The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-14

Twelve Months Would Forever Bar
One From Drinking National De-
Tense Association Is Sponsor For the
Proposed Legislation.
Two sprees year Is to be the limit
for the New Yorker and three a year
will mean that he cannot take another
drink for the rest of his life if the Ma
ticnal Defense association has its way
According to the mo drunkard" bill
which will be presented to the legisla-
ture, in the first place If you want to
take drink you must have a card.
which is to be made of durable card
board and will be issued at the city
hall on the payment of 81. A conces-
sion to the bashful is that the cards
may be issued by mail. After you get
your card you rest one foot on the
for your favorite tipple.
"Lemme see your card" challenges
the barkeep.
You show your card and may there
after take aboard as much cargo as
you can carry without lacking. When
you begin to tack your card Is of no
more service, for If the barkeeper sells
you another drink be forfeits a big
bonus he has left down. at the city hall
The first time one is arrested for intox-
ication or treated by a physician one
gets a warning with his headache, the
second time one loses ones license for
the year. and the third time one is out
that is, one loses ones license for
ever and can never have another drink.
the bill says.
Cards Are Not Transferable.
No. you can't borrow your friends
card. for If you are caught using ii
there is a fine of 500 and thirty days
in jail for the offense. And If one is
caught buying drink without a card
both the buyer and the seller go te
Jail If one is really i'll one may get
doctors prescription, but it may be
used only once. violation sends the
user forthwith to the Jail.
The association reported that 100t
men in the city had agreed to take out
cards If the law is passed. 1t was es
timated that there would be many 9th
ers to join the 1000 pioneers.
And. by the way. women must have
cards, too. and they must certify thai
| they are twenty-one or more to ge
them. If man thinks his whole fam
| lily needs alcohol he can get a family
| license for So. but he must specify by
whom 1t is to be used. The family Ii
cense can be used only when the heaC
| of the house is along. If q wife goe:
to tango teas and does aught but tangC
| she must have her own license.
What Plan Will Accomplish.
William I. Hoyt, who lives in Mil
ford. Conn. and is president of tn,
National Defensive association, told al
about the plan.
ut will be an honor to have a drinl
card" he explained. because it will
certify that one doesn't drink to,
much. Very simple, is it not, for
one drinks too much one ceases t
have a card and consequently canno
drink any more. In that way Their
will be no more drunkards. Very sim
pAS, lAoCC0- AhNAi, IL VIC III Oli.
because 1t seems a social obligation
one has a good excuse If one says on
hasn't a card. If person gets locke
up for being intoxicated he can't dodg
the issue by giving fictitious name
for If he hasn't a card he goes to jai
anyway, and if he has card it ider
titles him. Very simple. Here ar
some things this law will do:
1T will stop treating.
ut will stop selling to minors, 70
no minor can get a license.
1T will stop the creation of dipsoma
MACS. inebriates and drunkards.
statesmen. politicians, reporters an
other popular persons may refuse alcC
holic drinks without giving ofrens,
simply by having no card"
Mr.. Hoyt then exhibited a statemeI
by Jack London, in which the authc
of John Barleycorn." who decide
after 200 pages that he would sti
have q drink when he wanted it, saiC
Il am absolutely convinced that ii
no drunkard' plan is the finest thin
that has yet been presented considere
in the light of all circumstances, II
the abolition of drinking In the ma
: ter of writing / should back the pro
osition to my full ability" Jack Lol