New-York tribune., 1920-12-06
Cause
Blue Law Chief
To Call I Police
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Nho-e cruside BY demanding too thick
a coat OF indigo Al the s.ar,. Not II
rats AacwS i. ana ne has init
mated that he keeps pretty tight
~h~cA rem or tie wider young blades
among the uDi!fters Passage of thf
lem2le-Jones bill 70 forbio Sunday
amusement IN the District OF Columns
would satisfy the doctor at the outset
but ne & esn't hesitate to give an
proVa 10 the ultimate aims of Mr.
boWicy an the alliance. What he in
sisted 'por he said yesterday. Was
that they should be attained one IT - =
time and or y as fast as public senti-
mert cou bc deve opod by p~oDa-
ganda 10 stand ITEM without too great
. saock. In brief. DR.. Crafts advises
the blues 70 10 low the methods the
Antl-Sa.o0N League found so success
1nl II For.-.ag up through local option
ara other stages to a bone dry United
States.
Our critics" said DR.. Crafts
"ascrlbe to US a desire 20 stop un-
necessary Sunday tr-vel and to pro-
hloit Sunday newspapers. we be ieve
those lngs ought to be done but to
e that tan just now would be away
ahead Of public sentiment
ing. | lave no doubt as to how they
VIII act once they have got the facts
and DO not bel eve what they read in
the newspapers.
Il believe iii Sunday laws-a go'den
mean between the Puritan and the Con
Mental Sunday. IL present the only
9il4 9etore Congress is that relating 10
sabbath observance in the District OF
Columbia. The international Reform
Bureau helped start il but the clergy
of Washington " are taking care OF it
now"
DR. Crafts is bent on taking the
vamp out of motion pictures, as we'll
as the sun ont Of Sunday. H organi-
cation is backing measure to estab-
lsh Federal board of censors
Lack Of Sunday observance and the
movies are 10 blame for the wave of
Juvenile crime he said I'VE want the
government TO censor the morality of
motion pictures and eliminate these
morbid vampire women who corrupt
youth. Shootings and other scenes Of
violence should also be censored"
My me SAGE to CONGRESS" was the
term applied by Dr. Crafts TO a state
ment ne issued Saturday in Washing
n, warning that if the Repub lean Ad-
mlnlstration fell behind the Democratic
IN the matter Of reform leg station, Mr..
Harding would find hostile Congress
on his hands two years hence
1t was not an official message, such
IS the President sends he said. But
II was an unofficial message, backed up
by the millions of Christian citizens I
Prohibition enforcement and resist
ance to all attempts TO lberalize the
Volstead act were the paramount issues
OF rctorm, Dr.. Crafts SAID, and they
would hold chief place in the conven-
ton OF the international Reform Bu-
reau at Washington this week.
The nan who says 2.75 per cent
beer not intoxicating,' he declared
us either hypocrite or u moron.
Every bootlegger, every moonshiner
and every man who drinks the stuff
the sell is throwing ink on Old Glory.
IF the liquor dealers were good sports
they take their licking and quit vio-
drink we're good sports they'd obey
the law and quit dr,nsnr
hen man IS elected officer of q
society his onronepr usually moves TO
make It unanimous If the ,qets were
good citizens they'd move 10 make rro-
h.bition unanimo i. Prob bitlon was q
FIR fight and 1t vas fairly VOL
This country, which was the most
popular in the wor. twelve morths ago,
Is now the most unpopular. That is
not alone becau5e has "a led to stay
with its Allies, put because all o~rr the
earth people Know OF The dis,raceful
way in which Americans are breaking
the prohibition avs.
Those aagrant violations furnish
weapons to those abroad who are nght-
ing 10 prevent the spread of prohibi-
zion to the wor d. The sweet fragrance
ot our var sacrifices is giving place 10
toul OGcrs That threaten TO make us
the object Of world wid . contempt The
nation whose decisive aid brought the
KAISER to surrender must not surrender
to the IA sers Big brewers
In 1929 cur fathers mad red men 70
fight IN ll16 Il was red coats. We
now have the Reds OF lawlessness. Of
Naom tie very worst are legislators
Vaoi having sworn 80 support and de-
feaa Che Constitution, instead Of enact
lng ent fcemenJ Legislation enact null
That Dr.. Crafts is the real head and
front Of the blue law movement, that
the Lord Day Alliance is a camouAage
and that the refocmers plan eventually
to set mp q state religion, make church
attendance compulsory and inject re-
hgion into public school courses were
the charges of the Rev. Elmer T.
Franke, evangelist, at his service in
the Broadhurst Thester last night.
Crafts is the leader OF the whole
tnine. Mr. FRANKIE declared. Never
mind 3 Why. have known Crafts and
have Been following him for thirty
years The movement is backed by
CONTINUATION Of certain powers that are
.9sing il as the DIG suck Of bgotry and
lrt erance
These people organize lnder diff