Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-16
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at least the outward semblance of
his ordinary strength and brill
lance. The battle he had fought
for selfrestraint rehearsed itself
in his mind, but his features re-
hected none of its sears. Alter
nately and with incredible swift
ness, two thoughts battered
against his brain. One was that
he should have told her every
thing; the other was his memory
of her standing in the doorway
holding out her two hands to him,
while she swayed on her feet as a
reed is moved in the slow current
OF deep, heavy waters.
IL should have told her." he
was saying to himself for the 5Oth
time, when he reached the side
walk and saw who awaited him.
1t was Waller-the im%perturba-
BILE, drawing Cholliewollie-who
stood with his back to the house,
slowly swinging his cane, his feet
set wide apart, as he watched the
afternoon procession of the auto
mobiles of the great and wealthy.
Everybody i'll Washington
quits work at half past four in the
afternoon" Waller remarked,
swinging into step with him to-
ward Dupont Circle. "That is
everybody who goes to work at
all. It's the easiest, LATEST city
north of Jacksonville"
Smith remembered that walk
for many months-his answers to
Walters questions, his memory of
the woman swaying in the door
way, the greetings of the men and
women who passed him, his over
whelming sense of sorrow that he
had refused the confidence Edith
had asked, the children playing in
the Circle, his calculation of what
to say to give the best impetus to
his fight-all of it stayed in his
mind for a long time, a phantas-
magoria of pain.
Congress will be in session
eight more days." Waller was
saying. "Let's give them all we've
got during that time. First of all,
l want to print a story in the
morning giving your whole theory
about this LIQUOR business"
Chow do you meant" Smith in
quired, feeling the necessity of
forcing interest in anything but
selfthought.
"We've explained it all before,
in broken Doses" the other sug-
gested. "What [ want this time is
to sum it up. Tell it to me. You
always put something fresh into
it."
"Suppose we put it this way"
Smith replied, his swift pace tax
ing the gait Of Waller: "prohibi-
ton of the traffic, manufacture,
and sale of alcoholic liquors in the.
United States is the first essential.
Put whisky out of the reach of
everybody. To shut off a state
here and there is we'll enough in
it's way. 1t does good, but it does
not regard the welfare of the 9th
er states. What we must have is
national prohibition.
CHOW, we cannot expect to take
away from the public a vicious
form of selfindulgence without
giving something better in return.
Therefore, the second article of
my creed is recreation - good
parks for picnics, municipal play
grounds for young and old, cheap
but good theaters, public theaters
if necessary, band concerts, every
thing that amuses and en~tertains.
That is, we must have normal,
wholesome amusements to drive
away the loneliness and grayness
of life that keep women on their
doorsteps and drive men into the
corner saloon. So much drunken
ness is directly due to the inabil-
ity of people to amrlse them
selves"
"That is absolutely true" the
newspaper man agreed. "About a
year ago a wholesale liquor dealer
told me-and he was exceedingly
profane about it: In six or eight
years we'll have prohibition ev-
erywhere in this country. Already
the moving. picture shows have
cut the profits of the corner saloon