Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1920 — SCOTS SPURN SUNDAY WORK [ARTICLE]

SCOTS SPURN SUNDAY WORK

Lord Leverhulme Finds Opposition to . Plan -for Great Fishing Project. London. —Lord Leverhulme has encountered the religious prejudices of the Scotchmen who live on the extensive property he has purchased in the Outer Hebrides and has suffered a rebuff. He had planned to make Stornoway, on the of Lewis, the headquarters of a huge fishing fleet that would sweep the seas for 500 miles around. The project Involved Sunday labor, and the islanders, who adhere to the strict and intense form of the Presbyterian faith, rejected it. Commenting on the incident, the periodical, Common Sense, says: “Lord Leverhulme Is a man of big ideas and new ideas, while the population over whom he has declared the rights of lairdship are folk of old and intense ideas. Hence the inevitable collision.” - —"T