The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-05-27
ARE YOU FLIRTING WITH
DEATH?

MS peTIlIleIlL question 10 dohcu ny
the Oklahoma Democrat, and answ-
cred in an editorial, which says, in
part:
Ear be it from US to seek to US
urp the functions and prerogatives
of the pulpit, but the lesson to be
drawn from the recent confession Of
Saline county Sinner to Prohibi-
ton Director Rowden that he was so
fearful of the product of his own
! still that he got his own Gags" from
extracts and jamaica ginger rather
than from moonshine, is SO plain and
so emphatic that we cannot forego
calling attention to it in these col
umns.
"This Sinner, taken with his plant,
consisting of sixty-gallon iron oil
barrel for a pot" and coil lead
pipe for a worm" admitted that he
had manufactured and sold in Little
Rock, Hot Springs and Ell Dorado,
during a period Of eighteen months,
a total of 1,4OO gallons of whiskey,
of which he was so afraid that he
never, during all that time drank a
single drop, satisfying his own taste
for Intoxicating beverages with con-
coctions bought at the drug stores
and groceries.
Doesn't this emphasize the great
risk which the drinker is taking with
current offerings in the liquor mar
ket? Doesn't it point warning fin
ger that ought to be needed? Are
you flirting with death?"
CONVICTS FAVOR DRY LAW.
A convincing bit Of news is found
in recent issue of the Pittsburg
Press, which states:
Every year the sociologist, study
ing crime and the criminal, con-
vinces an increasing number of US
of our duty to ascertain what it is
that makes men morally blind and
crippled and endeavor to cure them
as we cndeavor to cure the physical
ly blind and crippled. There is much
food for thought in regard to our
responsibility in this direction in
such a vote as President budding of
the National Prisoners Relief So
ciety has just taken of the convicts
IN 322 prisons on the question of
prohibition. 1t resulted in a vote of
133,415 to 909 in favor of the eigh-
teenth amendment. Surely this shows
moral sympathies among these un-
fortunate men-a remorse for their
wasted lives, and resentment
against the evil of whiskey, which
had a hand in the undoing of most
of them"
Not So Easy To Get After All.
Off1cers in many of the smaller !
cities and towns often advance as
their reason for not going after the
oootlegger, the fact that the law is
not being enforced in the large cities. |
This is patiently a flimsy excuse
and worse, for as rule it is not
rue. For instance, in the Detroit
Chronicle we read:
James R. Davis, Prohibition d.
'ector. doesn't take a great lead of
stock in the current talk to the eff
ect that all you have to do to get a
'ottle Of liquor in Detroit is to step
n and ask for it and lay down your
money. Davis recently made this
proposition to friend who was in
lulging in loose talk on the subject:
III tell you what I'll do with YOU.
IL pay you ten dollars for every
ottle Of liquor you can get any place
where you are not known if you will
ay me five dollars for every failure
ou experience in such places. I'll
cave it all to yourself. Just 90 ont
nd get busy A few days after
'ard his friend met him and said.
owe you $50. l tried twelve places
ut couldn't get a single bottle Of
ooze. Davis refused the money, tell.
'g his friend that all he wanted to
o was to convinve him that il is
OF easy to get liquor as he seemed
, think"