The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-25
FAMOUS FOR
GENEROUS FREE LUNCHES
prohbtonsts Are Active In Ohio But They Seek Only Regu
tion, Not Extermination-To Towering Skyscrapers Are
Not Found In the Queen City
By HUGH w. ROBERTS

the law, while in the other cities mem
toned grim justice has to keep her face
veil concealed for fear of blushing under
the weight of its own knowledge. But the
prohibitionists are getting busy in Ohio,
and at Columbus, in the present moment,
there is considerable agitation. In fact,
there Is said to be room for every ambi-
tious agitator, be he engaged in the holy
warfare of this state or serving in the
ranks of the missionaries within the
boundaries of another commonwealth. And
one familiar with conditions in Ohio and
Alabama finds himself wondering how a
T, sident of the former state can spend his
time reforming the citizens of the latter
state when conditions in the former fur
FISH more fertile field for the toll of
such an astute and treless individual
In Alabama, as is known, the prohibit
florists want the world and everything
the world contains. Not so in Ohio! Here
the reformers are not contending for the
deharment of liquor. but for the regula-
ton of the sale of liquor, and the reforms
they desire, strange to relate, are those
which obtain in America
Forsooth, in Ohio, the prohibitionists will
be content if the saloonists are prohib-
ited from selling to minors, II they close
and open at certain hours il they rele-
gate their music to the cellar or the
garret, and If they give the law, the
stern majesty of the law, some consider
stion-some little consideration.
We're Alabamians Ohioans, everyone of
them would aid the prohibitionists, and
we're the prohibitionists of Alabama no
more insistent than their brethren of this
state of Ohio they would wake up some
fine morning and learn to their regret
sno modification that all vestige of op-
position had evaporated. And prohi-
bitionist without opposition, without
something against which to vent his
spleen. without some target at which to
fire his dart, would be the most disap-
pointed and dissatisfied mortal under the
sun. You have heard of Midas. The
sorrow of that old king when fate permit
teo his ardent wish to come true would
be as nothing compared to the sorrow of
The average prohibitionist IL all that he
desired by some omnipotent power, was
granted.
There are several illustrous residents
of Cincinnati There is Harry Vaughn,
former manager of the Birmingham Bar
Oils, who at the present time lies ILL., And
there is Charles Taft. Everybody has
heard of brother Charles They say that
he spent a vast fortune in landing Utah
let it not be understood that Charlie is
broke. In the first place he married a
woman so rich that all the women of
predatory poverty are talking about her
| in connection with predatory wealth. In
| fhe second place, he is owner of the
Times-Star, one of the most readable
publications of the Diamond Dick va
| riety in the world. In fact, until one
reads the Times-Star one might not be
aware that on every corner every mo-
nent there is something horrible occur
ring or about to occur.
Cincinnati is great town. 1t is an
ideal town for newspaper reporters. 1t
RI quires no unusual amount of the coin Of
the realm, as explained above. to dine
sumptuously. All you've got to do is
to spend a nickel for schooner of beer.
| And you needn't drink the beer either.
Many of the leading knights of the quill
| buy the beer for effect, place II quietly
| en- the corner of the counter and then
dine like king on all that is gratuitously
| Get before him. And all the while an
hundred instruments are playing an hun
! cred airs of the type which tickle the
souls of the habitues of the music hall.
And it is great. this city, for other
! reasons. 1t is situated so close to Ken
| lucky that man with good eyesight can.
whenever he feels so disposed. view the
blue grass of that state. And while
viewing the blue grass, the truth, with a
pleasing touch, strikes home that just
| beyond the blue grass lies the free and
| untrammeled state of Alabama. And as a
| humorist once told a citizen of the little
| municipality of Atlanta. the most valuable
possession that a man can acquire.
whether he be in the metropolis of Ohio
cr in the Gate City of the SOUTH is a
little bit of pasteboard which, when prop
erly employed, will set him gently down
| in Birmingham.
Cincinnati, January 20.