HIGH HEELS
They M^ke Some Noise
In a Massachusetts
Committee Room.
Boston.—Hoots and jeers, catcalls
and laughter filled the air when the
legislative committee on public health
opened a hearing today on the Massa
chusetts Osteopathic Soeietjrs bill to
prohibit the manufacture or wearing
of high-hetlcd shoes in Massachusetts.
The committee room was crowded to j
capacity, and.threats that*the heating |
would fee stopped were made when' the
crowd laughed and hooted the pro
posed legislation. The crowd roared
with laughter and eren members of
the committee smiled broadly when Jo
seph Smith, of Boston, speaking in op
position, began bis argument against
the high heels bill, and incidentally
other forms of legislation designed to
curb personal liberty.^
“It used to be said that Brazil was
the country the nuts came from, but
after watchiDg Boston for years,1’
Smith said, “I am persuaded that this
State house is the place they come to.
Year in and yssan oss the legislative
calendar is eongested'With sillv bills by
silly Billies, and there appears to be a
taania iaeAtruerica for meddling with
the people’s business. An incessant
badgering of tinfe peaceful citizen, a
constant effort tomtake him more be
wildered and bug-house. The busy
body, having no business of his own,
butts into the business of everybody
“Irs Utah yo&*ca,r. lw*e all the wiyes
and dope-you crave, but smoke cigarets
at your peril. Down South vou must
change your residence to change your
breath. Up in New Hampshire they
want to lengthea*bedsheets and skirts
and shorten the hours of labors Every
State has a sneak and smell society,
which is designed to measure our
morals and meter our breath We save
daylight and waste time. We penalize
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I pleasure and condemn comfort. We
are held down by law and held up bv
the saints. And the nuts are emulous
to reform and regulate what man eats
and wears. Fifty thousand new laws
are added to our codes every year. No
man knows whether be is a criminal or
a law-abiding citizen. Some want to
revive the blue laws, i Others wish to
enact black and blue laws. Ignorance
of human nature is no bar to legisla
tion, and ignorance of legislation is no
bar to punishment, and so-we are be
tween the devil and the leep sea. The
nuts now try to gag free men and
strangle freedom. They make legisla
tures ridiculous and the State a laugh
ing stock. Ridicule is as hard to suffer
as oppression. Now come the osteo
paths to regulate the heels of women
and the health of the sex. Only the
other day the profession was outside
the law. The laying on of hands was
legalised, and now we are to have the
laying on of heels. We arc to have an
army of saiot9 and scientists to measure
the heels and manipulate the ankles of
ladies on our streets. But they stop
there in their passion for uplifting.
The idea that high heels are imurtous
to feet and ruinous to health is based
apparently on tbe same brand of misin
formation which imagines that pianos
are tuned by polishing piano legs aod
thirst is cured by abolishing drink. An
ability to knead flesh, rub pones and
puli legs is not a proof that Achilles
wore high heels and thereby expedited
his funeral orgies.
“Moreover, the bill meddles with the
business-of ths most important indus
try in New England, the shoe tratie*
iniures its name, seeks to- restrict its
activities and add its employes to the
big army of idle. Is-it not time to put
a crimp in the pestilent activities of
our pseudo-reformers and refer them
and their measures to the alienist and !
uuc asTiuui. v>ui uatns aic iu tuc" wan.
Good liquor is banished: tobacco is to
tabooed:, nature curses us with catarrh
and the law forbids us to spit. We are
reformed, Dplifted and protected to
death. Now the shoe industry is at
tacked under false pretenses. The un
derpinning of the sex is threatened and
tbe feminine scenery of Tremont street
is menaced. We have all tbe reform
we can stand and more than we can di
gest. This bill should be thrown out
and the osteopaths and other meddlers
made to understand that Massachusetts
is not Prussia. Save us from the saints
and the quacks.,r
Notice of Forfeiture.
To Fred Willison, S. V. Pasno, their
heirs, executors and assigns:
You, and each of you, your heirs and
assigns are hereby notified that during
the years 1909. 1910. 1911, 1912, 1913,
1914, 1915, 1910, 1920, I have performed
labor of the value of one hundred dol
lars ($100.00) yearly upon placer mining
claim Happy Three Association, situ
ated on Yankee creek, a tributary of
the Inoka river, Inoka mining and re
cording precinct, Alaska Territory,, in
order te hold said claim under the
provisions of Section 2324- of the Re
vised Statutes of the United States of
America and the amendments thereto
concerning annual labor upon mining
claims, for the period ending December
31st, 1920.
And if within ninety days after the
publication of this notice you fail or
refnse to contribute your proportion of
the said expenditures as co-owners, as
well as the costs of recording, and the
further costs of this advertisement,
your interests in said claim will beeecae
the property of the undersigned1, your
co-owner, who has made the necessary
expenditures, under the terms of said
section of the Revised Statutes of the
United States. William Goss.
Date of first publication, Mar. 2. 1921.
Date of last publication, June 8, 1921.
Harding Declines to
Act as Mediator in
Reparations Matter
Washington,. April 27.—Germany's
request that President Harding act as
mediator between Germany and the
Allies, in the question of reparations,
has been declined,, after careful con
sideration by the President and his
Cabinet.
Regular Battle In Dublin Hotel.
Dublin, April 22:—A fierce battle
raged in the Northwestern Hotel here
today when civilians, armed with
bombs, fiercely attacked a number of
government auxiliaries, the latter re
sponding by hurling bombs, poison gas
bottles and gasofine into the hotel.
One of the attackers was killed.
Notice of Forfeiture.
I
To Arnold Hals* Hans Sorensen. P.
Olson,. G. Hansen, G. Koontz, F. E.
Levy, James Hansen, P. CristenseD,
John Griffin, Fred Vogelsang, their
heirs, executors and assigns:
You and eaeb o5 you are hereby noti
fied that during thevears 13-10.1911,1912,
1913, 1914, 1915, 1946, 1&20. I expended j
the sum of ($100.00) One Hundred Dol
lars upon your interests in the Nugget
Association and the North Pole Asso
ciation, situated on Yankee creek, in
the Inoka Recording Precinct. Terri
tory of Alaska, in order to hold said
claims under the provision of Section
2324 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States, and the amendments
thereto concarning annual labor upon
mining claims, being tho amount re
quired to hold said mining claimsfor the
period ending December 31, 1916^ 1920,
and if within ninety days after the pub
lication of this notice you fail or refuse j
to contribute your proportion of said j
expenditures, as well as the cost of i
recording and publication of this
notice, as eo-owners, your inter
ests in said claims will become the
proparty of the undersigned, your co
owner, who has made the required ex
penditurs under ihe terms of said sec
tion of the Revised Statutes of the
United States.
John A. Olson.
First publication, February 2, 1921.
Last publication, May 4, 1921.
President Harding Is
Seriously Considering
•Juneau, April 28.—President Hard
ing, through his secretary, assures the
Commercial Association of Juneau that
he is giving the matter of a governor
for Alaska his earnest attention and
hopes to settle the controversy to the
satisfaction of all Alaskans.
No New Trial for 7
Convicted I. W. Ws.
Olympia, April 28.—The Supreme
Court refuses to grant a new trial in
the cases of the seven I. W. W. con
victed of murder in connection with
the Armistice day massacres at Cen
tralia. The men have peen transported
from the county jail at Montesano to
the Walla Walla penitentiary.
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