The Washington times., 1933-02-08

the maximum prices which the Government will toll
ten dollars and Old Fashioned at five, for all care;
but hope that Scotch and Soda will be ranked at
moderate fifty cents 1t is worth fifty cents nearly
always.
How Do They Get In?
judge from insufficient experience that the raided
speakeasy must be one of the most expensive in New
York, and this makes the movements of the spies
how. with the most innocent face in the world,
perpetualy being turned away from speakeasles, no
mater now many good @ names mes f and Eieg
of the best It got so they had favorte table IN
corner and waiter who knew them by heart. Then,
at the fortnights end they went again, ate ana
drank, and finally announced the raid.
suppose it's bad form for raider to slip in hoist
drink, and then cry out, Hands up! the jernts
pinched," whatever revenue agents and other
officials say am Thoroughly in favor of the prin-
cple that selling fifty cocktails at lunch doesn't make
volator of the law, and that he must be found
selling day and night for two three successive days
But if takes raiders days. with meals to collect
evidence, think they must be slowwitted. Or do
they perhaps like speakeasies and does raiding hurt
them than it does u.s.?
Drinkers Wanted
It is something to contemplate the life of an agent
Obviously he must be chosen from among those who
have feeling for liquor; it would attract undesirable
attention f-he went repeatedly into speakeasies and
asked for glass of water; bought rare liquors and
tossed them into the potted plants. (Apart from
genuine cognac, most alcoholic liquors are bad for
potted plants which accounts for the number of des
sicated and dropping you see in your friends
houses.) He has to be drinking and, like most
drinking men, not a drunkard
Another requirement which makes life embarrassing:
he must like the bright lights which it is his mission to
destroy. For you couldn't have him sulking at his
table, throwing moral pail over the place, sneerlng
at the boys at the bar and ecurng the girls at the
tables He has to be in the spirit of the thing, gay
when all about gay and ready to listen to pathetic
lifestores when the weepng-jag stage arrives. And
ready for fight, too if attractive occasion arises
He must be definitely MISREPRESENTATION man.
oua Var Erenou
In "The Wet Parade" Upton Sinclair described a
man who undertook to be liquor-spy because he
spv has to love what he observes to share in all the
ecstasy of vice. In the morning, he may report to
cold superior that things not they should be- but
after eleven at night he must whoop with the Whoop
est-and like it. That is where the tragedy begins
Because like all other men, he becomes fond OF specla
places: this club seems better than that (although
never could tell one from the other) and Tonys
veer than another not to mention the TACT that one
Harry sells better stuff than another.
And the moment he really begins to enjoy speak
easy he has to turn it in Five days he may drink, but
on the SIXTH he must raid. This Is the average Tor
small places and, of course, for really grand ana
spectacular raid a really grand and spectacular
speak he may take ten fifteen visits Yet the o1tener
he goes and the of our money ne spenos, tne
lucky stiff the harder is the tug at his heartsrngs
at the end Some day agent will get so tond OF a
speakeasy he'll just keep on going week rolng lnto
month and month into year. And he will sing hosannaS
and assure us that repeal will never work hat SO We'll
as prohibition.