Arizona republican., 1921-02-02

Iage of the bills, especially of the Sun 1 day observance law.
 l Vote Against Delay
 i When house bill 5S was called. MT Burk moved that the consideration of l it be postponed until next Saturday That motion was overwhelmingly vot- ed down. A little later another mo ton to delay the hearing until the ar~ lrival of Judge Phillips who desired to speak in behalf of the bill was also voted down decisively. and the reading of the bill was begun, with two reports from the judiciary committee, the ma 1 iority urging the passage of the bill land the minority. signed by Chairman ! Gale, recommending it's defeat.
 The debate was begun by MT. Fra zier the introducer of the bill who said that though he had sponsored it by re- quest he was earnestly supporting it and he believed that in the onward mbrch Of Arizona from barbarism, (which had wiped out gambling and the saloons, the time had come to adopt a law to prevent the desecration of the Sabbath. Mir. Milner spoke in a like vein.
 Mir. Kimball, on the other side. said Ithat he favored Sabbath observance but he found something inconsistent in the assertion of the advocates of l the bill that it was a rest bill and not a religious measure. That was appar- ent in the provision in favor of those whose religion bade them to observe some other day than the first day of the week. Mir. Kimball moved the in | definite postponement of the bill and the committee was ready and impa- tient to act, but Chairman UdaI1 re- minded the committee that three men had been granted the privilege of the floor and that it should not now be denied them by such a summary pro lceeding. MT. Kimball stated then that he would withhold his motion.
 i The first set speech was by MT. Betts in support of the bill. He treat . ed 1t frankly. He did not deny that it was a religious measure, but even so, it was worthy of support It might. he said, as had been declared. stop ex- hibitions of the movies on Sunday, but that would not be calamitous. The
 pered before the movie industry was dreamed of
 Adventist Opposes Bill ] After brief remarks by Messrs-
 Wylie- and Burk, the former against
 and the latter for the bill, Rev. Gordon . Mead of the Seventh Day Adventist church spoke in opposition to the bill.
 Whatever the advocates of the bill might profess, he said. it was a reli- gious measure and was designed for mo other purpose. The declaration lthat it was intended to free laborers
 from grasping employers was the pur-
 est camouflage. The character of such
 legislation. he said. had been estab- lished in a report to congress in 1929 on a bill to prevent the transmission
 of mail on Sundays. Congress then de-
 clared that to establish such a bill ! iwould establish a precedent and con- gress would be committed to action
 upon every movement that might be but forward for religious aggrandize- ment.
 Regarding the provision of the bill
 permitting persons to observe some other day under the dictates of the religion espoused by them, the speaker
 said 1t was only an indulgence-a paper mask designed to conceal the true
 character of the proposed legislation
 At the close of MT. Meads remarks , the motion to table the bill was re- newed and so decisive was the viva ! voce vote that division was not asked for.
 \ House bill s7, the anti dancing bill, was then talzAn up. This bill proposed | to prohibit Gancing in public school \ buildings or the giving of dances else- i, where under the auspices of any class
 of the public schools. MT. Bets spoke at some length in favor of the bill
 putting forward the consequences oi . dancing, which he said, though appar- efitly innocent under such regulation
 as was thrown about it in the schools
 only furnished recruits for the dancing
 halls.
 II Sees No Need for Measure He was opposed by MT. Jones, wht
 said that he had been raised a Chris , tian, had led a Christian life, he be , lieved, and had danced from the time
 he was old enough until he had growI
 too old. He saw no harm but mucl } | good in well regulated dancing. H.
 would especially oppose the bill whicl 1 would deprive rural communities O
 such a means of pleasure. For tn
 same reason MT. Ellsworth spoke il
 opposition to it. In the opinion of MT
 Curlee. school dances were not nearl. :. so harmful as the meetings devised b. 7 he'll nd-damnation revivalist < who were interested only in the con tents of the collection plates.
 The chief address in support of tn
 bill was by Rev. MT Connor of Stafford who has been largely responsible fo
 the preparation of the measure MI
 Connor said he spoke out of a lon fe experience on both sides; as a teache : of 13 years experience; as a ministe
 of the Gospel and as a dancer who ha | danced all the way from South Caro- c lima to Hell" By the latter terminu. . the speaker explained he meant tn Barbary Coast in San Francisco wher < he was converted. This, he said, wa P sex problem and nothing else coul
 be made out of it. Those who coul 2 not recognize it as such were menao
 ing the peace and happiness of the
 own children and the children of the E neighbors.
 Another speaker for the bill was C demonstrative officer of the Gosp,
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