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Ford Talking On Prohibition Says Any Place Can Cleanse Blot of Booze Dearborn Independent. ; Every little while there is a blurry about prohibition. It would - seem to be the livest and most important question of the day, if .one were to judge by the quanti ty of printer’s ink given to it. lf would seem nlso to be the chief topic of conversation in church, legislature, theater and university, to read the news items of the daily papers. King Tutankhamen was almost as alive for a short time i recently?, and by the same means. . When one travels among the ^people—not the downtown class, Pot the club class, not the local •-politicians, nor any that judges, the American people by a minority •of degraded individuals—one gets quite a different view of the ques tion. There are probably one hun dred million people in the United States who go from day to clay without the slightest consciousness of prohibition as a debatable prob lem; certainly it is not the all-ab sorbing topic of their conversa tion. Liquor may he sensed in the theater, »he legislature, the news paper—it is not sensed at all in the millions of homes which comprise our country. Thin false atmosphere of im portance is created by men who live In (• limited environment who know “the crowd’’ but no! '“the people.’* Newspapers are especial ly illustrative of this fact. They are made downtown, but they u e read out in the residential sec tions and in the suburbs; and >he difference between downtown where “the crowd” is and llie rewde.ce parts where “ihe peo ple" are is so groat that it' editors should realize the liquor odor would be as carefully banished from the printed pages as front the individual breath. . The gap between the people and their, leaders: is. great - in every, field, and growing greater, but no where is it more discernible than in .his matter of liquor. Leaders are still for it. and the people are now, nr they ever have been, a rainst it. When- the jr u> becomes wide enough the people will put forth new leaders who have eyes to sec the higher trends of the new time. One hr* the privilege of wit-h | drawing from the individual whose casts sjtXaes conversation, alluvions, jokes, argu ment arid interest center around li enor. We don't have to listen to him. He lacks an audience except among those of his kind. Hut the new: paper and theater seem to feel that .hey have a special mission to make the people listen in public to the kind of tiling' they reject in private. Th people will not sub mit to this imposition once ..hey t:v'.i-"l:vnd how the wires are pull in common decency the liquor generation should be allowed to ciie in : I crier. Its agonies should not be eric of the daily topics of Amer ican journalism. Prohibition .vas not intended to save those who had willfully and gladly sold themselves to alcohol; it was in . tided to save the country and gen < rations yet to come. There are a mBilan bays growing up in the United States who have never seen [ •■; saloon and who will never know I the, handicap of liquor either in ; themselves or their relatives. And ! thV. excellent condition will go or ] spreadurr itself over the country ’vhen tl'O “wet” press and the paid jpreyiagn.itlists of boose arc forgot Ue:i (liis.. ! There e.re, of course, aspects of ! the,question which wiil cone up ' far domin ion in the future, but they will emerge from a “dry” country and not, as at present, from a “wet” propaganda. There will occur no concessions whatever as the result of a struggle be tween “wet" and “dry.” When .here shall have ceased to be such a thing as "wet” in the liquor sense in this country, then the things that remain to be done shall be done. There should be no mis take about that. The abolition of the commercialized liquor trade in | this country is as final as the i abolition of slavery. These are the two great reforms to which,.moral America committed itself from the ; beginning of its history. One fact cannot be evaded in this question: for the first time the liquor evil is where it can be controlled. This was not true when it was legalized. The entire his tory of the legalized “traffic,” as it was or.ee called, "is a story'of at tempts at and failures of control. Protected by a government license; in partnership as it were, with the government