Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-05-21
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Blue SUNDAY REPORT
Sabbath Observance Committee
Reports on Various States
at Winona Assembly
tBy Associated Press)

| HCSS dl Z duNO~dlCu III lIlC ann ltdi
report of DIR. H. L. Bowlby,
General Secretary of the Presby-
terrain committee on Sabbath OBJ
servance. In his message to the
General Assembly, DR.. Bowlby
says in part:
"The Presbyterian Committee
on Sabbath Observance struci,
out on its second year soon to hit
upon paths that were not laid by
builders of the republic who dot
ted early New England with little
white churches and little red
schoolhouses; paths of organized
Sabbath dissertation which led
not to church nor to Bible school
on the Lords Day, but to the
commercial movie, vaudeville
and theatre, base ball and amuse-
ment parks, the dance hall, sport
ing club, open business houses.
loafing parlors, constant tempta-
tions to 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
its auxiliary affiliated societies
and i'll which the PRESBYTERIAN
Permanent Committee in a NUM-
Der of instances had CO-ODera-
tive part. are the following:
In New York the double de
feat of the Dickstein Sunday bus
mess bill and IS other bills which
attacked the American Sunday is
significant. Excellent progress
was also made on bills to close all.
grocery stores and barbershoDs.
on Sunday. Aid was given the
censorship bill, which was passed
in New Jersey the motion pie
ture forces and the commercial
sporting advocates were held irI
check.
TN Pennsylvania an obnoxious
Sunday business bill was defeated
by an overwhelming vote in the
assembly, and other proposed an
ti-Sunday legislation 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-Sab-
bath bills is being held back.
splendid results may also bel
reported for New England, Mary
land, some of the. midwest and |
Pacific Coast states, the South |
where last July organized work
was undertaken by the Alliance. |
and in the District of Columbia. |
The cOmmittee\ would lavI
stress on a nationwide propa-
ganda for wide-open Sunday,I
which was started at Washington
November y, through the gener-
Gus help of the daily press, and
back of which were powerful a
musement and sporting organiza-
tons.
This propaganda was used as
a smoke screen to hide their real
of commercial Sundavl
aid by Misrepresentation, exag-
gerations and a string of lies pub
lished through the press and IN
the movie houses, and intensive
extensive efforts
were made to fool the people and |
make good the former threat OF |
'wiping out every vestige of laws
protecting Sunday from the sta
tute books of every state in the
United States
although the attack was madel
directly against the Lords Day!
Alliance of the United States.
your committee saw thar the rea1I
issue was mterrogatively stated
Shall the American Christiani
Sabbath be Abolished?' A COM !
munioation was shaped up by the
secretary Of the committee and
Sent out to strategic centers
warning Presbyterian pastors
and leading ministers of this
more dangerous +
than which has not been attempt
ed against the American Sunday
in the last so years.
with so many Olympian OBJ
stacles placed in the way of the
church, the Bible school and the
home, and no adequate machinery /
at hand to remove them. we be 4
lieve the church should promptly |;
adopt the slogan Of the late Lord /!
Kitchener who, on arriving at his
headquarters, tersely asked Is
there a bed here2 And on receiv-
ing the answer, No replied, get
0ne.'
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