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Show i Bootlegger Laugh a " rTHITbreakdowrn brproTiibinffinft "SO "miny 1 1 1 parts of the country is not due primarily to shortage of enforcement agents. Nor to bribery. Nor to increased cunning by the liquor ring. The real trouble is the disappearance disap-pearance of the campaign against John Barleycorn Barley-corn as an economic evil and destroyer of its victims. When the United States tfent dry, about 2200 .of its approximately 2500 counties coun-ties already had adopted prohibition, either by local option or state legislation. National prohibition really affected only the remaining wet districtsa mere fraction of the whole country. These 2200-odd counties had tme dry voluntarily -by consent of a majority of the people. They went dry as a result of years and years of educational and emotional campaigning against alcohol as an evil. King Alcohol was preached against, lectured against, written against He became disreputable, was banished. But as soon as national prohibition went Into effect, the educational campaign against him ceased. Temperance beca'me a matter of obeying the law rather than of personal common sense. Public memory is short. People Peo-ple are forgetting the evils of alcoholic abuse. A new generation, that was too young to be Impressed by the temperance campaign, is jrowing up and toting hip flasks. Prohibition is a farce in many sections because It b an attempt to stop the selling of booze Instead of stopping , the drinking of booze. Booze is a temperance problem, but ;few look at it in that light Instead, they -look on It as a matter of obeying a piece of legislation rushed through congress when millions mil-lions of voters were overseas in the army and oft drink and other lobbies manipulating wartime war-time patriotic hysteria to their own purposes.. - Prohibition h a problem of thirst rather than of quencher of the desire to buy rather than the eagerness to sell It for profit. And prohibition will continue to be a failure until It is 'approached sensibly as a temperance problem. Some believe that light wines and beer are the ways to temperance. Others "disagree,' |