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Show This Week . If ARTHUR BRISBANE What About Drink 'ng? Southern Pine Paper. Jacksonville., Cheerful. Again the Perfect Crime. What will be done-about drinking and drinking places, when prohibition goes and liquor comes back? One whose opinions command respect writes: "It is better to have decent drinking drink-ing in decent places, than indeceri' drinking in indecent places; that is the sole choice that we are going to have. If we deny the hotels rhe right to dispense wines and liquors we are going to perpetuate the speakeasy, speak-easy, and perpetuating the speakseasy means the continuation of bootlegging, necessarily." During the prohibition period, appealing ap-pealing to respect for law and the Constitution was useless. Appeals only brought forth smiles and the name of a "reliable bootlegger." Bui with the return of "decent drinking, only a bad citizen would prefer to buy dangerous bootleg gin and other concoctions, paying profits to the bootlegger, instead of paying taxes to his own Government. President Roosevelt will observe that this industry of making newspaper print of southern pine would create a demand for Shoals power. The pine paper on which the Atlanta Georgian is printed is of excellent quality, with no more breaks on the press than ordinary paper, and presents pre-sents a sligght ivory tint very restful to the eye. Strange items in the news. A scien tific observatory is built on Mt. Sinai, where Moses received the ten commandments com-mandments from the Lord who came down personally, to deliver them. The Smithsonian Institution, building build-ing the observatory, picked out Mt Sinai as the highest, absolutely dry spot in the eastern hemisphere. Its purpose is to measure heat from the sun. In Italy all bachelors employed by the State must get married, or give up their jobs. Hitler, it i3 understood, introduces the same rule in Germany. "Marry within a certain time or resign." re-sign." Mussolini and Hitler agree that the business of women should be the production of good children and the business of the men to support the women and children. Uncle Sam is still paying 533.76 for an ounce of gold that he used to buy for. a few cents over twenty do'.lars He is happy, and says lie will continue con-tinue his present monry program Peoil" do not know what it is hut are full of hope. ,". Britain on a paper basis is disgusted with our goings on. Cheaper dollars enable us to sell goods where Britain wants to sell them. Britain is annoyed that France should put a 15 per cent additional tax on British importations, due to the cheapness of the paper pound, as compared with the gold franc. France worries about her money, as well she may, since the franc has already been reduced in value by 80 per cent, knocked down officially from 19 cents, to below 4 cents. France may be compelled to leave the gold basis. The city of Jacksonville is to Florida Flor-ida what San Francisco is to California, Cali-fornia, a railroad, business and finan cial center, and an important shipping center, soon to become more important, impor-tant, thanks to President Roosevelt. He will spend public money, usefully, puttingg through by way of Jacksonville, Jackson-ville, a ship canal from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf, shortening the route from New York to all Gulf ports, and to the west coast,, through the Panama Canal. The Florida canal will pay for ltselt In tolls while eliminating unnecessary distance for coastwise shipping, avoiding avoid-ing difficult winds encountered at some seasons in rounding Key West. The coastwise sailing from New York to New Orleans will be made shorter by nearly one thousand miles. In addition to being like San Francisco, Fran-cisco, an important business and financial finan-cial center, Jacksonville, like the . California city, has a bracing, semi-northern semi-northern climate, and extremely energetic ener-getic citizens. The numerous cities in which property prop-erty values are eaten up by taxation, will be interested in the Jacksonville plan of municipal ownership of light and power, with low rates charged, and all profit going to reduce taxes inead of paying dividends on wat-ered wat-ered stocks. The Jacksonville city commissioner who drives you around the city In his small, convenient, "pick-up" truck, with the best Satsuma oranges grown anywhere, loaded in the back, Is a Florida citizen of ancient lineage. Like other "perfect crimes never to be explained," the Chicago "operating table murder" will prove to be only another imperfect crime. Precautions were taken ngaln.it fingerprints, and chloroform was found in the 23 year old wife, who was first rendered unconscious un-conscious on the operating table, then murdered with a bullet. The police now say they have a confession. The alleged murderer forgot that nerves and resolution give way, under long, sleepless questioning. All the precautions, pre-cautions, and elaborate alibi will prob-ab'y prob-ab'y result In one more execution. (, 1 W33, by King Ftatum Synjicitt, Inc.) |