The Washington herald., 1919-11-09

New York, Nov. e.-A fair expo
nent OF that strange genius known
AS the typical New Yorker" fresh
iy spatted and barbered and mani
cured to an amazing sickness.
strblled out of Considine's Cafe. at
Broadway and Forty-second street,
the other day at o'clock. He
stood at the curb a feW moments
lost liz retrospection. Finally he
came to, with jerk. yawued and
sighed: We'll. III be damned"
There was not. a soul in Consi-
dimes. All around the Lobster Belt
the few saloons left open were
ghostly in their emptiness. Those
strange spVrtive -about-town
who go in for checkered suits and
larse watch chains and Turkish
baths are lost. There is no place to
so but home-home to them is gen
orally Il cubby hole four lights up
ring Finnegan's bell in the board
ing house district.
For tho past week New York has
seen how the great city looks with
the lid on. Outside OF the bootleg
gers. New York is dry. Nothing is
being sold anywhere. The comments
are varied aud interesting.
The National Association Opposed
10 Prohibition brUke[fRto Llt- uf the
first pages this week by pinniug the
Nwave OF -padicalism TO the cOattaiis
of prohibition. Trained newspaper
and magazine men found that the
!. w. W. tiourished best i'll the dry
States,
However, the best psychology OF. the
irritation Of prohibition was reported
In the New York newspapers in re-
viewing Il discussion that Was held
at private dinner III the Waldorf
this week. THE guests were profound
thinkers-lawyers, Judges. doctors and
a sprinkling of journalists,
A celebrated lawyer. over the after
dinner panatella. was drawn into a
discussion of prohibition. He would
not put the blame for the sweep Of
amplified the question thusly:
I'VE all know that the petty annoy
ances generally bring out the biggest
give, sympatheucally. the grave Of
fense, but II a stenographer con-
stantly spells a word wrong or makes
an address wrong we will stand it so
lonS-and then we will explode. Per-
haps she will lose her job.
There Is no question but what men
have drunk liquor and gone home and
beaten their wives and resorted 10
other beastiality. But I wonder IL We
have not overlooked the psychology
Of the desire for alcohol. There are
a great majority Of drinkers, who,
under a tension all day. slow up and
relax with the evening drink. The
same effect might be secured by a
hot bath. These men never beat their
wives. In fact, the most of them 90
home In a better humor.
Il am not defending drinking. / am
facing the facts. When the working
man found his beer cut down to 2.15
he was annoyed. With wartime pro-
hibttion he had to go out OF his way
and enter blind tigers to get a drink.
lie had to drink inferior stun. And
finally he found he couldn't get a
drink at all without paying exorbi-
tant prices. In many cases, like the
man with the annoying stenographer-
he exploded
Prohibition merely. increased his
irritation over the high cost of living
and other problems. But to blame
prohibition directly for the radfcalism
Is unfair"
But to return to the Great White
Woy-the old-time Eaunts are sad to
see. The dance places are like grave
yards. But in the private homes
here are parties, snaall bat merry.
Fso ZieSfeld has had almost -every-
hing named after him-from babies
20 hats. Now an apartment house,
being baiif by tso OF his zsfars, will
be known as rThe ziegfeid, ;, and it