The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12

good deal of technical information as to
the danger or lack of it, in the use of
all engine running at high speed with
cracked spokes in its driving wheels.
Women and Their Hats
The state supreme court will be called
on to decide as to the legality Of city
ordinance requiring women to remove
their hats in theatres.
This is a question which has not here
tofore been raised. In cities which have
passed such ordinances the women have
accepted it complainingy or uncomplain-
ingly, as the case may be.
Now the issue is to be made, not by
the women who are required to remove
their hats, but by the proprietor Of a
thea ire, upon whom the ordinance puts
the burden and responsibility in case he
or his employees fail or refuse to enforce
the requirement.
William Oldknow, proprietor of two
moving picture theatres in Atlanta. was
fined SIS and costs by Recorder Broyles
because he failed to enforce the city
ordinance which requires the proprietors
of such theatres to have all women
patrons remove their hats at perform
ances taking place after o'clock in the
evening.
Now Oldknow proposes to appeal from
the recorders action, first to the supe-
rior court and then to the state supreme
court, If necessary. upon the ground that
the city ordinance is unconstitutional and
invalid, and that the city has no au-
thority to make such requirement.
While Oldknow will base his case upon
the ordinance relating to the moving pic
ture theatres, it will open up the entire
question of the validity Of the law as APP
piled to all theatres, and the rights of
| O. city to make and enforce such an Or
dinance.
| City after city has adopted the law as
applied to the larger theatres and no
question has ever been raised about 1t.
| All the men and more than half the
women agree that the requirement Is a
| Just and righteous one, and had any in
dividuals made complaint they would
probably have received small sympathy.
| Oldknow is doing 1t not so much on
behalf of the women patrons of his the
aires, as on his own account, he does not
believe the city has the right to put the
burden of the responsibility on the the
atre owner or manager, and 1t is chief
ly on that ground that he will contest
| the fine.
It will be interesting to read what the
supreme court may have to say on the
subject of womens hats.
| LOVING Oup rOr ftOOseVelt
| Edward H. Walker, real estate man
and former mayor of College Park, a
well-known Atlanta suburb. has renewed
| his suggestion of a national loving cur
for ex-Presdent Theodore Roosevelt, and
says the subscription list should be
| started here in Atlanta.
Strange as it may seem, 1t is generally
known that Mr.. Walker is a candidate
for governor of Georgia-the only an
nounced candidate now in the field
Mr.. Walker announced his candidacy
for governor in 1908, but the Hoke Smith
Joe Brown fight was at its height, and
he came out too late to attract any. at
| tention.
This time he determined not to lose
any time. He has already published his
announcement together with his plat
form-one of the reform kind-and asserts
that he is squarely in the race. no mat
| ter who else runs.
Even though there be another Brown
Smith scrap Walker declares he is going
to get into the thick of it.
This is only incidental. however, to the
Roosevelt loving cup scheme. The two
iare disconnected. though Mr.. Walker