Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-03-16
p||EN0S AIRES N0
 RINGER IS FAMED AS 5W|DE OPEN TOWN
Prohibition Movement, How ever, Would Find Many
 Obstacles

puenos Aires, March 15.-Buenos Aires which once had the reputation If heinz a "wide open" city and "gay- ar than Paris," is mot what it used to be" in the opinion of many trav- elers who were here before the war and have returned recently.
 The gayety is still here, they say, hut it is decorous and meantime the lid has been clamped upon many res
 arts in which the worst sort of li-
 cense was wont to flourish openly.
 Public gambling places have been al
 So banned, dissolute women have been
 driven off the streets, and beginning
 this year the police have begun the
 suppression of houses of i'll fame.
 The claim is made that Buenos Aires
 is today cleaner morally than everbe-
 fore in it's history, due to the Gre
 form," regulation of a recent city ad-
 ministration and continued by the
 present one.
 The. city council also few days
 ago passed an ordinance imposing a
 tax of 10000 pesos annually on cab
 arets, which is expected to put some
 of the lower class places out of
 business. La Epoca, the government
 organ, in approving the measure, re-
 fers to the Buenos Aires cabarets as
 establishments of corruption" and
 demands that minors be prohibited
 from entering them. What are term ed "cabarets" in Buenos Aires are merely dance halls with an orchestra @1yyo
 poorly furnished. Drinks are serv- ed, but there are none of the enter tainment features which made the cabaret successful in the United States. Here and in the restaurants both of which are open all night, is where most of Buenos Aires "gay- ety" centers.
 Theaters and moving picture hous- es do not close until 12 or 12:3cI o'clock. As late as 2 o'clock nu-d .merous restaurants and cafes are still filled with men, and some wo- men, with orchestras or electric pi- amos going full blast. Streets in the "gay life" district are still bril- liantly lighted, taxicabs fit about and the sidewalks have many stroll | lers. What is called "revelling" in the restaurants, is, however, not in evidence. The patrons sit and list en to the music, eat or sip their wine or other drinks, but, as an Ameri- !! can observer put it, "there are high | jinks."
 It is considered that prohibition movement in Argentina would find a | very strong sentiment to overcome. Recent dispatches from the United | States telling of the intention of Worth American prohibitionists to invade South America did not ap sear to cause much concern here k|ere indulgence in some sort of al- shollc liquor is almost universal The newspapers ignored the dispatch $ edltorially. One entire province. Iendoza, is devoted to the wine in iustry, and just as in the Latin Am. 'llcan countries of Europe the drink ng of wine seems to be regarded lmost as natural as the drinking of sater' There are probably as many 'ars Tn Buenos Aires in proportion to .opuiatlon as there were in New York n e-prohibition days. In these ars, thirsty Americans just arrived rom the United States find familiar f'nks, The Manhattan" "Bronx" nd Glover Club" cocktails are as ,ell known by same names as in New ofk. The Martini" however. is ere called a San Martin" which is ne name of one of the patriots of rgentine history.