The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-21

TN timely interview, appearing
 elsewhere in The Age-Herald thi morning, Judge Dan A. Green seek to allay the pessimism created b. the filing of the Mcdonald injunc tion suits. Judge Green has not, likt number of other good citizens o1 Birmingham, yielded to a 'brair
 storm" He wen Judge Green quietly to work ane Sees No Danger made little investi
 gation of his own ane after careful reading of the state con stitution he has reached the conclu sion that there is nothing to bs alarmed over. According to a strict interpretation of the law, Judge Green says, there is no basis for MT McDonald's contention. "A plain con- struction of the law and the ordinary interpretation of the English Ian guage" authorizes the payment by Birmingham of interest on bond is sues subsequent to 1901 from the spe cial tax of one-half of one per cent.
 Judge Green thinks the city com mission and citizens are unnecessarily wrought up, that they have been mak ing a mountain of a molehill. Aftel reading his interpretation of the con stitution, it will be seen by mos clear-minded people that the situation is by no means hopeless. On the con- trary, there is good reason to believe that Birmingham will find way out of her financial difficulties without much trouble.
 RTEARLY every state has Sunday IN "blue laws" on it's statute books and although they have long since been regarded as obsolete, peri odical attempts are made to enforce them. Virginia is now having tha' experience.
 Under a new custer act providing for the removal of officials charged
 with law enforcement Blue Laws who fail to perforn in Virginia their duty, all work O
 business other than tha of necessity was prohibited last Sun day, Many arrests were made, but a a rule cigar stores and soft drinl stands and other places of merchan disc were closed tight.
 Local magistrates hold differen views of the meaning of the word ne cessity in it's relation to Sunday ob servance. In Richmond, Police Justic John Crutchfield, who has won a na tional reputation for his common sense rulings" decides that milk, ic and bread are necessities and may b sold on Sunday. Also he justifies tn operation of street cars, telephones telegraph companies, express com panies, cold storage plants, urgent re nair work and the cleaning of cars hut he does not hold the same libers opinion with regard to the necessit of shoeshines and hotel music on Sun .day. He fined hotel musicians an shoeshiners.
 As for traffic in tobacco and sof drinks the lid will be on until the blu law wave spends itself, which prot ablv will be after week or two.
 In the spring of 1914 the electoral of Virginia voted statewide prohib tion. but the dry mandate does not g into effect until next November. l the meantime the legislature has bee iperfecting legal machinery for it ripid enforcement. The custer la' was enacted for the purpose of faster ing the lid on prohibition, but as applies with equal force to Sunda observance statutes the state admir- sistration conceived the idea, no doub of trying it out" on long dlsregarde blue laws before Virginia's dry CT actually sets in.
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