Valdez daily prospector., 1916-01-13
MAY HAVE TWO
 sPREEs PER YEAR

Two sprees year is to be the lim- n for the New Yorker, and three year will mean that he cannot take another drink for the rest of his life, if the National Defense Association has it's way. And if one credits Jack Landon, Henry Ford, Charles Mellen, and other celebrities who go to make up the membership of the association, the New York Legislature of 1916 will be too intelligent to reject the bill outlined at meeting of the Nat ional Defenders, held atop or the Grand Central Terminal.
 According to the No Drunkard Bill" in the first place ii you want to take a drink you must have card which is to be made durable card and will be issued at the City Hall on the payment of $1. A concession to the bashful is that the cards may be issued by mail. After you get your card you rest one foot on the brass rail, face the bartender and ask 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 tacking. When you begin to tack, your card is of no more service, for if the barkeeper sells you another drink he forfeits a big bonus he has left down at the City Hall. The first ,time one is ar rested for intoxication or treated by a physician, one gets a warning with his headache; the second time one loses one's license for year; the third time one is out that is one loses one's license forever and can never have another drink, the bill says.
 No, you can't borrow your friends card, for if you are caught using it there is fine of $1oo and 30 days in jail for the offense. And if one is caught hnying drink without card both the buyer and the seller go to jail. If one really i'll, one may get a doctors prescription. but it may be used only once. A violation rends the user forthwith to the jail.
 The finest thing about the plan, ac- cording to the officials of the as- sociation, is that one has the best excuse not to take a drink.
 And, by the way, women must have cards, too, and they must certify that they are 21 or more to get them. If man thinks his whole family needs alcohol, he can get g family license for $5. but he must specify by whom it is to be used. The family license can be used only when the head of the house is along. If wify goes to the tango teas and does aught ' but tango, she must have her own license. Yes, they will come in differ ent colors to match one's gown. You see the plan Is to be thoroughly reasonable.
 William T. Hoyt. who lives in Mil ford. Conn.,, and is President of the National Defense Association, told all about the plan after the meeting.
 '.It will be an honor to have a drink card" he explained, because it will certify that one dosn't drink too much. Very simple ,is it not, for 1t one drinks too much one ceases to have card, and consequently can not drink any more. In that way there will be no drunkards. Very simple in- deed. Then If one drinks only because it seems . social obligation, one has q good excuse if one says one hasn't a card. . person gets locked up for being intoxicated, he can't dodge the issue by giving a fictitious name, for if he hasn't card he goes to jail anyway, and if he has card it iden- tifies him. Very simple. Here are few things this lav will do ;
 "It will stop treating"
 Ut will stop selling to minors, for no minors can get license.
 Tt will stop the creation of dip- somaniacs, inebriates and drunk ards.
 "Salesmen. politicians, reporters and other popular persons may refuse alcoholic drinks without giving of- fense. simply by having no card" s- ' r - "