Word: sabbaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philadelphia's Municipal Board of Health last week became excited about the incidence of infantile paralysis in the community, forbade all public and private (including parochial and Sabbath) schools opening before Sept. 20, closed "all other places where persons under 18 may congregate." Neighboring communities cowered. In lower Merion Township every one under 21 is forbidden entree to public assembly places.* Camden, N. J., across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, decided not to be frightened, permitted its 30,000 pupils to enter classes this week. Gettysburg, Pa. also postponed school opening...
White Zombie (United Artists) is the latest jitter & gooseflesh cinema. Dracula was the first of the current witches' Sabbath of horror pictures (TIME, Feb. 23, 1931), followed by Frankenstein, Murders in the Rue Morgue and Freaks. All have been box office successes...
Jews hold no funerals on their Sabbath. Funerals are too mournful; the Sabbath should be a day of reverent rejoicing. Some Christians, however, take a mournful pleasure in funerals. Lately, a Christian group banned Sunday funerals, but not with the purpose of depriving any one of Sunday pleasures. For three years the Ministerial Association of Lincoln, Neb. has worked for a city ordinance prohibiting Sunday funerals. The Lincoln City Council unanimously approved an ordinance drafted by Methodist Rev. Walter Aitken, Baptist Rev. C. H. Walcott, and G. T. Slavery of the United Brethren. Lincoln ministers feel they are busy enough...
...rich man dies. He is not celebrated for piety. Indeed he may frequently have broken the third Commandment (swearing), or the fourth (breaking the Sabbath), or the seventh (adultery), or the eighth (stealing), or the tenth (covetousness). Nevertheless his family desires a fine funeral, complete with eulogy. So the parson polishes up a sonorous speech, hunts for apt quotations...
...doubtless know, Friday evening is the eve of the Sabbath for those of the Jewish Faith and at the time of your broadcast we are in our Houses of Worship. This deprives many of your subscribers and readers, as well as many listeners, of a most stimulating enactment of affairs of the past week. Wednesday evening, of course, would deprive other faiths and Sunday evening practically all Christian denominations hold religious services...