The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-03-06

| road system to DeEpaNed VIII De SUP
| ject to county option and vote 0
paved roads theeT'can vote to ge
them. If they do not, then the fed
eral aid money will be applied else
where On the provisions of the bill
thus far outlined the subcommittee:
of both houses are agreed.
Yes, there will be opposition
later. 1t is realized that such biz
proposition cannot be enacted with
out opposition. There are as many
are men, usually, and some mighty
good ideas are held by people who
cannot now be heard here. But out
of it all may come some improve
ment in the road laws and thus start
Iowa toward the program some OF
the forward looking people of the
state hope for.
Old Sunday Law to Go.
For sixty years it has been I'M
lawful in the State of Iowa to
operate on Sunday anything but
stage coaches, livery barns, ferry
boats, toll roads and to do anything
remembered that terrible furore
was created all over the state two
years ago, just after the legislature
adjourned, when Attorney-General
Havner set out to enforce these old
blue laws" And they didn't en-
force worth two whoops, because
they don't fit in with modern times,
with railroads, telegraphs, tele-
phones, automobiles. gasoline sta
tons, moving picture shows and
base ball games.
Now another real attempt has
been made to repeal these old blue
laws and substitute something that
will meet modern conditions. The
painful operation took place in the
senate on Monday of this week when
a bill offered by the Committee on
sage. 1t was Senate File No. 223,
and provides, with amendments,
about as follows: A fine of five to
twenty-five dollars for violation OF
the Sabbath laws, with the following
exemptions:
1t will be legal to operate rail
ways, telegraphs. telephones, heat
ing plants. waterworks, livery
stables, auto buses or other trans
ments, garages not open for demon
or sales. service stations,
hotels, eating houses, drug stores
stores and stands,
bath and hot houses and to transport
milk and cream, or ice, to publish,
sell and deliver newspapers, to have
concerts and chautauquas and to
these can be open and operated on
Sundays without special permission
if the law passes.
But for playing base ball and OPP
Grating moving picture shows and
places of amusement where adms
sion is charged, it is to be up to the
people in the towns and cities of
5000 population and under to say
at an election whether they want to
Sunday.
AS amended and finally passed the
dill makes it possible for twenty-five
Der cent of the votes of any town or
:ty under 5000 to have the ques |
ion Of Sunday operation of moving |
picture theatres and base ball games !
On Sunday submitted to a vote of
he people. at the regular city or
own election each year. Likewise, |
after such question has been sub !
nitted and carried, a petition of % |!
ser cent of the voters can require a |
submission of the question of pro- !
libiting such Sunday amusements |
1t the next election.
In plain words, the bill is local .
,rtion for cities and towns under /
700 people as to the question of |
n all cities the necessary things
above are expressly per-
nitted. In larger cities the councils
" commissioners are given the rieht
O regulate such things by ordinance
Without a vote of the people.
The vote on the final passage of
he bill was surprisingly large in it's
avor. Senator Proudfoot Of War
en- county led the opposition to the
c OIL oaiO a o1
nv line Of defense till the end.
enator Parker of Des Moines. led
he fight for the bill. On final pass
ge of the bill there were but IS
otes opposed to it, as follows:
orators Palkema. Ball. Brookhart,
elbows, Meredith. Nelson. Pitt,
Ratcliff. Smith, Stephen
On. Taylor, Whitmore.
If the modern Sunday bill now
asses the lower house it will be-
,me a law on and after it's publi-
ltion. l.
Tuesday was rather field day for ,
ebaters, both in house and senate,
it'll the latter working right along
r nearly five hours to get the Alien
lucators bill, the chiropractors bill
I'd the county agents bill out of
|. though even the friends of the i
liro bill doubted it's parentage af- :
rward The county agents bill is :
e same as was passed in the housed
st week, providing that in counties !
here the farmers and others Gre
e membership fund amounting {
$1,000 for county farm bureau
improvement association, then the I
ard of supervisors Of such county
hall" appropriate double t h e
Mount solraised to assist and main q
in said bureau Friends of this
II are delighted with it's passage. \
hey say it will make the farm bu-
au idea a permanent thing and :
ii do much to stop the nom
rtisan LEAGUE idea of farm organi-
tion in this state by giving the
rmers something much better. ;
The chiropractor bill passed with I.
nendments provided that surh
alers may have member on the {
ate board of examiners, and that
len applicants for state license to y
actice chiropractic shall have pass ,
an examination in certain scien- !
ic methods, and shall show that
ey have attended some recognized
llege or school of chiropractic for
least six months a year for three
ars, they shall be entitled to