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Show oo TWO SIDES TO THE SUNDAY BILL The first piiblir- hearing on the proposed legislation relating to Sun-dav Sun-dav closing was held by the judiciary committer of the house yesterday forenoon fore-noon In Salt Lake. fardon house bill No 78 was the chief basis of the discussion, although Sundaj observance and Sunday closing clos-ing in a variety of forms were made subjects incidental to the consideration consider-ation of Mi Cardon bin. At the conclusion of th hearing ( hairmau Henri.- announced that the committee would tak further time to consider the question. The Cardon bill, in addition to prohibiting pro-hibiting the various forms of amusement amuse-ment or diversion already Interdicted by law, prohibits Sunday theaters, baseball games, bicycle races, motor ccle or automobile races, roller skating skat-ing and other pastimes. In other words, the Cardon bill puts the Ud on nn : I Representative Pardon spoke firs. Ho declared that all so-called Sunday legislation was for the benefit of ihe community, In that it provided an opportunity op-portunity of rest. He said Sunday should be observed on high mor;tl ' grounds The state of Indiana, he raid, had strict Sunday closing law., and the were lived up to. Sunda legislation, he declared, was constitutional constitu-tional and he read from decisions of the supreme court of Utah and or the United States in substantiation ol his assertion YV M Healy, an official of the Civ il and Religious Liberty association ol Washington, contended that to stop any form of activity on Sunday which Is permitted on any other day was illegal il-legal He 6ald that a man was entitled enti-tled to just as much rest as he could afford to take and that no state could legislate rest for any man. He declared de-clared that Sunday regulation in the matter of rest was different from Sundav regulations for saloons, for, I he said, saloons have no natural rig'oi9 I while man has. Elder W. M Adams, president of the !seenth-day Adventtst conference of i Utah, declared that Sunday leglsla-i leglsla-i vlon could only be construed as religious reli-gious legislation, which, he said, ms ' manifestly the wrong kind of leglBla-1 leglBla-1 Hon. Jurist Supports Bill. Judge Charles H. Hart of Salt Lako said Sunday leislatlon was enacted for the purpose of enforcing the observance ob-servance of the Christum Sabbath-He Sabbath-He declared that Sunday legislation had been upheld by all the higher, courts and there was no question of Its validity He said it was the desire I of 95 per cent of the people of Utah that Sunday be selected as a day ol rest. Judge Hart assorted that the state could legislate for Sunday rest just as it could legislate for tho re ulatiou of hours persons might work In certain employments He admitted the necessity of some kinds of work on Sunday, such as work necesbar to keep a railroad In operation, drug . stores, livery Btables and Ilk an ties regarded as emergency necessJ- ties. Amusements, however, he said j were not emergency necessities; be-, sides, he :ild. motor cycle, bicycle and automobile raceB and baseball games were noisy and disturbed tho rest of others. Judge Hart in answer to B question ques-tion by Morris of Washington. ' that the Sunday observance in Utah was general and that Sunday was pretty well observed in Salt Lake Bluth for Liberty. T. F Bluth. representing the West cm league for the preservation of Civil llbe-rty and secretary of ihe Pacific Pa-cific liberty association of Ixs An geles, opposed the bill. He said such legislation wonld bo purely rellgiou ' and unconstitutional, in the wordr, oi the fourteenth amendment to the fed eral constitution, the decisions of the courts notwithstanding He conolud , , h saying that Sunday should he-regarded he-regarded Just as any other day is regarded. re-garded. Thomas Hull spoke In favor of the bill Ho said governments had a right to legl&iate for tho greatest good of tho greatest number, and that Sun-day Sun-day closing was demanded by a vast j majority of the people of Utah. T ijvih, manager of the Rex the-st the-st r in Salt Lake, declared that the moving pleturo shows wore a booii to the laboring man on Sunday. 1 he shows he ii,J- fifrorutl good, clean, moral eutertainment. and were iu no sense nolev. He said that the Rex I was patronized by 6000 Interested spectators every Bunday, whose boui amusement for the entire week, fori the larger p3rt, was their relaxation on Sunday- H. A. Sims of OgOSn, manager of a moving picture show In that city. I ! spoke along similar lines. Representative Oldham of Cache closed th hearing with a few words in support of the measure. a |