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THE OMAHA SUNDAY HKK: FKHHUAltV 12. 1011. Drinks in Prohibition Communities BIG PROMOTION FOR OMAHA BOY p. If, AW SI c ii pvv "J- r c N V i ' r X; :! i . V. A. PIXLKY. General Auditor for Five Hlg Telephone Compunb PIXLEY GETS A PROMOTION General Auditor of Telephone Com panies for Five States. OTHER OMAHA BOYS ADVANCED Promotion 1 In I. In with thr Policy of thr Nrlir.nbii Company to Poik Ita Km ploy r to the For. From errand hov to general auditor of the Hell Telephone company In the rapid Hue of W. A. lixley. an Omaha boy, who hs been with the Hell Telephone rompany for nineteen years. Announcement of the promotion of Mr. Plxlejr was made Saturday morning by Casper K. Yost, president of the Nebraska Telephone company. I'nder Ms new duties. Mr. Fixley will have charge of the auditing department of the Nebraska Telephone corrtpany, the Iowa Telephone rompany and the Northwestern Telephone Kxrhange rompany, the latter Inc luding, all the offlcps In Minnesota, North lakota and South Dakota. Mr. rixley was promoted from the offlre of auditor of the Nebraska Telephone rom pany. a position he baa filled with marked surreal for leveral years. v K. B. Hcannell, formerly clerk In the audit Ins department, was appointed to suc ceed Mr. Plxley as auditor of the Nebraska company. Mr. Scanncll, who has been with the company In Omaha for years, came here originally from Chicago. K. M. Haldeman has risen from the posi tion of chief clerk of the Iowa Tel phone company to succeed E. Palm, who resigned to become auditor of the Hell Telephone company of Canada. The elevation of Mr. Plxley Is In Una with the policy of the company to pro mote Omaha men, where they have shown ability In any particular department. He Is the third of Omaha's boys to be signally honored. E. M. Morsman, Jr., has risen from the ranks to general attorney for the company and Frank Morsman has risen until he now occupies the position of assistant chief engineer. At a recent meeting of stockholders, the board of . directors was re-elected, and Is uade up as follows: Messrs C. W. Lyman. Theodore N. Vail. K. M. Morsman, George A. Holdrege, H. K. Sunny, George MrParland, K. M. Mors man,' Jr.; C. E. Yost and II. W. Yates. DOBBS TO ADDRESS THE OMAHA AD MEN To Be Speaker at m Special Heasloa at the Rome Wednesday Noon. Bamuel C. Dobbs, president of the As sociated Ad Clubs of America, is to be guest and principal speaker at a special meeting of the local club at the Hotel Rome at noon next Wednesday. It was announced Saturday that Mr. Dobbs Is on his annual tour over the country, rounding up the clubs for the benefit of the annual convention which takes place In Uoston, Mas!., next August. Tha distinguished visitor will have a meusage to give the Omaha Admen, It Is expected, concerning the general ad club activities over the country. Omaha ex pects to send a special car to Uoston for the convention. TO STRAIGHTEN THE STREET Commercial i'lnb Considers the Open tug of Tw eat I -second from lludae to Harae' Considerable difficulty has arisen In the lropoaltlon to open Twenty-second street from lodt to Howard str-'et, as the re sult of Investigation made by the munici pal affairs committee of the Commercial club. . The committee held a meeting Sat urday noon, at which Ctty Engineer Craig and a number of interested persons were present. It was found that the city will have to sxpeiid a large sum In meeting the task preselltrd If Twenty-second street Is to be made sufficiently wide, as desired. - The consensus of opinion of the commit teemen wus that the street should be made perfectly straight. deplte all engineering obttaclrs. and tdmuUl be adequately wide. The committee is to lml, 1 another meetlug litxt Wednesday. UNIVERSITY CLUB UNDER WAY J-citlDl Is He 1.1 Saturday Moon, to lie Followed by Another Krhruury SI. About twenty unUerslty Riiimnl took part In the second mettitig for the or gHnUation i f u noli cr.ity dub In Omslia at tte Commercial club utuuluv noon. O. T. j'.si''..ti ut. J as chairmun and J ',ani, Jtosrwutci- was secretary. "It ws decided that ur.i tt.cr meeting be held February -1. at which officers shall be e'rou-d. The cell- rr t- tie represented In Ins complete; .. .,,1 r-!.lp ar as fol lows: Mtcl igsn, lule. Paivard. Nebraska. I'ailrvuuih, iVmll, Johns-llopkltw. ober--.n. Columbus, An.licrM, Fer.ns aula. 1 , . m s r:il hmum Kerlnus llrrakdana icj'lt from chronic constipation Ir. Kliu:'a New Life Fills cure headache, stom ach, liver and bowel trouble. Zjc. For ala by lieaton l'rug Co. TH.-; m'ii'w i,f a mui al ! son . i l avi' the opportunity if ft i.l itiK the personality and Indlv i 1 1 1 it I i t of various pi ima donna personages, and it is highly I lobHiilr tluit a i we see th. i.i .1, tn, ,,i frm t.,. r,aK s,.ttings j anil away from the fascinating llluslnus of i metropolitan grind i.;na. -vc probably see1 linn, i::i,re marly a. they really are than do those who them always In a role other than th- on.; to w hich Kate or I lv- Inity has actually summon.! them. For example, Madame Gadskl as Lilzahcth, as J Isolde, as Urunnhllile anil .Madame Gadskl j as Madame Gadskt In a sung recital are two different propositions. Of all the leading ludles (,f operatic playhouses who haye visited Omaha dur ing the past few seasons. Madame Gadskl in tne one who. while getting absolutely In touch with her audience, does not re sort to anything which Is beneath her Im perial self. Slip Is on empress In her. own right and Iier empire Is her audience; die iifV'T becomes court jester. Madame lladskl was asked by the writer last week to give her opinions on two or three subjects which are of musical In terest jn.