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Show "In the Good " Old Days" Prohibition didn't come by agitation It ca-ne because America had changed to an industrial nation a nation of J factory cities; because machinery demanded de-manded careful operating and auto J mobiles watchful driving. It came be-cuur.e be-cuur.e the times neaded more of brai.i than muscle. One whose best d- r lay in drinking whiskey .ii;.rht t L-Fleep L-Fleep In hH country wtigon, while ii,--tlfuj '. oi-.-.es hauled l.l:n safely l.or.u, but what illicit hiippfn now. -were at the steerin;; wh?l of a oe 'in.; car He might lie down by the v.;y-side v.;y-side and k'o uniiurmi-d in davs ou! by; not now. lie micjht fur.1l,;1 aro'.md dumb nnlmals, and they roev.: 011, but around a flyw-'.-.eel a band-saw, band-saw, or the like, his life would surely be in the laps of the gods.- Soldiers ind sailors drink, because they are Umeless and thir lives monotonous. Poets, llke Oiiwr look. 1 ed to the grap for respite trora prh , and others. Bvt these aren't Dnw.r days, and with soldiers and sniioi 5 drinking l as become dangerous, ion. No, taking a drink was not im..oial in "the good old days." Put drlr.kjn;?' Is dangerous ifw in this fast use. Drunken men (like children, ra.id:vr.r. and fools), all tell the truth. They ' know. Drinking is dang?rou. I Prohibition has been cloaked too I much in the garb of morality. ft is' funded rather on necessity, and b -i cause it is n?cessary, It will stay. |