The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-02-04
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BLUE LAWS LOSING.
Legislative Session Marked Only 3,
Bejach's Action.

which follows the storm, especially
so exciting a storm as the hearing on
the blue laws the legislature settled
down into a monotonous grind that
finally wound up in an adjournment
with little accomplished and little to
talk about except the rumors and pre-
dictions that flow on eternally from
the gossipy sidelines.
Chief among these, of course, is the
prediction that the opponents of the
blue laws will launch their final drive
to put the bills to sleep.
1t is certain that the odds are
against the blue laws right now. The
Cooper bill, with it's revolutionary
features which would stop trains as
well as everything else, has aroused
an antipathy that is likely to leave a
bad taste in the legislature for any
sort of blue law legislation, however
mild. The Cooper bill has the rail, as
some of our eminent Memphis lawyers
fondly speak Of police court practice,
and it is certain to be rejected. Such
a rejection may put an end to the en-
tire fight.
KnoXville.-Directors of the Lee
highway association designated the
road from Knoxville through Lenoir
City, LoudCl, Sweetwater, Athens and
Cleveland, known and referred to as
the Sweetwater Valley route, as the
official Lee highway route between
this city and Chattanooga This &C.
ton was taken after full hearing at
the first annual convention of the as
sociation which closed here. The con-
vention, which has been in session a.
the auditorium of the Business Mems |
club came to close following a long |
open hearing on the question of
choosing an official route.
hearing on the pending Sunday OBJ
servance laws, the senate judiciary +
committee recommended for rejection
the so-called Cooper blue laws, which
proposes to stop Sunday trains and
newspapers and deferred action on
NA~ 'AAA "ANl1A CAODlpIo puUlIC uIui-
ties and acts of necessity. The house
committee deferred action. The first
OF the proposed reform measure bills
was knocked out in the senate when
the Tillman bill, which would have
outlawed pool and billiard rooms in
Is to 4.
Memphis.-Petition that receiver
be named and the Memphis Aerial
be adjudged bankrupt was
filed with the clerk of federal court
by A. J. Mitchell and Cecilia Sullivan.
The petition recites that the defend
800, and further charges that it owes (
more than II other parties in Mem. ,
ohis more than $1,000. The petition
vas filed by James Bickers, attorney.
The Memphis Aerial company is 10. ,
ated at the North Memphis Driving 1
lark. 1t was the first organization ]
Il its kind to locate in the south. 7
Nashville. - Sick children being
made to sleep two in a bed in the hos
ital because there is not sufficient
ed clothing to go around Bath
ng facilities limited because of dam +
ged water system, lack of blankets
nd springless beds are among the in 4
against the management Of
ne Tennessee Industrial School made
the joint committee of the general
ssembly which was appointed to in n
estigate the immediate needs of the "
lstitution and which filed in it's re- -
ort with the senate.
Jacksonville board of trustees of
Mon university recently held a meet
g at the home of President H. E.
'atters. The trustees authorized the
'esldent to erect as soon as possible
new building for academy and bust
'ss department of the university. 1t
as pointed out that the advantages
the erection of the new building
III be many and the main one will
that the school will be placed on
e list of accredited schools of the
'uthern Association of Accredited
hools and Colleges.
35th annual confer
ce of financial directors and COM
ssioners of the Christian education
'vement of the Southern Methodist
urch will be held in Memphis to per-
It organizations of the financial de-
rtment of the movement Bishop
mes Cannon, Jr., chairman of the
will preside, and several
Ter bishops win be in attendance