a
statute forbidding the use of shoddy, even when sterilized, was held to
be arbitrary and therefore invalid.[412]

Protection of the Public Morals

Gambling and Lotteries.--Unless effecting a clear, unmistakable
infringement of rights securely by fundamental law, legislation
suppressing gambling will be upheld by the Court as concededly within
the police power of a State.[413] Accordingly, a State may validly make
a judgment against those winning money a lien upon the property in which
gambling is conducted with the owner's knowledge and consent.[414] For
the same reason, lotteries, including those operated under a legislative
grant, may be forbidden, irrespective of any particular equities.[415]

Red Light Districts.--An ordinance prescribing limits in a city
outside of which no woman of lewd character shall dwell does not deprive
persons owning or occupying property in or adjacent to said limits of
any rights protected by the Constitution.[416]

Sunday Blue Laws.--The Supreme Court has uniformly recognized
State laws relating to the observance of Sunday as representing a
legitimate exercise of the police power. Thus, a law forbidding the
keeping open of barber shops on Sunday is constitutional.[417]

Intoxicating Liquor.--"* * * on account of their well-known
noxious qualities and the extraordinary evils shown by experience to be
consequent upon their use, a State * * * [is competent] to prohibit
[absolutely the] manufacture, gift, purchase, sale, or transportation of
intoxicating liquors within its borders * * *."[418] And to implement
such prohibition, a State has the power to declare that places where
liquor is manufactured or kept shall be deemed common nuisances;[419]
and even to subject an innocent owner to the forfeiture of his property
for the acts of a wrongdoer.[420]

Regulation of Motor Vehicles and Carriers

The highways of a State are public property, the primary and preferred
use of which is for private purposes; their uses for purposes of gain
may generally be prohibited by the legislature or conditioned as it sees
fit.[421] In limiting the use of its highways for intrastate
transportation for hire, a State reasonably may provide that carriers
who have furnished adequate, responsible, and continuous service over a
given route from a specified date in the past shall be entitled to
licenses as a matter of right, but that the licensing of those whose
service over the route began later than th