TO CHECK CRIME.
REFORM IN UNITED STATES. LAWS FOR SUNDAY OBSERVANCE NEW YORK, Aug. 31. The New York World’s Washington correspondent states that an alliance of reform organisations throughout the United States, including the Lord’s Day Alliance, the Anti-Saloon League, and the Methodist Board of Temperance, have launched a country-wide campaign for funds for an effort to check the growth of crime by establishing throughout the nation “blue” Sundays. s . . It is planned to introduce bills in the district of Columbia —to be adopted as models in all the States —closing barbers’ shops, public dance halls, theatres, and preventing commercial work and sports, in conformity with the State laws for the observance of Sundays. , ~ It is hoped thereby to enlarge the Sunday church attendance.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 237, 3 September 1927, Page 5
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124TO CHECK CRIME. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 237, 3 September 1927, Page 5
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