Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-01-17
Chancellor Elliott Restraints Movies From Operating
 on Sundays.
TRADESMEN ALSO
 MUST OBSERVE LAW
Minors Must Be Kept Out of Pool RGGmS. and Games of Chance Will Not Be TOlprated-t iiected Ones
 Want Nn Discrimination.

Chancellor J. M Elliott yesterday moving picture theatres from opera ing on Sunday, and followed this action by instructing Sheriff R. H. Williams to notify divers tradesmen that violations of law, tolerated here tofore by common consent, must cease.
 Acting under the chancellor in- structions, Sheriff Williams and Dap- uties J. l.. McBurnett and James Lytle made a round of the city, notifying owners of fruit stands they must not sell groceries on Sunday, and confine their selling to fruit and candy; own CTS of cigar stands, drug and book stores were warned to abolish the use of punch and pull boards, and other games of chance used to in crease sales. Owners and managers of pool rooms were gi"en to under stand that arrest and prosecution would follow violations of the law prohibiting the entry of minors into pool rooms and the operation of domi- no and other gambling games.
 Assemblies Vicious Persons.
 Judge Elliott acted upon complaints by several local ministers, and the application for restraining order against the three moving picture shows states, among other things, that the keeping open of said places of amusement on the Sabbath day brings together from all parts of the city and vicinity men and women bi vicious habits and practices. young men and boys and even girls of ten der years, and fosters and engenders feeling of contempt for the law and for the Christian Sabbath to the pref udice and injury of the good name of the state" and this community. The application states that imposition o1 fines would be inadequate to prevent the operations of the theatres on Sunday, as the operators have shown defiance for the law.
 Following, as it did, the conference between the movie men and the prose- cutting attorney, and the announce ment that the shows would be closed until the Little Rock case had been determined, the application and or der created surprise. Judge Elliotts order is specifically directed to H. O. Bluthenthal, Jake Simon and 0. c Hauber, their employees and agents. Plan to Retaliate.
 It is already evident that this prob- ably is but the beginning of the tight locally for and against the Sunday law. The operators of the moving picture shows are printing advertise ments, containing coupons on which the people are asked to designate il they arg opposed to the operation of moving picture theatres On Sunday afternoons. Tradesmen affected by the Sunday law and Judge Elliott's orders are expected to join with, the moving picture theatre men acd de mand that no discrimination be shown | in the enforcement of the statutes They contend that the law does moi only effect them, but prohibits any kind of labor on Sundays. and that it is only just that it be enforced without partiality.
 l Owners of the moving pictures will demur to the petition for the restrain ing order in t!le effort to have it dis solved, ano this may be followed by combined action to bring about the strictest kind of Sunday law enforce ment.