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Letter to Editor
February 2, 1962
The Catholic Times
Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio
What is this article about?
Letter to the editor critiques the irony in a Times cartoon portraying Sunday businessmen as greedy, arguing that downtown Columbus businessmen promote Blue Laws for economic competition with suburbs, not religious observance, unlike the church's motives.
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Editor:
Last week's Times editorial cartoon caricaturing the Sunday businessman as saluting the dollar flag is more ironic than the artist intended.
THE PRIMARY BACKERS of Blue Law observation in Columbus are not church and religious leaders, but down town businessmen, bankers and merchants. Their concern is not for a religious observance of the sabbath, but an economic one. No doubt their thinking is that money spent Sundays in the suburbs cannot be spent Mondays downtown. Hence their promotion, with a full time public relations man and his staff, of observation of Sunday Blue Laws.
THE CHURCH'S CONCERN for observance of the Sunday sabbath is understandable. But if the Sunday suburban merchant is to be pictured as greedy, will the Times call religious the downtown businessman who is trying to kill his competition?
William A. Gold
Last week's Times editorial cartoon caricaturing the Sunday businessman as saluting the dollar flag is more ironic than the artist intended.
THE PRIMARY BACKERS of Blue Law observation in Columbus are not church and religious leaders, but down town businessmen, bankers and merchants. Their concern is not for a religious observance of the sabbath, but an economic one. No doubt their thinking is that money spent Sundays in the suburbs cannot be spent Mondays downtown. Hence their promotion, with a full time public relations man and his staff, of observation of Sunday Blue Laws.
THE CHURCH'S CONCERN for observance of the Sunday sabbath is understandable. But if the Sunday suburban merchant is to be pictured as greedy, will the Times call religious the downtown businessman who is trying to kill his competition?
William A. Gold
What sub-type of article is it?
Persuasive
Social Critique
What themes does it cover?
Religion
Commerce Trade
Social Issues
What keywords are associated?
Blue Laws
Sunday Observance
Columbus Businessmen
Economic Competition
Sabbath
Suburban Merchants
Times Cartoon
What entities or persons were involved?
William A. Gold
Editor
Letter to Editor Details
Author
William A. Gold
Recipient
Editor
Main Argument
the primary backers of blue law observance in columbus are downtown businessmen motivated by economic competition with suburban merchants, not religious concerns, making the times' cartoon ironically applicable to them as well.
Notable Details
References Last Week's Times Editorial Cartoon
Contrasts Church's Religious Motives With Businessmen's Economic Ones
Mentions Full Time Public Relations Staff Promoting Blue Laws