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Show This Week by ARTHUR BRISBANE What About Drinking? Southern Pine Paper. Jacksonville, Cheerful. What will be done about drinking and drinking places, when prohibition prohi-bition goes and liquor comes back? One whose opinions command respect re-spect writes: "It is better to have decent drinking drink-ing in decent places, than indecent drinking in indecent places; that is the sole choice that we are going to have. If we deny .the hotels the right to dispense wines and liquors we are going to perpetuate the speakeasy, and perpetuating the speakeasy means the continuation of bootlegging, necessarily." During the prohibition period, appealing to respect for law and the Costitution was useless. Appeals Ap-peals only brought forth smiles and the name of a "reliable bootlegger." boot-legger." " But with the return of "decent drinking," only a bad citizen citi-zen would prefer to buy dangerous bootleg gin and other concoctions, paying profits to the bootlegger Instead In-stead of paying taxes to his own government. President Roosevelt will observe that his industry o making newspaper news-paper print of southern pine would create a demand for Shoals power. The pine paper on which the Atlanta At-lanta Georgian is printed is of excellent ex-cellent quality, with no more breaks on the press than ordinary paper, and presents a slight ivory tint very restful to the eye. Strange items in the news. A scientific observatory is built on Mt. Sinai, where Moses received the ten commandments from the Lord who came down, personally, to deliver them. The Smithsonian Institution, building the observatory, picked out Mt. Sinai as the highest, absolutely ab-solutely 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 is understood, introduces the same rule in Germany, "Marry within a certain time or resign." 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 ?33.7G for an ounce of gold that he used to buy for a few cents over twenty dollars. He is happy, and says he will continue his present money program. People do not know what it Is but are full of hope. Eritain on a paper basis is disgusted dis-gusted with our goings on. Cheaper Cheap-er 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 .'ranc has already been reduced in value by 80 per cent, knocked down officially offi-cially from 19 cents, to below 4 cents. France may be compelled to leave the gold basis. The city of Jacksonville is to Floida what San Francisco Is to California, a railroad, business and financial center, and an important shipping center, soon to become more important, thanks to President Presi-dent Roosevelt. He will spend public money, usefully, putting through by way of. Jacksonville, 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 Itself in tolls while eliminating unnecessary un-necessary distance for coastwise shipping, avoiding difficult winds encountered at some seasons in rounding Key West. The coastwise sailing from New York to New Orelans will be made shorter by nearly one thousand miles. In addition to being like San Francisco, an important business and financial center, Jacksonville, like the California city, has a bracing, brac-ing, semi-northern olimate, and extremely ex-tremely energetic citizens. The numerous cities in which property 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 Instead of paying dividends on watered stocks. . The Jacksonville city commissioner, commis-sioner, who drives you around the city in his small, convenient "pickup" "pick-up" truck, with the best Satsuma oranges grown anywhere, loaded in the back, is a Florida citizen of ancient lineage. His Dame i3 St. Elmo W. Acosta, his great, great grandfather was the Spanish governor of Florida with his headquarters in old St. Augustine when the United States was a little strip of colonies along the Atlantic Ocean, its total population popu-lation about half that of New York City today. (,1933, by King Featur Syndicate, Inc.) |
