From The Indianapolis News, Monday, May 1, 1922: The Indianapolis Ministerial Association voted today, by a large majority, to back the campaign started by the Marion County Woman’s Christian Temperance Union to close Sunday motion picture shows. “We’ve got a bloody fight, and we better not go into it except with our sleeves rolled up. We closed the Irvington theater on Sunday, and…the theater now is closed all the time. If we succeed in this campaign it will mean we shall drive half the motion picture theaters in the city out of business,” said Rev. Walter Ewing, pastor of Irvington Methodist Church. Dr. Allan Philputt, pastor of Central Christian Church, opposed the motion saying, “It is impossible to overthrow a great industry like this. If we succeed in enforcing the law against Sunday shows, the next legislature will legalize them.”