New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
nH-SalOOn
Pillar Backs
Blue Law Plan
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ington last night DR.. Crafts said ne
| himself had been the largest contrib
utor to the war chest Of the bureau.
l. had been his CUSTOM it was made
known, to turn back each year the
$4,000 he receives by way Of salary
a. A. Hyde, of Wichita Kan, of the
Ncntholatum Company, DR.. Crafts
stated, has donated $4,000 a year for
the last ten years.
"Most of the contributors he added,
"are so-called middle class folk rarely
giving more than $2o year. | know
CT no New Yorker who has given more
than S5."
Dr. Crafts declared that the contri-
buttons in 1919 did not exceed a total
of $40 700. He did not reveal what the
1920 contributions amounted to, nor
what sum the bureau has accumulated
10 defray the cost of ito blue law cam
Taign.
as John D. Rockefeller one of the
contributors ?" DR.. Crafts was asked.
Mr.. Rockefeller has never contrib
nted." he replied.
1t was Dr.. Watson who vouchsafed
the information that DR.. Crafts had
written the wartime prohibition act.
Did he help draft the Eighteenth
Amendment ?"
That do not know" said DR.. Wat
son, "but l do know he was very much
interested in the amendment and in the
Volstead act"
Who's Who in America is RESPONSE
bic for the statement that Dr.. Crafts
was member Of a commission TO draw
constitutional dry amendment.
More than twenty years ago-in
March, 1900 Dr.. Crafts ACCOMPANIED
the Rev. L. c. Dinwiddie, chief lobby
ISL Of the Anti-Saloon League, to a
session of the House of Representa-
tves Insular Affairs Committee and re
Questcd that the bill prohibiting
whisky in the Philippines be amended
to include prohibition of beer and
wines.
Some two months prior to that time
DR.. Crafts had been called to account
by an attachc Of the Capitol at Wash
ington for charging in a speech at
Boston that champagne was served to
President Mckinley and his Cabinet
while the President was waiting to
sign bills.
Or. Crafts is seventy years old, but
he has been laying the groundwork of
the crusade he has just launched for
the last quarter of century. He was
pastor of a Presbyterian church in
church work to organize the reform
bureau. Before that time he had been
successfully Methodist and Con-
gregatiOnal minister
The International Reform Bureau
owns the building in which it's head
quarters are located at 2O6 Pennsyl-
vania Avenue. S. E.. Washington. 1t
adjoins the Congressional Library.
Or. Crafts is the author of, many
works on temperance, social purity
and kindred topics, and in 1918 occa-
/ stoned discussion hu
teaching of sex hygiene in Sunday
schools to boys and girls under twelve
years old.
He is admittedly a power at the
| Capitol Between 1895 and 1910 ne
wrote thirteen laws enacted by Con
gress, among them measures that en-
/ forced Sunday closing at the St. Louis
and jamestown eXpositions.
DR.. Crafts has conducted q hundred
or more hearings before committees Of
| Congress, and said at one time that
| his correspondence and literature
reaches every village and city of the
United States and every foreign land
at least four times a year"
In this connection spokesman for
tion accused Dr. Crafts in 1904 OF mis-
using government franks to mail the
literature of his bureau broadcast over
the country.
DR.. Crafts is the author of many
works on temperance, social purity and
kindred topics and in 1913 advocated
the teaching of sex hygiene in Sunday
schools to boys and girls under twelve
years old
The reformer explained that when he
wanted to avoid the expense of postage
on the bureaus literature he merely
went before some Congressional COM
mittee hearing, read into the record
whatever documents he wished dissem-
mated, and then induced some oblging
law maker to send them out under his
franking privilege.
Il am a Christian lobbyist" said DR..
Crafts. 81 represent 2S.OOO,OOO Chris
tians"
Tic International Reform Bureau is
described on its lctterheads as GA bu-
reau of lectures, literature and law for
promoting moral reforms" Its plat
form and program" read:
c count it the supreme reform to
enlist religious forces in reform, in
fulfllment Of the second great com
mandment of Moses and Christ, which
requires those who are right with God
personally to get men right with men
socially"
This expression was construed as
libng neatly with the view expressed
Friday by the Rev. Harry l.. Bowlby,
secretary of the Lords Day Alliance,
, who dec clared, in effect, that no other
Interpretation of Sunday duty other
: than that held by the blue law advo-
Gates was possible for q genuine Chris
tian, and that the Fourth Command
=, ment cannot be amended by popular
referendum
; Next Sunday Or. Crafts is going to
. invade New York for the purpose, it is
l understood, of publicly inaugurating
his crusade for strict Sabbath obscrv-
8 ance. He will preach in the morning
al St Pauis Methodist Church and in