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Show REMEMBER THE SABBATH " DAY . r i ' ' i. After eighteen hours lmpiisoiiment l,nt Wilmington, Delnware, for violating, violat-ing, Sunday laws prohibiting the play-lngS)f play-lngS)f sports, Upton Sinclair nnd mcmberR of his single tax colony were given HQ houis at hard labor. While Slnclnr may hae splendid vlewlf 'on physclillopathy, athletics twid hygiene, he does not see mto caio much for the laws which ho prattled at IiIb good old mothers knee, and , which laws have been handed down ' from generation to generation, from the tlmo tho finger sof GodK wrote them upon the tablets of stone and gno to Moses on Sinai's mount. "He-1 member tho Sabbath Day nnd Keep It Holy." t ' While Sinclair is doing good In teaching people to obey tho tmo , laws of ualute, It would bo truly ennobling en-nobling If he would practice the old Mosaic law whether he believes in icllglon or not. Its common sense' I ethics appeals stiongly to the human, rucc, and by obeying this nlono It ' I glv?s tho tired body a llttlo rest from i o el work and strain and care. ' We think a man's maxim should J he eight hours for sleep, eight hours, for work and eight hours for play, and) that It will give plenty of room for, lecieatlou In the time specified. J Nnturc's laws, Mr. Slnclar, are. Cod's laws, and though the Sabbath' day has been handed' down through tiadltlon, every nntlon, every kindred, every tongue and every people has) leceivcd the same Injunction fiom the, same fountain head, that It would bo, folly not to Jccognlre Its supreme be-, ginning. While latterday Freethinkers may not be Impressed with tho rellg-l Ions Import of the Mosaic law, yet nil law from time immemorable has received Its Incentive from thnt self-same source, and while It may not have a supremo advent In the, ces of Mr. Sinclair and others, they will have to agree thnt the world has been made bettor for the ten com- I mandments nnd that they nie the 'ieal foundation for all principles of law and order, therefore common ' sense should ceitalnly mle. i |