The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-04-10

poor example for the coming genera
ton.
Many man has been ''bawled" out
by his wife for attending the old
time burlesque shows. AS bad as
they were, few if any of them would
permit women on the stage to dress
while they were entertaining. And
yet one can get on street car, look
over the top of his paper and see
women cross their limbs with skirts
just trife below where their waist
line was few years ago when the
hustle was in vogue. And thus ye
old tin er saves money--not necessary
to go to a burlesque show and see
clothes-he pays a street car fare
and sees the whole works.
Were it not SO serious, it would
really be quite painful" remarked the
man who felt the blackcap being
drawn over his head, prior to having
his neck broken by being hanged.
And that is just the predicament in
which the anti-saloon league finds
itself today. 1t formerly said that
all the crimes in Christendom were
the fault of the saloon. Well agree
that the saloon is better dead than
alive. But crime goes on and on and
on.
Myrads of social workers, backed
by the dyed-in-the he-wool hatchet WELD
ers, now aver that the home is re-
sponsible for young America filling
the jails and penitentiaries. What no!
Sail, ahoy! Landlubber make fast this
sinking tub of ours! A new ship
must be had! And thus, no longer
able to blame the saloon, the pro-
hibitionists and the life-saving squad
of social workers lay the blame upon
the home Now for fight to fin
ish and wipe out the home. Take dad
and nom, tie them together, hurl them
into the raging waters, to the end
that so vile thing as the home be
forever blotted from this crank ridden
little earth of ours
Tennessee, by act of its Legislature,
has said that there is no such thing
as evolution. Once chrysalis, always
chrysalis. No more butterflies.
Once white grub in the garden, al
ways a white grub, no more June
bugs. And thus we could 60 on and
on, and on. Mississippi sixty years
ago voted "dry." Yet Mississippi is
quite as wet as the Ohio river, and
even wetter than the Atlantic ocean.
Billy Bryan said there was no evolu-
ton, and thus hypocrites are made
and born.
Roy Haines, who graduated, polit-
ically, from Hillsboro, Ohio, as fed
eral prohibition director, averred two,
three or more years ago that the
United States was drier than ever and
in fact prohibition was success. 1t
is a tremendous success so far as
the legaliZed saloon is concerned, but
when it comes to getting drink of
liquor, it is an utter failure. Why?
Oh, just because for the same reason
that hen always wants to cross the
road just ahead of an approaching
automobile.
A grand jury indicted the sheriff
of Hamilton county upon the ground
that he was owner of a building
being used as a house of ill-fame and
for the sale of moonshine. Only a
few years ago it was found that Trim
ity church of New York city was the
owner of many buildings that were
used as brothels, hellholes, and every
thing this side of the devils domain.
Did grand jury indict Trinity
church? If they had, they would
have indicted some of their own peo-
Pile, and in that case it would have
hurt the so-called business acumen
Of the elders Of the church" Yes,
Mabel, you can wear your hat in
church; the state law provides differ
emily, but why pay any attention to
a poor fish Of law that you fai! to
agree with?