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Freedom of Religion. Herbie was backed up by other witnesses and heartily applauded by the cityfolk. Dominant public opinion in Galveston, concluded the committee, believes "that whether an activity is a 'vice' is a matter of purely personal philosophy; that a country that guarantees freedom of religion has no right to make laws about morals ; that public opinion is divided as to whether smoking, drinking, gambling and professional sex service are vices; that the church has the right to teach these certain acts are wrong, but has no right to prohibit them." This view is connected with...
...California's rich valleys beet fields were plowed under and 4,000,000 pounds of sugar were lost every day for lack of workers. Growers begged for 30,000 extra men-cityfolk, school children, convicts, soldiers-to save grapes, pears and peaches from rotting...
...From throughout the Northwest, 90 singing bands participated. Minnesota's dirt-farming Lieutenant Governor Henry Arens presided. Featured were Tenor Paul Althouse, Soprano Elsa Alsen, and part of the Minneapolis Symphony directed by able Alexander Smallens, assistant conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Day after the broadcast, farmers and cityfolk strolled about Harriet Park in an informal Sangervolksfest. Here they sang not Wagner or Beethoven but their own songs, beginning casually, swelling mightily as thousands joined...
...leading out through a fake window. Fresh air enters the pipe, is drawn into the body of the contrivance where it is purified of all pollen, and is then released into the room for respiratory purposes. Not much protection on a country ramble, but a great relief to the cityfolk...