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Show Councilman Wells, who ecclesiastically is one of the first seven presidents of seventies of the Mormon church, wore a look of pained resignation when he was forced to sorrowfully lay away his resolution for the closing of the Sunday theatres. It appears that the enforcement of its terms was to be contingent upon the county commissioners agreeing to close the summer resorts within this county on Sundays, which was one part of it to which Councilman Hobday and others objected. It happened to occur to certain people that Salt-air, Salt-air, in which the church of which Mr. Wells is a stalwart member is interested, is not within the county limits, and if nearer resorts were closed, Sunday excursionists would naturally make their Sunday journeys toward the beach. That may of course not have been Mr. Wells' motive in introducing in-troducing the resolution, but in any event the council was quite right in rejecting it. There is no more occasion for closing the resorts than for closing the theatres, and there is precious little common sense in attempting to do either. Such efforts work in the same way as other attempts at prohibition, they are antiquated and obsolete, and always fall to serve the real purpose for which they are enacted. The public yearns for a little rest on this pious Sunday theatre and resort closing business. g |