Blossoms in the Dust

[Martin Cassini]

This 1941 Mervyn Leroy film stars the impeccable Greer Garson as Edna Gladney, an early campaigner for children's rights. Gladney successfully lobbied the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth certificates to give adopted children equal inheritance rights. In her ringing words about regulation killing kindness and love providing an antidote to delinquency are echoes of the case for freedom from restrictive traffic control to enable mutual tolerance to flourish.