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Show UTAHN TO SPEAK" Oil 'BLUE LIS' Manager of Lagoon Will Address Ad-dress Convention in Chicago Taking the position that the threaten., threat-en., "bide law" legislation to curtail amusements on Sundays, tho only day of recreation possible to a majority of the people, Is a menace to Ihe moral well-being of the people everywhere. C. C. Chrlstensen. manager of the Lagoon La-goon park, wtU speak on Blue Law Agitation" before the convention of the National Association of Amuse ment Parks at Chicago, February' 16 and 1. Mr. Chrlstensen made this statement state-ment : "It is not only an Infringement upon the Independence for which America has stood, as the right of the Individual, Individ-ual, since the time or the landing o; the Mayflower, but it Ifl calculated to carry with it tho evils that ever follow fol-low intolerance Amusement parks may not be as satisfactory reeorts as churches, in the opinion of the serious minded, but better the frank circumscribed circum-scribed pleasure of such places than more questionable entertainment sought In secret. The standard of conduct con-duct of amusement parks cannot be i lised too nigh for the taste of man agements. In so far as my experience goes, for business failure is ever the! follower of a bad reputation for any j such place. "It would be much better to look lo the wholesomeness of our national games and sports and the regulation of our amusement places to Insure health-promoting, character-building ; diversion for people, young and old, ! than to put the country in a strait-jacket strait-jacket on Sunday There Is no neces slty of regarding the parks, the ball games and tho movie shows as monop j ollzlng tho time of the churches. There la time enough for church-going on the part of those partial to such Sunday j entertainments, without their being) denied diversion for such of tho day m J is not spent In religious observance Indeed, there is a question as to whether It is not somewhat of a religious reli-gious observance to seek restful diversion di-version on unday, religiously recognized recog-nized as the day of re3t, ; ince diversion diver-sion is a form of rest, "It is expected that a represents Hon against the contemplated strin gent legislation with regard to Sun-, day diversions will be sent to con-' gress from the convention." oo |