The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-01-27
SENT TO CHURCH
| AS A PUNISHMENT
If Saloon Men of Indianapolis
Are Bad, They Must
Hear Sermons.
LATEST RULING OF SHANK
GUILTY ONES ARE ALSO RE
CURED, IF THEY KEEP OPEN
SUNDAY, TO FIND MINISTER AS
PROBATION OFFICER.
LATEST RULING OF SHANK

Indianapolis, Jan. 27.-Hereafter ev.
cry saloon keeper whose license is not
revoked following arrest for Sunday
selling will have to attend church
somewhere, get acquainted with the
preacher and in some manner agree
able to him and the preacher make
an arrangement for the preacher to
act as his probation officer. If he
has to promise to attend prayer meet
preacher to act. SO much better for
the saloon keeper. That's what May
or Shank says. He says it will do
them good to go to church.
Mayor Shank yesterday afternoon
heard the cases of two saloon keep
ers who sold liquor week ago Sun
day. One of them he placed under
probation to the Rev. John Smoley OF
the Holy Trinity Catholic church in
Haughville, telling the Rev. John
SmOley that he was to take the Sd
loon and the saloon keeper under his
wing" The license of the other was
suspended until he can go to the may
ors office with a letter stating that
he attended a church service and re-
manned through the meeting.
The mayor said that the preachers
to whom he had mentioned the plan
had believed that it would result in
good and a few prominent ministers
of the gospel who were asked last
night what they thought of the plan
said they were sure saloon keepers
would find hearty welcomes at their
churches.
Regards it as Punishment.
Mayor Shank is frank enough tc
say that a part of his purpose in MAX
ing the saloon keepers attend church
is to punish them, the fact being, he
says, that to most of them this will
be a punishment; but he says, also
that it will do them "a lot Of good,
and that he is sure that at least dur
ing the time they are in church they
will not be selling liquor contrary tt
law.
He said yesterday that any saloor
keeper who persisted in violating the
law or whose place was shown to be
an especially bad one would have hi:
| license revoked. But his main effor
for while will be to make the sa
loon men be good. Sending them tt
| church, he believes, will help then
be good.
Joseph klemene, ISL ketchan
street, Haughville, was the man whose
saloon was put under the wing o
the Rev. Mr.. Smoley. He sold Liquor
on Sunday. Mayor Shank told thu
saloon keeper that if he sold on Sun
day any more he would lose his lie
ense and in the mean time the Rev
Mr.. Smoley has agreed to try to per
suade the saloon man to respect tn,
law
| The other saloon keeper was Ma
rion Cummins, Twenty-first and Van
des streets. The mayor asked him if h
had men in his saloon on Sunday an,
he admitted he had. On the evenin
before he told policeman that he wa
going to close his place and go t
church the next day. On Monday h
told the policeman he had gone t.
church. The policeman learned aft
erward that he had violated the law
He made an investigation, to the en-,
that the man was arrested. Cummin
had, in fact, not gone to church. Blu
he will go to church next Sunday. May
or Shank has arranged this.
Long Absent From Church.
long has it been since you were a
church,
"Why," stammered the saloon keeper
81 haven't been since l have been il
the saloon business
That's been a good while"
'Why, yes, a good while"
"Well. you're going next Sunday.
believe it would do you good. And
know that for that long at least, 20
will not be violating the law. Your Il
cense will be suspended indefinitely
but it will be in force again wheneve
you come in here with a letter fror
the preacher of some church, don
care what church-and show me tina
you have been to church. You'll hav
to go and sit through the service an
listen to the preacher. It'll do 20
good.'
"You mean that ] will have to clos
up till then:" the saloon man asked.
why yes, and till later than Sunda
if you don't go to church Sunday.
you don't go Sunday, you'll have to &
week from Sunday. and If you sell b.
fore I tell you your license has bee
restored, you will be guilty of runnin
a blind tiger. So don't you SELL