The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-22
DIR. CRAFTS TELLS
 OF CLEAN UP PLAN

(Continued From Page One.) of enslavement broadened before my and forty more reforms''
 Reforms As Big Game.
 A lawyer presiding at one of my | early reform meetings frankly said: ttYou are starting out to reform peo- l pie. They don't want to be reformed i You've got a hard job.'' Some might | make it so, but to me reforming has | been a series of adventures The joyl of the football captain overcoming l strong lineup, of the hunter conquer ing big game, of the soldier winning against great odds, all these have been mine. For twenty-five years I have taken but a months vacation. because variety and victory are all the recreation I needed.
 I had rather hunt newsdealers to clear theestreets of perils for youth or hunt Congressmen in the interest of good laws than to hunt or eat wild game.
 Clean Up Newsdealers.
 In Cleveland I hunted in an auto mobile with a. Bible class teacher and '. M. c. A. religious work director. It was as enjoyable as an elephant hunt in India, or a tank attack in France when it was new. as we cleaned up 20 newsdealers in two hours and half.
 For once it was the wicked, not the good, that were afraid, as we showed the dealers liability in each case to | a maximum punishment, for exposing evil pictures where a boy might see them, of two thousand dollars fine and five years imprisonment.
 This law palsied them. and they were ready to promise complete ces- sation of their cancer-planting. We could scarcely Keep back the laugh- ter at their terror. It was a striking fulfiEment of Dr. Parkhurst's revised version '.The wicked fees when no man pursueth but he makes better | time when somebody is after him" It will seem almost incredible to those who think of reformers as de- 1 lighting in jai1s that I have secured | obedience to law in more than four 1 hundred cases with no arrest but "the
 arrest of thought and never arrest | ed but one man in any other way. | Always ''in at the Death.'' l Many "fans' have counted it the l crown of the year to see the world $ series in baseball before the gam blterS dhrew fog of suspicion over IL by bribing our best players; but what the same game? That is my pr1yi, 1 lege, for after promoting a good b1ll in Congress for months or years l
 get in the gallery to see the ma nal than any fan ever knew when hiS own nine won the pennant. "A good time is one that don't go off with the having" and the joy of winning a | been my fortune to be "1n at the death," as hunters say, in every grea' battle for moral legislation, save two since 1882 ,when national moral leg islation began in the anM-poiysanS
 law.
 Some fellows get their supreme
 pleasures in flaming" prize Eghts
 and in movie thrills, and joy riding
 but how tame that is compared to my :. joy in knocking out FitZsimmons anc
 Jeffries and Willard by helping to SC
 cure Governmental acts that barred Paul and drove JeffrleS from SaI
 Francisco to Reno, and kept the Wli
 lard Johnson films from entering thl country
 in winning stakes at a horse race a' | I did in beating Boss Quay In th' 7 Lesislature at Harrisburg in his plar to legalize gambling.
 Generals thrill with delight wheI , by strategic flank movements the! win a battle, but never victor wa happier in these bloody battle thai l, when, again and again as Chris i, tian lobbyist at the doors of Con , | gress I could not carry a bill Una
 was sidetracked far down the calen dar, but got it on some bill as al amendment-which I call the re
 formers side door. In that way WI
 won the first anti-canteen amend , ment, prohibition for immigrants the law of Christ on divorce, and wa
 prohibition.
 , In defeats also I claim a plac 5 among the sports, since the Suprem } test of @ good sport is to take de 5 feat without a. grouch, in which tn impuritans, thinking they include al
 the sports, prove that they haven any. In Mayf1ower year, fighting tn
 pugilists in New York and Massachu l setts in their effort to legalize knock 7 outs I was knocked out twice myseii [ of ha defeated
 consolation share of the winnings l
 cost me $2,OOO to be licked, but came up smiling both times, and an putting in more money and effort t arouse and ahuip the preachers meet
 ing in thirty-nine State capitals Wher the fight on legalizing pugilism is mo t mentarily expected.
 That was a wonderful f1ashlight O l the first war conducted with moder . invention. And that is the way have been fighting of late, at the tel f ephone half of the time or more i g answering calls of the great paper the fear that the nation is in dange 9 of renaissance of PQritanisn 3 though the impuritans seem to be i } full control of Sunday. There ha l been no delusion so absolutely myth ical since the world was filled with tn
 spell of witcncraft. In that sens
 only is the .'blue law'' terror Puri ri tanic.
 As that is disappearing I hope tn
 papers are going to help me and 1e
 al and international peri1s-dope, an
 anarchy, and gambling, and vanl
 pires, and many more grim realitie: s Hunting these social foes togethe : might be interesting tn
 knights of old found it to make tn n highways safe for womanhood an C childhood.
 nl DIED