PROHIBITION REPEAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18255, 25 November 1933, Page 12

PROHIBITION REPEAL

LAW NOT ENFORCED - SIMPLE TO GET A DIIINK | —NOW NEW YORK, October 5. I New York is not waiting for the legal i repeal of prohibition. It is as simple to a drink here as in London—perhaps simpler. . j no police are not worrying to enforce the dying law. I saw ail example this morning in one of tho busiest sheets in the city. . A notice hung on the door of a speakeasy: “These premises are closed for violation of the Prohibition Act. But written over the notice in big red letters another notice said:—“OPEN FOR BUSINESS UPSTAIRS,” A policeman was reading the amended notice with an amused smile. Ninety thousand cases are pending in the law courts for criminal violation of! the Prohibition Act, but none of those cases is being heard, and it is unlikely that any of them will reach the courts,, ft is now legal to obtain any quantity of whisky with a doctor’s prescription. The leading] department stores have now a resident doctor in the grocery ■ departments. Any one who wants to replenish his cellar asks for the doctor, who signs a prescription without questions; and j that’s that. . | Speakeasies are no longer in dark underground cellars. The longest bar in i the world is openly operated on Fortyfirst street. It runs the whole length of the street- —nearly 100yds. , I There are tables and chain in the. open air, where one can drink in view of j passers-by. There is another speakeasy which advertises that a customer can have. all' the drinks he can drink for five shillings.