Judge — November 1933 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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LS Repeal Out Ye Bells! . et messrs., the Great Day is most arrived. The end of the Gin War is in sight and Repeal is sticking its Red Nose out Just around the Corner. The Booties are discharging their income-tax lawyers and beating their Cutting-Shears into Picks and Shovels. Swinging doors being erled up; bartenders’ curls sp and whipped into shape and pure Bour- bon and unscotched Scotch is about to flow in the land, alongside of Clear Wine Crick, near Sloe Gin Valle Well, ring out, ye repealing bells Poor Jr. is sad. His feet refuse to tap dance skippingly along the roof ¢ of the housetops. Don’t try to tempt on ges WOU dye cat Se, h with an honest hooker of Green River; or wean him from his melan- choly with a bath of Mumm’s Extra Dry—he just won't be made happy Why? Bee ‘ause with the exit of Pro- hibition goes the most dramatic and ex- citing orgy the world has known since Bolonius spiked the Roman Baths and sent the entire Roman Senate to the Forum strictly cockeyed For, how with the entrance of qui t, sensible drinking at the fireside, the din- ner table, the club bar, will there ever transpire in the tremendous events the past 13 years? How can the odus good clean drink make any difference nation that been soused for 13 When will an’ entire nation again go on a tear that assumed such enormous proportions and involved the swallowing of so many tons of every- thing from housepaint. to voleano water ? ‘o these question. citizens, ec my fellow oO answers :—"Never And so, with I this good cheer about, I keep cool. Go guzzle yourself with pure Irish Leprechaun-sweat but leave me with my memories. I want to sit and sulk and review the past. And truth to tell, these memories would fill a dozen encyclopaedias. They really comprise History of the Noble periment, a drama so gargantuan it could only be written by a super-O'Neill. [ remember at random and sketchily frexamp:— HE ht Before Prohibition. avery bar and liquor — store crowded to the gills, People either try- ing to drink or buy enough to tide them over the period till we came to our senses. Nobody taking the thing seri- ously, yet a hectic flush in the th r. Then RE WAR Cellar Age: The well- dressed host wore a cellar key on his watch-chain. Parties were held at subway level, as if in anticipation of the Speakeasy which hadn't yet b Pre-war c burglary became fashion- able after a time; Jesse Lasky'’s crop being whisked away mysteriously, the story getting on the Front Pages. No open drinking yet. Washington m en born threats of enforce ment Then © day, when the stock on hand began to dw and some son of satan dis- covere you could scent pure with moth Thus in Born and the A Ushered in. Thereafter everything was but a varia- tion of the Gin Age. The Ist, being HE Drugstore Period: In which the aforementioned panther sweat could be purchased at any drugstore where the druggist had the ability to pour the contents of one bottle on his shelves into another. The more acci- (Page 24, please) comicbooks.com