-t now , and rhe not only very willingly gave these opinions, but discussed them In the mo.n Intimate manner, show ing by the way. a wonderful familiarity with the English language, which she speaks not only accurately, but with great beauty. This again goes to prove what the present writer has so often written "iNKimge, namely, that It Is a beautiful language if we would only use Hut Who lines? Listen to on r.t il, educated foreign, rs speak our language and then listen to It as vou lienr it about .,u every day among people who are concenen to bo what Is called educated People, and If you have ears to hour .. will note a great difference. Conversing on this very topic, Madame tiadskl said: "Sing in English? Why not? I sing In English a great deal and I am singing more and more In English. I am always on the lookout for good transla tions and I hae found many. Pome trans lations I Work out myself. Only one thing I must Fay, and that is, 'How ran you translate this0' " Mere Madame put her hands tenderly on the score of ''Tristan and Isolde," which was open on the piano and from which she had been singing when she was Interrupted by the Intrusion of the present writer. "Ah. this can not be translated for singing! We can trans late It to get the meaning, yes, but the German Is so different from the German of today, and then the utter Impossibility of finding English equivalents which would In any way fit the music." Of course, this Is obvious to any student of "Tristan and Isolde," and the strong probability Is that that great masterpiece of Richard Wagner will always be for flermans and Germany and those who love tha Master and the German enough to study It from that viewpoint. "nut," continued Madame Oadskl. "there are so many other operas which should be sung In English. The Mozart opera are wonderful In English. There are good translations of these and there wilt be even better onea no doubt." This plan of bringing the oparai Into the tongue of the people here Is receiving so much attention from scholarly musi cians that there will be far better transla tions In the future. Some of the American publishers have taken great palni to have much Improved translations of the classic songs and there has been In the case of at least one publisher a very marked Im psovement and the names of new transla tors who are musicians are frequently to be met with. Formerly the translations were done entirely by exclusively literary men, but now that (shall we say It?) now that musicians are being much better edu cated along all lines than they used to be. we are getting more and more reason to hope for a better grade of translation. With regard to the attitude of the people toward the Metropolitan Opera and the pos sibility of opera In English, Madame Gadskl holds pronounced views which are Im mensely sensible. She says: "In I'arls, at (he Grand Opera, the works must be sung In French, except of course In the case of a guest-singer who sings better In his or her own language: but the law of procedure Is everything In French. In the Royal Opera at Derlln, as typical of Germany, the operas must be sung In German. With the same exception of course. In 1a Scala everything must be sung In Italian. So let America he noted throughout the world for Its unique posit. on In having the one great standard house where every opera Is sung In the language In which It was written. Oh, yes. it must be the great Cosmopolitan Opera. I do not say that this should be so In other houses. Just the one great house, where French operas are sung in French, German operas in German, Italian operas In Italian, and English or American operas In English when they come. (Mere the writer said "Yes, when they come," with an accent on the "when." which was suggestive of doubt, whereupon Madame smiled and said confidently, "Oh, yes. they will come." What then about American singers?" ONE OF CREIGHTON'S SONG BIRDS JAMES WAHL. Tenor Soloist, Creuehton I'nlverslty Glee Club. III -- - - - ' ' . '. J: 'j . "' "-'.:v , I t ' s i i i - . .... ; 5 , Ai. .. - I $ ',v. ,-"' I : ! ! ' ' i I S : ! - l 77. "Well." said ma.iiiin,, "(lie 1 tost on opera opeiiH with American singers, and right there Is a place, where operas should be frequently sung In English. There Is going to ln more anl moie opera In this country, hixI there is going to be a demand for American singe's; yes. Indeed, there Is go ing to be a demand. In fuct. there Is now. And why not? You have the voices; oh, surd beautiful voices 1 have heard!" "Yes, true, Madame. SHld the interviewer, "but is It not possible that our beautiful voices are the drawback; "seldom do you hear a beautiful voice with mental equip ment to support it. and with an absence of conceit. The beautiful voices alone doxnot save us. There must be something more. You famous people are alwavs telling us about the beautiful voices. Hut what Is the matter? Why do we not get results? We have the voices. We can find the money to have them cultivated. Why do not scores of them arrive, Instead of one or two?" And then Madame Gndskl'i lone was almost tragic ns she said with the sim plest kindness and not In any