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a great deal of sacramental 'wine and many of those churches insist on the fermented RESULTS OF FEDERAL ENFORCEMENT OF wine. Take, for instance, the Jews. We are not familiar altogether with their reg­ On October the 20th Federal Prohibition Director Roy A. Haynes issued a report ulations, but we understand that during a certain period the Jewish families u;;e con­ of his work in enforcing the p~ohibition laws that is indeed creditable to his department. siderable wine in their homes, and yet it is so used as ·to be legitimately wine for sac· The report for the year ending June 30, 1924, was not complete because some of the ramental purposes. Of course in many cases this is abused, and great scandal has district attorneys' reports had not been received. Despite this fact we give the follo·w­ arisen from it. · There is a decided ,movement on the part of the better class among ing figures: For fines, forfeitures and penalties there were assessed $7,577,014. It will them to turn from fermented wine to non-fermented wine. One learned Jewish be remembered that the appropriation for enforcing federal prohibition and the anti· Rabbi has written an article contending that non-fermented wine is the orthodox wine narcotic laws both amount to only $9,000,000. To offset this $9,000,000 expense there in Bi'blical times. The high-minded Jews do not want their church brought into dis­ was collected on the above items during 1924 $5,682,719.87 in fines, forfeitures and pen· repute by scandals arising from the use of fermented wine, and no doubt there will be alties. During the same year the value of property seized by the federal prohibition a growing tendency to dispense with fermented wine in favor of the non-fermented. department amounted to $10,843,881.83. The wets love to talk about the cost of enforcing national prohibition as bankrupt· ing the country. The reader can figure from the above data that it not only does not cost the country anything but is a source of revenue. THE IWCIT LIQUOR TRAFFIC During the year ending June 30, 1924, the incomplete report show's that there were At the recent session of the North Texas Annual Conference of the Mcthodisl 54,227 cases begun against bootleggers and other violations of the prohibition laws. Church South, the Committee on Temperance and Social Service, in its report written The number terminated during this same period was· 48,623. Of these 33,743 pleaded by Judge P. A. Martin of \Vichita Falls, said: guilty and 3~524 were convicted Ly juries. "As an instrument to assist in the enforcement of the liquor laws we commend the During the same period there were 10,392 illicit distilleries seized and 15,853 illicit work .of the Anti-Saloon League and of its Texas executive, Rev. Atticus \Vebb, who stills, and 8,211 llicit still worms seized. Of illicit fermenters seized there were 124,720. has been diligent in assisting the officers of the law in the apprehension of criminals There were 1,672,443 gallons distilled spirits seized, and 5,379,528 gallons of malt and in keeping alive a healthy public sentiment in favor of the enforcement of these liquor seized. Of wine, cider, mash, etc., 8,774,916 gallons were seized. There were laws." 5,214 automobiles and 236 boats and launches seized. In the activities of the federal prohibition officers- to secure the above results 28 were wounded by bootleggers, and two were killed. They arrested 68,161 persons. During the four years of enforcing national prohibition more than 400,000 stills THE OUTLAWED LIQUOR TRAFFIC FIGHTING BACK and parts of stills, and 39,000,000 gallons of distilled spirits, malt liquor, wines, etc., A friend from South Texas sends us a letter just received from the Association have been seized. Of automobiles there have been a total of 11,077 seized, and 444 Against the Prohibition Amendment. This letter was signed by W. II. Stayton, vice· boats and launches have been captured. There have been 138,200 crimin~l case3 president. -From this letter we quote as follows: Lcgun and 120,000 terminated resulting in the conviction of 94,300. "\Vill you help us to administer the 'knockout' to a staggering Anti-Saloon In addition to these thousands of cases have been turned into the state and local League? court of which no record was kept. "In the congressional elections of 1922 we added fifty Congressmen to the minority During the three years fines of nearly $18,000,000 have been imposed and $12,- in Congress pledged to the repeal or modification of the prohibition laws, in addition to 300,000 has actually been collected. a considerable number of liberals who \Vill vote our way as soon as they think we During the last two years 4,000 cases of injunctions have been instituted. These can win. cases involved the locking of places of business by order of federal court-commonly "If we can win fifty more in election of next November, the repeal of the Volstead called the "padlock" law. Of the 4,000 cases instituted 3,200 cases