The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-28
An UnusuaI Dcsuana.

While 1t may seem somewhat para doxica1 for clergymen to demand that saloons be allowed to open on Sun days,.-that Is exactly what is taking place here. The movement, indeed. has already developed so far that a bill legalixing opch a course has been in- troduced tNAlbany which has the backing not only of ministers fin gem eral but of the famous Committee of Fourteen itself. This committee made up of prominent churchmen and work CTS for civic betterment was originally organized for the suppression of the so-called Raines law hotels" and its Investigations in this field have forced on It's members the conclusion that to permit drinking places to open under certain restrictions for part of. the day on Sunday is the proper solution of f the question and far preferable to the e present plan under which 1t Is common ? Knowledge that the saloons keep open H in violation of the law. By legalizing this opening the Committee expects to accomplish several things. First of all 1t would be possible to put out of bus iness the disreputable resorts where drinks are served Sundays and week days alike, now encouraged by the liquor law of the State The proposed innovation. 1t is believed, would also confine liquor selling to the more re- spectable class of places, since the producers of 95 per cent of the beer consumed in New York have for some time been In agreement with the Com mittee to cooperate for the betterment of existing conditions. By legalizing Sunday selling. too. the chance of po- lice graft from extortion of money for protection would be greatly reduced, and lastly the revenues of. the city would be added to by increasing the license fee of those places desiring to open on Sunday by 25 per cent It Is for these reasons that New York is being treated to the unusual spectacle of ministers and social workers striv- ing to bring about the legalized sale of liquor during certain hours on Sun day.
 whether 1t is due to falling off in his taste for literature, or because of business reasons. Father Knicker- booker has lost one record. and worst of all, from his point of view to the city of Chicago. New York. once the great magazine publishing center of the country. must now take second place, since the latest show that the Windy City has outstripped 1t in this respect Woman's World, the Chicago magazine which has the largest cir culation of any in the United States, which means on earth, the figure being - over 100000. ships every year more than 5.0o0,0 pounds of its. publica- tion. In the face of figures like these Father Knickerbocker- can only fall back on the fact that he still has larger number of publications. even though their circulation Is smaller. Perhaps he has only his business metho ds to blame for the fact that the magazine publishing record Is no longer his. A great factor in that business here, as a good many other fields of business, has been to increase equalization as fast as possible. with the result that the total capital of three leading magazines published here with combined circulation of 1,400,- 900 is many times greater than that of the Chicago publication with It's D. 000.000 readers, which started with the investment of 5000 and has grown from the profits to $2.500.00O concern with annual net earnings of $60o000 Here such earnings would be much more highly capitalized, meaning small Ter returns, and it Is therefore largely due to Father Knickerbockers love for big figures that investors have given impetus to the publishing business in the West which has robbed him of his literary laurels.
 stops Benjamin.
 Sixteen voyages acrossthe Atlantic