Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1920 — “MARSE HENRY” DRAWS LINE ON “DRY CAROUSE” [ARTICLE]

“MARSE HENRY” DRAWS LINE ON “DRY CAROUSE”

New York, April 23.—From Kentucky, where the mournful rumhound bays disconsolately in a waste of deserted distilleries and mint fields heavy with weeds, there came today a letter from a frank and honest man, the first to admit the real reason why public dinners have lost their appeal to him. Of course, the letter was from Marse Henry Wattersoq. He informed the New York Press club, which plans a dinner for May 1, that "the thought of a long journey to a dry carouse is little short of appalling.” Marse Henry suggested an enterprise of a more public-spirited nature. “Why don’t you get up an Insurrection?” he asked. He analyzed his own characteristics at 80 years as follows: "I am a prohibitionist—with modi-, ficatlons; a female suffragist—with limitations; but not wholly a darn’d fool. lam still, let me say, one of the boys—a bit battered and out of the ring—but I can e’en'sit up and take notice, and I like to see -it going on. Good-by, boys; good luck and God bless you!”