were grante4 and act will in our opinion be assured. ' over 31650 were made permanent. This is one of the most effective means of sup~ pressing the illicit sale of liquor. \V e regret that Texas has had very few of these Will You Help Us to Win Them? cases. "Our campaign is in full swing in many congressional districts. Here in the cast, :Many important cases have been prosecuted under the provisions of the criminal we have opened a regional headquarters office in New York City, under competent code for conspiracy to violate the laws. The heaviest penalty ever imposed in any direction, for the single purpose of handling political campaigns in New England and one case was for "conspiracy" and involved a fmc of ¥21,000 and a sentence of 20 years Atlantic coast states. · in jail. There has been opportunity for much of this "conspiracy" prosecution in "\Ve expect very shortly to open similar regional political offices in Chicago, San Texas but very little of it has been attempted. Under the "conspiracy" clause tlH Francisco, and a southern city, to work in adjacent territories. penalties arc too heavy to stiit those who are prosecuting bootleggers in Texas. It "\VE PROPOSE TO MAKE AN ACTIVE FIGHT IN EVERY CONGRES­ seems to be the rule in Texas to let the bootlegger off as light as possible. SIONAL DISTRICT vVHERE THERE IS A CHANCE OF DEFEATING A DRY AND ELECTING A "LIBERAL" IN HIS STEAD. . "This association is recognized as the leader of the fight against prohibition. Our AMOUNT OF LIQOR USED FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES strength increases as the strength of the Anti-Saloon League declines, and >v-e have the right to say to you that-our cause is on the high road to success." There has been a good deal of liquor sold by the druggists on physicians' pre­ The editor of the Home and State recently met with one of the leaders of this scriptions, and the charge is frequently made that certain druggists are selling more organization in Texas. He boasted that they were amply supplied with funds, that liquor than saloons- sold. There is no question but that too mucJ1 liquor is thus· being they had adopted the methods that the Anti-Saloon League used to put the saloons dispensed. Tlierc is no .queslion but that physicians are putting their consciences in out of business, and that they would soon secure the reneal of the Eighteenth Amend· cold storage while they write liquor prcscriptiot.lS. There is no question but that cer­ ment. tain druggists have dropped in morals to the level of saloonkeepers. But in spite of all this the stories that are sometimes told a··e wild. The report of the federal prohibition tlircctor covering the period from June 30, 1920 to Tune 30, 1924, is very illuminating. For the fiscal year which ended June 30, DRINKING HAIR TONIC 1921, th~re were 8,671,850 gallons released ."taxpaid." Most of this was for medical A great deal is being said about the thirsty drinking hair tonic because they can purposes. During the year ending June 30, 1922, this was reduced to 2,645,50~ gallons not get the "good old bottled in bond," and that the result is unsatisfactory. - \Ve do and during the year ending June 30, 1923, this was further decreased to 1,754,893 gal~ not believe that there is much of this stuff being drunk; for, certainly, those who drink Ions. The rcauer should compare this to the amount of liquor used ·when it was per­ it drink poison. mitted for beverage purposes. Take the figures for the year ending June 30, 1917. In Under the regulations issued by the prohibition enforcement unit. there arc prac• that year there were taxpaid 16-t,291,294 gallons. The present consumption of whisky tically .no toilet preparations on the market the drinking of which will not endanger through the medicinal route is a little more than one per cent of what it was then. life. Those tqilet preparations requiring the use of alcohol, and most of them do, are It must be bo-rne in mind, ho'\reYer, that 23 states do not allow it for medicinal pur· compelled to use specially denatured alcohol. · The denaturing process is performed poses at all, so the amount used is consumed in the other 25 states. by putting poison into the alcohol. This does not hurt the toilet preparations for their One of the most difficult matters to handle is in the usc of wine. There are very legitimate use, but makes it dangerous for beverage purposes. large quantities of wine being put into so ~ called medicinal preparations which are so Some of this denatured alcohol does not go into legitimate toilet preparations, but adju:;tcd in the quantity of real medicine found in it that it lends itself splendidly to into the hands of bootleggers who are attempting to undo the denaturing process, and heYcragc uses. This is Yery difficult to h::tndle under the law, for it is hard to discrim~ prepare it for beverage use. Most of these bootleggers think that they have undone inalc between the legitimate tonic and the illegitimate. the denaturing process, but those who know