OCR Text |
Show BLUE LAWS IN THE WEST? Daily papers reaching the Sun are chronicling numerous instances in-stances in which the oldtime "bluclaws" are now being enforced. Quite a few of the smaller towns of the country and especially those where the citizens are not the very best terms with each other are bringing these into effct with the result that everything is being closed tight as a drum and life made as dull and monotonous as possible. pos-sible. Sunday observation along sane lines must be encouraged. No one who has the interest of his community at heart is going to argue in favor of or do anything to promote Sabbath desecration. ,And yet sensible people realize that there is such a thing as going to extremes. When the business men of a community cease cooperating and start fighting it is the worst thing that could happen for the whole town. Just because one makes a dollar shouldn't excite jealousy, because be-cause that dollar usually stays right around home and all the others have a chance at part of it. But to send out word that a stranger is helpless if his auto breaks down or he runs out of gasoline while he is traveling on Sunday is a bad advertisement for any town. Strangers soon learn to shun it, to grow sarcastic in their remarks about it, to belittle the enterprise of its citizens and in a dozen other ways to give the entire community a black eye. The Sun wants to urge church attendance at-tendance even greater than now. It wants a quiet, peaceful, law-abiding law-abiding community not only on Sunday, but the other six days of the week as well. But it don't want any of our citizens to quit cooperating cooperat-ing with each other long enough to lose their heads and imagine that the only way to make people good is to make them unhappy. Price Sun. |