The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-12
SUNDAY LAWS
NEED CHANGE
In Idaho One Can Buy Cigars
on Sunday, but Not Bread
or Clothes.
CAN BUY RAZOR OR CUT GLASS
BUT ONLY IN DRUG STORES
Moving Picture Shows Barred,
but Noisy, Betting Baseball
Games Allowed.
BY @. E. ARNEY.
Special TO The Tribune.

4 Special TO The Tribune.
POCATELLo. Ida. Dec. 1.-THE Sun
day rest law, so called, is in need Of re
building. II requires new siding and
roof at least, the foundation Of the Law
being quite satisfactory. In other words,
there appears TO be no logical demand
for a repeal of the statute regulating
course, oppose II who keep Sunday as
day of recreation, buta have no reli-
gious scruples. Others. the Seventh Day
Adventists, for instance, find a religious
objection to II. because they regard il
as a legal pronouncement against Sat
\ urdey. which they regard as the proper
Sabbath. Generally speaking, however,
( the great mass OF the people OF the
state, and the constitution OF Idaho for
that matter. recognize the first day OF
the week as the day on which business
should not be transacted.
Incongruous Working.
was talking TO a man OF affairs here
today. who said 10 me: ut is striking
ly incongruous to have Sunday law
such as We have today, For instance,
want TO buy q razor on Sunday. I go
to the hardware store and cannot get
Il because of the Sunday closing law.
10 the furniture store and they refuse
70 consider sale OF the article because
OF the Sunday closing law. 1 go TO the
durg store and buy both these articles"
himself after his Sunday morning meal
and says TO his wife, Il Will go to the
city and get some cigars" She asks
him to bring home Loaf, of bread for
dinner. He returns with the cigars. but
the law forbids him buying the bread on
Sunday.
The church going man and his wife
wish to indulge themselves in some In
nocent Sunday afternoon amusement.
They walk down town and find that. be-
cause of the Sunday rest law. the NOV
return home by way OF the baseball
park and find big game OF baseball
going on. They pay their admission and
enter They see man pacing up and
bet on the result OF the game. They
see his challenge taken The umpire
finally makes bum decision and pan
demonum breaks loose. So loud Is the
noise that Sunday-schooi across the
street is unable to hear their superin-
tendent summing up the review of the
lesson
4 At the moving picture show. al would
Besides, the pictures would have been
4 Instructive, and of that high order OF
entertainment which the couple sought
They would have seen vivid pictures OF
DAYS Or weekday evenings. which their
slight finances inhibited them travelling
TO see.
Moving Pictures Are Quiet.
IL is the opinion OF all who have 10 Go
Win crime that "tdleness Is the devil 9
own workshop. The police officers OF
TIE east regard the moving picture busi-
ness. so lately brought into popuiarity
IN The more populous east. as conducive
tc better order of things II gives
the Young people something 10 do. At
a cost within their reach. and frequently
mat which tGcv see tends 20 elevate
rather than degrade. y nassc!by or
Sunday. could no, disSlnGUie'; Setween a
moving picture chow and T. arch house
unless the preacher vas in -" him
seH In an extraordinary n.gh. ora
10Y calling for excessive eXpios e." in
which event the moving p:cturc loy
would be the most orderly OF The two
y is seldom indeed. that the audience
AZ moving picture show gives itsel:
over 10 cheering. and when So OF the
m6dest Kind. usually handclappiag
Ihere are approximately 5000 men who
work In The shops and on the road j,
inns place. They work hard. They are
vs9aliy tired in the evenings, and do no.
aaays which they could receive the benc-
rs OF moving picture shows are SUNDAYS.
+ Many nj them attend church services
,, can sec no wrcng that would attend
tleir presence in the afternoon or even =
ns, Al the ordinary moving picture
SNOW ] think the Sunday rest law OF
lne state should be so modified as te
siow thest- entertainments TO run on
suhdayf ] believe also that such modi
hcations should be made TO the present
ioW 10 take away from the law the de-
srse OF favoritism TO business houses
Mnlch II now affords. IL occurs 10 me
.ust me game right should be provide
INC citizen 10 buy necessities that he
10" enjoys to buy luxuries on Sundays