better report that the effort to undo the The report of Major Haynes shows splendid improvement in this line. For the denaturing of 'the alcohol is practically a failure, and that this is 'the source of a great year ending June 30, 1921, there were 6,353,729 gallons of wine withdrawn from· bond deal of the· poisoning from drinking liquor. on permits. \Vhile in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, the quantity was only Bootleggers get hold of this denatured alcohol and attempt to prepare it for bev­ 4,194,030 gallons ·of which latter quantity 2,942,429 gallons were for sacramental . erage use and cover ·it with coloring matter and label it with fake stamps as "bonded purpGses. in bond.!" It comes to Dallas, Fort \Vorth, San Antonio, and other inland cities a, The question of sacramental wines gives another problem. Some churches use ienuine "bonded liquor" and brings a fancy price, but only fools ]Juy it. I Page Two DRYS ARE IN MAJORITY WHAT ELECTORS VOTED UPON IMPORTED BOOZE IN DISCARD LEAD HELD TO BE 50,000 Two questions were submitted to Ontario voters- Officials Destroy Stock Valued at (1) Are you in favor of the continuance of the Ontario temperance act; and $300,000, of Wines, Champagnes FOR RETENTION OF LAW (2) Are you in favor of the sale as a beverage of beer and spirituous liquor in and Other Liquors sealed packages under government control? ll'emperance Forces Now Plan to A majority vote was given in favor of the first proposition, that is, to retain Imported wines a:1d liquor represent­ Wage Fight for Drying Up the Ontario temperance act. ing the products of seven countries and · While it is called a temperance act and regarded as a prohibition law, the Dominion valued at $300,000 were destroyed last liquor interests of this country would be exceedingly grateful for a law so liberal week in Philadelphia by United States in its provisions as is the Ontario temperance act-that is, they would be grate­ l\Iarshal Mathues an•1 a squad of dep­ HAS INFLUENCE ON VvORLD ful for a time-until such time as they thought, as did the Canadian liquor inter­ uty mat;shals. ests, that they could get something better. The liquors that ha~ been ordered de­ Ontario like every other province has no power to prohibit the manufacture, Other Nations Have Been Looklng stroyed . by the federal court several importation, exportation and interprovincial shipment and sale of liquor. Pro­ months ago after more than three .years, With Interest on Outcome vincial authorities have power to deal with the sale or keeping for sale within the litigation, ·were seized originally from in Province province. Therefo~e in Ontario, which is referred to by the newspapers as a the ·warehouse of Isaac L. Lipschutz prohibition provmce, manufacture, sale and exportation for sale of liquor is not when dry of-ficials discovered irregular­ How They Stand on Prohibition prohibited under the temperance act. ities in the f1rm's methods of disposing of · There are nin~ provinces in Can­ There are at pre~nt six distilleries and 29 breweries in the province manu­ its stock. Afte_r keeping it for several ada. The following survey ·will facturing liquor, which liquor may be legally exported from the province. The months and giving ho~.pitals and sanitar­ give an idea of the legislative situ­ temperance act permits the sale of intoxicating native wine, allows the sale of iums all over the country the opportunity ation in each. beer containing two and a half per cent proof spirits, and doctors are allowed to to purchase some of the wines for medic­ Four provinces, Prince Edward prescribe 40 ounces of spirituous fiquor. inal purposes, the marshal set out on his Island, New Brunswick, Nova It will be readily seen that contrasted with American prohibition, the law in destructive party, breaking the first bot­ Scotia, and Ont2rio, \Yith a popu­ Ontario is very imperfect, and yet imperfect as it is, the liquor interests spent tle and hacking the first barrel at noon. l and vdiCre a larger over $20 per capita. was present for the prohibition dE!part­ most of the provinces, and a plebiscite percentage o_f foreign-born population In the province of Jvfanitoba, ment, and Harry Chalfant stood guard by the voters of Ontario therefore is lives than in any o~hcr part of Canada. with a population of 610,113, all for the Anti-Saloon League. kinds of liquors are sold by govern­ more likely to give a. true expression of These foreign-born citizens have not yet ment vendors to persons holding Canadian opinion th,m can be ~ obtained become weaned away from their drink­ in provinces having ~ large vote of for­ ing habits acquired in their native lands 1 ~ permits, and beer is sold directly IS THIS ANOTHER GRAFT? by the breweriees to permit hold­ eign-born citizens. Tl.1esc arc some fac­ and from their false ideas of personal " ers. Now here ;n the province is tors of a general ci.1aracter which no ljberty. Arrested Man Wants Huge Sum to Re· doubt indirectly mad.: this the most im­ liquor sold to be consumed upof1 Laxity of Enforcement veal Names of Law Violators and the premises. portant election thus far held on the Their Customers In these western provinces there also The province of Alberta, vvith a question of government control of the has been greater laxity of enforcement population of .S~i:,,454, provides for liquor traffic tn Canada.. the sale of all kinds of liquor by Strongest in Ontario than in the eastern provinces. In each of According to special cable to the Cin­ the four some form uf government con­ government vendors and also sale In addition there v.