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From the Friday, Jan. 12, 1934, edition of The Steamboat Pilot:

Within 40 days after the state officially had thrown off prohibition, it find its Legislature investigating what may or may not turn out to be one of the biggest scandals of the past 10 years. The investigation is made certain from the fact an ex-convict who happens to have been a bootlegger makes the charge that certain members of the Legislature asked him for $2,000 to put through one bill and kill another.

Personally, we think the fellow is lying. We do not believe a single word of his story. But one of the local papers printed it, and the investigation follows.

This much is certain: The liquor interests have gotten themselves in bad from the fact that there are four factions fighting to get the best of the business of supplying people with intoxicating drinks. The druggists, the bootleggers, the chaps who sell the original packages, and the hotel and restaurant men who want to serve hard drinks with meals are in a terrible row about the legislation that was enacted at the last special session and about the legislation that is pending at this session. To date, the druggists have the best of the bargain. They can sell what they please, when they please and how they please, and the men who buy it can drink where they please. The bootleggers come next. They are more protected under the present law than they ever were before, and they are supplying a lot of the drug stores with booze. The chaps who sell in the original packages are having a harder time, for they are surrounded with a lot more rules, regulations and laws than the druggists or the bootleggers. Then, the hotel and the restaurant men are almost closed out entirely as far as selling drinks with meals is concerned.

Steamboat Springs to be on airline route

Malcolm Campbell took an airline trip from Denver to Cheyenne on Saturday to meet Mr. Jundeen from the U.S. Department of Commerce for the purpose of getting more instructions in regard to the municipal airport.

Mr. Campbell had been informed in Denver by a member of the U.S. Airline and Western Air Line that plans are being completed for the placing of an airline between Salt Lake City and Denver and that Steamboat Springs will be made a flag stop.

The interesting news means, of course, that Steamboat Springs must have a municipal airport and that now is the time for the people of this vicinity to get busy on the project which may be built with the aid of government funds.

Those desiring work should be registered

Miss Esther Elliot has been appointed manager of the Routt County NRS, national re-employment service. This is a national setup in each state for the purpose of registering everyone who is looking for work. It does not mean those persons only who have been getting relief but is for all persons who are able and willing to work and who want employment in any line, including men and women. Persons registering do not need to be without funds. The service is a national recognition of the right to work for those who want to work, and the registration is a means of finding out where there is a need for employment of any kind.

Women who need employment of any kind should register. There will be calls for teachers, nurses, skilled and unskilled labor, housework and office work. Places will be filled from the list when there is a call.

Pilot opinion: Guest to write during absence

During the absence during the next few weeks of our regular editor, these editorial columns will be occupied by Edward D. Foster, well known as one of the brightest editorial writers in Colorado. Mr. Foster has been given free rein to write as he sees fit, and we know our readers will enjoy his keen wit and philosophical comment on men and events. The following thoughts come from Pilot editor Charles Leckenby:

It is said that the return of beer has helped the demand for cheese. In other words, the cheese market is getting stronger. One way to promote peace would be to find a way so that all future wars would be fought on a pay-as-you-enter plan.

One New Yorker insists that he can prove by algebra that one equals two. It would do no harm to give him a closed bank to play with. New theory of French professor holds that life is merely a dream. In the past few years it could be more accurately described as a nightmare.

Quite an extended vacation is the plan of this editorial writer. We long have been a skeptic about vacations. Usually, they are an excuse for a lazy man. One wants to take it easy, get away from the grind, and convinces himself that he has been working too hard, and that he will feel better after a period of rest. It is largely the bunk. If a person takes interest in the work of his own business, gets a pleasure out of daily duties, no vacation is necessary. The whole thing is in getting a kick out of the duties that come to hand, taking interest in the present task, and in such cases there is no real labor, just interesting employment, and the employed man is the happiest man in the world. But anyway, we're going, and we're pleased to announce that for the next few weeks Edward D. Foster, the keenest paragrapher in this Western country, will fill these columns.