The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-05
ROsS ALL OTHERS IS
MOTTO OF CRUSADERS
-r,,r WILTON ENROLLED IN
ORGANIZATIONS SEEK TO
REGULATE CONDUCT. ~.
RATTLE OVER BLUE LAWS

planning to Abolish Use of Tobac-
- and to Make Sunday a Day OF
Puritanical Severity.
Nearly 100000 persons in the
7-n;ted States are now banded IN va
.;ors organizations which have as their
.yowed purpose the regulation
through legislation of personal con-
drct in this country. The growing &C
+;vitv of these organizations and So
,;o,cs has resulted in bitter political
and legislative battles in various sec
lions OF the country, particularly the
east. over what is known as blue law
The dav of the blue law in Amer
e. is not vet passed. In fact, there
are many who profess to believe that
i has only begun. The success OF the
4nti-Saloon League in fastening pro-
b;b;tion on the country has stirred to
renewed activities other organizations
bent on regulating public conduct.
This is particularly true OF the Anti
Tobacco League, bent on abohsh1ng
the use of tobacco, and the Lords
nav Alliance. which would make Sun
day day of puritanical severity.
How They Are Distributed.
The 100000 persons in this coun-
try enrolled in these organizations to
regulate the public conduct can be
classified roughly as follows:
Co1a1, I aon,,a | SlNl ttlD MEM
bers.
Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment, 100000 members.
Womens Christian temperance
Union. 100000 members.
The Lords Day Alliance, o0O,OOO
members. 100000
Anti-Tobacco League, 100000 mem
bers o-o
National Temperance Bureau, ESQ.,
900 members.
A total of half million other mem
hers is claimed by a dozen smaller or
carnations of this character, running
the gamut from anti-suffrage and day
LIGHT savings associations to birth con-
troll leagues and eugenic marriage So
ceties.
AT least dozen of these organ1za-
tons are national in scope, and eight
,of them maintain headquarters at the
rational capital at Washington, with
active well-paid office forces which
act as powerful lobbies during the
months congress is in session. Almost
every state capital, too, has at least
one agent representing these organl-
cations, and this one agent grows al
most overnight into an active lobby
when any particular legislation spon-
sored or opposed by any OF the asso-
cations is on the active calendar list.
Personal conduct control IS the
ayowed objective of each OF these OF
CARNATIONS, and the battle between
those who would fasten these legal
letters on the people of the land ana
the opposing organizations, led by
the Association Against the ProhiDl-
ton Amendment, which are lighting
"for the preservation OF personal nd
ertv" as they term it, is growing
more intense and hard-fought every
day.
Anti-Saloon League Is Quiet.
lust how the Anti Saloon League,
the parent organization OF tins Glass;
is engaged in a defensive battle. seek
ing to maintain the advantages It gam
ed as the result of the enactment OF
the eighteenth amendment and the
passage of the Volstead enforcement
act
But other societies seeking to regu-
late personal conduct are intent OF,
waging an offensive campaign, ana
two Of them, the Anti Saloon League
and the Lords Day Alliance, are
growing exceedingly militant in their
campaigns.
The Anti-Tobacco League recently
held national convention IN New
York city and perfected plans to bring
within its folds every organization
which can be prevailed upon to hght
the use of tobacco in any torm' either
by moral suasion or by law.
The Anti Tobacco League plans 10
begin the fight on the poisonous
weed" as it terms tobacco, by advo-
eating laws against its use, by de
handing that magazines and Dill
boards be cleansed of tobacco adVer,,,
Using, by prohibiting smoking IN all
public places, by forbidding smoking
scenes on the stage and in moving
pictures, and by doubling or treblng
the taxes on tobacco now sold. y
number of church organizations nave
joined this campaign.
Battle for Sabbath Observance.
The Lords Day Alliance is even
more aggressive than the Anti-Iobac-
co League This organization intro
1uced into the recent session OF the
New York state legislature bill
which prohibited nearly every KIND
OF Sabbath activity except church go
ing. The bill was killed, but the alll-
ahce declares it will be presented IN
inc next legislature of that state, and
III the meantime it will also be intro
uueed into others.
1t IS an admitted fact that this at
Etimpt upon the part of the Lords Day
ai'ilance to pass such drastic Sunday
olue law in New York was only one
S'eP IN a nationwide movement tor
pu'iianical Sabbath observance. Ev-
tly state in the union is to be asked
JON III the movement.
congress at the last session was
i sHea TO pass a Sabbath observance
NH lot the District of Columbia even
/; I'oIe drastic than the one introduced
the New York legislature, and the