manner of condescension or scolding, but with dramatic pathos i would that you could have heard Hi! "Now you have asked me a question and I must answer It. They will not take the time. They will not go slow. They must arrive, as you call It, at once. No, they will not go slow. How often have I heard young women say, 'Oh, but I will work, I will dig. I will show you how hard I can work. If hard work will do It, I shall succeed. Let me just pet to work.' ' Hut they do not want to work slowly. Work alone will not do It. You know quite well that you cannot Just go on and v.ork; this must grow; yes. It Is growth and not ex cess of work. Then the pupil finds some teacher who will accept them on the theory of work, and the 'end has begun.' When a young woman comes to me I tell her she must be prepared to spend from five to seven years In serious patient growth, and If she does not want to do that, I dis courage her. "All great singers do not discourage them," said the writer, "I know of students who have been started wrong through prima donna advice." Hut what Madame Gadskl said to that will not at this thne be printed In The Hee. For It was a personal conversation about specific rases. Just before leaving Madame Gadskl said: "Iet me tell you, before you go, about a very charming girl. Oh, what a figure, a goddess; she came to see me In the city of . She told me she wanted to sing for me. She told me that she was going Into grand opera. She said she had been told she had great prospects of a wonder ful future. She was one of the nicest girls one could meet, well bred and beauti fully clothed, and very good looking. I heard her voice. (Here Madame' 8 eyes were a study as she looked up to the cell ing and down again). I told her that she would not do for grand opera. She was very much put out. In fact, quite angry and said: 'What shall I do'." I said to her; 'Marry a good man, and learn to make a fine soup.' She was displeased with me. Well, two years later I was again In , . I received some beautiful flowers and a note from someone and the note said: 'Dear Madame. Won't you please give me at least one luncheon date this week. I want you to lunch with me and my hus band. 1 am very happy and I can make a wonderful soup. Yours, etc' " And with great reluctance the Interviewer who very aeliom Interviews, came back to earth, and resumed his walk and talk with mortals. THOMAS J. KELLY, Musical IVotea. Mary Munchhoff. soprano. will be presented at the fifth extra concert of the H. H. W. series on Tuesday afternoon, February 21, at 4 o'clock. Miss Munch hoff has selected an excellent program for the occasion and will have the assistance of Mr. Max Landow, pianist. The manage ment reports advance reservations In ex cess of any concert this season, and as one-half of the boxes are engaged, a capac ity house Is anticipated. This will be Miss Munchhoff s only appearance In recital be fore returning to Europe, where she has concertlzed extensively for many seasons past. On April 9 Miss Munchhoff has been engaged for a Joint recital with Mme. Schuniann-HInk at the Auditorium. Chi cago. The program for 'Crelghton I'nlversltv Glee concert at the Hrandels February 16 Is as follows: PART I. Crelghton numbers: a. Alma mater song Hamilton-Kreutzer The Club. b. Honor and Arms (Samson) Handel (For Auld Lang Syne's Sake.) Mr. Harry . Hurkley, 'M. Carmen Fantasy Jeno Huhay .Master Joseph Gill. Songs: a. Kin Jungllng Liebt eln Madchen ! Schumann u. Kin Schwan Grieg c. Faden Erich J. Wolff Miss Elizabeth Hamllng. Quartet Persian Serenade Taylor-J ones Messrs. Wall. Hoffmann, Eoumls and Kersey. Intermission. PART 1 1. The Charge G. H. evln-Welllns Mr. Hurkley and the Club. Song of Thanksgiving Allltsen Mr. Frederic C. Freemantel. Gypsy Melodies Zlg Eunerwlesen..Sarasate Master Joseph Gill. Songs : a. Come to the Garden. I.ove Marv Turner Salter b. The Unili John II. I H nsmore c. Songs My .Mouier Taught Me ! Anton Dvorak Miss Elizabeth Hamllng. The Image of the Hose (Arion collec tion) Reirharrit Mr. Wall and the Club. At the High School auditorium. South Omaha, on Tuesday. February H. the fol lowing conrert program will he given under the auspices of the Ladles' Aid of the First Presbyterian church, .lames S. Col vln. pianist; Frank Mach. Bohemian vio linist, with kindness of Miss l.ltnnor Rentz, accompanist. PROGRAM. Sonr.la. Op. 1:17. No. 1. I major, for violin and planoi K. Schubert' Allegro molto. andante, allegro vivace. Frank Macli. .lanirs S. Colvln a. Impromptu -op. "ii. F sharp major.. F. Chopin b. Hallade-p tT A flt major ..F. Chopin James S. Colvln. Gvpsv I lance up. ,14 No 1 T. Nachez Frank Much. Miss Eleanor Rentz I Intermission. I a. Gavotte In A ma)or Gluck-Hrahms a. Impromptu i p. 2. No I l.cschelitZKl James Cnlvin a. Curionetta. V. d'Aiiihrosio I". India I Van Goens Kleanor Hi ntz. I flat ni'Jor F. I.lsr.t . No 11... F. Lirzt b. Kubellk'a Serenade.. c. ScherTo 1 l-'rank Much. Mls u. I'tuile dc Concert. Will o" the Wisp), b. Khupsodie Montr. is .lames Coiv ill,.. T..e chamber niotrc rorrer' ' ici, was to have beer uivi n b" the K . c-II. Snlnis ..ur" let .n Jannn- .';. leu wi,iri, ,,Rlj , le postponed owing to tne MlruF of Mr Si,., , el. will l ike pla. e tl... Venn.,- lVnnwn", Christian Asi latlon auditorium nen W.d .s.'a evtfinir I" huiarv I.i Tie una Cm t. which has ikc ssfullv i..uie. in e. consists of Jean W. It'.is. ii f.i vtrlin , Stethl I .miii i nai. eeon I violn- A r v.ola n n4 P. char. 1 CaMies c"l! i. T he pr gi am follow Viu.rtr.