The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01
WHAT HUDSON MAXIM SAID Ky LILLIAN pIRBIN MANIN

Interviewing ones husband is like the way of the transgressor. X per fectiy serious question Is quite likely to be answered with Now Lille. don't be absurdin or Rubbish, LII. that's old stufG." After persuaeIinc him to try to talk to mo as he does to the visiting interviewers, the next interruptions are from ihe plumber, asking what to do next, or from the painters, carpenters. paper hangers. ct all. for we are tackinr on some additions to our house this spring. We were to have been all settled at Christmas. In my sim ; plicitF 1 supposed that meant Christ mas fof 1922i
 MT. Maxim lounges in a brown leather chair. 1 take my position, note book in hand, just like stage reporters and the photographer snaps us. f8 sF
 In what seemed to be a highly pro fessional manner, I began
 Mr, Maxim, what did you read in the paper this morning which inter- ested YOU especiaHy2
 Madam. if you mean front page stuft, l Will say it was the ancounce- meht that President Harding is go- ing to run for second term on q particularly dry platform. which means that if the democrats put up man who will favor the modified tion of the Volstead act to permit the sale and use of light wines ana beer. he will be as surely elected as anything can be sure in this world.
 take it that you will vote thn democratic ticket?"
 T shall vote the wettest ticket. democratic or republican. I ann an active member of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, pledged to stand by candidates <who are the friends of personal liberty, and We believe that personal liberty involves the freedom to have ones light wine and beer
 Do you mean by personal liberty hanging your clothes on the floor?"
 Hudson is superior to hooks and hangers.
 T mean by personal liberty that every man has an inalienable right to do anything whatsoever that he may want to do without any let or hindrance, restriction or curb except that he must not interfere with others in enjoying the same privilege. Ii is the collision between privilege of different individuals that makes laws governing conduct necessary.
 But Hud don't you think that we women should have privileges, too?
 O O O
 Privileged Class.
 Women now are a privileged class. their privileges are far greater t han the privileges which men enjoy 1 once stopped at a rather high-class boarding house in New York for a certain period. The landladv had married six times and had got q divorce with alimony from each hus- band and was at that time suing her seventh husband for divorce and all mony. The seventh husband, how over. had. the good lady's record looked up. with the result that she landed in the penitentiary for pe- riod of five years. It would be im- possible for d man so to profit from woman by virtue or lack of virtue of the law. Another thing which saw in the paper this morning was that certain young woman had brought suit against Babe Ruth. the noted baseball player. for the modest suin of S50,000. It would be impos sible for a young man to bring suit aeainst some public woman on ] similar charge"
 .ton what war invention are you now engaged?'s
 T am net at the presentstime, ae-