The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-09-29
SUNDAY PERFORMERS"
ARE AT WORK


Information from Washington in
dicates that the Blue Sunday Law
advocates are not intending to let
any Of the blue fade on account of
lack Of effort Their propaganda
and lobby works at the capital city
are being overhauled and put in good
working order for the winter They
announce an active campaign, backed
up by open threats Of loss Of votes
at home, against congressman and
senators who refuse to be dictated
to and vote contrary to the schemes
of the fanatics who seek the saliva
ton Of the multitude through solons.
Probably the three high points,
most offensive in their nature, are
the complete stOppage of all railroad
functions from Saturday midnight to
Sunday midnight; the abolition of all
newspapers on which any work of
preparation or distribution is done
during the 24-hour "closed season."
and the use of automobiles for any
other purpose than to attend churcn.
Probably for obvious reasons, no
mention is made specifically Of the
telegraph and telephone service, but
they are included in the blanket
wording that prohibits any person
from exercising his ordinary voca-
ton on Sunday.
If any one thing would be calcu-
lated to breed disrespect for law, it
is such a blue law as proposed. 1t
does not seem possible that our jails,
which are rapidly becoming depopu-
lated, could be made to hold the in
territorial and unthinking violators of
the proposed law.
Every school boy knows what hap
pened to Rome when the senate
undertook to do the thinking for the
empire. As President Harding SO
timely suggested in his Plymouth
address, the tendency of late has
been to rush to Washington for
things which properly belong to
each state to determine for its own
citizens. The evil Of Capitalization in
Government is growing and ex-
tremely dangerous one, which every
thinking American should set his
face and lift his voice against. Con-
gressmen and senators will do we'll
to remember that the threat which
the narrow-minded reformers so con-
fidently make a loss of votes at the
polls is a two-edged sword; and only
pitifully small minority shares
their extreme views. 1t would be
helpful if they would select any city
in the country Of 5000 or more, and
if they can find one, have its city
council enact the laws they would
impose on the nation. Then both
they and all of us could watch the
experiment. If it proved to be the
great advantage, and made for the
better, happier lives they claim, the
work of adding city after city would
then be an easy task Instead of
being forced against their will, the
others would insist upon having this
great boon also, for the overwhelm-
ing majority everywhere in this
country is in favor of better, hap
pier lives. Let them concentrate
upon one community all the money
and personal effort and advertis-
ing propaganda they are now direct
ing AGAINST Congress and the ma
ton, conduct an educational cam
paign through churches, papers, open
air meetings, billboards, soap-box
orators, and all that. When
they have convinced and secured this
one community to make the trial, and
the country has had year in which
to observe the results, it will be a
little more logical to ask the other
110,000,0O0 citizens also to consider
the adoption of the proposed idea.
If, however, they can not convince
one single city Of the benefit and de-
STABILITY of their plan, would it not
seem that they are more mistaken
than earnest.
Candidate cities for the expert
ment are in order: which will offer
itself for the ordeal?-H. H. Wind
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