-4p. v. N 1. - u-r..1 Allegro allegretto vl"ir sei,.( Mm'" a.'.iBlo molto e macs' gro theme Kos, ot ho i n sc'o r- . hlle- Q'laitet Op 11. itwo movements) 1 chmkow skv Andsnte canisblle. srherao. Concert Ltude efor string quai tet Op. t I am a drinker, but 1 am also a theoreti cal prohibitionist. The facts that 1 am about to set down are facts that 1 hae gathered out of my own personal exper iences What I want to show Is that an Immense amount of liquor Is sold In "dry" communities. V. Legally, over half of the Fnltcd States Is "dry" territory. Prohibition literature states thut five-eighths of the Incorporated towns, cities and villages of the I nlted States forbid the sale of liquor. Only a few "wet" spots remain In the south. State wide prohibition has blanketed four southern states. Prohibition has scored the greatest tri umph of any modern reform movement. The lenders are rheered and aspire now to prohibit the sale of Intoxicants throughout the nation. These are fads. Here are move. I have traveled over the I nlted Slates In all sec tions, stopping In hundreds of towns. I never have found a city. town, or cross roads village In the lust five years In which, within two hours. 1 failed to get a drlnli. This Is regardless of laws. th1r en forcement, or the feeling of the community as expressed at the polls. This Is a broad statement, but anyone possessing the price of a drink can get it anywhere, unless hv his own actions, he arouses suspicion that he Is likely to be seeking evidence. it Is not the purpose of this article to argue the merits or the demerits of prohibition, but rather to state existing conditions as I found them. Clerk Furnished Addresses. I was In Jackson. Miss, when the august legislature of that state passed a state-wide," prohibition law. Jackson. the city, had been "dry" for many vcars. I arrived In the mnrnlnar. reirlslered nt a. hotel and asked the clerk where 1 could get a drink. He glanced at me and gave me an address a few blocks up the street. I went there and asked for a pint of whisky. The proprietor called a hov. ostensibly sent Mm somewhere else to grt the liquor. In six minutes the boy re turned with a pint of whisky for whlrh I paid 7,1 per cent over the regular price. The boy had not left the store at all. He not the whisky from a storeroom at the rear. I discussed the situation with the pro prietor. He said he had been lobbvlnir for state-wide prohibition, and explained It was making a fortune for him. He sent me to an agent of a railroad to verifv some statements he had made. The agent In formed me that one lunk dealer nut nt four doing thriving business In Jarkson had tnat morning shipped four car loads of empty bottles. I went to the legislature, which was busy passing the state-wide nroblhltorv Inw. amid rheers by tho prohibitionists. The busiest lobbyists (not exreptlng the re formers and the good women of Jackson) were the hired employes of the manufac turers of a popular "soft" drink. Tho vote was for prohibition. Mississippi was legally "dry." Tho "cause" was triumphant anil a brave band of good women wept and sang hymns, having "saved their sons." That night the lobbyists for the i,ri.,iri.,i. concern gave a banquet to members of the legislature. A car load of wine and In toxicants was consumed celebrating the "victory." The returns of express com panies and the figures of brewery agents at St. Louis Indicate that Mississippi Is consuming more Intoxicants drv than n did wet. The brewery agenta boast of it. Increase in Ylckaburjr. Vleksburg had been wet. State-w ide pro hibition resulted in erection of saloon shanties on an Island belonging to Louis iana, In whisky boats on the river and In "blind pigs." One druggist in Vlcksburg gave me figures showing that the consump tion of whisky had Increased and that the sales of cocaine, especially to negroes, had tripled In a year. Two societies enter tained me In their rooms on Sunday and drinks were served all day. An effort was being made by both to forbid members bringing In visitors, but the ruling was being Ignored steadily. Oklahoma city went dry. One of the hotels In the place defied the law and sold drinks openly, restraining the people from enforcing their own law. Three places in the town that I know of, with scant pre tense of concealment, serve drinks. At one place I was Insfructed to go to a certain door and cough twice. I roughed. The door was opened.1 and In a side room twenty to thirty men and boys were drinking. Police In the Farce. I had an amusing (?) experience In a place In Oklahoma City. At least thirty persons were drinking and loafing In the place when suddenly three sharp raps, as of gome one striking metal, sounded. Hot ties and glasses were frisked out of sight hurriedly. The men stood around In studied attitudes of Indifference and pre tended to be watching hastily organized pool c-ames. A moment later a policeman strolled in at the door, looked around. nodded to one or two of the men and went out. A minute later three more sharp raps were heard and the bottles and glasses re appeared. "What was that?" I Inquired of my sponsor. He laughed. "Why." he said, "the cop on this beat Is Instructed to stop here to see that there is no drinking. He hits the electric light pole at the corner with his club three times before he comes In, so he cannot see any