·as this phase of the cinnati Enquirer, Ma.-x: Jerome Phaff, the trol was substituted for the provincial of beer by the glass in licensed ho­ situation that has difect bearing on the man v,:hom Fren~h liquor exporters ac­ prohibition law. These four are Mani­ tels. issue to be determined by the voters. It cuse of piracy and who is believed to be toba, Alberta, British Columbia and Sas­ British Columbia, with a popula- ; has been generally conceded that prohi­ merely one of numerous bootleggers who katchewan. In quick succession these ' tion of 526,582, provides for the bition sentiment was strongest in On­ patronized rum runners, values his ''rev­ provinces yielded their partial prohibition s::~e of all kinds of liquor by gov­ tario. The partial prohibition law pre­ elations" at $50,000. law to government control on the repre­ ernment vendors only. Saskatche­ vailing at one time tv a greater or less According 'to the Enquirer's story, sentation of the wets that it would mean wan, with a population of 757,510, degree in all the provinces of Canada, is Phaff's lawyer issttecl a statement _in better enforcement and less drinking. has just declared for a law similar perhaps better enforced in Ontario than which he announced that Phaff is pre­ \Vith these four victor:ees to their credit to that of Alberta. in any other province. For thes-e reasons pared to give the name of every bootleg­ the organized liquor interests pounced th{' liquor interests believed that if they ger in New York and every rum runner upon Ontario. Incidentally it is worth Ontario drys won a decisive victory at could overthrow the Ontario temperance and every exporter of alcohol, and their noting the fact that the French wine in­ the polls October 23 when the govern­ act and substitute f,""overnment control, addresses and the addresses of liquor terests have just recently boasted that ment control proposal was defeated by a so-called, in Ontario they would thereby storage places, to the United States an­ much money and a brge amount of lit­ majority of about 50,000. The liquor in­ do more to establish the permanency of tlJOrities if he is sufficiently remunera:ted. erature was poured 1:-:to these western 'terests of the Dominion assisted by for­ the government control system than provinces of Canada during the cam­ eign v>ine interests, . concentrated their could be accomplished in any other way. paign as European wine interests' con­ elections. Australia \vas unusuaiiy inter­ forces in an effort to overthrow the On­ Could they win, Ontario could declare 'to tribution in the fight to put Canada back ested to see if all of Canada would re­ trio temperance act and substitute so­ the \vorld that prohibition had been re­ into the wet column. The dry . forces of pudiate prohibition. The United States called government c.:-·ntrol of the liquor pudiated by its strongest friends in Can­ of course was intcreste:d for many reas­ these four provinces t <'Ceived little if any traf-fic. The liquor interests, however, ada. outside he_Ip of any kind. Howc\'er, in ons, not the least of which is that there V."Cre camouflaged uncler the name of And by the same reasoning, the drys Ontario the \Norld League Against Al­ arc 1,500 miles of navigable water boun­ Moderation League. believe that by holding Ontario they coholism on the inv.il:1.tion of the dry dary between the province and this The tide of ba tt1e in Canada is now def­ have stemmed the tide that threatened to forces of the ~rovince participated in the country, according unusual opportunity initely turned and is 'vith the prohibition flood the whole of the Dominion with campaign by furnishing speakers and for smuggling contraband liquor. To an forces. l'hese forces will launch a cam­ government intoxicants. Ontario with literature. unusual degree, therefore, the contest in paign at once to regain western provinces partial prohibition ,-...