Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-08-31
REFORM SIDE OF
FAMEDBLUELAW
DIR. CRAFTS BITTER BUT
ABLE REFORM SPEAKER.

1870
Reformer, Legislator Militant Minis
ter, Author and Prince of God" DR..
Crafts, head of the International Re-
form Bureau at Washington, and
known all over the world as the man
who attempted to stop the Dempsey
/ Carpenter prize fight, hoped vigor-
ously to his task Sunday night despite
his seventy-odd years,
| Dr. Crafts said he had been
preacher for fifty-five years, begin
ming at IT, He touched on his life in
politics and said politics was not bad.
He called politics the second sphere
in Importance.
Touching on the prize fight DR..
| Crafts said that Judge Lands would
soon have Tex Richard behind the
bars. He intimated that Tex would
spend Labor Day looking out through
iron frescoes.
The speaker said that his side was
| fighting along a far-flung hattie line
at all attacks of the opposition. He
spoke of twenty-five different organi-
cations banded to break up Sunday
observance and introduce various Gus
toms inimical to what DR.. Craft and
! LIS IOllOWClo WSI6 uSAlln5 lOI.
DR.. Crafts said that talk about
"Blue Laws" and Personal Liberty"
was a goblin cry pure and simple
He called it smoke screen and pro-
paganda that had actually helped the
cause of Sunday observance because
| it had aroused the pulpits.
| He spoke of the enormous increase
in crime in the teen" ages. Boys
found guilty of criminal acts and
| girls losing their virtue. He depre-
Gated this as sequel to war upheaval
and gave Sunday observance and Sun
day school attendance as a means of
keeping down the increase in child
criminals and prostitutes. I'm Swift
zerland the other day the whole coun-
try was agog because a bank had been
robbed for the first time in one hun
dred years. Hardly day passes in
this country but what numerous banks
are robbed" DR.. Crafts said.
DIR. Crafts denounced prize fighting
as greed for money and utmost bru-
tality But he called Carpenter a
gallant lad" and seemed to share the
! general aversion for the ton of coal.
| Motion pictures came in for ter
rife and just scoring. He called
Sunday pictures Vampire Sunday
degraded to such by the miserable sex
plays put on for money by greedy
/ operators. He declared that these
men were directly behind the "lies"
on Sunday laws.
DR.. Crafts said the 7th Day Adven-
lists was the only church not in line
! for Sabbath observance. He said
these people were misguided and we'll
meaning. He said the Catholics OPP
posed Sunday movies and for censor
ship of the weekday pictures. He
quoted Archbishop Messmer and Car
dinal Gibbon, both personal friends,
to show that the Catholics were OPP
posed to profiteers upon the day Of
rest. He said the Catholics favored
a golden mean between the strictness
of the Puritan and the looseness Of
the Continental Sunday.
The Jews, he said, would not stand
with the motion picture men, who are
mostly of Hebrew blood. They took
the view that men who did not OBJ
| serve a Sabbath could not be called
"Jews" from a religious standpoint.
In speaking of the Wisconsin Sun
day law as San old law" DR.. Crafts
asked if the constitution of the United
States was nullifed because of its age.
Or from a similar viewpoint the ten
commandments?
The speaker closed with word of
advice to young people. He said that
nothing was true pleasure that was
not pleasant to remember. He spoke
of self denial and living for future
happiness instead of present gratifica>
ton.
Baseball was touched on lightly
and called 'our greatest game" He
denounced the gambling features that
have gradually grown up around the
game and stood for a general parti-
cipation in athletics as opposed to the
modern idea of trained athletes, few in
number, and thousands of sitting fans.
DR.. Crafts is fighter. He is not
the kind of man who would start
something and then lay down or try
to whip somebody over another mans
shoulder We would like to see him
in debate with Attorney Hess.
DR.. Crafts is II but he seems young
and vigorous. He claims to have 25
years more of fight and this holds no
hope for those who may trust his ac-
tivities will be halted by Father Time.
Many went to hear him who were
in favor of what he stands for but
wished to have their ideas more CO.
herent and clarified. Others dis
agreed with an attempt to establish by
direct action the processes of evolu-
ton but went because they wanted
Dr. Crafts point of view.
THESE MAY SEE THE MINISTER.
County Clerk Webb on Monday
granted license to wed to Peter Pet
erson, aged 81, and Miss Olena Thor
son. aged 65, both of Montfort. others
granted license the past week are:
Jas. T. Auel and Belle Birch, Bee
town.
Oscar Moen and Gladys Chandler,
Montiort.