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Show I THE OLD JUDGE SAYS... J "Looks like a pretty expensive cigar you've got there, Judge." "Yesiree, it's a real good one, Bill. Won it from Chris down at the cigar store yesterday. yes-terday. He got pretty 'positive in a discussion dis-cussion we had and I had to take him up on it. Bet me three rgood cigars to my one that the three states that still have prohibition pro-hibition have less crime than the other states. Well, ail I had to do was step across the street to my office where I had some recent F. B. I. figures in my desk drawer. Why, on the average, those three states : have a worse crime record than the whole rest of the country. And there's a good sound reason for it, Bill. There's no such thing as a dry community. It's only a question ques-tion of whether liquor is sold legally or il-legally. il-legally. And when it's sold illegally it means bootleggers, gangsters and more crime." Conference of Alcoholic Beverage Industries, nc |