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Show PUSSYFOOT JOHNSON TALKS Al TWIN FALLS TWIN KALES. Ida., July 7. Predicting Pre-dicting that thu people are not coin eighteenth amendment, and that the Democrats will be smothered if they attempt to open the grave of the liquor buslnesa, "Pussyfoot" Johnsoa, noted prohibition worker, addressed a lurgo gathering here yesterday. .Mr Johnson arrived here Merday by airplane from Granger, W'yo., and remained three hours. Imrlng the early purt of his otoy Mr. Johnson circled the city In the airplane and dropped literature. He talked to a capacity throng In the Levering theatre and left by air machine thi afternoon tor Shoshone, where he took train for Spokane. During Dur-ing the course of his remarks Johnson berated Governor Bdwarda oi New Jersey for his action toward tlrn prohibition pro-hibition question. "Edwards Is by nature and Inclination Inclina-tion a, bartender," he declared. 'That In the 0 CUpatlon he should be following follow-ing Ho stated, too. that England would be dry by 1930. "Then n no po-.-lbility of a modification modifi-cation of the Volstead act if the drys keep on the job." ho stated. He averred also thai labor unrest is greater great-er in wet countries than in dry. He pointed to Finland and Norway as examples ex-amples of the benefits of prohibition. This afternoon Johnson and a motion picture operator In an airplane took views of the city. |