Show Region Only 60 Miles t From Capital Quietly I i Ignores L Liquor Laws J R o of Little MaryS Mary Mary- Maryland S land Section Look On OnI I prohibition as Bad S. S S Editors Editor's Note Within 60 miles of of the national capital is a little the United States Slates States'S k known own left behind in inthe I that has been largely S 'S or of the machine age march the the first part of section Cj r Maryland ryland to be settled still sUll ad- ad gj hues to such quaint old customs unquestioning host hos- hos extending t. t as s f an and md aging whisky two t r f i K L. L before selling it The whole l ears ears 3 state of or passive and gion is in a S gentlemanlY resistance against the theS S prohibition laws laws ReI Re- Re the post office in m I ville was raided the postmaster arrested ted and a good goodly y quantity oft of h To this fascinating seized t f TV rye F re the United Press se sent t a staff staffS t r of or ort S correspondent to tell teU the story Se t th e COUntY country and aid J ts people ople S ST r LEONARDTOWN T Mi MeL Nov 1 19 10 k UP Descendants of those free fre IOU outs otiis S who came over to this tobacco L country with the are show show- l L lag inc such a mass ss defiance of a law the they believe e unjust that their federal pos post office has be been n raided by dry agents S c This is is' the country described b by Prohibition Director Woodcock a athe as th the wettest region in the United Unite t States Only this week the post office a at a little hamlet near here t I v. v was as raided by the revenue men the postmaster arrested and a large larg Quantity of liquor seized Yet these thes i friendly Independent farmers andI and I villagers d dp do not look upon themselves s sis t is as weL wet I THEY'RE N NOT T DISORDERLY i The term terra to them connotes drunkS drunk drunk- S r r enness and disorder and nd they claim I to be neither drunk nor disorderly If f Anton Lang the post post- master made good liquor that that 1 Is sufficient argument against the raid It is difficult for one coming from the national capital less than 60 miles mile away to adjust himself to the century of difference between Washington Washingto and St. St Marys Mary's count county Here life I is mechanized to a minimum and th the theold theold old Calvert traditions of civil anc and personal liberty are still very muc much alive Such traditions include pride prid of f craft and pride of craft impels impel the southern Marylander to age hi rye whisky two years Southern Marylanders dont don't argue about prohibition they prohibition they ignore it I with a polite contempt It is to them thema a bad law and they resist it passively In n gentlemanly fashion as befits a old 00 old tradition but enthusiastically enthusiastically and effectively A prohibition agent be he ever so sog g gentlemanly n never ver is and never can canie be accepted ie When Woodcock a year ago ago go pl planned nned to establish quarters in m Leonardtown with 10 agents and a clerk lerk no one would rent them office space jace and the project was abandoned COULDN'T GET HOUSE When later the chief of the St St. Marys Mary's agents brought his family and van an load of furniture to Leonardtown not ot one of the towns town's citizens would rent him a house and he had hado to o store his furniture It was a long longtime longtime time me before he found o nd living quarters To o be seen talking to a a revenue manis man manis is to court social ostracism Woodcock who comes himself himsel from avery very wet section across the bay has made a determined effort to dry up this is settled first-settled part of M Maryland ryland and his agents have succeeded in complicating life a bit for the natives But ut they haven't cut ot off th the th flow of guaranteed rye Returning to the twentieth century on the the bus bus the only means of public transportation transportation- one ne sees passenger after ater passenger climb Limb aboard with heavy suitcases carrIed gingerly and softly clinking or r gurgling Those suitcases dont don't contain ginger ale S. S |