Judge — January 3, 1920 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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*And to think, Bill, that we have to drink that s As things are now I have entirely cut all such idle acquaintanceship and such waste of time. I like t come home after my work and, after drinking four or five glasses of water, spend the evening with some good book of statistics, improving myself. [ am then read to converse, should an occasion arise, in such a way a to put conversation where it ought to be. You will, therefore, readily understand that all my friends and I are enthusiastic over prohibition. If you were to ask us to go back to things as they were (but please do not do so), we should vote against it by a majority of easy two hundred per cent. It is on this account, with all the more confidence, that I am able to draw your attention to one or two points, in them- selves very small things, in which we think that the present régime might be amended. The first of these is the mere per- centage, as it is commonly called, of the beer that 1s permitted to be sold This is evidently a matter of very sec- ondary concern and one on which no one would wish to dogmatize. But my friends and I feel that this per- centage might profitably be placed at about, say, in rough numbers—twenty per cent. We should feel that twenty per cent. we were getting more adequate return upon the money expended. At the same time we lay no great stress on the particular figure itself. Twenty, thirty, or possibly stil better, forty per cent. would prove quite acceptable to us. Another point is the abolition of the bar. Here we are all agreed. The bar is done with forever. We never want to-see it back. But we do feel that if we could have some quiet place where one could purchase beverag Drown by Pace Rewer of the kind I have described, some Coatad Ge plain room with tables and a seat or it stan tleman ( —Marvelous-h day, madam, a two and possibly a free lunch counter and a weigh- ing machine, we should feel better able to carry out the general purport of the prohibition idea. There are several of my friends who have not been weighed since the first of July of 1919, and are suffering grave inconvenience thereby. I do not suggest that such a place should be al- lowed to operate after the old unrestrained fashion of the bars that kept open practically all night. It should be placed under sharp regulation. My friends and I feel that any such place should be rigidly close at two o'clock A.M. with perhaps special facilities for access at a later hour to the weighing machine and the lunch counter. These, however, are mere details of organization which, as we see it, do not in the least impair the genera! principle. As to whiskey and the stronger spirits, we feel that there is not a single word to be said for them My friends and I are convinced that the use of these things as a beverage is deleterious to the last degree We unite in declaring that they should be regarded as medicine and as medicine only. Two or three small incidents have occurred among us lately which have corroborated our opinion upon this point. Not very long ago one of my friends was taken, just outside of my door, with a very sharp pain, or stitch, in his side. For the moment I was at a loss what to do when it occurred to me that possibly a medicinal application of whiskey might prove effective. I took him into my house and administered it at once and was delighted to observe the color come back into his cheeks. It was some hours before I was enabled to remove him: but | finally ventured to put him into a hack, crosswise on the two seats, and the poor fellow was, I believe, safely placed against his own door by the hackman without further mishap. Such incidents as this have convinced us that the sale of whiskey should be rigidly restricted to those who and hen ™ Let in ina bottle of something w are the triplets-h ho has dropped a comicbooks.com