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Show Wise and Otherwise And they say the lid is coming down. Its too bad the way things tumble these times. However, it is possible that there are those in Bingham, who in the past, have consumed too much hootch. But they say that the valley towns, where the saints hold dominion over the sinners, things are opening up and that the wayfarer can get a drink of hootch from most any chambermaid or kitchen mechanic. Even in tho flarttiinwildus' town of Lehl, and the comfflefeial mClfoilrtlis of northern Utah county American Fork and that sweet, saintly little town of Pleasant Grove, they say you can get anything in the line of liquid refreshments from home brew to the most perfectly distilled product. Still there's probably too mucli com-petlftort com-petlftort among tha breweries in some section 6f the state and it is said that farseemf bootleggets predict a sharp break in ttie price of hootch unless un-less something is done to curtail the production thereof Which at present is rapidly Increasing in v6iwme. 'Men who ought to know s4y' (hat there was a dry spell in most parts' of the state after the adoption of prohibition, prohi-bition, but that as a state-wide matter, mat-ter, there is more liquor made and consumed now than ever before in Utah. Of course booze was never very scarce in Ogden and towns near the Wyoming border, even before the advent of stills Into the state. In some of those towns, like Park City, there is a prevailing opinion that the people of such places nevei knew that the state went dry, and not reading any of the daily papers to the effect that there was no more booze, those said citizens just kept on drinking drink-ing the stuff as they did prior to the first day of August, 1917. A still is such a simple manufacturing manufactur-ing outfit most anyone can learn to use it In a little or no time and having it turning out the priceless liquid right in his own home without saying a word to the poor bootleggers who live by the process of serving the stuff with a kick. A bootleggers convention is to be held at Salt Lake at an early date when the organization will be perfected perfect-ed and a vigorous protest will be made against family distilleries. Pressure will probably be brought on concerns that manufacture stills to prohibit the production of still adapted for family use. Also an effort will be made to arrive at a just compensation for officers of-ficers of the law in the discharge of their ordinary duties and prescribe penalties for officers who transgress the regulations of the Spiritful and Benevolent Association of Bootleggers. It seems some people get misled In the matter of who first proposed a library for Bingham. When a bachelor sees his hair turning turn-ing grey he ought by all means to pull out the said grey hairs just as they show up and thus suppress that evidence evi-dence of the sad fact that one is slip-Ping. slip-Ping. Wonder If any of the High School students know why David had Uriah drafted into i the army and had him sent to the front line of battle? Its time the People's Non partisan party should start to pick out Its ticket for the coming town election. Mac did not write all of the Wise and Otherwise last week. In other words be did not write the last item, but he did write the library article. |