evidences of drinking. He hits the pole down the street when he starts on, to let us know the coast is clear. Then he can swear he never saw sny evidence of drinking. " As 1 was leaving Oklahoma City I wanted whisky on the train. A short distance from the sta tion I went Into a hotel. A negro was In the office. He said they did not sell whisky. I told him who I was and showed my railroad ticket. He immediately brought two pints of Old ( row whisky. The small room across the hall from the office was filled with whisky and beer. Could lirt Ileal lleer. I Ashevllle was caught In the prohibition I wave that swept western North Carolina. , One of the hotels served drinks to me In a j room In the basement. The next time I Slnigaglia New. first performance in Aiueriru.i Quartet Op. T'l. No. 5 'Ilavdn Alllgretto and allegro, largo, mlnnetto Finale I'resio. The education committee of the Voiirg Women's Chilsilan association announce a course of right music lc'tires by Mr. Thomas .1. Kelly, to be given ,.lrnu. me Linten sens. n. It will he rem.-mbrred that Mr. Kelly lust yar gave a series of lec tures on the "History und lm .-, ,.i etatlon of Music," whirl! was of great interest and vclue. and this year's cours-, hh it., acronipanv lug program Indicates, will be of even K renter genersl Inier-si. The lec tures will be given Tueseuy cvnlnirs Ht IV and will be repeated on t'.'ednes.liiv mornings hi p. V The rours- I.. Kins Tues nu . Fchrcari "t nr.. I will continue for -'.uh- we. ks ProgrH n for Mr Kellv s lecture: Fits' "Tl !'-.- nts' mi of Mm!-,:" Mimical instruments; musical forms and styles, the art of llMenhig. mui;c lovers; musical environment. S. cr r.d "Mnslriati- tt Men:' Ths evet v da - sni. e.f n.!ii .: 'he ints,,-r.! -; )i p . r wit wihuoni uni t bib snphv. Third--"So- Glimpses if t! WYrk e.f tie Ijiinentea American Computer, i. A. Murl .owell." Fourth "The Study ut Music." The pupil. Writer in the American Magazine for January Tells of Many "Dry" Places Where He Secured His Glass or Bottle While Traveling Sometimes Liquor Was Hard to Get, but Knowing Clerk or Town Sport Usually Furnished Plenty went there the retreat was closed. There were three places operating openly 1n the business center, ex-saloons turned Into "near, beer pr.laces." They serve the 1 per cent alcohol slop allowed by law, and also bottled Hudwelser shipped front St. Louis and a beer made by Iemp. These are sold discriminatingly. 1 drank one glass of ' near beer." looked grlevedly at the bartender, who apologized and produced real beer, lie exclaimed that he was being watched and that I was a stranger. An hour later, when satisfied I was not a spotter, he sold me excellent whisky. At llendersonvllle, also a "dry" town. 1 pur chased after a few moments skirmishing a brand of white corn whisky said to be the product of an Illicit still. The man who sold It to me Informed me that since the enactment of the prohibitory laws In Hun- combe county (name singularly appropriate as fur as prohibition Is concerned! Illicit distilling had been revived all throiufh the mountain district, and he complained lilt terly that the mountaineers had grown wise and. Instead of turning out the famous "mountain dew," were stilling wretched slops. Later he supplied me with a bottle of corn whisky which he explained was good, and he winked wisely as If to con vey a hint that he had made It himself and knew It to be good. Much In Hollands. Itcdlands, Cal., Is "dry," saloons being prohibited, the terrific Impost of licenses barring the sale of liquor In a great many California towns. In three days In Red lands I purchased whisky and beer at three different drug stores. It Is said that sev eral drug stores of the beautiful city derive their chief Income from the sale of liquors. They all forbid drinking on the premises, but sell openly and seemingly without fear of niolrstatlon. The Jest of the matter Is that the police will arrest persons caught In the act of drinking. Los Angeles at tempted to close the saloons on Sunday. They closed some. There Is an establish ment In one of the principal buildings of the city which at once organized a rlub where drinks ore sold at nil hours, and which Is crowded all day on Sunday and especially so at night. Almost anyone ran become a member by having his name posted on a slate and buying a book of tlrkets railing for drinks. The slate is a retroactive one, for as soon as a man's name is written It Is dated back five days so that he becomes a member at once. St. Louis, whlrh closes Sundays, drinks In "clubs" organized all over the city. Three of these places which I visited were of the worst character of any dives I ever have entered, not excepting the "bull pens" of some southwestern cities or the most vicious places on San Francisco's "Harhary coast." I have been In them on Sunday when literally hundreds were drinking and utmost all drunk, and witnessed orgies that were wilder than Mardl Gras In New Or leans redllght district. From curiosity 1 made a tour of these places. Five 1 en tered without being stopped or questioned; one, the most respectable of all, I entered with a key loaned to me by a hotel clerk, and In two I was Introduced by a man w ho did not know me and whom I did not know, but who vouched for me as "being all right." Hard to (Jet In Wichita. Wlrhlta, Kan., Is as nearly "dry"' as any city I visited, and It seemed as If I might lose my record. After