The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-04-24


an interlocking membership and q
lobby at the National Capital. Their
work is carried on by personal con.
triDuitions from individual church
members and church organizations
such as the Presbyterian Synod
They began their wide spread actiy-
10y in 1921 with a campaign in the
southern states designed to enforce
existing Sunday observance laws or
put such acts on the statute books
mat year an effort was made by the
Federation of Churches of Newark
n J to close the moving picture
/ theaters, but The Prosecutor ruled
that all violators or none should be
prosecuted, just as Justice Minturn
did, and the attempt was abandoned,
A year later the Ministerial society
of Wabash, Ind, called on the sheriff
to close moving picture theatres on
Sunday. He did so but at the same
time stopped the street cars and
closed restaurants, drug stores,
hotels and lodge rooms. The movies
opened unhampered the next Sun
day The Ministerial association of
Binghamton, N. Y, caused the ar
rest of the recreational director of
the Endicott-J Johnson company for
holding a concert for employees.
Pipua, Ohio, had an exciting Sun
day when no street cars ran, no gaso-
line was obtainable and not cigar,
plate of food, glass of soda or stock
of candy was sold. Only milk
wagons, the electric light plant and
the prescription counters of drug
stores were active All the stores in
the business district were hung with
black crepe. The movies opened the
next Sunday.
Once Was Enough
Concord IN. H.) ministers caused
the arrest of Sunday baseball play
prosecutor, who himself had been
leading band concert each Sunday
IN violation of the law, that mem
bers of the Beaver Meadow Golf club
were violating the law The prose-
cutor forbade Sunday golf and Sun
day band concerts. Baseball was
resumed.
Vicksburg, Miss, tried blue Sun
day in 1922. No kilograms were re-
ceived or delivered, no newspapers
were sold. newsboys with out-of-
town papers were arrested, there
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ana fruit stands, drug stores, candy |
stores, restaurants and soda fount- |
aims were closed. Once was enough. |
That year the Lords Day Alliance |
induced the Newark IN. j. author |
tiles to close the motion picture and |
houses on the Sabbath. |
They are now turning patrons away |
On Sundays. Mr. Bowlby's organzia- |
oil f,11 in, In d q
bill which would have provided for a
on Sunday baseball and
movies in New Jersey.
In thirty-f1ve years $50 compul-
Iory federal Sunday observance bills
lpply to the District of Columbia,
twentieth Amendment to the Con-
o die in committee last year. 1t
sunday baseball, movies, concerts,
ectionery stores, golf, all outdoor
thletics and "all other forms of
ommercialized recreation"
Unsuccessful in New York
For its 1923 campaign the Lord s
'dy AllldHCC PlChOu ICh SLdtCo, III
even of which bills were introduced
indiana, Wisconsin, New York and t
regon reserved for future visits. A {
| Illinois in 1928. Wilmington had d,
ne closed Sunday, without gasoline +
r automobiles The pastor of /
ho | 4
lay, 'Veronicas VEIL" in Union /
me year. An Asbury Park moving c
n giving a Sunday performance, t
I'D the supreme court upheld the v
,nviction. t
lliance has been particularly active
Id has caused the arrest of vaude-
lie and burlesque theatre manag- "
anager as William A. Brady. The ],
ly result has been to withdraw from O
e vaudeville and burlesque stages l,
| Sunday nights tights, black face Il
ake-up, costumes and scenery. The N
otion picture theaters, the chief IL
: in the ointment of the Sunday a
w SIouluS, SILL nave lHclI Ouuudr ~
ght crowd. 10,
1t has brought about the arrest h
ID filming Of innumerable small Of
wish shopkeepers without deter tt
lg them from continuing to open Ic
cir stores on Sunday on the ground bv
at they celebrate Saturday as their st
y of worship. One hundred to
tchers were summoned to Essex al
arket court one day last week for al
olation of the Sunday law. All pI
ire discharged. ul
The playing of dominoes, checkers is
d golf was prohibited for one Sun ii,
y in Birmingham, Ala, last year. IS
d Sunday boating, bathing, fishing W,
d automobile riding were banned is
: one Sabbath at Ludington, Ind; dc
tomobile tourists were even pre- m
nted from crossing the county gr
Q there, ia
These scattered instances of the tn
,ivity of the organizations that 70
5h to see crowded churches in tic
ad of throngs on golf links and in at
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