[Sidenote: _Nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine verses
elapse_.]

Now in the change-about complete
Since Adam Passed from View.
For apples we are urged to eat
And all else is taboo.
A _Million_ laws hold us in thrall,
And we serenely break them all!




NONSENSEORSHIP


[Illustration: Heywood Broun finds America suffering from a dearth of
Folly.]

HEYWOOD BROUN

A censor is a man who has read about Joshua and forgotten Canute. He
believes that he can hold back the mighty traffic of life with a tin
whistle and a raised right hand. For after all it is life with which
he quarrels. Censorship is seldom greatly concerned with truth.
Propriety is its worry and obviously impropriety was allowed to creep
into the fundamental scheme of creation. It is perhaps a little
unfortunate that no right-minded censor was present during the first
week in which the world was made. The plan of sex, for instance, could
have been suppressed effectively then and Mr. Sumner might have been