Judge — June 18, 1927 — page 13: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

JUDGE NIG Someone s id, or maybe I read it in George Nathan’s “Ameri Credo,” that there wasn’t a place in New York city that you couldn't get a drink . being a very skeptical young man, and an in spite of what O. O. McIntyre, and others, have said about the iniquity of our fair city, I have never believed this statement and spoke thusly to “Mac” about it # Se usual he took the oppo site side and offered to bet me nine dollars, I remember dis tinetly that it was nine dollars, that I couldn't find a place where I couldn’t get a drink. ed The first place we tried was the nd Central Station. : I walked up to the man at the information —bu- reau and when I whispered in a hoarse “Where get a drin gave me a very snooty look and suggested that I'd better get a ticket for Rye . getting tickets for liquor 2 voice @e eS ( 2 “f i! ia = ig Was a new one on me and when I asked him timidly where I could get them he said curtly, “Ticket office, level!” .< well, sir, you won't believe it, but when I went down to the ticket office and asked for a drink a man in line behind me pulled out a flask and offered me one, saying in a sympathetic voice, “I know how lower it is, Buddy, when you're caught without a drink.” = Feeling a little bit discouraged, in spite of the scotch, we tried the Metropolitan Museum... we wandered around with an expec tant air without a soul noticing us, LWA T= and I was just beginning to perk up when we stopped in front of a painting. “Mae” wiped and muttered, “Gee, | wish I had a drink,’ and you probably won't believe it, but a his brow man stuck his head right through the canvas and handed us two delicious cocktails! . . . After tasting his “Mac” yelled, “This must be varnishing day ! ci m “Mac won the first round on points, but he didn’t get a drink anyway ! next, I dragged him over to the Public Library, chuckling to myself, because "I knew perfectly well that here of all places it would be impossibl: to obtain liquor... . “Have you got something to drink?” I whis- pered to the lady at the desk she looked at me and then at “S stiffly sir, we went to room 37 and when I asked the lady in charge for something — to drink she pointed to a bookcase and there on the shelf was a called Ui thing to Drink” and wait! aig I took the book WN” (Continued on ther curiously, and replied well, foom page 2%) comicbooks.com