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Show TOWN LIKELY TO BE ' MECCA OF BIBULOUS GRANITE CITY, 111., June 27. Thi eitr seems to be destined to become the meera of all those who love to esse nxedlv upon ths wine when it is red. The Socialist mayor of Granite City. Marshall K. Kirkpatrick, has decided that being- drunk is not a crime. A drunk is not a criminal, but the victim of circumstances. And no victims of rirrumetances ought to be locked up for indulging in s little merriment. He has issued an order to Adolphus White, chief of police instructing ths force what course to pursue the next time he observes a citisen with uncertain "Tthe citizen does not destrof property, prop-erty, does not, nttempt to commit a crime, he is not to be srrested. But if the officer thinks the citizen msy dia turn the peace in some manner, hs is to take the bibulous one home. |