The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-02-17
Sunday Movies

lower House of the State Legisla-
ture, 'phoned Senator Kenneth D.
Mclaughlin in Annapolis on Mon
day night, and l am now able to re-
port to you the correct facts, which
are as follows:
Senator Mclaughlin finds himself
unable to support the Sunday Movie
Bill in its present form, which as
you know authorizes Sunday movies
in Hagerstown only, between the
hours of 100 p. m. and 800 p. m.
and between the. hours of 900 p. m.
and midnight, subject to a Refer
endum at the City election on March
%, but he would support a Bill that
would authorize Sunday movies
throughout the county, subject to a
Referendum at the 1850 general
election.
Mr.. Mclaughlin told me that just
as l 'phoned him he was leaving for
a conference with Mr. Ankeney,
chairman of the House Delegation,
and that at that conference he was
going to propose that the Bill be
amended to make it countrywide
and subject to Referendum in 1850.
If the County Delegation agrees to
this amendment, Mr. Mclaughlin
said he would make the necessary
amendments in the Bill and return
it to the House for their approval.
But he added that if the County
Delegation did not agree to the
amendment, then he would have to
let the Bill die in the Senate.
then asked Mr.. Mclaughlin
about the rumor that he was going
to introduce a Bill of his own which
would kill all the old Blue Laws in
their entirety, or revive all the old
Blue Laws in their entirety, subject
to a countrywide Referendum in
1880 Mr.. Mclaughlin assured me
that he never has had, or has, any
intention of introducing such a Bill
in the Senate.
This then very definitely clears up
all the rumors on the Sunday Movie
Bill, which it can now be plainly
stated, will not appear on the City
ballot next month.
Personally I want to congratulate
Con otOY Mol o110I,1i,, -, +I,o ctox,l IL
has taken 1t must not be forgotten
that at that public meeting held
some weeks ago at the Court House,
Senator Mclaughlin made the plain
statement that the meeting was call
ed to get the opinion of the citizens
of HagerstoWn and that he had no
Bill prepared, or had not made UP
his mind as to what type Bill should
be prepared. And you will also re-
member that whether Or not the
meeting was packed" as some
claim it was, that meeting was over
whelmingly against Sunday movies
unless it was placed on county
wide basis
1t would seem to me, therefore,
that Mr.. Mclaughlin has carried out
his duty as representative of the
people, not only of the people of
HagerStown but of Washington
County as whole, by insisting that
this question of Sunday movies
should be decided by the entire
electorate of the county and not
just confined to the Corporate linn
its of Hagerstown.
The annual Lincoln Day BANQUET
of the Republican party of Wash
ington County on Monday night was
attended by more than 500, who
heard an address by Congressman
John Jennings, Jr., of Tennessee.
| regret that due to siege of
sickness which has kept me under
the weather for the past five DAYS.
| was unable to attend the BANQUET
or the reception which followed, SO
| am unable to report what took
place. l understand, however, from
those who were present, that Con-
gresham Jennings, who has been a
Republican Congressman for many
years from the rock-ribbed Demo-
cratic state of Tennessee, made a
very fine address in which he ex-
horted the Republican party to bring
the young people into the fold -
young people who when the New
Deal started were just in the first
grades of school
/ also understand that all the Re
publican candidates for the City
election were introduced.
At the last session of the State
Legislature, Senator Mclaughlin in
troduced and had passed in the Sem
ate Bill that would have made it
mandatory for the Governor to ap-
point someone from the same po-