an hour and twenty minutes' strolling around 1 was directed to an upstairs room where drinks were being sold, mostly In "short pints." The town does an enormous business with St. Joseph and Kansas City in receiving expressed case goods, and afterward I met several residents who were willing to sell a bottle or two of whisky from their cases, nor did they seem to regard that as violating the iaw. Hootlexglng was widespread, but, JiiBt before my visit a campaign had been waged and several bootleggers were severely pun ished, which had checked the business. At Topeka I asked a bellboy In a hotel If It were possible to get a drink. He luughed and I give lil in tl. Within ten minutes he lelurned bringing two quints of beer. 1 also bought both beer and whisky in three other places, two cigar stands and one drug store. Call It "Moft Itrlnk.." Tl.ne was one source of delight to me In the Investigation. That was at Sbreveport, l.a., w here the saloons w ero, selling beer and whisky under alleged '.-"oft" dilnk names. They also ki pi the imitations, but ci veil w retched articles of beer nnd whisky to those they know to be 'Vafe." Locker clubs flouiislc-d and kc were to be purchased al slight expense. 1 iuined two clubs, opened the lockers and found intoxicants waiting. One locker was empty, anil 1 waited curiously. A slide at ftie bacU opened. I ordered a drink. It was ml:;cd and put onto the locker shelf, then I opened the door again und drank. The brewery, which bud made a fine beer, was closed, und the drinkers were swallowing Inferior urtlclis of whisky. The negroes were being served with vile whisky by j white bootleggers and the higher class j whites were receiving their wines and beers j by express from New Orleans chiefly. ! The pleasure of the business bail to do with a man who had been away, but who returni d after the prohibition law went into effect, secured an ubuudoned saloon and began selling with flagrant openness. the teacher, focllsh friends and ciretrs thrM never happen. Fifth "Music from the Literary Point of View:" Critics and criticisms; reviews and reports; how shall tliff public pnlee?; llter uiv musicians. Sixth "Two Famous Song Writers:" : Schumann and Schubert, comparative fctudy wiih illustrations. i Sev nt h "1 he Stories of the Wagnerian Music I Tumas and Their Lessons" Klghib -"Women. Their Relation to Music und Musicians Something ot Their Work." Lectures marked ) will be Illustrated ' musically. I'nder the direction of Prof. Theodore' R Reese, the Ladles' Singing Socletv Concordia will g. . :i concert In honor of Its anniversary on Sundav afternoon. Feb-1 ini'vc 11. at the German Home at I .1 1 o"i lock. The chorus will b af-.d lv the following artist Mrs Louisa .lansn W; le. soprano, mid Mis. :. It. -nrlskle, ; violinist The follow Ii n pirrMiu will b ' rendered: ' Frohslnn Wabi Hondo Fred Humbert . I'opcordie Singing Sorletv. il. I' WUHS' lell ib.cll dell Wg Z.il'lr',- lohann Hr-ibnn b. 1'as Kraut V rr. ssenlielt I'm li,x I c. r.i 1st iicgommrn In Sturm and Hegen Fran (Solus for sopiano), Mrs. Jansen-Wyle. lie dropped a nolo to me at the hotel In viting tne to come to his place where I could get "un thing to drink." Peveial others who had registered at the same hotel received the Imitation, lie sold beer, whisky, gin und soft drinks over the bar. and served the negroes with vile gin and whisky In a coop at tho rear of the place On each isit 1 made to the place ncvcuiI hopelessly intoxicated men were piled la a ditty storeroom, the proprietor refusin to permit them to leave the place until they were sober. Pull" Made Illiu Ilravc. 1 inquired of him how he da--ed "go so strong" while others were partially hiding their violations of the low. lie boasted that be had come back home to get rich and that he had "such a pull no one could touch him." The man across the street was disgui!ng his sale of beer under various names, and he was In rilgr.ont. He told me the newcomer would "queer the whole g-.""- " "'lie proprietor of another place was so angry, even while be sold beer back of the icebox. A few liii'.s later a drunken man stepped out of the place carrying a bottle of whisky. He was arrested and testified he had bought the whisky ot the man 1 first mentioned. The accused mini told me that night It was all right and that he would get off Willi a light fine. I grieved to think he probably wns right, having sren the drunken wretches, black and white plied in the store room, and because to me fining did not peom a strong enough penalty There was no fining. The court calmly sen tenced him to serve 1.O0" days nearly three years at labor, with the stone gang, and his faith In "pulls" was shattered. I mnde a special trip to see him crack rock with the negroes he had poisoned with vile whisky. Meridian, Miss., has the locker sysieni, and one needs to be brought Into tho club by some one who is known. Two societies In the town entertained strangers in their club rooms and served drinks to them. I visited both und drank in them, but when 1 returned to .Meridian again 1 discovered both had Issued stringent commands for bidding members to bring strangers Into the club houses. Knoxvllle. Tenn., has both the locker club and the "near-beer" schemes. No one standing on his head on lop of the tower of the First Methodist church could find a drink. I walked Into several bars and drank before 1 discovered the town was prohibition. Waycross. tin., was served on the drug Btore plan, and a serious effort was made to keep whisky from tho negroes, who, however, were being served by bootleggers. Memphis Ignores l,an, Memphis simply decided to ignore the fact that Tennessee has a state wide pro hibition law. Tho saloons nourish openly und Ignore the law entirely. Mobile, how ever (while indignant over the passage of the Alabama law), partially observes It. There Is one place In .Mobile which Is a good example of the Ingenuity of the liquor sellers in evading the law. The place seems Innocent enough. 