The Washington times., 1919-11-18
TELLS RUM HOUNDS
WHERE THEY CAN GO
Polar Regions and African
( Jungles Only Hope After
/ 1929, Says DRY"

Those seeking cIimes where there
es no danger Of interference with the
rights Of bartenders are advised 10
consult real estate agents In the
polar regions and the jungle secIioh
Of Africa .,
The rest OF the world will be "Sa-
haraized" by 1929. Wayne b. "heeier'
Sdry'' leader and general counsel IoE
tie AntI-Saloon League OF America,
rheerfully predicted today. He ex-
cspted the Jungle precincts in Africa,
md the polar wards. because they are
the only sections not heard from IN
"a. ranorts OF "dry" activities. He
pointed out. however, that the mail
service In those parts has always
been poor and, maybe, II would be
5ust as well to wait while before
packing the furniture
EaxIIshwemen Hard Drinkers.
England. he said, may be the last
rountrv 70 join the dry column, be-
cause OF its hard-drinking women.
~We'll get half of Scotland very
soon he said. but our only hope in
F,ugland. at the present, is local op-
tfon. Our job is made hard there by
the fact that so many women, chiefly
those Of the working classes, are in
~eterate drinkers. Before the war II
would have been easier for US. NOW
the women OF the working classes
are having one grand. glorious time
with their war earnings, and the fact
that their sex so greatly outnumoers
the men is giving them the teeLns
OF reckless independence.
Germany? Well. judging from
present conditions, either Germany or
England will be the last Of the wet
nations. With the kaiser In power
we'd have an easier job there De
cause all the kaiser would have 70
do would be to issue an edtct deciar-
ing the nation dry In democracy
they don't do things like that.
German. Made q. 8. @Dry.7
aT don't think it'll be necessary for
our league to send missionaries into
Germany. We can depend on the ef-
ficiency OF the German temperance
societies. They are an efficient lot.
By George! Do you know that much
Of the material we used in the propa-
Eanda that put over the Eighteenth
Amendment was gathered by German
scientists? The best material in the
world to show the evils Of booze.
The Germans are slow thinkers,
and II will take them several years
Saore TO see that even moderate beer
Hirfnkfng is ruinous to a nation"
The Balkan countries are showing
ETIrAOrutnarV ACLANlNgB III
Wheeler said Bulgaria has been i'm
plorfng the Anti-Safoon League here
TO send sorne one like "Pussyfoot"
johnson to help il get rid of the stun
that puts ~kick" even in Bulgarian
buttermilk. With assistance and two
iyears' time the native "drys" say
they can make IL impossible to deyel-
iop q Bulgarian bun"
:.7ys Fate known Next Week.
Mr.. Wheeler hooks for a settlement
lDr the wartime prohibition question
land the fate of 2.75 per cent beer by
next week.
The United States Supreme Court
he said. undoubtedly would decide the
three cases to be heard by IL next
Thursday before It adjourned for the
term
In the Kentucky case, in which
Federal Judge Evans held that the
war was over. and the wartime pro-
hibition law had. ceased to exist, the
point OF compensation for liquor
dealers for losses suffered by the
closing Of their places is raised.
when we get this wartime prohi-
pftion business out OF the way" said
Mr.. Wheeler, well set to work on
three things: drawing up a code of
regulations for enforcement; getting
the machinery for enforcement into
operation; and educating public SEN
tfrnent to stand behind the enforce
snent of the laws
"we want TO educate everyone to
take prohibition pleasantly"