Evening journal., 1921-01-19
GAINS, LOSSES
IN Blue Fight
Battle For and Against
Holy Sabbath One on
Attrition
MANY STRAGETIC
MOVES PLANNED
In. 2. a. SD sneeIaIl

IN. p. a. stan cpeciall
WASHINGTON. Jan. .i9.-The Blues
and the anti-Blues are fighting a war
OF attrition.
Each is trying 10 wear down the
other in the battle for and against
blue Sundays.
The Blues-ihc Lords Day Alliance
and other reform organizations-decr
the desecraiion OF the Sunday They
complain people have drifted away
from religion and that in rushing TO
sporting events movies. and other
amusemenis they have lost sight OF
their religious obligations.
The anti-Blues contend the Blues
simply want 10 take rhe sun" out or
Sunday. And they would like to know
what The blues are going 10 do with
the Sundays after they have saved
them. They see The country swinging
back 10 these Puritan laws for sun
day Observance
mo one shall travel, cook victuals,
make beds, sweep house, cut hair or
shave
mo one shall run, or walk in his
garden, or elsewhere. except reyerontly
20 and from meeting
Any person who shall be found
smoking tobacco going 10 or coming
from meeting, within Two miles Of the
meoting-houso, shall pay a fine for
every such offense.
mo one shall make mincc pies.
dance, play cards or play any instru-
mcnt Of music except the trumpet,
drum or iewsharp."
Here are the outstanding strategy
and tactics in the Blue Sunday battle
10 date
The Lords Day Alliance has referred
10 the great majority OF Senator's and
Representatives In the state and ma
tional legislatures" as weak In morals
and incapable In mind. because n has
been unable 10 get restrictive Sabbath
legislation under way.
The International Reform Bureau.
/ Inc, OF Washington. has declared that
movies must not he shown on the
Sabbath.
For carving a statue on Sunday. Leo
Toschi, OF Boston, was fined $40 The
charge was doing unnecessary work
on the Lords day"
In Zion City. H.. the premier blue
law Town OF America, Overseer NOliva
announces a ban on phonograph Jazz
lrecOrds.
The American Association Of airs
and EXpositions has declared a ban on
the exhibition OF freaks" the fat
woman. the human giant. the bearded
lady the living skeleton. the missing
link and their colleagues.
p. @. Dinwiddle, one Of the presidents
iof the National Reform Association,
has declared he would devote half his
time TO field work" in connection
with helping to bring about "Sinl0ss
Sahbaihs."
phirty-eiX states have anti-cigareite
Legislation before their legislatures.
A bill TO close every business esiab-
llishment and halt an passenger and
freight trains on Sunday has been in
troduced In the Tennessee Senate.
Nineteen men OF Atchison. kans.. are
threatened With prosecution for send.
ing a carton of cigarettes 10 presi.
! dent-eleci Harding. li's against iht
law Of Kansas to buy or give away
cigarettes
Anti-Blues.
Governor Edwards has urged ihe
New Jersey Legislature TO Kin AN bills
designed as sunday blue laws.
The Motion Picture Theatrical Asso-
oiation OF the World has started a
aght 10 preserve Sunday movies.
Judge Mitchell May, OF New York
declared That bOlshevism and other
lradicalism would thrive in the discon-
tent which a stricter sabbath would
Z stir up.
More than 10000 former seryic,
men. students In knights of COmmbu.
3 schools throughout the country. haN,
taken stand against the proposed
: passage and enforcement OF Sunda,
blue laws
The Jewish Sabbath Alliance o
America has resolved 90 wage cam
paign against promoters Of S3bbati
E Legislation on the ground that Wha
they propose would be In direct con
% travention Of the constitutional guar
2 antee Of religious liberty.
"rhe present-day sunday blue Law
6 campaign has sprung from a puri
E tanica and misguided conception.
{ says Dr. William r. Manning. paste
s OF Trinity Church. In New York. 9TH
lpurilans made a serious hundcr Whel
they ruled sunday amusement out"
Senator Paul Il. kimball has an
nOunced That he Will introduce in lh
coming Kansas Legislature a bin re
, pealing the anti-cigareite law of Kan
sas. except as SO Far as 10 applies &
minors.
Attorney General Armstrong. q
Maryland. has ruled that the blu
r laws. II given literal application
would make % Illegal for churches {
I maintain paid choirs.