The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-21
IA MOVE FOR
 CIVIC LEAGUE Citizens Volunteer to Aid
 Officers. TO SUPPRESS EvIL-DOERS Committee to Confer About Sunday Baseball. Meeting Held at Y. M. c. A. Promises to Assume a Wide scope--will
 Support Sheriff and
 Solicitor.

In response to . call of the Minis ters' Union of Montgomery, twenty Representative citizens met last night in the parlors of the Young Mems Christian Association and discussed the formation of a Civic League. look ing to the suppression of violations of the law in Montgomery.
 Early in the meeting it developed I that the sense of majority of those present was that Sunday base ball is the lesser of a number of evils exist ing in Montgomery, and the desire of most of those who were in the room was for the formation of an organiza- ton to strengthen public opinion and
 to aid the officers of the law in the enforcement of the statutes, and to help Montgomery in other ways. | Two Committees Named.
 Two committees were appointed by l the meeting. One committee was charged with maturing a constitution and bylaws looking to a permanent organization. The other committee was charged with calling on the So- iicitor and Sheriff of the County to prohibit the playing of base ball in Montgomery on Sunday.
 l E. c. Shepard presided and A. '. Dix acted as secretary.
 In calling the meeting to order. Mir. 1 Shepard referred to the many open violations of the law, especially as re- gards Sunday in Montgomery and the open declaration that base ball would be played within the corporate limits of the city of Montgomery next Sum day in defiance of the recently enact ed State law. He said he took it that to suppress these evils the gentlemen present had met. and he called for eX
 pressions from them. ..... Bradford Hardie moved that the meeting be organised as a Committee of Citizens to see that the laws be enforced. He spoke of Sunday base
 ball and said that was live ques- tion now, In his opinion if such an organization was perfected other re- forms might be brought about.
 Major ". W. Screws said that he had come to the meeting, believing that the purpose of the organization was not merely to suppress Sunday base ball, which he thought the lesser of a num- Der of evils in Montgomery, but to l look to and aid in a general enforce ment of all laws and as a body of rep- | resentative eitiEens to aid Montgom- cry in every way. If the body was to be simply a committee to suppress Sunday base ball, he said he did not | wish to become a member of the body, but if it was to be League of the | aw-abiding citizens to aid in sup pressing all violations of law and benefit Montgomery. he was in hearty accord with It's object.
 Many Evils Exist. -f W. W. Pearson agreed with Major Screws. He said he thought Sunday base ball a decidely lesser evil than a number existing in Montgomery. He was not in favor of Sunday base ball, but since its prohibition had become a law, there was no use discussing it. The law. he thought. could not be suc- cessfully attacked. Last summer, he declared, numbers of Montgomerys best citizens attended the Sunday ball ment, an attempt would be made to play the game this season. To coun- teract this reliance, he thought 1t we'll that the meeting was held. Still, he was not in favor of organizing to fight Sunday base ball alone. Like Major Screws, he believed that if a League was formed with a wide scope, much good could be accomplished. Mont gomery. he declared, is now filled with tin-horn gamblers and women of i'll fame, whom the Civic Leagues of oth- CT cities had driven out.
 He moved that the sentiment of those present be tested, and that com mittee of five members be appointed to frame a constitution and bylaws for a permanent organization and an effort be made to extend the member snip thereof.
 The Chairman called on all present to express their views, All were in favor of Civic League with a wide scope and if possible a wide member ship. Those who responded were: Ava Fitzpatrick, G. W. Barnett, M Cody, c. W. Buckley. J, ". Black, Dr. Law, J. T. Cook, J. c. Cowan, J. H. Lakin, W. W. Pearson, A. W. LaBron, Bradford Hardie, F. P. Glass. J. B. Fuller, W. W. Screws, J. T. Simpson. and MT. Tennille.
 MT. Black Against Games.
 In his remarks, J. W. Black said he thought that the meeting had lost sight of the purpose for which 1t was originally called, the expression of Sunday base ball. He. for one, was willing to give money to employ counsel to suppress the playing of the game on Sunday and to look into the law.
 J. T. Simpson disagreed with Mir. Black. He thought that the impression should not ba given out that the citizens were rehecting on the officers of the law '---@~@'--.~---ss----------~ ----