Reopening The Churches

• Editorial• Author is of the opinion that the reopening of churches proves the health authorities’ statement that the epidemic has past its peak. • Questions why churches had to be closed in New Orleans while streetcars continued to run and saloons were kept open. Claims that the epidemic wound down in other cities without the churches being closed. • “But, like the distinguished Archbishop of New Orleans, who, while protesting with an eloquent indignation against this injustice, set a splendid example of obedience to the authorities, we counseled submission to all regulations which the doctors in charge of the situation deemed essential to the fulfillment of their task; and we are glad to bear testimony to the patient resignation with which thousands of God-fearing people in this community obeyed a rule they regarded as utterly unnecessary.”Newspaper article