of the United Ste.es.; the ally of every harmful political movement in the country, the li quor traffic was entirely out of control. It could not he made to obey even the common regulations such an forbidding children to fre quent bars. Rut under prohibition everyone knows just where i lie liquor busi ness stands—it is an outlaw. It has no more rights than burglary, incendiarism or any other crime. There was a time when the people of any neighborhood had to nut up with it. No one has to do that now. Any neighborhood, ai.y city can ) c cleansed of this blot. Sunshine City (lives 83th Paper in 1C Years. Has Reined That Many Times; in 6,CCC Days Gaston in Gazette. By v/e.y of fain Farabee’s Lake land Ledger we read of the unique record of the St. Petersburg Inde j p: nrtvnt, r. Florida paper which I ghee. away its entire first edition .•ny day the su. dees not shine i ’. 1>. PefCrshuYg. "i art Thursday the sun failed to : hire up to the hou' of going to r rcs-H, and the Independent car ried a feutvred notice to t’nc world .that nobody should pay » news da', c huk s w i yh i -inted every bov or a carrier for tnat paper. It was the Sint; tir e the paper had been given away n o'r> 16 years—6,9.‘>3 day-. I'."' ••*• • cn,?-’half free papers a year, strik ing an average. The luiieptn' • at s s,of its unique of er i r t;-tirist—eld,- IjUf always new1; ••'H.e T: dl'pcir'eat’s simshm • of fer j ■ that ic will g.ve a'" entire first edition, which all of its home dirtributio; thousands of extra copier to meet the demands "t h-Kiy. upon every afternoon wh: : the ‘t-n has not shone tipon Sr. pttersl in tv lor the fir.-" eoiiicfi 1,1:,iO p. m. And it has b, . ( died upon to ‘make good’ H!> unes u’ nil re than 10 'i-i years- art: ■ n 1 n fine record for the Sun-dan:: (Tty. Tim la free paper was March 2d, lP2tr. C»''d(.. of The Indenei. h";. me being given away free on tne streets and "at the office to every one wh > asks for one. F or the rtyejar ■'.d, vriber: a record i- kepa and each cimr we have had six ch time we have had unshiHell s - days each subset io tV. er. lit i •. advanced one week. ' re'- sabrefiber on The I depend . 1 i--1 was given a full wo ■ rW.'crcdlt Deefifdier S, t025.. If, th fifth »:f a new series; of :-rt more free day and every her will receive another fV i f.ne ei-k' < a-di' free. The Inuepend ent if the only newspaper in the world that ever made such an of* : , r. 1C n w attracted attention ail th United State, and has been a great advertising feature for. St. Petersburg, having created ;>>.. n . f ‘‘Sunshine City.” The ln ■ n, ept is game’ ar d the offer1 ii • ,i. ■ to prove to the world that r tersburg lias more ■ •;a j ...\ than any .other nlacJ in th United States—ex mi tt; ■ the western <lcser»s. Le.sk 0 ? Atf-endancee Is c'-.. ...c Of Failure ‘•ptodwny is Tn DifficVt O- ing To Lack Of Co-operation jj.i■. o-onoration Was fiy n ■ ■- i , f < a ■ th; 'ti.-e-i rc ■.'he (is:.riutie Speed V:>tt. .. C . reason for ihe present' ,p;.- : htfiii.n of tire c-i.t-.-r “Tbo'v.T .m thing, in a ptstshelli’ ! e . • : ■ hcaused by s.ck to r. i..:. brought Charier; ;■ would not be contested. ‘'Let them put it in th; ;ia, ;i receiver,” he declared. *•; ;0 if! «• j will be glad to see, it H ' pi 1 There is no hope itr a refisai- "* che Speedway. If Vvc- ■* the crowd.; and sufficient T ■ perhaps the money ' be ' ' * * ed, but under existing ■ ->4: % ' * this is irnpOt's?jSte.” -Ir. >V ad* worth said epp’• mutely $50,08©' had been i.o; g*" Speectway offciefnhs on the \ >y race heru'artQ that the of- .. .*** v. oald have to pay this amp- ,eiasi 1 . _ * .(U. Past Masters To Woir.fc Tuesday We-(. , Tt i?s announced from Ch Lod^p £02 A. Y. & A. th rriastors of the lodge wifi i s third degree work in an. ini; ceremony of the lodge to (t T \ Tues^ny night week, Jan. 1 e * ■ This Work by. the pest r ’ , "J ©f .the lodge hat been discus: l(j j .ometime, but the date tor ' ,.’1 j event was not set mul ^ j Further details of the r.r i(.- ‘' 3 will bo published later. > o '.. ever F.p humble, th?r< p.-k.'