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Show Doctors, Drug Stores and the Law Conspire Against ThSrsty of Logan Special to Tho Tribune. LOGAN", Jan. 3. When the law. the doctors and the drug stores alt conspire to keep a man sober, there Is a protty broad chance that sober he will be. That Is tho situation In Logan and tonight to-night Logan Is probably the "dryesf town In the United States. It Is dryer than the place where the oasis was but Isn't any longer In the Great Amerlran desert. It is so dry that you can hear It cracking all up and down Cache valley val-ley The reason for all tho dryness Is this: Today tho new law went Into offect which says that Logon shall be recorded In the prohibition column. There arc to he no saloons. The law carries a provision that a drug store may sell liquor on a physician's physi-cian's prescription, but also carries the provision that a physician shnll be held cnuallv responsible with the drug store If the" liquor is used as a beverage. Tho drug stores did not see precisely where they were going to disembark on ia proposition of this kind, and all of tho proprietors signed a notice to tho doctors that they would not rill a single, solitary soli-tary prescription thnt called for Joy water. The doctors concluded that It was time for doing a little notifying on their own account, so they pot together this afternoon aft-ernoon and notified tho drug stores right back that they would write no prescriptions prescrip-tions for medicines containing whiskey, Or for whiskey without the contamination of medicines. Incidentally, they notified tho public at large to the same effect So there you are. The cry of the distressed dis-tressed Is heard aloud In the land, but there Is no pillar of light bringing hope. The drug stores and tho doctors being against the thirsty, and the law being written plain and clear upon the Logan tomes of statutes, there has been a sudden sud-den and earnest revival of tho Justlv cel-cbratod cel-cbratod song, "How Dry I Am " |