The New York herald., 1921-07-16
WOULD STOP SUNDAY
and DMONDAY PAPERS
Noah w. Cooper Would
Make Running Trains on
Sabbath Illegal.
NO AUTOMOBILE RIDES
Would Close Beaches and
Shut Motion Picture Thea
tres and Houses.
SUNDAY FOR RELIGION
Happy in Reading His Bible,
Wants Every One Else to
Do Likewise.
SUNDAY FOR RELIGION

Noah W. Cooper, chairman Of the
Southern Methodist Conference corn
mittee for the national Sunday law.
arrived in this city from Washington
yesterday and telephoned the news
papers that he desired to inform New
York what to expect unless America
ceases to consider Sunday a day fer
recreation. Mr.. Cooper is lawyer by
profession and a lay preacher by
avocation. His home Is in Nashville,
Tenn. and he was accompanied North
by the Rev. NJ. p. Woods, pastor Of a
Methodist church In that city.
Mr.. Cooper. tall. gaunt man SAVIOR
ing more Of the preacher than .he
lawyer. held forth in the editorial
rooms of the Christian Herald in the
Bible House In Astor place. 1t was
made plain at the outset that he is not
directly affiliated with the Rev. Wilbur
F. Craft and the International Reform
Bureau, nor with the Rev. Harry
Bowlby and the Lords Day Alliance
Mr.. Cooper explained that he repre-
sents 100000 Methodists south OF
the Mason and Dixon line and that
his object in life Is to force Congress
to pass the national Sunday law bill
his organization evolved and is urging.
To Use Interstate Law.
First Of all. he said, he desired to 80
extend the interstate commerce law as
to make illegal the running of trains on
Sundays. That done. he would abolish
both Sunday newspapers. because they
must be moved and sold and are read on
Sundays. and the Monday morning
newspapers, because they are the prod
uct Of Sunday work.
To make Sunday completely void OF
distractions Mr.. Cooper would put
stop to excursions on Sunday. whether
they be by rail. boat or automobile He
would close the beaches and other re-
sorts. the motion picture houses and
other theatres. In brief. Mr.. Cooper
urges that Sunday activity be limited
by law to religious devotions and secn-
lar observances.
'In twenty-five years--yea. In less
than five and twenty years." he cried,
pounding the desk near by. I'VE shall
be destroyed. The wrath of God will
consume u.s. Why, every time I hear
the whistle or the roar Of Sunday
train the sound is worse to me than
German bomb exploding overhead.
The Constitution of these United
States specifically provides that the
President Of the United States, shall not
toll on Sunday. That was put in there
by our Christian forefathers to protect
our Presidents Every citizen and
dweller within our gates should have the
same protection. The Supreme Court OF
this country of ours and the high courts
of the several States do not meet on
Sundays.
Blue Sunday or Revolution.
I'VE get along without the high courts
on Sundays. do we not? Cannot we get
along without the newspapers on Sun
days? 1t is this working seven days a
week without time for meditation and
prayer and the reading of the Bible that
will make anarchists and bolshevists of
the working man of this country of ours.
II conditions do not change-unless the
Sabbath becomes again the Sabbath and
work and play be abandoned for re-
ligious contemplation and prayer--we
are going to have a revolution. And IL
is the man who works seven days a
week who will be the backbone Of that
revolution. msrk my vneds for a.
"t'nderstand me arid make II plain"
continued Mr. Cooper. The laws adj
vocate are not blue laws. ! know Of no
blue laws. I believe In being happy
seven days week. but I can CLEAN
more happiness from my Bible Of Sun
day than you. who must have what you
call recreation. can with your golf links
and your automobiles. Those who spend
their Sundays at the beaches will have
to forego that for the common good
Let them take their day at the beach
on another day. There are six other
days in a week. Why. when 1 was a
boy never bathed on Sunday. I went
swimming through the week and on the
seventh day ! rested.
The Jewish Sabbath? The Jews
should conform to the laws OF America,
whatever they might be. In this coun-
try the majority rules. II the majority
OF the people will that we in America OBJ
serve the Christian Sabbath the Jew will
have to conform to the will of the peo-
pie That's simple enough.
You tell me that milk consumed in
this great city Is delivered Sunday
morning. What would ! do about tho
milk supply and the like? II the deliv-
cry of milk necessitates work on SUM-
days say let's have no milk on SUM-
day. AS a matter of fact the farmer
should not go forth into his fields and
cut down vegetables and fruits on Sat-
urday II he knows that II is to be
shipped Sunday.
"Yee. would stop all Sunday labor
that had not to do with the operation Of
our churches. And that, 1 think covers
everything"