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Show BATTLE OVER BLUE SUNDAY ; GETS HOTTER Each Side Trying to Wfear ! Down Other in National Controversy ADHERENTS GAINED IN CAMPS OF BOTH I Outstanding Tactics and Strat i egy Summed Up to Show Situation I . E. A staff special). 1 WASHINGTON, Jan 17 The Blue., land the nnti-Blues are fighting a war (of attrition. Bach is trvlng to wear down the oth- er In the battle for and against blue Sundays. The Blues the Lord's Day Alliance land other reform organisations decry Ithe desecration of the Sunday. They complain people have drifted away from religion and that. In rushing to sporting events, movies and other amusements they have lost sight of their r llglous obligations The anti-Blues contend the Blues simply want to take the "sun" out of Sunday. And they would like to know what the Blues are going to do with the Sundays after they have saved them They see tho country swinging back to these Puritan laws for Sun-da Sun-da v observance: "No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep house, cut hair or shave. "No one shall run or walk. In his garden or else Where, except reverently to and from meeting. ' Any person who shall be found smoking tobacco going to or coming li-ciin mriTing. wmun iwp nmrr ui mr mi . ting house, shall pay a line for cv-er.' cv-er.' such offense. "No one shall make mince pies, I dance, play cards or play any instrument instru-ment of music except the trumpet drum or Jew's-harp." i Ml BL1 Fs The Lord's Day Alliance has referred refer-red to the great majority of senators and representatives In the state and national legislatures " aa "weak in morals mor-als and Incapable In mind" because It has been unable to get restrictive Sabbath Sab-bath legislation under way The International Reform Bureau. Inc., of Washington, has declared that movies must not be shown on the Sabbath. Sab-bath. For carving a statue on Sunday. Io Toschi of Boston was fined $10 The charge w;us "doing unnecessary work on the lord's day " In Zlon City. IlLi the premier blue law town of America, declared a ban on the exhibition of "freaks" the fat woman, the human giant, tho bearded lady, the living skeleton, tho missing link and their colleagues. RJ p Dinwiddle, one of the presidents presi-dents of the National Keform association, associa-tion, has declared he would devote half his time to "field work" In connection with helping to bring about "Sinless l Sn bbalhs." Thirty-six states have anti-cigaret legislation before their legislatures. A bill to close every business establishment estab-lishment and halt all pa-ssenger and freight trains on Sunday has been Introduced In-troduced In tl'e Tennessee senate. Nineteen men of Atchison. Kan., are threatened with prosecution for sending send-ing a carton of cigarets to President-j President-j elect Harding It's against the law in 'Knnsas to buy or give &w i cigarets. vi -BLUES. Governor Edwards has urged the New Jersey legislature to kill all bills 'designated as Sunday blue laws The Motion Picture Association of tho "World has started a fight to pro-serve pro-serve Sunday movies. Judge Mitchell May of Now York declared de-clared thai Bolshevism and other radicalism rad-icalism would thrive In the discontent Which a stricter sabbath would stir up. More than 75.00U former service map, students In Knights of Columbus schools throughout the country, have taken a wtand against the proposed passage and enforcement of Sunday blue laws. Tin Jewish Sabbath Alliance of America has resolved to wage a enm-i enm-i palgtl against promoters of Sabbath I legislation on tho ground that Whal thy propose would be in direct con-ti con-ti LventlOD of the constitutional guarantee guar-antee of religious liberty "The present day Sunday blue law campaign has sprung from a puritanical puritani-cal and misguided I onseption ' " says Dr. William T Manning. pastor of Trinity church in New York. "The Puritans made a serious blunder when they ruled Suit. lay amusement out." Senator Paul ii. Kimball has an- nounced that he will introduce hi the coming Kansas legislature, a bill repealing re-pealing the anti-Cigaret law of Kansas except as So far as it applies to minors. Attorney General Armstrong of Maryland has ruled thai the blue laws. if given literal application, would make it illegal for churches to matnuan paid choirs. t |