Show PROBLEM OF ga OSING banges A no CAFES 15 E 0 homo home and school leamia adopts resolution As suggested by investigating vesti gating committee to close dance halls at midnight outside doors of cales cafes at 1230 and have all patrons excluded at 1 after midnight is the solution proposed by the committee parents and teachers had appointed to investigate the question and to propose a mode of oe procedure con sistena with the wishes of the par bonts and teachers and at the same time with reasonable interests olf OE I 1 the cafe owners the investigating committee was composed of M C nelson chairman dan baker W L warner jos A jorgensen and peter nelson and the resolution prepared by them reads j j that after due consideration and the ascertainment of public senti ment upon this question as tar far as we could obtain the same by in your committee finds and re commends that all dance halls be closed at 12 sharp p m 1 that the outside doors of all cafes he be closed tight at 1230 p m and no one permitted entrances ent entrance rancel thereafter during the evening andi and that the cafes be closed absolutely and all patrons excluded at 1 a m sharp your committee would not have hesitated to recommend an earlier closing bourl hour had it believed that the same would be practicable and that the interests of the community would be promoted thereby but since tile the younger generation will have and are entitled to a reasonable amount of pleasure and recreation it seemed to your committee that if the same could not be had and enjoyed in our own city that there would be a tendency on the part of such persons to leave the city of an evening and spend their time in adjoining towns where such privileges might be enjoyed and that the result of these trips and excursions would be more expensive more detrimental and cause more anxiety on the part of the parents than it would to have their children at home and irl in the dance halls and cafes up un until 61 the hours herein suggested as the closing time for the same whether or not the closing hours herein suggested should be made applicable to dance nights alonzor alo whether they should apply to all evenings is a question that your committee respectfully desires to leave open to you for your consideration but your committee is of the opinion that it if a uniform regulation be applied to all evenings of the week there would be less likelihood of an om mission or failure to enforce the regulations your committee understands that there is now an ordinance in force in the city of richfield providing tor for an eleven closing hour for cafes but understands that this ordinance has not abden enforced on dance nights and on some other occasions and is of the opinion that it if the ordinance now in force is not applicable to existing conditions that the matter should be taken up with the city council and a recommendation be made that the present law be repealed and 0 one e enacted in lieu thereof that will more nearly conform to existing conditions and then be strictly enforced without fear or favor your committee does not wish to be understood as recommending or standing tor for any regulations that would be in violation of the law the resolution was adopted by the parents and teachers in the meeting of the home and school league held thursday evening in the star pavilion one of the best attended meetings ever held by that organization the large attendance was due to the interest taken by the in a suitable solution of the closing problem and to the other fact that the meeting was pooled with the last number of the high school lyceum course that was scheduled tor for the same evening the course was a lecture by edward S kindley on the good lad bad boys ex cee interesting other pleasing features were two soprano solos by miss thelma park and refreshments and dance provided tor for by the junior high and grade teachers |