1 was directed to it and after passing througli the front room came to a large Icebox. The door of the Icebox opened, 1 walked through It Into u rear room, which was crowded with men und .boys drinking and carousing. The prohibition wave uffected the small plantation centers of Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama peculiarly before the "state wide" laws went into effect. There was a moru or less honest desire to keep the whisky away from the negroes, und coun try and plantation stores restricted the sale to colored men In self defense. When the larger cans un,J tow ns oeaan to vine "dry" the country and plantation store keepers derided lo make tneli .lisuicts pro hibition, not from moral principles, but because they felt Indignant thut the saloon keepers in larger jdaces rs raped paying license wnlle they bore th: burden. They substituted express orders for tpen selling of llquois. I have seen orders for as high as forty-eight quarts of whisky sent, and when the goods ar rivnl the whisky was delivered by the xtorckt eper to Ills "regular trade." At two places the storekeept rs did nut go through the formality of asl;lng the cus tomers whether or not they wanted w hisky, but sent in weekly order in their nanus. Nor was it difficult for persons who hud forgotten or neglected to order whisky to gel it, for the storekei pels kept on hand a few "uncalled-for" bottles, upon whlrh It was easy to write ,i name 'In u great extent this helped to Uee;i the wl.l i;y fr. in the negroes, but the eclon i) pop. ra tion was not far hi hind the . u!t. pliinier In learning the tricks. 1 -a th' i t suit of the arrival of a case of ii up whisky ut a cotton plantation i car Annlsioi.. ami it whs not pleasant. About thirty n.gioe , men and women, joung am! old, weir hall crazid Willi the liquor wh'ca wm d-v.uiri d greedily, ur.d the orate lusteu two days. The whins In that district were in leiror until the supply of liquor was ( x lm usi. d. thler (bailee In Inhrla. Atlanta ri.nie (n out of tie wet and prohibitionist rejoiced. The rh'if c'.iunge n III the labels on the loltlrs which proclaimed thut the s.uff contained only 1 per rent ulcohol. Orders for b er in un marked und unstamped bottlis were s nt to the breweries, und labels printed In Polonaise Hi illiu nle. No. 2 Wicncawfkl iSoio for s. pianoi. Mrs. V.. It. abrlskle. a. Morgen llvmn H. nsclii l b. Auf liom W'ass.r zu Singen. . IV. S.ii ib it c. Vei gelluiies Siandeli.ri loh. I'.iahm.e l solos for s. planoi, Mrs. JhuH' Ii- W v le a. Legend Wleneawski b. La Rondo des Liitlns Hut, n 'solos for violin I. Mrs. K. R '.abilskie. Himsel and Gretbel Consisting of a cycle of .-ooks 1:i com l.liiatlon wiih a recitation, according to the well known German Hlrt i f.i rv tale, the poetry being writt.n by lo in nn a .ledler and compos'-d In Carl Hohmi a. Introduction chorus. b. 1 met in. I churns. r. Trio and chorus. d The White Hlrd'a aong. e. Grelhel's song find chorus, f Mel. .drama. trio and i ni chorus j.. Mother s Sons. h Wultz. chorus I. CI. mint; churns The recitation will b given be Fr'.d-i R s.-. Nur w.r del Selinsu-hi K.nnt 1 ieha kow v Knscmble number with mu:j .uel violin obligator. Mi s Louisa .Isiipi n-Y le. Mir- rioWe Wist and Mrs K. It. .abii!:.e A Guarantee of Business Prosperity Tha Persistent and Wise Patrunag ut The Use Advertising Column. Atlanta Were past..! on t'i.in otherwisa the beer was the same as sold nnvwhere. One restaurant mhl whlsk, wine and beer, tho only precaution tak.n being tt it was served in cups. Soft drink places sold leer under various names and the vilest grades. Lock.r clubs and cluhi of legiti mate kinds served drinks. I think that at first the officials made nil r I fort to en forc the law. but wllliui a few months the liquor Interests adjusted themselves to new cond'itii ns and one has no more tumble buying drinks in Atlanta than In Now York, tiddly enough, many who bad uiged pi olnbit'oTt grew iltsqusted and urged thr tistoiation of the old conditions and hlc'i I censes. This movement was met with hot and vicious opposition by the owners of the law-violating "soft drink" places. This phenomenon of the e saloon clement fliThting for prohibition Is ex tremely common, in New Kngland after n "no license" term one usually finds that the strongest t mperance advocates arrt nun who sell Intoxicants They support the rofornicis le. cause thev run make more money sell ng cheap and adulterated intoxicants without license than by selling openly. tmw of He form Wate. Another r.tranRc condition Is this: that whenever one investigates a "wave of re form"' and nmsts of lav violators In pro hibition places he usually f nils that tho "reform wave" Is the result of rival liquor Interests attempting to drive each other out of a rich field. ( The Ingenuity of those who live by evad ing prohibition laws Is almost beyond