The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-05-21
BLUE SUNDAY PLAN
OF PRESBYTER|ANS
DIR. BOWLBY TELLS WHAT is
PLANNED AND WHAT HAS
BEEN ACCOMPLISHED.

| Wiona Lake, Ind, May 21.-(By A.
| P.)-Abolition of Sunday baseball,
Sunday movies, Sunday theatres and
unnecessary Sunday business are ad-
vocated in the annual report of DR.. H.
Il. Bowlby, general secretary of the
Presbyterian Committee on Sabbath
| Observance. In his message to the
general assembly DR.. Bowlby says in
part:
The Presbyterian Committee on
Sabbath Observance struck out on its
second year soon to hit upon paths
that were not laid by builders of the
republic who dotted early New Eng
land with little white churches and
little red school houses; paths of or
ganized Sabbath desecration which
led not to church nor to Bible school
on the Lords day, but to the COM
mercial movie; vaudeville and theatre,
baseball and amusement parks, the
dance hall, sporting club, open busi-
ness houses, loafing parlors, constant
temptations of multitudes of youth
and adults to sell their Sabbath birth
right for this red pottage.
Among the victories of the year as
won by the Lords Day Alliance of
the United States and it's auxiliary and
affiliated societies and in which the
Presbyterian permanent committee in
a number of instances had cooper
ative part, are the following:
"In New York the double defeat of
the Dickstein Sunday business bill and
Is other bills which attacked the
American Sunday is significant. Ex-
cellent progress was also made on
bills to close all grocery stores and
barber shops on Sunday. Aid was
given the censorship bill, which was
passed.
I'm New Jersey the motion picture
forces and the commercial sporting
advocates were held in check
In Pennsylvania an obnoxious Sun
day business bill was defeated by an
vote in the assembly,
and other proposed anti-Sunday legis-
lation was killed in committees.
'In Ohio the Taylor Sunday movie
bill was defeated.
"In Wisconsin an advantage for
more rest days for policemen was
won A grist Of anti-Sabbath bills is
being held back.
Splendid results may also be re-
ported for New England, Maryland,
some of the midwest and Pacific coast
states, the south, where last July
work was undertaken by
he Alliance, and in the District of
Columbia.
S'The committee would lay stress on
| nationwide propaganda for wide
open Sunday, which was started at
Nov. %, through the
generous help of the daily press, and
,ack of which were powerful amuse-
nent and sporting organizations.
This propaganda was used as
moke screen to hide their real pur-
'ose of commercial Sunday and by
nisrepresentations, exaggerations and
string of lies published through
he press and in the movie houses,
nd intensive advertising, extensive
fforts were made to fool the people
nd make good the former threat of
wiping out every vestige of laws pro-
Getting Sunday from the statute books
f every state in the United States
Although the attack was made di- {
ectly against the Lords Day Alliance !
f the United States, your committee
aw that the real issue was interroga-
ively stated Shall the American
hristian Sabbath be Abolished?' A (
was shaped up by the I
ecretary of the committee and sent
ut to strategic centers warning :
resbyterian pastors and leading min !
'ters of this movement, a more dang l
rous than which has not been at
smpted against the American Sunday
l the last SO years.
with so many olympian obstacles l
laced in the way of the church, the n
ible school and the home, and no c
dequate machinery at hand to re- Q
love them, we believe the church Q
lould promptly adopt the slogan Of '
le late Lord Kitchener who, on ar S
wing at his headquarters, tersely
sked rs there bed here?' And on q
the answer No. replied, i
let one
"Unless some approximate solution n
found for this problem many of our
lurches will fall upon dissolution. 0
"The committee believes that Go Q