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Show DRUNKARDS. The star salesman of a New York wholesale house gets up at the Sal- B ' ion army congress In Boston and tells how he ' came back after John Barleycorn had made him a Bowery "bum " Other speakers follow him, wiih the same story This doesn't appeal to the imagine-1 tion now, as It would have, a decade j ago. For all people know, though they may not admit It except in their sub-! conscious minds that the drunkard soon will be a thing of the past The net generatiotn Till read Jack London's "John Barleycorn" with the same bewildered awe that we read De jQulneev's "Confessions of an English Eng-lish Opium Eater." I oo |