liberty League. An effort is being
 made to secure the enactment of more or less stringent Sunday regulations
 during the present short session of l Congress. The International Reform I Bureau, headed by Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts, 1 has prepared a bill which outlaws all forms of unnecessary labor and fOrbids 1 amusements which have the taint of 1 commercialism. The doctor says his proposal lis less stringent than the 1 Sunday laws of Paris" Other organ ! izations are not as moderate in their l demands as Dr. Crafts, and some of the suggestions they have made con- corning "blue laws" have created real sensation in the nations capital where the citizens are accustomed to going to a ball game the movies" or the legiti mate theaters on Sunday.
 For example, if the legislative pro- gram of the Lords Day Alliance is realized, but three legal activities will be reserved for citizens of this coun- try in so far as the first day of the week IS concerned.
 They may go to church, they may walk in the country or they may stay in bed. They can do either or all of these three things without danger of going to jail All else is to be strictly taboo under heavy penalties.
 This may sound like a joke but it is anthing but that The Lords Day Alliance claims the support of 16 de nominations. and unlimited financial of Congress-"a no Congressman who cares to stay in Congress will dare refuse to vote for our measures" says the Rev. Harry L. Bowlby, secretary of the Alliance.
 Mir, Bowlby very frankly outlined his program. We are we'll financed" he says. Our lobby at Washington will be an effective and experienced | one, We shall work in every Congress sional district in every state"
 The Alliance will not waste its time
 trifing" with state legislatures, but will employ the methods so success fully adopted by the Anti-Saloon league in getting the 18th amendment. First, Congress Is to be asked to en- act legislation for the District of Co., lunbia and other territory under fed eral jurisdiction. Then 1t will be asked to submit an amendment to the con- stitution. After that, according to Rev. Bowlby, it will be easy sailing.
 We don't propose to pass any blue laws" he assures-Or reassures-the public. "Ihere are no such things as blue laWs-never were. And we don't propose to legis1ate people into church. We propose by legislation to make it easier for people to go to church.
 In other words, we shall close the baseball parks, the golf links, the mo- tion pictures and other theaters, the concert halls, the amusement parks, the bathing beaches and so on. We shall golf. tennis, baseball, because they set bad examples for children who other wise might be content to go to Sunday school
 We shall seek to restrain the sale of gasOlene for automobiles and urge other measures that will stop Sunday automobiling and joy riding. This will not bring the old-fashioned horse and buggy back, for we want a day of rest for man and beast. Bible study, pray CT. walking in the country, visiting the sick, attending divine services and lis tenng to gospel services alone will be permitted.
 Some program, but the Rev. Bowl by is sure that he is going to put it across. Everybody's for it-almost. "Only the Roman Catholics, the Uni | tarians, the Seventh Day Adventists and the Jews are outside this movement" he declares. And, to be perfectly l frank with you, they will have to con form to the laws when we succeed"
 After all this has been written into | statute law the Alliance has other am bilious plans. It will close public librar- es and art galleries on Sunday. We | shall seek to eliminate Sunday news l papers and establish censorship over | the stuff that gets in them. on other | days" announces it's secretary. Il | might add that a censorship should be | placed over museums of art as well. | l shall never forget the shame that | overcame me the first time I went | through one of these places. Certainly | 1 shall put brooches and skirts on some | of the nude statuary there and restrict | admission to mature adults"
 Woman's apparel will get attention. | Skirts are too high and bodices too | low, and there are too many blushes | concealed in si1ken hose
 To-day the lecherous eye is filled with the unClothed limbs of women and children" Rev. Bowlby says. The Lord gave Us clothing with which to clothe ourselves. But today the leg of a woman IS called art, and we bare the legs of young boys and girls. I'd abo1- ish these moral leg shows"
 If the naked truth becomes too brazen, there may be law to suppress 1t, too.