Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-01-21

fined sum not less than Twenty
nor more than Fifty Dollars, in
the discretion of the court" (Ther
follows a pyramiding of punish
ments for further violations, in.
GLIDING taking away of licenses, il
any, and Imprisonment. Fines
under this section go to the State)
This section is not to apply to
apothecaries and such apotheearies
may sell on Sunday drugs, medi.
cines and patent medicines as or
week days; and this section does
not apply to the sales of newspa-
pers and periodicals.
Apparently there are no except.
ions to Section GOA as it now
stands.
Section Cos, Article 81 reads
''It shall not be lawful to keer
open or use any dancing saloon
opera house, tenpin alley, barber
saloon or ball alley within this
State on the Sabbath day common
ly called Sunday; and any person
or persons, or body polite or cor,
poratee who shall violate any pro.
vision of this section or cause OF
knowingly permit the same to BE-
violated by a person or persons ii
his, her or its employ shall be Ii
able to Indictment in any coure Of
this State having criminal juris.
diction and upon conviction thereof
shall be fined not less thar
Fifty Dollars, nor more than One
Hundred Dollars" ETC., and agar
pyramiding Of fines for convict.
ions.
The exceptions, so far as Mont
gomery County is concerned, tt
this section are:
Sections $50 through 594 of Ar.
ticle 81 specifically allow the fol
lowing in Montgomery County
Movies (after 2 p.m.,) football
baseball, softball, golf, tennis, GRO
quet, basketball, lacrosse, soccer
and hockey, between the hours Of
2 and 6 pm; bowling, dancing
pool or billiards and apparent.
ly you can hire hall for cards
or dancing until 1:30 am. Sunday
swimming pools-not within 10(
yards of a permanent church edi
flee wheer religious services are
being held; amusement parks with
stationary devices may be operat
ed April to September, except be,
tween 1870 am. and 1 pm. on Sun
day; bowling, tenpin and duckpir
alleys within the 9Th precinct o.
the 18th election district, and il
the first and 4th precincts of tn,
7th election district, except from
midnight Saturday to l pm. Sun
day. Included in these provision
are allowances for the hiring O.
officials and employees (umpires
managers, pinboys, ticketseller
and takers, lifeguards, etc. TO
the above activities, and Section
500 gives the bitter fruit of viola
tions of the above.
HOw's Your Swimming?
You will find that you can ap
parently swim in a pool any tim
on Sunday ESQ long as it ism
within a church where services ar
going on)-but you have to wal
until 2 o'clock to do such othe
things, as playing tennis!
Legally, if you want to eat Oh
Sunday, you should go back to tn
days when the strictly Orthodo,
Jewish families did their cookin,
on the day before their Sabbath
:. the food you eat may we'll b
cold, latter all you are not per
mitted to do, nor can you permi
your servant to do "work"O sine
it isn't a real necessity to. hav
hot food on Sunday in most homes
Where there is illness, necessit.
could be proven.
Is Sunday the only day you cal
look at that house you want t.
buy or that new Cor used
car? Too bad legally, no on
is supposed to IDEAL in" anything
let alone sell you something (othe
than the excepions) on that day.
If you decide to paint the hous
or fix up the recreation room o.
Sunday, and find you've run shor
of an item you might get at tn
hardware store. The trouble is
you're not supposed to be working
that day, and the hardware stor
should not, legally, be open to sci
you what you need.
Present-day drugstores may sci
their medicines, ice cream, news
papers, and periodicals, and fey
other items by law. However, leg
ally, they may not sell cosmetics
an extension cord, disposable dia
pers, a toy, an electric iron, o
school supplies or any of 10O
other items they carry on thei
shelves.
If the law is carried agains
one violator, it must be carried
out against all. Baltimore polio,
who successfully resisted a manda
mus action to compel them to en-
force the Sunday laws, using as ;
defense the fact that they coulC
not get a Grand Jury to return
indictments Graham v. Gather
140 Md. 1907.