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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17566, 17 June 1925, Page 6

er he nature of the Sunday which some persons would like to see established by law is disclosed in a Bill which lias been prepared for introduction in the Senate of the United States. It would prohibit a!i labour except on works of necessity or char- i ity. “All public traffic, hauling ar.d * transportation of freight and all reduced fare excursions’’ are prohibited. Perishable freight and live stock furnish an exception. Freight trains would be obliged to stop at midnight on Saturday, the sole exception being where accident or other circumstances “over which neither the company nor the crew has control” have intervened, and then a freight train could be run. subsequent to midnight on Saturday and prior to midnight on Sunday, only to the nearest divisional point, where both crew and train would be com pelled to await the passing of the Sab bath- No music would be permitted o;jtside the home, except in the case of religious processions. Motoring is not prohibited, but the Bill would not permit repair work in garages. Football, golf, tennis, hockey, lacrosse and 1 polo, fall within the ban of the Bill, and it is provided that when an election is held a. majority of the qualified voters of a community must vote separately for each of these games before they ran legally be played on Sunday, even in private. Sunday concerts are also banned. Picture, houses must not be opened, and even art: galleries are to be closed- all. if the. promoters of the Bill can have their way.