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passed their laws there was consider.
able speculation as to whether they
would be content with that achieve.
ment or, having the whip-hand, &c
to still greater lengths. The ques.
ton was answered almost immediate.
ly. The reformers barely had caught
their breath from the battle they had
won when they we're up and at it
again harder than ever. The public
at large is now fairly well convinced
that the fanatics recognize no limit
in their business of regulating the
private lives of others. Their acti-
vities are numerous and varied as
may be seen from recent happenings:
A bill passed the house of repre-
sentatives in South Carolina prohibit
ting the playing of pool or billiards
anywhere within the state.
The New York assembly is consid-
ering a bill to supervise dancing,
while a Civic league wants dance
holds standardized.
Three prominent business men
were arrested in Salt Lake City for
smoking cigarettes in public.
Kansas is considering passing a law
to make 1t a crime to own a cigarette
One house of the Oklahoma assem-
bly, passed a bill prohibiting the
mention of evolution in state text
books.
The Seventeenth Wyoming legis-
lature voted down a boxing bill.
In Massachusetts, an organization
is fighting to stop the sale of bread
and the playing of checkers on Sun
day.
Attorney General Dougherty is
about to fix the amount of "kick"
which may be allowed to accumulate
in cider. Any farmer caught with
cider which has fermented longer
than allowed by law is a criminal and
subject to a fine and Imprisonment.
Greybull has abolished punch
boards.
AS for the book and picture cen
sors it would be wearisome to attempt
to enumerate their absurd rulings.
1t would appear that even news-
papers that have favored prohibition
are growing a little weary of reform
ers and the unfit stuff.
The Chicago Tribune heads an
editorial dealing with this subject,
"Looney Legislatures" and suggests
that what we need is a bill to amend
human nature.
The Washington Post, under the
headline, "Bigotry Rampant, has
this to say of present conditions:
1t seems that observation-disclosures,
political and all other varieties-is
becoming more and o obtrusive
and intrusive. Bigotry has always
played the tyrant whenever it had
the power, but lately it has taken on
new activity.
There is no limit that bigotry re-
cognizes-when it is on a rampage.
Those without knowledge of certain
subjects do not hesitate to proclaim
the opinions of experts as wholly
unture. Those who hold to literal
construction of the Bible do not hest
tate to condemn scientists who cham
pion scientific truths that seem to
conflict with biblical stories.
In politics bigotry shows inclina-
ton toward equally violent autocracy.
Let one of the opposition advance a
proposition, and instantly bigoted
partisans pronounce it unsound-not
because it Analyses unsatisfactory,
but simply because II is fathered by
one in the opposing camp.
So the story of bigotry runs 1t
has already been permitted to run too
long. 1t is high time that the toler-
ance of which the nation boasts
should assert itself against the In
creasing rancor of bigotry.
Then, last week, Neighbor Reyn
Leedom, whom we take to be a mild
hammered man with a temper well