U.S. FREAK LAWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXII, Issue 10039, 16 June 1925, Page 2

U.S. FREAK LAWS.

STILL GOING STRONG

QUEER ACTS OF 1925 SESSIONS.

The day ik the ‘'blue law’ ill America has not vet passed. Restrictive'legislation dealing with subjects ranging from, evolution to the speed with which a donkey may be driven past a cemetery on Sunday lias held its own ip the 1925 sessions of the State legislatures. Reports gathered from all parts of the country show that in approximately half of the instances where “blue laws” were considered, the advocates of restrictive legislation won I,v p. eventing the repeal of existing laws ; passing new laws, or del eating measures designed to liberalise the statutes. , . ■ The result is that if your doctor gives you a liquor prescription 11. Texas 'it’s going to be published for three days, so all your friends ex r. know that you’ve been sick and had to take '“one tablespoonful three times daily.”

And if your wife's hatpin is too long, she’ll he subject to punishment in Massachusetts. And one cannot go fishing on sonday in Pennsylvania. . Ohio’s Legislature still is considering the propriety of driving a donkey past a cemetery faster than six miles an hour. The same Ohio Legislature has passed a law forbidding Sunday dancing at which more tiian five j couples are in attendance. . Tennessee grappled with evolution and passed a. law forbidding its teaching in the public school. The Texas Legislature repealed a law against the sale of gasoline and oil in'certain cit ies on Sunday. iin Nebraska the House passed a law permitting billboard advertising of cigarettes, but its late in the Semite is doubtful. Massachusetts, in addition to refusing to repeal a law limiting the length of hatpins, also refused to permit Sunday baseball and denied jure dut.v to women. Michigan defeated a measure clesinir all stores on Sunday. Tim Alabama Legislature turned down an anti-evolution bill, and one closing amusement places on Sunday. Connecticut rejected a proposal to prohibit any noise in the evening that would interfere with radio reception.