New-York tribune., 1920-12-01
Blue Law Lobby
Seeks to Snuff
Out Cigarettes
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of the Lords Day Alliance. He Is pas
tor Of the Marble COLLEGIATE Church.
The Rev. Harry l.. Bowlby, secretary
OF the alliance, sought to discount the
fact Of Dr.. Burrell's holding important
posts in the two organizations By treat
ing it as a mere coincidence. The sub
stance of his explanation was that
when DR.. Burrell was presiding over
the Anti Saloon League he tilted his
lance at John Barleycorn exclusively,
and that when he walked around the
corndk to sit with the board of man
ageraH the Lords Day Alliance he un-
sheaked his swor(, for the sole un-
doing Of Sabbath decorators.
Drys Disclaim Aid
The board of directors Of the Anti
Saloon League yesterday adopted volu
minous resolutions in which they de-
MED "oiliclal connection with the Sun
day regulation program"
No reference to its war on the
cigarette has been made in any of the
Improvements Of the Lords Day Al
lance in the East, but perusal of the
alliances official organ, The Lords Day
Leader, revealed this as phase of the
campaign The signs of popular re
sentiment which greeted announcement
i
months ago, featured by a quick sour
rying of the Anti Saloon League to re-
pudlate any connection with the move
IS thought to have been responsible for
the alliance deciding to keep this light
hidden under q bushel until a more
propitious time for springing it on the
Atlantic seaboard.
In certain Middle and Northwestern
states, however, there are already
statutes IN existence, prohibiting the
sale or manufacture of cigarettes and
1T is IN these communities that the
Lords Day Alliance has ardently COM
batted all attempts to repeal the laws
The following is quoted from the
July and August, 1920, issue of The
Lords Day Leader, page 9:
con March 16, 1920, North Dakota
held state election in which no less
than three questions affecting public
morals were voted upon-the repeal Of
the anti cigarette law; law licensing
prize fights and commercialized Sun
day amusements such as baseball Sun
day theaters and movies. The
Lords Day Alliance sympathizcs heart
lily with those who are fighting the
good fight of faith in this Northwest
ern state: 1t sent many thousand
| pages of literature into North Dakota
and provided much material for use
in the referendum campaign While
the election did not accomplish all that
the advocates of an orderly Sabbath
desired, yet they were able to prevent
the repeal Of the existing laws pro-
hlblting the sale of cigarettes, the eX-
staging of prize fights within the state.
The law forbidding Sunday baseball
was repealed"
The boast that "the advocates Of an
orderly Sabbath were able to
prevent the repeal of the existing laws
prohibiting the sale of cigarettes" is
construed as authoritatively linking
the blue law enthusiasts with the cult
Of DR.. Pease and "Annette Hazleton.'
Attacks DR.. Manning
The Rev John Ferguson, state sec
retary of the Lords Day Alliance, a
former Buffalo pastor, took sharp is
sue yesterday with the Rev. Dr. Will
lam I. Manning, rector Of Trinity
Church, who in sermon last Sunday
decried the proposed revival Of the
Puritan Sabbath as "a narrow view Of
Christianity" and distinctly harmful
to religion. DR.. Manning said the
Church should encourage wholesome
Sunday sports and that the clergy
should take part in them. He said he
attended Sunday ball games at Camp
Upton when he was chaplain there,
CDR. Manning ought to know" said
Mr.. Ferguson, that any such example
on his part-going to a Sunday base
ball game-leads downward If lay
man hears of DR. Manning's being at q
ball game on Sunday he is likely to
consider himself justified in doing
something still worse on the Lord S
Day, Like people, like priest says
Scripture. Ministers should set a high
standard for the people to emulate"
Asked if he did not consider it rea-
sonable to assume that varying inter
pretations might be placed by Chris
tians on the duty of Sunday observance
and that the people of any given com
munity might expect the right TO de-
de the question for themselves, DR..
Ferguson said:
legislatures and the people have no
right to barter the morals Of the pco-
pie. Every nation that has put aside
the Sabbath has gone down."
He was reminded uhat DR.. Manning
contends that the Christian church en-
tirely altered the conception of the
Lords day when it changed it from
Saturday to Sunday and established
it to mark the Resurrection instead o1
the day God rested after creating the
earth.
"In every particular instance in Tho
New Testament,' he replied, "in whicl
the English translation reads, first da,