PROHIBITION: Private Drinking

Four and twenty Yankees Feeling very dry

Went across to Canada and bought a case of rye.

When the case was opened They began to sing:√

To heck with the President, God save the King.

—CANADIAN FOLK SONG

On the U. S. side of the Great Lakes, last week, unwilling citizens of a Prohibition regime looked towards the promised land of Canada, saw it more promising still. Fat U. S. bootleggers chuckled over the prospect of a new source of whiskeys and fine wines; Wet U. S. Congressmen watched with interest. In the...

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