“BLUE SUNDAYS”
REFORMING UNITED STATES ORGANISED EFFORT By Cable—Press Association. —Copyright NEW YORK, Wednesday. The Washington correspondent of the New York “World” says an alliance of the reform organisations throughout the United States, including the Lord's Day Alliance, the AntiSaloon League and the Methodist Board of Temperance has started a campaign over the whole country for funds for an effort to check the growth of crime. It is intended to establish “blue" Sundays in all the States and to introduce bills in the District of Columbia. which may be adopted as models by the States. for closiug barbers’ shops, public dance-halls, theatres and commercial sports, and to have uniform State laws regarding the use of Sunday for military purposes. The promoters hope that this will result in large attendances at the churches on Sunday.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 139, 2 September 1927, Page 1
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