WITH what a benevolent air the announcement is made that the Jamestown Exposition of 1907 will be closed on Sundays! The action is set forth as a real dispensation of privileges that visitors could not otherwise enjoy. The announcement, which we have received by favor of the Press Bureau of the exposition, says that the arrangement of Sunday closing "will afford exposition visitors opportunity to visit points of historic interest in the vicinity of Norfolk on Sunday, and spend a portion of the Sabbath day in attendance at worship in one or more of the several historic church buildings." The logic of this announcement is that visitors could not have these privileges if the exposition were not closed on Sunday. No matter how much they might desire to see these places of interest, they would be deprived of the privilege if the exposition were open on Sundays. One is led to wonder if those historic points of interest are only to be seen on Sunday, and if they are to be necessarily shut off from view when the exposition is open. Again, it would seem that no matter how much a visitor might desire to attend some of the historic churches on Sunday, they could not be so privileged unless the great exposition were closed. How good and benevolent it was in the church-and-state Reform Bureau of Washington to induce Congress to place a Sunday-closing proviso on the exposition appropriation, so that the governors of the great show could voluntarily have the place closed on Sunday, in order to give the visitors the privilege of visiting other places of interest on that day, and even to attend church part of the day! The wonderful liberties attached to religious legislation, to which enforced Sunday observance is the opening wedge, are past comprehension. Furthermore, it is difficult to understand why it is morally worse to witness the interesting and instructive features of the exposition, gathered from all parts, than to visit historic places about Norfolk, on Sunday. The only reason that appears on the surface is that a certain class of religious would-be dictators have a chance to say what some other people shall not do on Sunday, with the hope, sometime in the near future, of being able to dictate what they shall do. G.