East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-09-26
ORGANIZED SABBATARIANISM

comprehensive way all parts the country The Rev.
~ Wilbur Crafts of the International Reform bureau,
active lobbyist and propagand at Washington in the fore
ground but the principal agency be the Lords Day al
lance whose secretary the Rev. Harry Bowlsby The Rev.
ment while seventeenth the Lutherans ARE with US Only
the Roman Catholics the Unitaans the Seventh Day Advent
st and the Jews outside this movement he told inter-
viewer for the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
In this interview which appeared fall the Rev. Bowby
quoted to the following effect:
eve we'll financed Our lobby Washington will be an
effective and experienced one We shall work in every con-
gressiona district state We shall agate and spread
propaganda and voters to write increasingly to their
resenaes congress until congressman who stay
congress will refuse for These
the methods used by the Anaoon league and they
effective"
hint of easy and rapid organization here given The
and who had paid employment in the prohibition
ment find that occupation gone but the Sabbaaran movement
take them and make of their skill and experience
Thus complete organization, nationwide is available at little
effort The ". c. T. U. has taken an interest also
The spirit the movement to be expressed in the inter-
view with the Rev Bowlby already quoted Here is the
gram reported in the Ledger interview:
propose to pass no blue There such things
blueaws-never And propose by legislation, to
make easier for people to go to church In other words
shall to close the baseball parks the golf links the motion
picture and other theatres the concert halls the amusement
parks the bathing beaches and We shall fight oil amuse
ments where admission fee is charged We shall oppose
golf tennis baseball football and other sports purely
part because they bad examples for children who might 9TH
erwse be content Sunday school, We shall seek
strict the sale of gasoline for automobiles and
other that stop Sunday automobng joy rid
This will not bring the old fashioned horse and buggy
back because believe that the Lords day should be
rest for and beast Excursion Sunday will
be opposed by the ground that they the
moral welfare of Christian America
We also that the Bowlby why pub
lie libraries art galleries should remain Sunday and
not only Sunday newspapers be abolished but 1--WE shall
seek to establish censorship the stuff that gets into them
other days.
The reader who is inclined to smile at this futile fanat
csm is not wise There is large part of population
which does not have Sunday recreatons
libraries and galleries In rural districts and small towns
this the where tradition and social custom yielding
but slowly to modern conceptions of what wholesome and
permissible Men usually willing prohibit others what
they do not care for themselves and moral
enthusiasm for imposing nelghbors code which
satisfactory Respect for freedom of has not
marked history all times since the and who
left England the seventeenth century the freedom of
ship their way prosecuted those within their gates who
asked no more than the same freedom.
This the twentieth century seventeenth
disposition to rannze fellow under the of
religion and morality has not disappeared One would think
that freedom of needs defense in America
day. but does and the Sabbataran it. That
1t needs thorough organization and active propaganda
Sabbatharianism is emplOyng-Chicago Tribune.
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wonderful show; the crowd large and enthusiastic
and the weather man did his part noby
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1t will be noted that Dr. Brumed quickly recovered his
sanity when that jaier drew his
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Now that the Roundup the disarmament confer
ence can proceed without interference.
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