Show I I TILE EVIL OF 01 INTOLERANCE NO LEGISLATOR no reformer no zealous moralist will admit that he heIs heIs heis Is Intolerant rant Yet there is Intolerance intolerance ance allce in this country intolerance practiced PI by good and earne earnest t men men and women who sincerely believe that what they think is wrong is because they think so an and who therefore feel called upon to tomake tomake make the rest of the country believe as they dolAn dot dol dotAn dotAn An earnest group in Massachusetts is is trying to pass a law making any Sunday activity Illegal whether it be bo bread selling or checker playing Utah is la jailing men who smoke cigarettes cigarettes cig cig- in public Kansas has long iong had hadan an cigarette anti s selling law aDd and now is discussing whether it isn't a crime even to own a cigarette The New York Assembly is considering a abill abill bill to supervise dancing in hotels and has a civic league which wants legal sanction for tor certain holds in dancing with all aU others made offenses of ot- against the law Kentucky tried to abolish evolution but was saved by some sense common-sense legislators legislators legislators legisla legisla- tors and Texas fai working out the mighty problem of ot whether one one scientific scientific scientific doctrine m may y be ta taught in fn the public school and another excluded A bill has passed the South South Carolina House o of prohibiting the playing g of ot pool poof o or-billiards or at anyplace any ani place at any any time The question of moving picture censorship we have always with us Doubtless all this is harmless enough the blue law makes little headway against the hard commonsense commonsense common common- sense of the United United States Stata as a Ii whole Yet the same spirit of Intolerance Intolerance intolerance erance which declares because one man finds r rolling ivory balls baUs over a agreen agreen agreen green cloth a crime therefore other men should be made to hold the same same- vs vi could easily consider that striking striking ing a white ball baU over a net is a crime or batting a base ball bail over a grass grassl l lot t is a crime The spirit of Intolerance intolerance ance like lake a fire can spread rapidly from small and also like Uke a fire its effects are wholly destructive destructive destructive tive when unconfined It may be wise to remember that th's thIs country was founded because the inhabitants could not stand Intolerance intolerance intolerance ance of those who abroad legislated d for the colonies that certain Pilgrims Pil grime grims carved New England from th the wilderness because they could not stand tand the Intolerance of religious religions s persecution I t. t |