1923 Harry of Ciro's ABC of mixing cocktails (second impression)

Results of Prohibition in U.S.A. 1923. The late President Harding, in his Annual Message to Congress on December 8th, 1922, summed up the existing conditions in these words : " In plain speaking, there arc conditions relating to its enforce ment which savour of nation-wide scandal. It is the most demoralising factor in our public life. Most of the people assume that the adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment meant the elimination of the qiiestion from our politics. On the contrary, it has been so intensified as an issue that many voters are dispo.sed to make all political decisions with reference to this single question." Dr. Angell, President of Yale University, declared in his address to the graduating students last year that " the violation of law has never been so general nor so widely condoTicd as at present." Justice Clarke, of the United States Supreme Court, addres.^ing the students of the New York University Law School, said : " The Eighteenth Amendment required millions of men and women to abruptly give up habits and customs of life which they thought not immoral or wrong, but which, on the contrary, they believed to be nece.ssary to tlieir reasonable comfort and hapi^jiness, and thereby, as we all now sec, respect not only for that law, but for all law, has been put to an unprecedented and demoralising strain in our country, the end of which it is difficult to see." Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, in an address delivered before the Ohio State Bar Association last January, made the assertion : " That disregard ofJaw, disobedience

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