Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 251, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1926 — Page 8

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LONG HATPINS PROHIBITED BY OLD STATUTES Massachusetts Laws Also Include Punishment for 'Scolds.’ Btl SEA Service By Gene Cohn BROCKTON, Mass., Feb. 19.— The “blasphemy battle,’’ -which looms in the very shadow of Plymouth Rock, is likely to prove merely an opening skirmish,is a major movement against a considerable array of unique statutes handed down from the Puritan fathers. To the average resident of Massachusetts the survival of any of.these laws was unknown until one Anthony Bimba, editor of a Lithuanian language newspaper, made a speech which proved offensive to some and found himself under arrest on a 300-year-old blasphemy charge. Cursing Law And when it further was learned that any one who “had reached the age o/ discretion" could be fined and jailed for “profanely cursing and swearing," there probably was the most general outburst of profanity since the law was placed upon the books! \ But that was only the beginning. A search of the statute books revealed, among others, the following: A. Massachusettsc matron may not wear a hatpin which projects six inches from her hat without being hailed into court. It is simple to imagine how some good man of a.n olden day might have been wickedly jabbed on a most fender bath spot and rushed away—breaking the blasphemy and profanity laws as he went—to demand protective legislation! Scold J*aw And there is another iaw under which “Common Scolds” can be fined and sentenced. This is a measure which, to this day, would find many sympathizers. Common scolds, it appears, were chronic nags and babbling-tongued gossips. But, by a simple interpretation, it fnight be found to involve one’s wife. But no one has tested it in recent times. Tt Is further against the law to “play a band" in front of a church during services. To* “speak out at an assembly” is enough to send a man to jail for several days. And it is unlawful to indulge in any mirthful outbreak or other dis-

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turbance at funerals. It might be interesting to discover just how serious the funeral disturbance of Puritan times might have been. “Railers and brawlers” are offenders of no mehn proportions. Were this law to be rigidly enforced in these gin-partv prohibition days, official's that the jails might be well filled. Almost any apartment house has a “brawl” of the sort imagined by the good old fathers and the disturbance caused by three flappers learning Charleston step: would be quite sufficient cause for arrest. Not Alone Massachusetts, it is pointed out, is not alone in such freak laws. Rhode Island and other New England coast states in the Puritan belt have ;cores of laws equally amusing to a modern, and New Jersey is another State with its quota. Attorney Hairy Hoffman, who is

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