belief, and It makes less wonder that the prohi bition forces cannot balk the sale of liquors even after they have scored triumphs at the polls. This I- regardless of the efforts of the authorities to enforce the laws. As bury l'urk. N. J . Is much advertised for lis temperance and oilier reforms. I wanted a drink there and was directed lo a place. Tho limn In charge led me to a small room in a (dace which was one of five such rooms. in the room were a small table, glasses and other drinking Implements, but apparency nothing to drink. "Ring onco for whisky, twice for beer." the nun snld as he stepped out and closed the door. I rang twice. I waited. No one appeared. I rang and waited again. Finally I got up and went out. The mnn demanded pay for two drinks. Finally 1 got up and went out. Tho mun demanded pny for two drinks. I protested, refused to pny and declared I had waited twenty minutes without a drink. The man suddenly became suspicious. I ex plained that 1 was a stranger and showed credcntlulH that sntliifled him. Then he led me back and showed me two pipes .the ends of which showed through the wall at one side. "King twice and turn the second faucet," he said. I did and drew" a gluss of beer. Conditions In Hi. .lobiisbnry. It bus been a number of years slnre I was at St. .lohnsbury Vt.. and possibly con ditions existing then have changed. Ill those ilnys the town was extremely dry, und a person had to be Known or to be w ell recnmnif nded In order to get a drink. The supply was limited, although one could go to his loom and have whisky sent up. Once or twice a report would go through the village that there would be something" doing at the hotel that night and Saturday night usually was the one chosen. All the drinking men of the town knew what waa to happen and most of them congregated In the basement of the hotel that evening. They knew thnt the manager of the hotel had received a shipment of Intoxicants. Tho crowd which assembled was locked In the basement room and they drank until the supply was exhausted. Hy midnight dozens, even scores of men were reeling drunkenly homeward and the temperance people were aghast over the condition of affairs. An attempt to raid the place usu ally followed one of the orgies, but not even a truce of the debauch was to be found. Then the town was "dry" until the hotel mun proclaimed tho next "whisky day." Head Walter Handy (hap. Hiimlngham. Ala., vva i stringent for a few weeks after voting for prohibition. I knew no one there, but approuched the head waller of i,ne of the principal hotels. He evasively said he would let me know within a short time vvliHher or not he could show me where to get a drink. He examined the register of the hotel, satisfied himself that 1 was a stranger and a guest of the house, returned with a key and gave me directions teillng me lo go to a certain room in a building on u corner opposite tho hotel. I unlocked the door und found seven other men sitting lit tables. An Icebox was j filled with beer and w hisky, glasses, siph ons and other things were ready. On a I Itil.le wes a small bank and each person who drank deposited tho money to pay fur I the drink In the bunk. There were two j other places of the same kind in operation. It is the same everywhere. 1 have pur I chased drinks in at least fifty "dry" ,ivns and never have encountered serious j difficulty anywhere. The only real trouble I ev er had w us ut one place w here I w as detected pouring the vile whisky they served Into a cuspidor. Suspicion fell upon me und I could not buy another drink in that tow n. j Look Hopefully to Future. i "ne of the favorite urguments of pro hibitionists Is that even If they cannot prevent drinking nun from getting drinks the next gnu-ration will not be tempted and therefore will not know the curse of liquor. I hiiKired thl Idna to my breast and hope.) that It wus true. Observation In dry places does not hear out the theory. In alinoM every hidden den and "blind pig" I visited I found that a great propor tion of those drinking were minors. I , foi. nil that the boss were drinking whisky, 'and not b.ir. 1 found In many cases that ;the prohibitory laws urou.-cd the antogon irx.x and he rurl.oity of youth and brought boy to tin- pla "e .V'Jmlttedly In this urllcle (lie evil is re vealed H 1 1 . 1 th good is neglected. Prob ub!v tho good I hat prohibition laws avcom p'li'li outweighs the evils urlslng from tho stem. DUNN HAS RESIGNED AS ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY i: pills to l.enve l be III)- I'ay ot I I' M r i liun (be First of tprll. Itoll Assistant (it - Attorney I. J luiiui ha tendered Ida l e!ilutlon to City Attorney Rlne to take effect not inter than April J. .Mr. 1 1. inn quits the city office an offlre on Ins own account. t'i open lie wHl office with Lyslc I. Abbott, lecelver for tlm Independent Telephone company. Mr. Ulne l.a i not j rt selected Mr I nun's Biccesi'or He pas many utt rneys in view, not so far hue i.e. n tinuhlo to malm a ti nder to anyone. lim Ii III ('ontbiuiinc'. . woman's talk. 'lilal , tt r,f Iitu;s (inrkeibii .S'lf-pi m led ,S, HI, III ,. - aitlllK for I fiat hr r s unsw er. .k her ! I 'i ii 1 1, r : i i' A ninn'fi reply ,, Ins w I c u.-i-i for more un met . t . .. ife't , , ....in.,. ,, - ,ui u ci e i.itor wtiDin ii.r futloi- does not app pte, ov e. Olio i , J .'Moiee- i. .ruction ..f mistake for the opportunity to uiaka other. Judge.