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Show VERBOTEN Before, and during the World war, we heard much of the doc- i trine of "verboten" under which the German people lived, and doubtless many got the impression which was of course false that practically everything was "verboten" or forbidden, either by law or police regulation. It is certain, however, that the people were subject to a regimentation which we had been taught to believe was and which was inconsistent with liberty as we understood it. Yet today our laws are mostly certainly very largely inhibitions. inhibi-tions. The aim of legislators sems to be to tell the people what they may not or must not do. We are subject to all sorts of regulation at the hands of government, state or national. Always there must be a statute. If the Constitution stand? in the way we at once start a campaign cam-paign to amend the Constitution to increase the power of government govern-ment to regulate, control, and forbid. We seem to have taken for our model Peter' the Great, who used to regulate the length of men's beards, and whose "care" for his people was both "infinite and infinitesimal." in-finitesimal." Indianapolis News. |