The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-12-08
TheCherry
" Where with our
roo Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
fOundly, sometimes fippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

Well, here comes old man John
Barleycorn, stalking back among US,
big as life, standing up in his own
lawful boots, saying, Howde!
Of course, in way, John has never
been away, as far as most of the
American area is concerned. But he
has had to go skulking around like
a criminal.
Now he comes back by invitation,
by declaration, by the determination
of the people to have him around.
Funny the way nation can expert
ment and fool around, trying to get
some place.
Those who think the Roosevelt
method of experimentation is new
might have look at the experiment
tation which began with prohibition,
with which Roosevelt had nothing in
particular to do.
There's lot of fooling around to
be done with the method of handing
this new conner. Some of it will be
utterly idiotic and some will be sane.
Perhaps most of it will be not SO
sane. But there are still lot OF
folks who don't have anything to do
except carry out self-imposed mis-
sion to run the lives of others. And
how busy they are right now!
So, we shall add few more to the
thousands upon thousands of laws
which we now have and which no sin.
gle person can understand or begir
to remember.
Without doubt there will be a lot
of experimentation with the idea that
liquor may be served to those who
sit at tables, but not to those who
stand at bars, which puts liquor with.
in the reach of those who can afforG
| to sit at tables, out of the reach o1
| those who either cannot afford the
luxury or who do not at the moment
care for food.
AS we welcome John Barleycorr
back among us in his newly achieved
legal right, we look upon the recap
itulation of the results of the late
visit of Mr.. Maxim Litvinoff.
The further away Mr.. Litvinofl
gets the more we wonder whether ne
wasn't pretty smooth article while
he was here.
The effort to dig out of the agree.
ment which he signed any real guar
antee against soviet propaganda
leads only up a blind alley.
Somehow, the words, when exanin
ed in the cold gray dawn of severa,
mornings after don't seem to con
tain any guarantee at all, because o1
the unique structure Of the soviet
machine.
Well, if Uncle Sam gets fooled, il
won't be the first time. He has beer
fooled before, will be fooled again
seems to be fooled this time.
Big Business and its trained par.
rots and trained seals is hot after
NRA, intent upon doing to death that
revivifying tonic for what so recent.
ly was very sick nation.
The first criticism is cautious
just a friendly word in the ca. A
little later on it will be less friendly
and then pretty soon it will be hot
lead in the ear instead of friendly
words.
Partly it is a political battle that
is being steamed up and partly it is
desire on the part of Big Business
to protect it's ancient fiefs, to hang
onto its old proprietary right in the
business of soaking the people for al
the traffic will bear.
NRA has been far from the perfect
thing, but history reveals few pesfec,
things in the way of human endeavor
1t has done tremendous things and we
can very well stand some more OF
the same. Beware of the Greeks when
they come bearing gifts Of friendly
criticism.