The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-07-20
Committee DEMANDS ACTION
REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCE
City Attorney Instructed To Determine
Whether or Not Street Cars, Ice
Wagons, Milk Wagons and Light
Plant Can be Legally Runway
Stop Sale Of Papers on the Street,
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Inc iiu Will De put On f1dttleSDurS
next Sunday, nailed down and hermet-
ically sealed. The controversy over
Sunday closing and the strict enforce
ment of the Sunday laws, has reached
the acute stage where the matter can
no longer be deferred.
The mayor is confronted by the un-
answerable statement of fact that the
law limits operations in the CONNER
cfal world on Sunday to few necessi-
ties; and he is called upon by commit
tee consisting of the Rev. E. D. Solo
mon, John A. Mcleod, H. S. Stevens
and others representing the churches
and Sunday schools, to enforce the
law.
i have issued orders" Mayor Bat
son said yesterday, that beginning
next Sunday, the drug stores must eof,A
form to the law, and have reduestsd,T
the city attorney to advise me before
that time what Sunday operations.
are exempted by the law. ALI
other business OF public ma
ture must cease. have asked
Mr.. Sullivan in particular to find out
whether ice wagons, street cars, milk
wagons, the electric light and power
plant, and the sale of papers on the
street are exempted by the law, and
shall be governed by what he says the
law is
Next Sunday The Time.
The committee in question went be-
fore the mayor Saturday evening and
asked him whether or not he was
going to enforce the law. Mr.. Batson
told the members of the committee
that he would not take any action in
regard to enforcing the law yesterday
because he could not give the people
directly effected a chance to make
preparations, and that would impose a
hardship on large number of people.
The Mayor stated to the committee
that he had told them that if they
wanted any action from him effective
yesterday, they must let him know
by Friday night previous to Sunday,
so that he could give proper notifi-
cation to the people concerned, in
cluding hotels, ice houses, drug
stores and restaurants. Mr.. Batson
said to the committee that he had not
only told the committee but that he
had made public his purpose in that
connection in an interview published
in The News.
Mr.. Batson told the committee that
he would give orders to the drug
stores and to other businesses not
exempted by law to conform to the
La next Sunday, and that he
would instruct the police force to see
that the law is strictly enforced
throughout the city.
Mr., Batson told them that he has
always been In the position of willing.
ness to try the case of any violation
of city ordinance where 1t is brought
into his court.
druggists Want Strict Enforcement.
Before this time, however, there has
been no complaint made to him OF
drug stores doing a general business
on Sunday. On the contrary this Gus
tom has been tolerated by the public
and literally patronized by some of
the best citizens.
The druggists say that they mean
to cooperate to the fullest extent with
the mayor in any order he may issue,
but they will insist on the enforce
ment Of all the ordinances relating to
Sunday operations
Those who are opposed to the en-
forcement of the Sunday lava
claim that the best way to
defeat the purpose of the commit,
tee from the Sunday schools WIN &
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