p. 17 | Notes by K. C. R.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 5, 1911

Notes

By K. C. R.

Clergymen, funeral directors, and liverymen of Fort Wayne, Ind., have organized together for the purpose of doing away with Sunday funerals except in the cases of death by contagious diseases. If this action is voluntary on the part of the classes indicated, there should be no serious objection raised to such a proposition; but should this be an effort to secure an ordinance to prohibit funerals being held on Sunday, then every citizen who is true to the best interests of society should vigorously protest against any measure which seeks to encroach upon the domain of personal rights of conscience.

The oft-repeated argument employed by the advocates of Sunday legislation, especially clergymen, that Sunday baseball is a menace to good morals, is not accepted by the chief of police in New Haven, Conn.; for he recently said: “Sunday baseball by professionals will continue at Lighthouse Point so long as the game is conducted in an orderly manner, because it draws young men from the streets, and lessens the number of arrests for drunkenness and disorder. Many young men, who would otherwise loiter on street corners, are attracted to the shore by the Sunday games, and from my own personal observation I know it lowers the number of cases in the courts on Monday.”

K. C. R.