Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-03-04
FRIDAY, MARCH A, 1888
SUNDAY BASE BALL

in this community by discussion to the matter OF sunday
and has been made induce the owner OF the
Pocomoe City franchise discontinue the practice here
Of cours DIRECTORS, base their opposition upon moral
grounds They firmly behind the injunction OF Holly Writ
to Remember Sabbath Day to Keep Holy and they feel
it their duty bring all the influence they can exert to
bear against phases of human existence which, their
opinion o when Sabbath conduct under advise
Surely they have big responsibility resting on ther
shoulders order their lives private as well as public so
as not particular the commands of the sacred
Decaogue
Then again if one should impossible to construe
nhoy Sunday ball game he is in danger of being clothed in
such garment of moral oquy will constitute most fitting
costume society he will when the shades of night may
gather his its take its abode with those
favored Sunday ball while they roamed the upper regions
of terra firma.
We hesitate to enter into any controversy concerning the
question would be utterly impossible of
to win moral tenet but there at least
some conditions tho not admit the
acknowledge something must be done about and be ready
slider whether ones methods apply these latter days OF rapid
development.
realize utterng platitude when that times
nave b 9ered far afied and often It seems that older
trying their best to keep The World War revolution
tons of the The Automobile rendered accessible many d
which unavailable in the andbuggy days
There adaptations styles Dress which would
make grandmohe blush with shame when their ideas to
propety taken into considerations although must admit
outstripped them
Observance rather Sunday
of the marked results of the modern trend Back the SOS
Sunday card unknown the Sunday cocktail party
diligence a feminine pleasure well. Dances
ton with lunch emporums are common asset Road houses Of
special attractions Sunday the automobile selects these
Of worship
lions are not closed day Seaside resorts with all
n bowpg aev shooting galleries barong of various
sorts-all gather in the and his pennies.
The radio b4oadcasng Sunday well other day
and who shuts only when recording church service
Perhaps ball lover sit and take in the progress Of World
invisible wires spelling BEES all Of secular tapdanc
dfeence the Weekly and the Sunday
And might ad infintum And does the man who
is he at Warfare far w af Re %od down all o
upon the quiet of the Sabbath and eventde IL ne u.s. then
uneaized he knows it. and his soul unsats
with the results of his for the regeneration of mis-
guided man.
To return problem of athletics exempfied in the
sport the diamond Just how does mp with such as refer
receation and far for the time being it sub
a wellkept Sabbath
those who tempted by the watering places
the auto mpropees and host of other evils throwing the
Sabbath into dTepue The ball game is an exhibition OF mus
Discard it, and what happens The youth of today
ing places and the auto here to take them who af Ga
gained by banning the game and driving the youth e @ is
often empty than filled
We understand be argued that because it may be
combaed be it small great. We not ready to admit that
the game altogether such Itself and there no vocation nor
life the mercantile business the professions puocra
poverty politics have their temptations opportun
ties thick gnats in the Summers Sun.
Personally not attendant at Sunday ball games
We instance when visited park the Sab
b but ready brand the sport the work of Satan
himself laughs his victims enter the gates and
them applause at special feat of the Indeed
and away the least of the Sunday evils and commit
it's contribution and safe Sunday
Finally why constitute ourselves the architect of other
pies All right advise against evil but heroic
prevail Remove Sunday ball playing
Pocomoke and Sunday elsewhere will be better patron
led eminent satisfaction pervades minds because of
cleansing of ones household be it, but the reform only