The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-08-05
Corhs and Bullets

ny Harry p. Rising.
Every day Is getting to be the 18th
with the liquor traffic.
Now comes the fuel administrator
and Ii cold-blooded enough to want
to close the breweries so that people
won't freeze next winter because Of
lack OF fuel. It's enough to make any
brewer sick!
American citizens not only need the
grains and the fuel the liquor inter-
ests arc consuming. but they need the
man power. Men are needed In all
lines these days and each person must.
do his best to help win the war.
A San Francisco shipbuflder wanted
to instill that Is per cent efficiency
the shipping board tells US about. in
his hve-year-old son, according to the
complaint Of the boys mother. who Is
suing for separate maintenance. She
alleges that her husband took the boy
into saloons and forced hun to drink
whiskey. Drinking whiskey In sa-
looms at nve IL going SOME" isn't 1t?
The puns ON how Prohibition don't
prohibit have host their punch with
the average lhQuor dealer these days.
He no longer secs anything funny In
them!
Liquor fafied TO give the official IS
per cant efficiency to one shtpbuilder.
On the ooatrary It brought 100 per
cent deficiency to. poor Victor s Reed
out in San Franctseo, who met death
by striking his head on . window sill
Of his lodging while tn an intoxicated
condition Reed was q nachinist en-
ploycd IN one of tho large California
shipyaedS
California nQuorttss now hope to
-save tbs wtne-grxpe industry OF Cali
fornia" until June. 1919. 1t must make
the average booze booster sick at the
stomach to put such a brief estimate
of life upon their favorite child!
With ths breeding of cats becoming
popular 8nd the determination of rats
telling what win happen to the snake
industry.
John Barieycorn Is said to be ailtng
from q number of diseased organs. In
fact. only his gall remains In Al con-
dfticn.
CLASSY appearance Of his eyes and
the dry. parched condition of his
tongue, and the wheese In his breath.
IT In about time to send some body for
q burial permit for an individual by
the naxne of John Rarleycorn-
For fear that Mr.. Hoover win
never learn of it and also for fear that
the brewers may forget II, / wish to
state that the coming barley crop in
the e. s. A Is 5000 900 bushels short
Of normal, according to official gov
ornamental estimate.
Senator Boise Penrose. of Pennsyl-
vania. II one OF the republican leaders
who In opposing prohibition. Wonder
II he imagines that the grand old par
~ can ever come into power as wet
organization Wake up. Mr.. Penrose.
and don't hght a winner, for prohibit
ton n coming down the pike at a two
minute cnpi
The noise over the return OF Mrs
Busch from Germany resern bles the
rafting Of n skeleton in the brewers
closet,
why, indeed, should Americans con-
ttnualfy refer to Bill Hohena tern as
the kaiser - Why not call HIM Try his
right name--Butcher Bill?
Herman voedken Ia the name OF a
San Francisco saloonkeeper who will
not sch any more liquor for many
days to come. Herman killed James
Kearns. an engineer. "a years old, and
Is in Jail awaiting trial on the charge
of rna.nsiaughter. Bill HohenZcllern' $
liquor system for the control of
American politics has bad ending
for Herman voedken-
Christian w. Fe4genspan. president
OF the United States Brewers associ-
alton. says there are l 1897 breweries
In the United States. Please let us
know hov many thousand men these
hreweries employ. Mr.. Feigenspan.
And please write 1t In English, Mr..
Feigenspanl
Send sugartess candy to the SOL
der boys" reads an Advertisement in
San Francisco newspaper. Yes,
make ii .tsuigarless~ for the soldier
boys. for the liquor interests at home
need the sugar in their business. This
bunch Of Huns used only 50 900. 600
pounds of euGzr Last year.
A newspaper writer somewhere out
west has put this sentence in black
faced type: NO sacrifice we can
make can be comparable to that OF
the men who have died that we may
live" II is q noble thought and
ought to be made into a sign and
placed over the speakers desk in the
United States senate and In the house
that 1t might sink deep into the
minds OF our lawmakers.
certain wet newspaper reports
that the big eastern liquor interests
feel certain that congress will do
nothing with prohibition at this SEES
sion. thGt the present noise Is merely
to catch votes at home" Which re-
minds one that delay under the pres
ent circumstances may result in some
conkrssamen not having any votes to
~cAtchr~
The Italian and the French saloon
keepers In America---so far as l have
bean able to iearn---take only pas
efve interest in nationwide prohibit
ton In America. One liquor dealer
An Italian--told me it would be a
good thing to have everybody sober
like the army boys are. II is only the
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