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Show DRY NEW YEAR'S. Secretary of State Evarts plaintively remarked that "water flowed like champagne" in the White House during dur-ing the administration of President Hayes. Tho secretary was not a hard drinker by any means, but he had been accustomed to seeing wine served upon all state occasions and he thought that the foreign diplomats who attended banquets at the executive mansion would feel miffed if they were not allowed al-lowed to become at least semi-intoxicated while representing their various governments. That was more than two score of years ago and since then wine has been served in great quantities at the White House. But the city of Washington is now prohibition territory terri-tory and there is little drinking in high places except among the confirmed old topers. Tomorrow is New Year's day7 and while there may be high jinks along the white way in New York and riotous scenes in the cafes of Chicago and other big cities where liquor is sold, there will be very little drunkenness at the national capital, although the district is not "bone dry," and it is no crime to bring liquor in from the outside. The country is involved in war and instead of being flushed with wine the people of the United States expect the 1 j lawm;. :ers ; s.ji.eriy cou-ebr '. ;:at ie.-t "i- the n;-;un ;t t tiii- .-riH.-u! time. It i against th-1 ruiei to buy or gi, p ;- eoa:.non soldier or an (.fti.-cr in uni-l'u::n uni-l'u::n a drink nf liuuo.-. If there is un -ense in the e-o:i.u!gut;on 01 sti.ti or-! or-! ders they oueht to ai.j.ly to all govern-; govern-; ir.eut employees from president down. If the best interests of the eoverument are served in the one ease it wouid be the same in the other. But as the prohibition amendment to the constitution of the I'nitcd States has been submitted to the people for ratification it will not be very long before be-fore the ancient custom of getting beastly drunk on New Year's day will : be forever abolished and some other form of celebration will have to be devised. de-vised. Utah has been "on the water wagon" only five months, and while there has been considerable contraband liquor floating around there is not so imicli drunkenness as there might be and most men who used to drink to excess ex-cess would now be ashamed to be caught even slightly under the influence of liquor, public sentiment having undergone under-gone a great change since the prohibition prohibi-tion law went into effect. The ushering usher-ing in of the new year will be celebrated cele-brated in Salt Lake and there will be the usual lavish expenditure of money, for tho people are prosperous and happy. The horrors of war have not as yet struck- home. But "water will flow like champagne" and comparatively few people will be looking for a ' ' shot ' ' of something to quiet their nerves next day. |