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Show DOES'PRDHIBnTON" PROHIBIT? THET DOUBT IT IN BIRMINGHAM! A photograph o-tbe "TMrsfclJiro" Wwlae the express office at Binning Oftm, AJ, seems to answer tho questions ques-tions "Does the Alabama brand of jrofoJHtion prohibit?" ThetreoplBin tgeiroa sons waiting for their c6n-natoiat&iof c6n-natoiat&iof Various orta of booeo. Xo Bflttot-'eKJvertlieincntB are per iMttea to apnear In any Alabama frpffc so "publicity' cannot be 'Tflaxped , for It, The State Jaw Whilo It fa-.evident that prohibition says tho New YoTk World, there is no question ns to tho cItyB loss in revenuo. "This city of 150,000 people," eays the Surve, Tias discontinued its street sprinkling and gtirbago collection. col-lection. It has dispensed with its health officer, city physician and milk inspector, axtinofshed half the city lights, cut the school session from nine to seven naonths and reduced by - 10 per cent all teachers eaiariea ovtfr-$7b ovtfr-$7b a month. It has withdrawn all , I appropriation to its library. It has .idkmissada'.tidcjeftaolicjerforc. md put the romainder on a twelvw-hour twelvw-hour shift. It has cloned several flro stations. It haB abolished its recreation recrea-tion department, with playgrounds and indoor gymnasium. Twenty thousand dollars has bean withdrawn from institutional charities. Tho anti-tuberculosis campaign will suffer suf-fer a reduction of $8jW0. Altogether, the cuts total $840,000. It costa Birmingham $1,228,629 a yoar to "Operate nnd only $898,688 is ayail-ablo ayail-ablo for the coming twelve months." And still the thirsty of Birramg-cbjunget-their liquor. - - " V-' - |