The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-13
CELEBRATION
 OUR DIZZINESS
 WHICH IS NOT
Fairbanks News Miner)


 Tonight will be a Great Night for the Good Girls of Our Town - the members of the w. c. T. U. They will gather in the Commissioners nial of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, or the day that America was verbally de- clared "dry" Although America may be far from "dry" today, Our Girls don't know it-so far as they are con- cerned it is dry, and they will fight to keep it that way.
 Probably we may be considered pc culiar in our ideas of the "wet" and "dry" problem, but they are about three generations old and all the ideas on the subject we have, and gained from intense study before and behind the bar, and from experience We do not blame Our Girls one bit for cele- brating, and we hope they will go the limit. We hope they will dance wardance around the grave of John Barleycorn, and then all jump on the grave and with their iron-tipped high heel shoes dig the soil on the grave into more concrete form until resur- rection where it may affect them is as impossible as the impossible is. For. it is the Girls who have ALWAYS got the bad results from the Demon Rum, without any of the allurements or attractions-the men lap it up and their womenfolk pay the price day by day while the experience lasts. Who can believe that they haven't the right to celebrate any victory or par tial victory they hay have gained over the Demon who has chastised the Sis terhood since time began? Besides, they are working to see that Friend Son and Friend Daughter do not go the way and entail the suffering that Friend Husband may have, or have brought to Friend Mother.
 Of course, America isn't "dry." It may be in spots, but, naturally, we know none of those spots. Nor are we or anyone we know of hunting them. Fairbanks is not one of those fabled spots, and never will be. It is dryer than it was, and less efficiently supplied, but if we wanted good liquor we could go out any day or night and get all we wanted of f, and it is made in Scotland and worth while, if any liquor is worth while. America never will be dry, which is good thing for the American People. No bone-dry people the earth ever contained ever amounted to anything worth while in the worlds history. The Prohibition regime is due for quite some run, as is an regime which follows one as drastically bad as it is. The facts prob come back, and that bone-dry prohibit tion will not last in America, for they are the TWO EXTREMES, and ex- tremes are always illogical. The best ol IIlluS IS IOt III Ill6 cAIlS the extreme is the ABUSE of the things, and abuses do not endure in America. The leaders of the FIX TREMES are much the same in re- suits, although called by different names the extreme of wetness, which is the saloon, or the modern saloon we had, and the leaders in those lines are called DEPRIVED.
 The leaders in the bone-dry move ment are known as fanatics. Deprav- ity will not endure and become popu- lar in America, and fanaticism never has and never will. Men have rode to power on the fanaticism of Prohibi- tion-and have rode right on out of power as the pendulum swung back by it's own force, as pendulums al ways have done and always will do. But, Interior Alaska will not get any thing but the best of it during the fight, for every year bone-dryness is working even partially here spells in- surance and safety to the fast-grow- ing generation, and for that the at tempt is good
 It is amusing to us to read the works of the higher-ups in the Prohi- bition ranks-they seem to go to ex- tremes to stultify themselves. Last Saturday Divisional Chief of Prohi bition John A. Appleby occupied two columns of this paper from New York telling how the result of Prohibition work has been to make booze so poor that it kills the people who drink it