An unfortunate circumstance occurred last night tending further to strain the relations existing between the church people of Red Bluff and that class of citizens who have declared for a liberal interpretation of the meaning and purposes of the Sunday holiday.
A big banner that has been swinging across Walnut street announcing the revival services in progress at the Christian church was stolen some time during the night. The matter was reported to City Marshal Montgomery this morning and Evangelist Wilhite has offered a reward of ten dollars for the return if the banner.
There is nothing significant in the disappearance of the banner, any more than there would be in the theft of any other piece of property. Unfortunately however certain of the ministers are trying to make it appear that the theft is the direct result of the controversy going on between advocates of Sunday baseball and a closed town on that day, the effect being to greatly intensify the feeling, and lessen the chances for a sane and sensible adjustment of the question.
In fact one minster so far forgot himself and his calling this morning to publicly accuse George Wahl “and his element” of stealing the banner. It was a thoughtless and foolish assertion.
As secretary of the chamber of commerce and the Red Bluff businessmen’s association “the element” Mr. Wahl represents is the backbone of the community. It would be just as reasonable to charge the theft of third base to the churches, as it would to accuse the business men of climbing upon top of a building on Walnut street and running away with a church banner.
It is an unfortunate start toward a happy ending of the Sunday amusement question and will lead only to deeper perplexities and harsher accusations.
As the News has already stated, what is most needed in this contingency is a broader vision, a little charity and a whole lot of common sense. The matter is not going to be adjusted by the radicals on either side, of which there are just as many in the churches as there are outside of it. Christianity did not precipitate the fight. It was a lack of real Christianity that brought it on.
We do not believe that all virtue is to be found in the churches, or that all vice is to be found outside of it. Charily and common sense ought to unite forces with the fool killer and make a clean up for the sake of humanity. Intolerance is the worst enemy the church has and it is apt to lead otherwise sensible men and women to do most irrational things. They seem to be heading toward that goal now in Red Bluff.
— March 18, 1921
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