Show Jr fr Breaking Into the News 4 I j EOPLE in Utah who smarted under the theA A F v wide vide given Salt Lake and a few v prominent gentlemen because they smoked in p public may may get a a little satisfaction from the the that the potential cust customers mers of one Was Wash Wash- ri D. D C. C bootlegger r are getting ettin their i i es into the papers papers Q all l over the the c country I We We do do not know whether to regard the publication pub- pub of these names began by the Wash- Wash Post as a movement t to tg cast reflection I. I ithe the men named or as the first step in the establishment of a new v blue book If the practise were generally followed 31 hirst and capacity would become det determining J lpg ing g factors in publishing the news The man mana man ith a capacity of fifteen highballs and a 3 e bootlegging tio credit of sin l r proportions might V command front page position na naturally assum assume leadership in new line of V a new aristocracy 11 The individual who relies on his his his' own own brew brewr pr or r still stilt of course would have to be content i ith passing mention if indeed he were menU men- men U ed at nt all I V t The chief value of a complete list would 1 j r be e t in determining individual credit ratings gS I j The The credit of a man in good standing with V the bootleggers could be determined as precisely precisely pre- pre Err V as if his name appeared in Duns Dun's or 1 j Bradstreets The p publicity would have a tendency ten ten- dency ncy ency to increase his standing as a host t Knowing his standing with the best bootleggers he e might be much sought y the socially am am- biti us He at least is touted as a good good host by the newspapers pers But perhaps the Washington newspaper hopes 0 to o discourage illicit liquor traffic by publishing the names of custom customers rs' rs as well as dealers If this is the intent the Post perhaps perhaps perhaps per- per haps is destined to enter a a special field If it attempts to print all of the names of the nations nation's drinkers it can can have little space for anything else Of course the columns would be scanned daily with mixed emotions of envy and contempt Still we cannot see whit what good it will do the rest of us to know what the rest of f the country had to to drink and so the departure of the Post is to be regarded more as a sensation than a a. t journalistic tri triumph mph |