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Show Drinking Women Many thousands of women, in these post repeal years when drinking drink-ing is temporarily fashionable to some, have climbed down off woman's wom-an's age-old pedestal to clamber up on tavern bar stools. Referring to this new drinking woman as Jane Barleycorn, the Anderson An-derson (South Carolina) Independent Independ-ent and Tribune wrote editorially: a-t-.flBSj; "Her old fa- OgPjj-X tner. John Bar" -y- ytpjlM lcycorn, has been -I Si J widely known for t) many years. . . . ' ? fifesr 2 r "Nobody likes ' J idr T 11 f ner- Siie makes .i L?vjf pf'-l an insufferable ii -3Jf nuisance of her- 'X TT rM-- sc er father, ' ' I John, at least This? knows how to go about in dignity sometimes. In his more recent phase ... he isn't as loud as he used to be. "Jane Barleycorn, however, thinks it is smart to drink ... To Jane's mind since drinking is smart, to get drunk seems even smarter and to make a nuisance of herself is the top of sophistication. "Old John Barleycorn should spank his daughter. . . . A lot of people would like to spank her ..." Other writers, eyeing present conditions, con-ditions, have reminded women that early in the Middle Mid-dle Ages worn-an worn-an had achieved yf- equality with men V I in business and QrftX II 7" social life. Then f women invaded JiCx! the taverns and went so far be- 'i yond men in em- V,' A V bracing drunken y and unsocial con- prJy, duct that society Wibliii revoiiea ana oujit Qr jis? anew the restrictions restric-tions which kept wornqn imprisoned until the late Eighteenth Century. Declaring "Temperance a Vital Need," the Sault Sle. Marie (Michi- . gnn) News editorialized: "... The most rabid anti-prohibitionist will not loudly contend that the present situation with regards re-gards to liquor is satisfactory or is conducive to the greatest advancc- , ment, morality and prosperity of the I people of America. "The Woman's Christian Tempcr- 1 ance Union, first and most persist- j ent of the foes of alcohol, performs a distinct service to its country in pointing out, without ceasing, that i we cannot drink ourselves into prosperity pros-perity or happiness or sound citizenship." |