The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-01-28
TO WORK now FOR
A BONE DRY WORLD
DRIVING BOOZE OUT OF LITTLE
CORNER OF THE EARTH is
JUST A STARTER.

ATLANTA-Is or is not Georgia
interested in the proposition of world
wide. prohibition, proclaimed here yes
terday with such enthusiasm by DR..
P. A. Baker, general superintendent
of the Anti-Saloon League of Amer
lea?
SO far as Georgia is domestically
concerned, it makes little difference
whether the bone-dry movement be
allowed to rest upon its laurels with
the United States of America nation
ally gathered into the fold, or whether
it goes forth in search of new nations
and new peoples.
Mr.. Baker says the task of the
Anti-Saloon League of America has
just begun. Driving John Barleycorn
out of a little bit of a corner of the
earth like the U. S. A. is merely a
starter in the great crusade that en-
braces the universe. "What are you
going to do when you extend prohibit
ton around the world?" somebody
asked him in a facetious vein,
Refused to Be JOshed.
But the doctor refused to be joshed
or kidded. He takes the liquor CUES
ton seriously, even if he has got the
monster down on its back in a help
less condition, gassed and bayoneted
and shot through the lungs.
"You cannot have a dry town in a
wet county" says the doctor. "You
cannot have a dry county in a wet
state. You cannot have a dry state
in a wet nation. You cannot have a
dry nation in a wet world"
So far as propositions Nos. l and 2
are concerned Georgians will doubt
less agree that Doctor Baker is emf
nently correct. 1t was this very thing
of trying to have dry town in a wet
county in a wet state, that started all
Of the trouble in Georgia. But when
it comes to having a dry state in a
wet nation Georgia destroys and re-
pudiates the doctors theory. So far
as Georgia is concerned, there might
as well be no liquor in all of Chris
tendom-or heathendom either, as to
that matter.
Take Scotch Out of Scotland.
DR.. Charles o. Jones, head of the
Georgia Anti-Saloon League, states
that plans are already being laid in
Scotland, modelled after the Anti
Saloon League movement here, to
take the Scotch out of Scotland.
In France he stated the movement
was being officially put under way by
the presence there and the active
work of Bishop James Cannon, who
is looking over the field there and
planning the campaign.
With the nation officially dry, and
with the official backing of the gov
eminent, large part of the activities
of the league are of course at an end,
but this will not mean an end to its
work, it is stated.
This GeOrgian's Logic Conceded.
"If l were a private citizen, instead
of a public official, l would have taken
shot at them and dared them to en-
ter my suit case without a search war;
rant" explained certain gentleman
recently returned from the city of
New Orleans. "But you know that a
man holding public office has got to
be careful of his conduct"
His friends were obliged to admit
that this was a logical argument, but
that didn't relieve their thirst at all.
Especially when he launched into a
description of how it feels to place
your foot on the brass rail and order
a "Sazerac" cocktail in a firm tone
of voice with the positive infection.
They refused to let him go into de-
tails.