The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-04-07
SUNDAY BAIL
QUESTION IS
OF INTEREST
Much Talk About the Mat
ter All Over the CITY
at This Time.
SUBMIT THE ORDINANCE
Mothers Club Offers OBJ
ecjtion to the Sunday
Ball Program.

Whether. or not baseball may be
played on Sunday in Fairmont will
depend on how the ordinance to be
submitted to the Board is received as
IT now stands. Yesterday 1t was
drawn up somewhat changed. Some
thing quite new in this city II not in
the entire state may, be pulled oft
when the new city ordinance as it
now stands is presented to the Board
of Affairs for approval at it's next
meeting. The state charter provides
that initiative city legislation may be
provided which means that interested
parties may file a petition submitting
to the Board that they want 9. new
law to be signed by 10 per cent Of the
registe2.d voters >sre. The Board
of Directors Is requird to take action
on the submitted ordinance within a
definite time and if they fail to pass
it as submitted. 1t may be filed. sign
Cd by 15Spre cent OF additional electors
of th#Seity. The Board is required TO
submit the ordinance to vote OF the
electorate of the city.
The petitioners must observe care
fully several provisions Of the law and
appoint five persons to represent them
before the Board of Directors. 1t Is
reported that members Of them Amer
ican Legion and others interested are
going toldo shis at once and il all goes
well baseball may yet be played this
summer in Fairml mt. The changes
desired are more of an addition to the
ordinance than anything else az as
the document: was drawn up yesterday
by attorneys who we're asked to do
the work they comprise second par
dinance which reads that there shall
be no "laboring on Sunday" The
paragraph reads that there shall be
no laboring except that baseball shall
be allowed from one to seven in the
afternon provided the game be con-
Quoted In an orderly manner so as not
10 disturb the city's peace and quiet
A further provision was inserted
which applies to those who live near
the fields in which baseball shall be
played, these persons probably being
the ones which will be most affected.
This provision most thoughtfully in
serted says that waver of objections
shall be required on the part of GER
tain number of residents in the city
who live closest to the locations
where baseball is played.
Mayor Conaway informed the COM
mittee from the American Legion who
are behind the movement for base
ball in the city on Sunday that it
would be unlawful according to the
present ordinance. This in spite of
a petition signed by 5000 persons Of
the city. If the city law is amended
so that referendum vote can be OBJ
tanned the board will not be able to
Withstand the plea from legal stand
point. =
The, Mothers club of this city OBJ
jects seriously to baseball on Sunday
and has presented the following res
olutions:
WHERBAS-There is movement
on foot to have the ordinance prohib-
iting Sunday baseball revised in order
to permit this pastime on the Sabbath
day, and
WHBREAS-We, the members of
the Mothers club Of the Central wom-
ems Christian Temperance Union, re-
gard this as backward step in the
social moral and religious life of our
City, and while we concede to the
Board of Directors Of the City OF Fair
mont, the right to revise an ordinance
we deny that any human being has
the right to attempt to revoke the
command Remember the Sabbath
Day to Keep 1t Holy" Therefore, be
it
RESoLvED-That this club pray
the Board of Directors of the City of
Fatrmont to decline to revise section
6S of Chapter q of the City ordin-
ances and leave it intact, that it may
still prohibit Sunday amusements as
heretofore.