South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-11-21

Tell Binkley addressed our local
cider makers at Melodeon Hall last
night on 9TH Relation O. Liquor Z
Sociability." Mr.. Binkley told his
hearers that he did not want Z be
understood as bein' on either side o.
tn wet an dry question-that he
wuz not in tn pay o. any league or
society. He said further that il
wuZ neither his business or his am
bition { purify any community, an
that lie proposed [ speak o. liquor
as he knew IL jest tn same as If he
wuz L discuss tornado insurance or
any other subject, with which he
wuz familiar. He also said, We're
fortunate L be Twin at a time when
tn world is bein' made over as tn
result of a terrific cOnfiagration that
has taxed tn resources o. many ma
tons Millions o men in arms have
been turned back int tn peaceful
channels o life; great factories an
mills are turnin' Their energies t tn
manufacture o. tn implements o.
peace: great international problems
lookin' toward lastin' peace are bein'
discussed. Great as this overturnin'
is-great as Will be tn changes Wen
result o. tn war'll be puny an in
significant compared t tn awful
jolt which awaits sociability when
tn last carload o. whiskey has been
stolen from tn Kentucky ware
houses. Fer a great many years It
has been a government offense {
give a Injun liquor. Our COVER
ment has held that liquor destroyed
a Injun's usefulness, that it inter-
fere1 with Civilizin' processes. Our
government has held that a Injun
under tn influence o. liquor would
often buy buggies an bicycles when
he didn't need 'em. That he would
sometimes kill. Yit our COVER ment
has not worried about how much
liquor tn white man guzzled or how
many red vests an autos he bought
while stewed. A Injun should have
tn same right { spend all his COVER
ment pay fer Stetson hats as tn
white man has L fritter away his
weekly pay fer beer an cloth top
shoes. But Wei take up tn social
end o tn booze game an talk about
tn THOUSANDS o. temperate drink
ers' that have { load up L be at
fable. Some time ago l attended a
banquet. This banquet wuz timed
fer o'clock. At $50 tn guests be-
gun & assemble in tn hotel lobby
Nobuddy wuz smilin': nobuddy
seemed { know anybuddy else; all
chins wuz up; ther wuz no hand
shakin. Ii looked like "A conven-
ton o door men. Ever buddy wuZ
III at ease an nervous. / saw sew
eral fellers 1 thought I knew, but
I wuz afraid { approach EN-. At
z sharp tn door { tn banquet room
a. 49, r,f
our places at tn tables BY each
plate wuz a Kentucky teddy an
box o. cigarettes. In two minutes
tn whole room wuZ one broad
smile: then tn recognitions begun;
then tn laughter an slaps on tn
back. A tall pompous Teller with
a pink head called me by name. lie
was a Teller / had been introduced
10 forty years ago in Joplin, Mis-
souri,. A little round Teller in nose
glasses recognized me across tn
room an knocked four tables over
gittin' to me. You don't know me,
but know you he said. He turned
out Z be a Teller 1 started L school
with forty-five years ago. an he'd
lived in Providence, Rhode Island.
fer tn last thirty-eight years. Al
ter they quit pourin' wine an tn
principal address o tn evenin' had
started. four-ffIhs o tn guests re-
paired Z tn hotel bar wher several
quartettes wuz formed. II finally
developed that ever guest there
knew me. I couldn' recall any o
them, but I wuz glad they wUz all
prosperin' beyond tn dreams O
avarice. Several days after I got
home I received a barrel O. apples,
four fountain pens, three neckties
an four boxes o cigars"