The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-06
Stray Topics From
 Little Old NeW York


 New York. June b.--The spasmodie
 attempts of the city authorities to en-
 force the Sunday laws forced upon
 New York kby the puritanical farmer
 clements In the State legislature, in-
 variabiy leads to situations not only
 ludicrous in the eyes of the world, but
 humiliating and demoralizing In their
 effect upon the public. The police de-
 partment Is placed in 2 rather dffacult
 and embarrassing position. These laws are. undoubtedly. upon the statue book
 and. for that reason alone. 1t behooves
 the authorities to enforce khem There Is also a constant clsmor of the church element and the various temperance
 and prohibition organizatipns for q
 strict enforcement of these laws.
 But. on the other hand, the popular demand for amusement on the accept
 ei day of rest Is so great and the number of those willing to cater to the wishes of the hundreds of thousands of pleasure seekers, even at consider able risk. is so great that a sweeping enforcement of the Sunday laws is
 absolutely out of the question, It would require a good sized army of policemen to do this,
 Every once in while the police de- partment swoops down upon few of the offenders and in few sporadic cases succeeds in procuring conviction and punishment. But all these cases are insignifcant considering the en-
 ormous number of cases in which the Sunday laws are violated more or less openly every Sunday. The situation Is absured and would be untenable any where else, But in New York the | same farce has been kept up for many years, ever since the blue laws" were
 passed and no feasible plan to remedy
 the absurdity of the situation has been offered.
 Emma Goldman. and the other apos- ties of anarchism find it rather dim cult work to disseminate the teach ings and dogmas of their destructive creed. Tn Paterson and few other of their strongholds in New Jersey the propagandists of anarchism can do ae | they please; they may even lecture up- | on the best methods of making bombs: but there is little to be gained by such 1 lectures. where nearly every man in | the audience is an anarchist or svm- pathizer with anarchism. The pro- pagandists have to seek other fields | to make converts and that is where the | trouble begins. A meeting In New York before which Emma Goldman tried to deliver one of her character istic lectures was rudeiy broken up by the ''minions of the law" The audi | SHCcs uisdppuiubeo bhS tEiR0 VI ~ riot by this intervention of the police was dismissed with the assurance that the lecture would be given In Orange at a later date. But 1t seems. that the admirers of Emma will have no chance to make use of their rain- checks. as the authorities of Orange have announced they would not per,
 init such a meeting to be held
 The auahffi0ua arh00lhnya dahhlinQ
 fin wireless to the discomhture of
 the surenough wireless operators in
 the service of the commercial compa- nies. have come in for much criticism
 recently for "hutting in" where they
 have no business to meddie. Now these boys have an opportunity to do
 a little growing. One of them, boy
 of fifteen. proved the other day that
 even meddlesome amature boy wire
 less operators may be useful under
 certain conditions. The regular opera
 tor on the Mallory line steamer Mueoes
 became sick in Tampa and had 1t not
 been for boy belonging to the fra
 ternity of the amateur wireless opera