Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1920-12-17
BLUE LAWS OF
DRASTIC. SORT
REFORMERS (?) PROPOSE TO
MAKE THE OLD BLUE LAWS
OF NEW ENGLAND LOOK LIKE
A PERFORATED MEX. NICKEL

Fines ranging from 500 to $10,.
600 and six months imprisonment
arc provided the most drastic Sun
day observance act ever drafted in
America, which the Associated Re-
form organizations will seek to have
congress pass. =.
Corporations guilty of making their
employees work on Sunday or of viO-
lat,ng the law in other ways would be
subject to a fine Of not less than
$1,000 nor more than $4,000; if found
guilty second time, their charters
would be forfeited and they would be
prohibited forever after from operat-
ing.
The main features Of the bill as
drafted are as follows:
"First, hereafter, it shall be unlaw-
full for any person in the employment
Of the United States to work or carry
on his ordinary vocation on Sunday"
This would make it impossible for
senators and representatives or their
secretaries to attend to any of the
duties of their offices a Sunday and
would apply equally to all other gov
eminent officials, many of whom now
find it convenient to spend several
hours at their offices on Sundays in
order "to catch up"
"Second, it shall be unlawful for
any person or corporation to operate
on Sunday any freight or passenger
train or mail train or any other train
or part of train in the carrying on
IF interstate commerce. trade or traf-
fic Of any kind"
Trains Would Stop.
Such provision would bring all rail-
road traffic to complete standstill
on Sundays, no matter IL the presi-
dent of the United States himself
found it necessary TO travel. 1t is
aimed particularly to stop Sunday cx-
cursions.
"Third, it shall be unlawful for any
postofficc to be open on Sunday or to
deliver mail on Sunday, it shall he un-
lawful for any mail to be carried on
Sunday by any employc of the United
States whether in city or country.
Fourth, it shall be unlawful for
any newspaper or other paper or pub
lication rLblihed or purporting to be
published on Sunday to BE- received
carried or delivered as mail to any
agency of the United States, in any
pOstofficc or over route under the
jurisdiction of the United States"
ict. - .,
Monday morning Taper, all the labor
in the preparation of which is ncces.
sari'y performed on Sunday.
Tho fifth section of the bill provide.
for fines and other Iera.tics for vio.
lation of the act.
No SpUn s"r Fvund.
Up TO the rrc"ent time no membc,
of congress has, been found willing t.
sponsor such measure or undertake
to pilot it through tira two houses OF
c0ngre.s.
Representative Randall of Caiifor.
mia, the prohibition member of the
house, who achieved responsibility fol
the war time prohibition law, declared
today he would have nothing to dc
with the proposed blue" Sunday act
He said that the advocates of such ;
law were too dra tic.
The general details of the proposed
Sunday law movement are to be fully
worked out at conference which ha.
been called to meet here December 8
In addition to the Sunday Obscr
vance act, it is possible there may bt
proposed measures to enforce stric
Sunday observance in the District O
Columbia, constitutional amendment
for uniform marriage and divOrc,
bill, bill prohibiting race hors,
gambling by stopping the transmits
sion of race results. and a bill to ex
tend the Iowa red light abatement ac
to all the states of the union.
Tuberculosis fights from ambush
Buy tuberculosis Christmas Seals an,
drive il into the omen,