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ORIGINAL CONTENTS

We Have With Us Today. G. P. P.

Evolution-Another of Those Outlines. GEORGE S. CHAPPELL

Nonsenseorship. HEYWOOD BROUN

Literature and the Bastinado. BEN HECHT

The Woman's Place. RUTH HALE

Owed to Volstead. WALLACE IRWIN

The Censorship of Thought. ROBERT KEABLE

The Uninhibited Flapper. HELEN BULLITT LOWRY

The Wowzer in the South Seas. FREDERICK O'BRIEN

Reformers: A Hymn of Hate. DOROTHY PARKER

Prohibition. FRANK SWINNERTON

A Guess at Unwritten History. H. M. TOMLINSON

In Vino Demi-Tasse. CHARLES HANSON TOWNE

Bootleg. JOHN V. A. WEAVER

And the Playwright. ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT

The Oracle That Always Says "No". THE AUTHOR OF "THE MIRRORS OF WASHINGTON"

ILLUSTRATIONS

George S. Chappell demonstrating his Outline of Censorship.

Heywood Broun finds America suffering from a dearth of Folly.

Ben Hecht chopping away at the ever-forgiving and all-condoning Bugaboo

of Puritanism.

Ruth Hale as a XXth Century woman guarding the Home Brew.

Wallace Irwin composing under the influence of synthetic gin and Andrew

Volstead.

Robert Keable urging the Automaton called Citizen to turn on his

oppressor.

Helen Bullitt Lowry watching Puritanism set the Flapper free.

Frederick O'Brien finds the South Seas purified and beautified by the

Missionaries.

Dorothy Parker hating Reformers.

Frank Swinnerton contemplating, from the Tight Little Isle, the two

classes of prigs developed by Prohibition; those who accept it and those

who rebel.

H. M. Tomlinson regarding, with not too great enthusiasm, the Perfect

State of the Future.

Charles Hanson Towne and the Law.

John V. A. Weaver noticing the bartender who has been thrown out of work

by Prohibition.

Alexander Woollcott rescuing the Playwright from the awful shears of the

Censor.

The Periscope of the Author of the Mirrors of Washington is turned

toward the Great Negative Oracle.