Ruthless at clapping alcoholics into asylums, bootleggers into jails, is knobby-fisted General Jalander, Prefect of the half-million Finns in Usimaa Department. Pale-nosed teetotalers received last week with mixed feelings one of His Excellency's pepperiest pronouncements.
"New prisons must be built in Nyland [recently renamed Usimaa], and in every other Finnish province!" he declared, went on to demand new asylums, more enforcement agents. But, after pledging himself to continue sternest measures, "Black Jalander" concluded:
"In the course of our ten years of prohibition the Government and Parliament have utterly failed, in my opinion,...