The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-09-18
ATTORNEY GENERAL PASSES ON
A NUMBER OF CUES
TIQNs.
FLAW is FOUND IN MOTHERS
PENSION BILL.
Excerpts From Address of Secretary
of State On DesirabiIity of Build
ing and Loan Associations
in Every Town.
by Gurd M. Hayes.l

Lansing, Mich-Attorney General
Fellows holds that the bill passed at
the last session of the legislature pro-
viding that oleomargarine may be
used as a substitute for butter in the
various penal institutions, does not
apply to the Industrial School for
Boys at Lansing and the Industrial
School for Girls at Adrian. Fellows
says that these two schools are re-
garded more as educational institu-
lions and he does not think that the
legislature intended that eleomargar-
inc should be used as a butter substi-
tute in these places.
In an opinion rendered to Warden
Simpson of Jackson prison, Attorney
General Fellows says that the semi
monthly pay bill placed on the statute
books does not apply to state depart
ments or state institutions. How
ever, it has been the practice in the
state departments to pay the employees
every two weeks.
1t is Fellows contention that the
governor cannot appoint probation Of
ticers or their assistants in the var
dous judicial circuits, except on the
recommendation of the court and Exc
cutive Clerk Austin was notified to
this erect in an opinion today.
Solicitors who go from house to
house taking orders for a foreign cor
poration, cannot be compelled to take
out hawkers' and peddlers' license
under village or city charter, says
Fellows. Assistant Prosecuting Attor-
ney Brown of Ingham county, inquired
whether solicitor who was simply
an order taker and neither received
money or delivered the goods could
be forced to take out a local license.
That there is a flaw in the mothers
pension law, so-called, which was
passed at the last session, developed
as the result of ruling by Attor-
ney General Fellows. Where a motn-
er ceases to be the legal guardian of
q child there is no way that the child
can be benefited under the act as the
money must be paid directly TO the
mother
This decision from the states legal
department arsies as the result of a
case in Cass county. Probate Judge
S. S. Eby referred to a case where
the mother of a dependent child had
been committed to an insane asylum.
The child was placed in the care OF
the grandmother and funds were need
ed for the child's education. Fellows
informed Judge Eby that he had no
legal right to enter an order fixing
the amount to be paid to the grand
mother for the support of the child.
Although the baseball season for
this year is practically closed, Fellows
received a request from Sheriff Will
diam F.. Shell, of Gladwin county, for
information as to whether it is posi-
BILE TO stop Sunday games.
"In the case Of Yerkes VS.. Smith,
which was an action brought to COM
pei the police commissioner of De-
troit, to take action to prevent a game
the supreme court held that the mere
assembling OF persons TO play and wit
ness any Sunday game is not sufficient
without overt acts of violence of dis
order, to authorize an officer to make
a summary arrest" said Fellows.
under this decision of the supreme
court 1t follows that a crowd exceed
ing thirty persons assembled on Sun
day to witness a ball game or for any
other similar purposes, if riotuous or
tumultous within the meaning of the
act, may be ordered by you as sheriff
of the county to disperse. A refusal
to obey your orders renders such per-
sons so assembled liable to arrest and
prosecution. In other words, persons
present at and participating in such
game may not under the general laws
of the state be summarily arrested and
prosecuted unless the conduct of the
assemblage is such as to warrant an
officer to command its dispersal and
then arrests may be made only upon
refusal to comply with such order. OF
course, as stated in the opinion of
the court in the case of Yerkes VS..
Smith, any person participating in
such game is liable to the penalty
of $40 to be enforced in a civil action
brought for that purpose"
Building and loan associations
properly conducted are ideal institu.
lions of mutual cooperation" said
Secretary of State Frederick c. Mar.
tindaie in an address at the annual
meeting of the Michigan Building and
Loan Associations League. The SUI
pervision of these associations is
placed in charge of the state depart
ment and Secretary Martindale has
had abundant opportunity to observe
their workings during the years that
he has been in Office.
"They have ceased to be an expert
ment and are now recognized as an