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FOREWORD

A

GENERATION HAS

g;;own up among us whose philoso–

phy of life is not that of twenty years ago. It calls itself

sophisticated. Perhaps it has reason. This is a complex age.

Civilization has become complex andoften it seems ouryoung

people are sujferingfrom some sort of complex,

~fit

is only

that

of

"superiority."

But some of us like occasionally to dwell on the past, to

recall simpler days when nothing was complex and there

was no talk of"complexes"; days when drinking was often

an honored social custom among gentlemen, and when the

man who indulged enjoyed thefull protectio'f!. ofgovernment,

and did not thus necessarily render himself, in effect, an

enemy of law and order.

Those days are past. Some say that in this country they

will never return. This is no prophecy or argument.

But twenty years ago, over almost every thirsty lip in all

parts of the world where English was spoken, had passed

the name of one place of refreshment which in many ways

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