Show WHO PAID FOR THE DRINKS endless chain operated by thirsty men on the mexican border now here is the best yarn of the lot and a good puzzle tor the sunday papers to print said the man with the alkali in his whiskers when he had settled down in the hotel lobby after a long day on the rubberneck wagon several years ago american silver coin in mexico was on the same basis as mexican liver was at that tims and still is in the sta es it passed at hall its face value drinks in el paso and in juarez the mexican town across the line were a bit apiece or 12 cents as yau easterners would say in thos pamy days ot cl paso could go into a drinking em borlum and buy a drink paying tor it with an american the bar tender would hand him back a can quarter which was of course wo th 12 cents in texas then with this mexican quarter in his hand the citizen could cross the bridge to juarez and there buy an other drink laying his mexican ter on the bar it the greaser should give him in change an american qua ter worth 12 cents in mexico the jolou citizen could return to uncle sams back yard and repeat the process now the question is who paid tor those drinks N Y sun |