Pueblo chieftain., 1921-09-18
rs CHARGED WITH MURDER BY GRAND Jury
The Spot Light

According to piece of alleged
poetry used to speak in school Free.
dom shrieked when Kosciuszko fell.
/ don't remember now just who this
Ketc. was, or when Or how he fell.
from a horse, airplane or roller
skates, on banana peel or the field
of battle. But the main point is that
he fell, and that Freedom shrieked
is fairly established as a historical
fact.
Such being the case, comma, Old
Lady Freedom had another shrek
crming-and this one of jubilation-
when an Oklahoma court decided the
other. day that man has right to
eat dinner in his shirt sleeves. that
is, to be more accurate, without
coat.
II seems that member of the cor
poration commission of that state was
travelling incognito. as great men
often Dc, and was refused admission
to a dining room at railway eating
station because he was not wearing .
coat. Unlike the ordinary traveller
Who does what he is told and eats
what be can get when away from
home, or expresses his resentment in
useless kicking, the corporation COM
missioner took his grievance TO the
commission and obtained an Official
order that coatiess gentlemen hence
forward shall he admitted to railroad
.sting rooms. And any one who
Knows what kind of summer weather
thev have in Oklahoma will say that
the commission is right.
All Of which is interesting in con-
ree.ion With the wider discussion OF
rnblie manner. and morals that Is
prevalent at the present time. 40
eordinr n one opinion the world h"
lost all sen,e Of prcpristy. modcsty
is. lost art. civilization is. degenerst-
ing. and the net result Of prohibition
!. merelvfto turn thru traffic TO per
dit,ou into ,lctour.
Another theory is that sn these
things are the result cf the world var
The coatless diner in Oklahoma un-
consciously voices hi. protest against
the requirements Of military uni
form. Shor, skirts and low waists
are said to be common fashions fol-
,or-;r, rrest wars on account of the
scarcity Of marriaScable young men.
ANYTHING YOU cannot explain by the
immortality of war and its prac.sces,
NAV be explained bv the reaction
from, military discipline. Half the
folks have gotten into the habit of
being wicked. and the other half arc
sick and tired of being good all the
time.
All Of which would appear to carry
a great moral lesson # We only knew
wha. 1t was. For one thing. II seems
pretty clear that there isn't the dis
tinct,on between morals and customs
that some people secem TO think there
il. There are customs that involve
no moral quality, and there are mat
,ers of personal and piblic morality
,hs. involve virtue or vice, and arc of
the hirhes, importance to human we'll
being. But along the dividing line,
in matters Of dress, and language,
and social actions, things seem to
be all mixed M.
There arc fashionable things that
are decidedly immoral. and there arc
moral things that are cmIncuty un-
fashionable, md there arc other
things that are commonly held to he
immoral that are no more than un-
usunl according TO the customs OF =
particular place or time. VIC can
easily imagine that II would he much
easier to enforce cos WEARING IN
North Dakota than in Oklahoma.
Here in Pueblo the disposition
seems TO he TO let people do about
ss .hev please. Costumes that would
have caused riot few wears ago,
and landed the wcsrer in Jail arc
seen every dsv in the streets, and
cause no comment. And SO far az
can sec. there hasn't been any great
increase of immortality because of tho
changes of fashion or custom.
The main idea being thai morality
Is the result of human experience
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