| Show LIQUOR IN THE SOUTH Ever since the historic exchange of remarks between the th governor of South Carolina and the governor of North Carolina It has been regarded as a great joke to refer to the drink habit of the man coming from south of Ma Mason Mason la lason son and DIxons line Une Like the t e mother inlaw Joke it H has hns done service so long that one hates to lose loue It but cruel fate ta c cIs is gradually putting It In iii the class of The south has enacted more local and general prohibition legislation dur during durIng durIng ing the past decade than all aU the north and west put together Kentucky K the proverbial home of or mountain dew has prohibition counties out of or 20 2 0 counties in Texas are dry dr Georgia and Mississippi are almost alm st solidly prohibition In Bounty govern gorn government government ment Tennessee and Virginia the Julep originated are so nearly thy dry that the man with a thirst t for red liquor Is doomed to suffer except In the large cities Local option rules In 11 Georgia Florida Alabama Arkansas Arkanas Maryland Virginia Kentucky Mississippi MisSissippi sippi and North Carolina The rhe license fee for saloons in Florida Is 15 1000 in Mississippi to 1200 I O In Atlanta A 1000 Moreover the governor governors of both CarolInas drink soft drinks only Just why this remarkable condition should exist in the face tace of ot ajl al the oH time traditions of the south has not been explained Men len now living cap cai remember when the decanter on the sideboard was almost as a religiously present as the family Bible Dible on the ta table table table ble In the sitting room and almost as regularly In use Probably the demor demoralization demoralization demoralization of the negro by whisky and the resultant necessity for stringent prohibition as a measure of f community protection had something to ilo do with the change f Quite possibly too the ruin which whisky wrought in the younger generation of ot is partly responsible for the inhibition wave Whatever the cause the south so th has come to the point where It can resent res nt the old imputation that its chief prod product product product was its worst The new south 15 Hi 1 riding on the water wagon wagn nowadays |
