Judge — March 15, 1930 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Law Enforcement j aye . : of same by | + the prohibition hearings in ; Washington, Channing Pollock told of an edict in Florence the fifteenth century which forbade women to wear jewelry or other orna passed t the Se ate, We are paying 3 cenaries. Even that many was not enough and the effort was abandoned We haven't heard whether the mili dates should ermment used twelve thousand mer I Ne iny of the following lews discovered — X6yy by Jopce readers: © It is illegal to smoke in the stecets ayers > girl at W of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. clothing man, And. of course, t © In Kentucky it is a crime to sleep on the floor of the State House. m so show that the aver: ethan twice as much | © In Maine it is illegal to whistle on “amusement.” Sunday. sion of what it ¢ © In Michigan all children before yraduating from the eighth grade are — for what little fun h required to write from y the pitt Panther savs first’ verse of the i Banner. between an ayy He feels that when the G A Kansas law prohibits any public exhibition of snake cating. side him smiles and allow he th average lege student (male) looks like a cross termined by multiplying the diameter 1 The bill: actually House but was killed in 5.00 for this. tents, To enforce this law the gov The «College Man’s Burden us we did recently, that Duteh treat, we asked what the girls do with all the money they save by not tin has ever been called out to enforce yaying their share, We had a bunch come statistics on student: ex- penditures, gathered by the Wisconsin Daily Cardinal, which show that the consin spends f 54.60 more than the aver- figures ver- Toon what is classified as * As further bearing on this disens- and a bull moose ring graceful creature who snuggles up be- him to very disturb ent heard a word | place his bony arm about her, all the H € In Ohio it is forbidden to rid cold cash he has spent and all the | jackass more than six iiles an hour. seep he has missed is but a mere at- | ne ae a tempt at repayment. Dutch treats for ; © The Tennessee statute providing the Duteh—but we want to feel | punishnent for mayhem makes an ex- we had some excuse for existin | ception of * person who may, in ‘These ions of a sense of in personal ¢ . bite off the F thumb of his adversary.” So far w | on the feminine side of the subject. | The names of the readers who sent in these laws appear on page 31. Here's one that didn't quit the books: S of the Indi: Legislature heard that New York of Richard | to find the circumference of a circle — mess’ 1 to multiply the diameter by — said in That looked pretty difficult to the m, so he introduced a bill providing “GREAT that “in the St of Indi: the cir- SHOWN! cumference of all circles shall be de- Times critic said, “Plods get on 13 Truth in Advertising member Tue morning after the opening in Barthel- its y picture, the advertisements hey CAME and declared it the DRAMA EVE The same morning the iy weary way through banal episodes’; the World eritie said, “Only mildly di verting, collapsing at the close inte a sentimental mess,” and the Herald Tribun Justa fair magazine story translated into screen: terms.” Who, then, were “they” who declared it the ereatest drama of all time? The inei nt makes a geod case for the in pendence of the erities. But what has become of the vaunted “truth in adverti Costly Courtesy to off th “er expect me r hats in clev tors. ites have shown that in the ele ors of office buildings in Chi hat-dotling wastes $25,000 Wi Because for every are holding their hats in their hands instead of on their heads. one less passenger can Ix crowded into the elevator. Therefore more trips have to be made, with more wea Well, we never saw much sense, anyway, in the idea that men should remove their hats in elevators. But this economic determinism is going far. Pack ‘em in!) Hurry! ‘Tim costs money. Space costs money. Courtesy is bunk. Man or woman, gentleman or boor, they're all the same to that heavy-handed b: the Spirit of the City. nd tear and use of power! * 8 * R reesty this page told how De Horace Day was fired from Howard College beeause he did not endorse the Biblical stories of Jonah and Noah, We are now chided by Mr. C. M. Brown of California thus: “Tt seems rather unfortun: did not say that Stanford Un immediately offered Dr. a professorship which was accepted. You should have given credit to Stan ford.” We should have ed, but we didn’t know about it, and we now gladly complete the record. ROW, comicbooks.com