European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Those Blue Law blues by Jim Doyle Nana staff writer the last two sundays in july were Happy ones for Earl b. Dougherty Justice of the peace in Bucks county a. He spent them merrily handing  to such peo ple As radio announcers Plant guards sum Mer theater employees including actress Peggy Cassand druggists whom he caught working on sunday. They were All violating Blue Laws dating Back to 1794.the enterprising Justice bagged 225, including the reporters and photographer who trailed him like the Tail of a Comet in his travels through Bristol township. Since Dougherty pocketed the $9 i court costs that went with every $4 Fine he was accused in some quarters of having an ignoble motive for his burst of Zeal. He protested that nothing could be further from the truth the Laws should either be enforced or repealed he said and hews merely trying to dramatize How completely they were being  nation laughed at Dougherty s an tics but few of us could really afford to do so. Practically every state in the Union has at least one Blue Law and Man towns and other local governments have some that Are practically  general As in Pennsylvania they for bid All sunday activity particularly gain Ful employment not occasioned by Relig ious worship or works of mercy or  Stem from the biblical injunction to keep holy the Sabbath and Many of them Date Back to our Puritan beginnings. They often appear ridiculous by modern standards they Are widely ignored they Are a continuing Thorn in the flesh to la enforcement agencies and they Are practically never repealed. Attempts to circumvent them have produced some of the silliest situations and some of the most tortured Legal distinctions in history. In Louisiana it is illegal to sell intoxicants on sunday. You can buy Beer though thanks to the Louisiana supreme court which solemnly ruled in 1956 that Beer is not an intoxicating  month 16 gift shops in the Massachusetts towns of Yarmouth and Dennis distressed when a sudden crackdown deprived them of lucrative sunday profits took out licenses to sell Candy a permitted sunday activity gift sales Are not the next sunday they did a thriving business in v Taffy kisses at. Prices ranging from a few gents to $50, giving away ashtrays hooked rugs and costlier items with each Purchase. Last May Anthony Aliprantis wag "090 14 $5 for washing some clothes in a Newyork. Gity laundromat on sunday. The owner of the establishment also prosecuted was acquitted presumably on the theory that he was performing a work of necessity. Needful. For the Good order health or Comfort of the Community which the Law permits. Aliprantis on the other hand was simply furthering his individual health and Comfort. His conviction was reversed after assistant District attorney Harold r. Shapiro filed a Tongue in Cheek Brief on Appeal conceding among other things that cleanliness was next to godliness a legislative review of Massachusett Blue Laws was recommended by attorney general George Feingold in 1953. He said he was being nailed to the Mast for enforcing the 251-year-old statutes. They re still on the books. Feingold did not like the Laws and did not like enforcing them. Many other officials feel the same Way. But they face an unpleasant Choice that of enforcing and being nailed to the Mast or not enforcing and laying themselves open to charges of violating their oaths of , Many Are Blinder than jus Tice itself when sunday Rolls around. In Many cases attempts to repeal  our sunday Laws Are met with storms of protest from some religious organizations lout not All of those who staunchly advocate gloomy sunday do soon religious grounds. The Norfolk va., retail merchants association wants Virginia s 1799 Laws enforced to prevent cutthroat  labor unions Welcome the fact that their members cannot be required to Workon sunday while Dougherty was cleaning up in Bucks county pa., Auto dealers an others who disliked sunday Competition were urging the legislature to beef up the Laws and increase the fines from $4 to $100. Court tests by commercial organizations Are under Way in Pennsylvania Indiana and Ohio. Justice of the peace Dougherty May yet achieve his announced aim. His sunday activities these Days Are curbed pending court test by a restraining order obtained by one of his victims. He can console himself with the thought Hajt at least he did t suffer the Fate of a Pennsylvania private Eye who one Sun Day several pars ago Fol a summons ferreting out Blue Law violators. The stars and stapes conducted by John Neumyer now the tourist can take his own photographs of the Monalisa the Venus de Milo and the other great Art treasures i museums of France without hesitation. An official ruling of the commissariat general a tourism states that henceforth no per Mission is necessary for any photograph taken with ii St Tuple hand camera in any National museum anywhere in the country. The regulation thus allows travellers to bring Home their own reproductions of famous works of Art. As Well As photographs of themselves viewing the great masterpieces. To there. Is never any charge for taking photographs with a hand  to be taken with a camera mounted on a tripod Are also allowed but prior permission must be obtained from the museum concerned and a modest fee paid. Although Flash photos Are not authorized time exposures make picture taking easy. Fall will bring to travellers in France this year a full complement of wine Harvest festivals to see and enjoy not the least Welcome aspect of which is the number of fountains which literally flow with wine. The most outstanding Harvest where the wine May a enjoyed fro the Fountain is at Dijon sept. 14-15, to the accompaniment of music and dancing. The re Are Harvest festivals both scheduled and  in every part of France which produces wine which Means All regions of the country with the exception of the North. Even parishes its own Vineyard in Montmartre where after the grapes Are harvested the exact Date not predictable due to the vagaries of weather there is music and Celebration As vibrant As those in the Rural areas. Some of the scheduled festivals Paui Lac medic Bordeau area the second half of september at Beau gency Loire Valley oct. 17 and 18 at units Saint Georges Beaune and Meu Sault Bur Gundy nov. 15 to 17.-._r Oyan the town on France s Atlantic coast which has been officially designated As the sister City of new Jersey s Atlantic City has joined the ranks of those French communities whose modernchurch6s Are Art in themselves. The newly inaugurated Nutre Dame de Royan designed by Guillaume Gillot architect of the French Pavilion at the Brussels fair has giant Spires which resemble masts,1 a fitting adjunct to the sea town. A new ruling issued by the Swiss postal administration permit collect Telephone Calls to be made from anywhere in Switzerland to any Point in the . The Swiss authority reminded american visitors calling Home that there is a five hour difference in time in summer Between Switzer land and the . The first Swiss Art and antique fair will be held at the Bellevue Palace hotel Berne Switzerland from oct. 9-19.the leading Art and antique firms of Switzerland will be represented at the exhibition. Styles from gothic to Napoleon Iii will be shown. Among the rare items on display and for Sale will be paint Ings of master european artists furniture rugs silverware jewelry porcelain tin and Copper utensils and other unique household furn  to Jost Schmid director of the hotel arrangements can be made to ship purchases anywhere in the world. 3 a new Mot hotel has been opened recently by the touring club of Switzerland at Ragaz spa northeastern Switzerland. The so called Castle of Ragaz has been transformed into a hotel and 16motel bungalows situated in a Park have been added the Mot hotel also boasts a camping site. 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