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Show Customs Stronger Than Laws Custom is much more powerful that statute law in the regulation regula-tion of affairs, as will be seen from news dispatches telling how fanatical Moslem elements recently re-cently broke into a motion picture pic-ture show in Syria and attempted to destroy the French Officers' club. What was the cause of the trouble, also emphasized by minor mi-nor disturbances at two other places? Simply a rumor that Mosleum women were seeking complete emancipation and that some had discarded their veils at a dance. |