The yellow press surpassed themselves in clamor and mendacity.

A favorite assertion was that I was enforcing a "blue" law, an obsolete law that had never before been enforced.

As a matter of fact, I was only enforcing honestly a law that had hitherto been enforced dishonestly.

There was very little increase in the number of arrests made for violating the Sunday law.

Indeed, there were weeks when the number of arrests went down.