The Cordova daily times., 1921-07-29

tfraid of peril whose magnitude it cannot comprehend.
 ln accordance with popular vote. the province of British Columbia is being placed on the wet list as one of the two provinces in Canada where liquor may be sold legally for beverage purposes.
 Vancouver, directly across the line from Seattle. Wash, and, with it's more than 100000 people, the largest 2ity in the province, is on the brink of something that causes forebodings in home, business establishment and 'lub. Will the wet regime make for he incoming of a horde of undesir- lbles from the United States and the middle-western Canadian provinces [? Or, on the other hand, will the gouty rich flock here in such droves that business will be given a stimulus it has never known before? These are
 he questions Vancouver is asking. Even under prohibition the sale of sull-strength beer which was permit. ed here attracted large crowds of people from south of the boundary. On one Sunday this spring, when the 'ale of hard stuff was still in the fu-
 ure, more than 2OO0 tourist automo. piles, filled with visitors, cleared lcross the line from Washington state.
 In addition, heavy traffic was re- ported on the owl trains and night boats from Seattle It was one of the Sundays when more than the usual crowd came to taste of the pleasures of British Columbia seen. ary and beer.
 But hooch, real hooch, what will hat do to Vancouver?
 This city has q four,million.dollar hotel the Hotel Vancouver. which is peryaded by a London-Hong Kong Paris-Naples and New York atmo-. phere. Big game hunters from the Congo rub shoulders with gentlemen who have come from visits 10 De- valera, or American miuionaires. to arrange for shipment of supplies to the Sim Fein forces in Ireland.
 You can meet United States sena- tors from the southern states and communists from the shores of Eng land in Vancouver.
 The fact that Vancouver is the iumping-off place for the orient brings a constant galaxy of wealth and fashion to this city.
 Vancouyer's peril or fortune. which ever it may be, provides the prin- cipal subject Of conversation as the government liquor control board pro ceeds with the opening of its grow ing chain of liquor shops.
 To buy liquor you must have a D, nit or license. A resident can
 p, ! permit good for one year for }-. 4 nonresident can buy a permit for the same sum, but it is only good for two weeks A man who wants a bottle badly, but who Is without the necessary $5 for a permit, may buy an individual permit good for only one purchase by paying fifty cents.
 Those who abhor liquor but appre, ciate the merits of stout. ale and beer, can buy a special malt permit for $2 which entities them to pur. chase these goods for one year.
 The government is filling it's shelves as rapidly as possible. Buy kets of Europe. and new brands and vintages are daily making their ap- pearance. A good quality of Scotch whiskey sells for Si to S4.50 with other goods sold at proportionate rate.
 When the complete stocks are on hand there will be vermouth, rare wines from select vineyards in France and Spain. liquors such as epi- cures love. brandies that have not seen the light of day for fifty years and the myriad of drinks that good host can concoct from such material,
 But British Columbia citizens are not altogether satisfied with the prices. Four dollars and fifty cents is too much to charge for gcod Scotch, they claim, and as Tesul; the private liquor importing houses are doing a good trade by cutting the government prices slightly. British Columbia's desirability to those who hold that access to liquor and liberty go hand in hand is