Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-27
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A friend who had read with con-
siderable interest, apparently, what
was printed in this column last night
about the opinions of men in the
liquor business as to what is go
ing to happen when rum troubleth
no more, called attention last night
to the fact that regulations regard
ing serving liquors to soldiers are
not being we'll enforced in Harris
burg. He said that it seemed to
him as though some of the men
In charge OF dram shops were try
ing to get all they could before
the clock struck and that II did
not reveal very good spirit. No
one had ever looked for a very good
spirit about bar room in Harris
burg anyway, but the inquiry of this
man as to what is the law on the
subject and his observation on it's
enforcement are interesting. From
the best information available sales
to men in the uniform of the Army.
Navy or Marine Corps were forbidden
by executive order soon after the war
began and this has not been re-
scinded. Opinions differ as to
whether this applies when a man
tie'S thS ICu CHeNTOn OIL nOnOTaDle
dlscharge on his sleeve, but the con-
sensus Of opinion is that a test of
the matter might result disastrously
TO any man who would sell a drink
TO a man in uniform whether dis
charged or not. The point was made
Dy one lawyer that the no drinks
| 10 sold1ers order was a war measure
and the war is not officially over
and that being so men in uniform
are presumed to be in the service
OF the Nation.
The rum selling business has been
setuhg unpopular for years and
many people in it are going to get
out with relief was the statement
made by one man who engaged in
the retail end of liquor some years
ago and frankly says that there is
not the memory in it that he thought
and which he knows there was some
years ago in Harrisburg. "The soda
fountain and the sundae put the
crlmp In the liquor business and the
| movie helped" was the rather aston
| ishing statement this man made.
The women folks began to raise
a fuss when they found they could
not go for an ice cream soda in
the evenings just like the men went
for beer and the cheap movie got to
be a regular Saturday night affair.
Then it got to be twice a week. The
man took his family or his girl and
when they saw the reels they went
for ice cream. Men found out that
they did not have headaches and
were not ripped up the back by their
foremen the morning after spending
the evening at movie and eating
Aintf that tho n 2t
One man became extremely per.
sonal when asked about the cause
of the growth of prohibition senti
ment. You newspaper guys did it.
was the blunt assertion. And say
I'm old enough to remember wher
some of you wouldn't go to bed anc
when the book beer season was the
cause of some awful stuff being writ
ten, and printed, in your papers
Little old Harrisburg remember
when some of you fellows who are
so strong for milk chocolates ant
an hour at the movies now, used Il
make Market street howl around
a. m. And your printers were JUS
as bad, no matter whether they
worked on morning or afternoon
sheets. You printed SO much of this
prohibition stuff that you tried il
out when you had to buck. the Philly
papers. And between your pr1nune
this white ribbon stuff, the busi.
ness efficiency birds and the wal
you put it over. Why, say some o.
you remember when there were {
couple dozen drinking places in the
Third Ward and you did not mis-
many of them"
It is well-known fact tina
Licenses in Harrisburg have been de-
clining in number in recent years
1t does not take a very old person
to go back to the time when there
were half a dozen more saloons on
Market street than there are now
and the people who back the retail
dispensaries, as some of the fastidi-
Gus in the business like to call them
have been changing their invest
ments. Half a dozen instances
might be found where capital whlcf
had for years been identified witt
the liquor trade has gone into other
and more useful lines.
Some people on farms and truck
gardens in the vicinity of Harris
burg are not waiting for the Legisla-
ture to change the law in regard tc
the season for killing blackbird
which it is proposed to advance tC
midsummer and are getting in some
fine target practice on the black
coats. The birds came early ano
in large fiocks this year, showinG
tendencies of a particularly destruc.
tive nature about gardens and truck
patches. AS result there has beer
some shotgun work which has dem.
| Oh 90 hof aif frdc ra od
in avoiding trouble or that people
have forgotten how to shoot. How
ever, the bird coroners have ha6
some work to do. If the activity oi
the birds is anything to go by there
will be lively times this summer