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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane What About Drinking? Southern Pine Paper. . Jacksonville, Cheerful. Again The Perfect Crime. What will be done about drinking drink-ing and drinking places, when prohibition pro-hibition goes and liquor comes back? One whose opinions command com-mand respect 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 ntht 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, a-ppealing a-ppealing to respect for law and the Constitution was useless. Appeals only brought forth smiles and the name of a "reliable bootlegger." But with the return of "decent drinking," only abad citizen would prefer to buy dangerous bootleg gin and other concoctions, paying profit'! to the bootlegger, instead of paying taxes to his own Government. Govern-ment. President Roosevelt will observe that this industry of 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 the ordinary paper, pa-per, and presents a slight ivory tint ; very restful to the eye. Strange items in the news. A sci entific ob-ervaxory is win uu m. 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 dry spot in the eastern hemisphere. Its purpose is to measure heat from the tun. In Ttaly all bachelors employed by the Slate must get married, or give ut) their jobs. Hitler, it is understood, un-derstood, introrduces the same rule in Genua1 y. "Marry within a oer-fair oer-fair titvo or re icn." Mussolini a; d Hitl r ai'.ue that the businos: rf women .'v'Oiild be he product''.; if .d c iiiiren am! the busies: o the men tc support the womov. and ehildr :U. Uncle Sam is still paying $33.76 for an ounce of f.old that he used to buy for a few cents over twenty dollars. He is happy, and J'-5 he ,viH tontinre his present money proeram. People do not know what it is but are full of hope. Britain on a paper basis is disgusted dis-gusted with our goings on. Cheaper Cheap-er dollars enable us to sell good, where Britain want-, to sell them. Britain is annoyed that France should put a 15 per cent additional tax On .DIlLiaii -"r ' the cheapnes3 of the paper pound, as compared with the gold franc France worries about her money, as well she may, since the frano has already been reduced in value by SO per cent, knocked down officially offic-ially from 19 cents, to below i cents. France may be compelled to leave the gold basis. The city of Jacksonville is to Florida what San Francisco is to California, a railroad, business and financial center, poon to becomo more important, thanks to President Presi-dent Roosevelt. He will spend public pub-lic monev, usefully, putting through by way of Jacksonville, a ship can- ai from the Atlantic Ocean to the , Gulf, shortening the route from New York to all Gulf ports, ar.d i to the west coast, through the Pan ama 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 seasonh in rounding Key West. The coastwise- sailing from New York to New Orleans 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 climate, 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 taxen instead of paying dividends on watered stocks. The Jacksonville city commissioner, commis-sioner, who drives you around the city in his small, convenient, 'pick up' truck, with the best Satsuma oranges grown anywhere, loaded in the back, is a Florida citizen of ancient lineage. Like other "perfect crimes never to be explained," the Chicago "operating "op-erating table murder" will prove to be only another imperfect crime. Precautions were taken against fingerprints, fin-gerprints, and chloroform was found in the 2?-year old wife, whj was first rendered unconsciuos on the operating "table, then murdered murder-ed with a bullet. The police now say they have a confession. The a-erating a-erating table murded" will prove to and resolution give way, under iong isleepless questioning. All the precautions, pre-cautions, and elaborate aUbi will probobly result in one more execution. |