The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-29

| where the drinker radiated good VIII
toward ALL A similar stage was
reached when a man drank whisky
| only it was much shorter period.
That was because the higher percent
age of alcohol in whisky let man
reach this stage in one-sixth of the
time he could reach it drinking beer.
If you caught whisky drinker in that
brief period of a desire to show off
his good will, he opened his purse
wide. After that, all depending on
the individual, he became belligerent
or oblivious.
There was no such thing as "mod
crate drinker." Month by month,
year by year, a man took more and
more. The small amount of alcohol
which first satisfied him no longer
came to satisfy him, and so he drank
more heavily.
have seen "booze" affect so many
people in so many different ways that
/ am convinced it is impossible to lay
down any hard and fast statements
concerning it. Booze is erratic. re-
call man who one day put down six
cocktails without batting an eye and
was as sober as a judge. Two days
later / saw that same man begin to
glow with intoxication from just two
highballs made of ginger ale and rye
whisky. He was going to get drunk
] because whisky affected him differ
emily than gin.
It has been my observation that
young men are harder drinkers than
middle aged men; and l know that
this also does not tally with general
opinion. Perhaps this is because
young men have .keener imaginations.
| The booze stirred them and started
rosy and pleasant dreams. l have
seen young men, not thirty, stand up
at the bar, and after slowing away
highballs at rate that would shock
a seasoned drinker, unloosen their
tongues, telling in voices heard over
the whole barroom the wonderful
deals" which they were going to put
through. 1t has been my notice that
younger men were particularly anx-
ious to have themselves thought i'm
portant and so, when they were drink
ing, they let their tongues wag.
There is one thing, though, about
the ideas which came when man
was drinking-some of them were
inclined to be little shady. ] have
heard men, whom knew would new
er be in crooked deal, after getting
some highballs under their belts, out
line to their companions some of the
rawest deals. / guess booze did make
some people think crooked. And l
know this-the fellow who was drink
ing heavily all the time, got to be one
awful liar. l don't understand this,
but know it is true. ] knew of a
young fellow who made lot of mon
ey suddenly and took to running too
fast. They used to call him zone
square guy" Today nobody would
believe that man under oath. He be-
came such liar that he couldn't tell
the truth to save his soul, even on
the most unimportant and trivial
| things. Booze did that to him.
There was one kind of drinker l
never could stand and every time he
lined up at the bar, l felt like climb
ing over and throwing him out. He
was the fellow that booze made fool
the man who, when he got a few
drinks, became a. "wise guy" and
Knocked" everybody. l always
heard this kind of fellow telling how
good he was and sneering at every
body else.
Then there was that man around
fifty who soaked up booze and went
along the bar repeating one sentence
to everybody, and asking everybody
to have a drink with him. A few
nights after the armistice was signed,
there came to the bar the advertising
manager of well-known periodical.
He was that kind. All he did for a
solid hour was to drink and tell every
body who would-or would not-lis-
ten to him, yankee Bull and John
ME Bull rule the world. Fine! Have
a drink with me. Old England and
New England"
/ never heard young men get on
single tract thought like that when
they were full. Young mems
thoughts ran in all directions when
they were drinking.
And the funny part about it all
was that l could never tell whether
booze was going to make man do
something wrong or not. Of course
in a Broadway bar all sorts of people
came in. One night, for the fun of
it, l listened to the talk of couple
of gamblers with two business men.
They were all drinking lot. The
talk at first was very formal The
gamblers were bent on making a
good impression" Drink by drink
their talk got loose, inexact; then
their pronunciation got mixed up;
their speech became thick. At last
they fell back upon few stock express
sions like-"I'll tell the world