The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-04
Emergency Ordinance Goes Into
Effect Saturday.
Business Houses Restricted to
Hours, 8 to 5 O'clock.
POOL HALLS MAY SELL TOBACCO
Office Buildings Open From
r. $3.50 A. NJ. to 4:3OP. M.
Amendments Follow Orders of
Regional Director.

Lodges, pool halls and dance halls
will be ordered closed until further
notice, and business houses consider
ed essential will open at a. m, clos
ing at p. m. with the exception of
few to close at $50, under amend
ments to the emergency fuel ordinance
adopted by city commissioners today
to make the cit. law comply with the
orders of the federal regional fuel
director.
The amendments will not be effec-
tive until published officially in the
legal column of The State Journal,
Friday evening.
probably Friday evening.
Pool halls may operate as retail
stores selling tobacco, candy and gum
between the hours of 9 a. m. and p.
m. They will not be open after 5 p.
m. Pool and billiard tables may not
be operated.
Food and Drug Store Hours.
OF the essential industries, bakeries,
meat markets, groceries and milk
depots may remain open until $50 p
m. Drug stores may remain open until
II p. m. for the sale of drugs and pre-
scriptions only. Their retail depart
ments will close at p. m. Office
buildings will be open at $3.50 a. m. and
close at 4:30 p. m. Elevators in these
! buildings will cease to operate at 5
p. m.
Essential Industries are listed as fol-
retail stores, retail bakeries, job print
| ing, office buildings, meat markets,
groceries and milk depots.
| Shoe shining parlors will operate
between a. m. and 6 p. m. on week
! days except Saturday, when the hours
will be from IL a. m. to p. m. They
will reduce their consumption of light
and heat to SO per cent.
Prompted by Public Sentiment.
While the commissioners admit that
only a 'trif1ing conservation will result
from closing dance halls. they took the
action on account of public sentiment
regarding dance halls as especially un-
essential. Few persons, however, real
| ize that light consumption in dance
cent and that scarcely any heat is used
in the halls. Exercise was said to
furnish sufficient heat.
! Commissioners intimated that poo
halls had brought the present actor
upon themselves on account OF eVasfVe
tactics in compliance with the frs
regulations It was declared pool halls
were operating from 8 a. m. to p. m
as retail stores and opening up theil
table at 2 p. m. and continuing tt
operate them until IL p. m. The idee
of a large amount of sentiment agains
! them as being unessential also enters
into the action.
VIII Prosecute All Offenders.
The warning was issued this morn
] ing that hotels and restaurants mus
cease to do retail business. Obtain
ing a meal is neither retail or whole
| sale business-except that in a few
instances it is said to, be wholesale
but selling food supplies to citizens
to carry out and prepare in their owl
homes was considered retailing. Com
rnissioners have heard of number o.
such instances and declared it mus
cease.
Minor violations by smaller storel
and shops are numerous, it was de
clared. Inspectors are watching fol
these and prosecution will follow
Mayor Corwine declared. City Attor
ney Branaman already has twenty o.
more violations to come into court mex
/ Monday