"Prohibition is a joke has deprived the poor working man of his beer and it has flooded the country with rat poison." Thus a Brooklyn magistrate while trying a case of selling liquor, and in analysing the joke the "New York Times" remarks, "If he meant that liquor is being freely sold all over the city, and of better quality than offered some months ago, he had made no assertion that is new to prohibition enforcement agents." While we might equally agree ith all who assert that prohibition is a joke, or with those who claim it as a tragedy, our real view of the matter is that it is a drama, and deserves to be filmed. For instance along the Boston-New York road there are revolver shots at night and speed tests between prohibition officers in motors and the people running the contraband. Then another scene is where tha 19th hole at a golf course is raided by officers "attired as golfers," who, according to the report "made an attempt to play golf" before they achieved the desired vesult. This is distinctly good, for, of course, the costwne is everything when it comes to playing or attempting to play golf. And we should imagine that there might be many applicants for the job of prohibition officer, as the easiest way of getting round the law. But what of the recent occasion when bunches of garlic were used to camouflage a small fortune in whisky, When measures such as that have to be adopted prohibition must surely be described catastrophe.
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