-.i'; piece like yevr own Plain Colors and Heavy BEST GRADE OUTINGS Mottle Outings 10c yd. We are making further reductions in price on many small lots in order to clean up. If you want to save real money come to see us at once. We are actually selling goods even lower than you will expect to find. earbkr's towels DC VY TURKISH i TOWELS -LADIES* SILK HOSE — SLIGHTLY IMPERFECT. REGULAR 50c VALUE -5c PAIR LADIES* LISLE HOSE.5e BED ROOM SLIPPERS All colors... All sizes... Felt and quilted Satin.Price Cut AQn Sale.... ■DHM———I—IMtt—*WU*,ULIl^LttT«UWJg» LADIES* SPORT HOSE Pineapple Weave. Black Only -10c Boy*sTfeavy^rey^weaters™" All sizes.... 88c MEN’S HEAVY GREY SOCKS MEN’S DRESS SOCKS Navy — Black — Brown -5c PAIR HEAVY GREY BLANKETS 49c ihnwjw*" mm* w»«.ww,ui«g«« SILK STRIPE SHIRTING Pretty Patterns, Rest Grade -10c YARD CANVAS GLOVES -5c —COTTON CREPE White and colors for under wear. Good grade, yard. 10c E3 SDB3ETCKSKE7 —BED TICKING Full width, good grade Pretty paterns, yard. 10c —25c CANTON FLANNEL Heavy weight Pepperell. Full width, un bleached. Prices are cut everywhere— Special 1_ —10c YARD —REMNANTS— -ONE-HALF PRICE Big table loader! down with all kinds of yard goods-CHEAP TABLE LADIES’ SHOES All kinds, all sizes, all colors. Values to $5.95. Price fc*| Af) Cutting Sale.. *1AW ■W BEST GRADE SATEEN All colors. Plain and » -MENS UNION SUITS Heavy ribbed Ecru All sizes..... 79c LADIES 98c QUALIITY SILK HOSE All Colors. We Cut A7C Prices here... “ • ^ Ladies Fleeced Lined Hose. Heavy weight ribbed top .. 10c ic^mmansBUKsaamama -SWEATERS Ladies &nd Misses all wool Sweaters. Red, Black and Blue. All sizes. Value formely up to $3.95. CUT PRICE SALE -97c -'SBT. - E Z UNION SUIT FOR CHILDREN All sizes. both long sleeve ankle length and short sleeve 7Qr* knee length. • WITH H milllllWI W—B—MW—M SHIRTS — SHIRTS Mens Broadcloth shirts and Fancy Madras All sizes- Pretty patterns QQr» Cut Price Sale. —MENS ATTACHED COLLAR SHIRTS— A wide selection of 7Qr Pretty Patterns.. . 1 ^^-30 ITS^OVE R A LLS— “ White back denim, suspenders back, heavy grade. Sizes 3 to 16.49c Sizes 26 to 32.69c —MENS MAYO UNION SUITS— AH sizes, best grade, Heavy weight -95c —BLUE WORK SHIRTS— Regular $1.00 grade if bought elsewhere. Our Cut Price -49c Same Shirt £ Boys Sizes —38 INCH UNBLEACHED BROAD- i CLOTH— ! Heavy weight, Smooth Finish, worth 25c. j Price Cuting Sale— -10 CENTS YARD 36 inch White Indian Head Linen Finish... 36 inch Lonsdale Cambric And Nainsook Finish 19c ESEses 19c siaasaaMBBSsmm^ L L ..Heavyweight Sheeting. Fine count. Good finish. Special HAMILTON HICKORY Blue Stripe, Best Grade First Quality FTJEaaaHTKWWJIISRWI_ —RIVERSIDE CHAMBRAY The very thing for work shirts Special v V 17 e 14c —LADIES’ HOSI Every Price Cut. Black Silk and Wool Hose Ladies Sport Ribbed Hose All the new shades Ladies 25c Lisle Hose Black and Colors. mm LADIES 50c SILK HOSE— Peach, Pawn, Nude, Atmosphere, Sunset, Black, White, .Grey O An Special Sale Price.. Our customers showed their confidence in us and our Merchandise and our LOW PRICES hy simply crowding our store on opening day at our sale and on Saturday. We were'simply over-run with customers, this we appreciate very highly and it only makes us strive even more to hold this confidence. You may be sure that at all times we will he nutting forth every effort to secure for our customers better values at LOWER PRICES thereby creating more of this good will and confidence. WRAY-HUDSON COMPANY “Where Prices Satisfy” Shelby, North Carolina. 36-INCH LONG CLOTH Regular i9e value. Fine count. Smooth finish... We cut prices 10 C ^ Here. uit** . ._,_...__ —CLOTHiNG VALUES— Boys Suits Value $8.93. Short Pants Boys Suits $3.95 Values to SI2,50. Short Pants Mens Suits teQ C&K Values up to $25.00 See these before you buy. They are special values. 7.:?irnjBP MENS OVERALLS 220.weight White Back Denim. Suspender ; Back. A big Valu 79c »■■■ ~ Iff-jm *•**! LEATHER PALM GLOVES 19c ) PRICES CUT DEEP READ CAREFULLY 40-inch Cortieelli Flat Crepe Sale Price ^ 4 $1.39 40 inch Canton Crepe. All the new shades Bolding Satin. 36 inches wide. All the . e ■ •; season's S1 3 ^ f-T-ndes i, O’ uu 40 inch ail silk Flat Crepe. Every new shade... $1.69 nm DRESS WOOLENS We have grouped these in two lots... Pric es cut deep—.. . $1.69 . $1 QS yard • wuq COLORED INDIAN HEAD All the new colors. 36 inches wide. The prices cut here. 81x90 SHEETS Good erode. Heavy Weight. SPECIAL... 51 •? 5*1W •TBar SHOFcf"!* —— WO^ ~ SFOF.S STAR BRAMO *5011|5 LEATHER SHOES Ew.nr Shoe In Our House Cut In Price MAKE YOUR SELECTION EARLY.
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