·ill furnish a con­ Ontario itwolvcd the problem of world that have reverted from partial prohibi­ trast in arrests for drunkenness statis­ World League Against Alcoholism Aids prohibition. The \Vorld League Against tion to government control and to press tics, official reports 011 insanity, pauper­ It was recognized by both v>cts and Alcoholi:::.m rejoices ·c(Jually with Ontario on for national prohibition, according to ism, reports of savings banks accounts, drys that the result of the Ontario elec­ in the dry victory. a statement by Ben H. Spence, Canadian with statistics and rer.orts of provinces tion would have far reaching effect be­ representative of the World League under government control which will yond the boundaries of Ontario and be­ Against Alcoholism. soon convince the intelligent voter that yond the boundaries of the Dominion. Nineteen liquor laden vessels, three This election in Ontario 'vas looked liquor whether sohl by the government England was watch:ng \vith keenest in­ steamers aqd sixteen schooners, now form upon by both wets and drys as the most or by a private corporation produces terest, as was con~inental Europe, es­ a liquor row approximately eighteen miies in1portant contest thus far held in the drunkenness, poverty and crime. pecially the wine-growing countries, the east of Boston Light, according to gov­ Dominion on the prohibition issue and Both wets and drys, therefore, realiz­ wine interests of whic-h countries had ernment officials of Boston, says a dis.­ J}so as the most im,9_ortant that is Jikcly ing the importance of the Ontario elec- a.lrcaedy. bc;en partid1-1ating in Canadian patch of October 17. -~~ 1 ' Page Three

-,: OXFORD MEN STILL LOSING EXAMINING THE WITNESS LONGSfiORE DISTRICT IS FIND BOOTLEGGERS' OATH (H. H. Cul~er) DRY American Audiences Do Not Agree With 1 Britishers' Stand Against Principle The police of Chillicothe, Ohio, think In its issue of Aug. 16th :The Indepen­ of Prohibition The district in San Francisco they have uncovered a rum ring extend­ dent published a symposium on "Do You i where the longshoremen work ing over central Ohio by reason of 'tho Obey the Volstead Act?" It has been The Oxford, England, U niversit~ team has surrendered to prohibition. arrest of a Springfield man with an auto­ discontinued, perhaps because the editors of debaters now touring America con­ Beer for many years was the sta­ mobile believed to be stolen. In one of came to realize the "Jnwisdom of inviting tinues to meet defeat on the question of ble drink in this district where, the pockets of the machine was found th~ law-breakers to parade their lawlessness, prohibition. The English debaters are op­ according to rumor, the ordinary following note: as some were shameless enough to do. posing the dry policy. capacity ·of each longshoreman I, Frank B. Farryman, do solemnly For example- They have been defeated on this issue ·· ~ was two gallons of beer daily, swear with the undersigned to always ] ohn Jay Chapman, with the "Conti­ by the University of New York, Univer­ with double cargoes taken aboard play the game square and to obey the nental" spirit of so many wets, despises sity of Chicago, University of Cincinnati, each Saturday night and Sabbath rules of this circle. If caught I prom­ the native American, and dreads to think and more recently by the \Vestminster holiday. ise to say no'thing. I promise to save "what life will be when one is shut up College of Fulton, Mo. This debate was Now according to a dispatch the car if possible and to destroy the with 130,000,000 simple-minded Ameri­ held in Kansas City. The vote stood 975 from San Francisco, the 6,000 evidence. · cans." \V ell, ocean , travel is compara­ for the \Vestminster team and 246 for husky longshoremen of that city I further promise to answer all calls tively safe, and boats to Europe or Asia Oxford. consume 6,000 quarts of milk day or night. I swear that if I are available. "What'~ your hurry: here's The Kansas City audience had been in­ daily with' their noonday lunch. squeal on either of my partners or your hat.' structed to vote its convictions on the These figures are furnished by an both to forfeit my life. I promise Ernest Boyd says that the question a~ question rather than pass upon the merits association of San Francisco milk never to take a drink unless in the to whether the Volstead Act IS being of the debate. presence of my two partners. obeyed "may be diversely answered ac­ dealers. Today according to the records of the milk men, there are I further promise that when sent on cording to the degree of one's candor, DRUNKEN DRIVER IS MENACE an errand on foot or by machine to discretion or principle." \Vhen he adds 5,800 standing orders for 5,800 quart bottles to be delivered to conduct myself in a quiet and orderly that he knows of oniy one household Police Make Finger Prints _of All Intoxi­ manner, to drive slow when possible where alcoholic liquor is not served, we 5 , 8 0 0 I u nching longshoremen cated Aut~ists; This Will be Good and to avoid capture at all times. . are forced to question his "candor, dis­ sharply at noon. for Second Offense cretion or principle," or else to conclude that he selects his friends vvith the sense say: "The bootlegger is the child of KENTUCKY BREWER FINED Police of the state .of \Vashington are of smell! My experier.ce is just the op­ prohibition!" taking . fingerprints of all motorists ar­ I , Mr. Ford has posted an order in his Menk Convincted in Federal Court of posite. have obeyed the Volstead law. rested while intoxicated, \Vith a view of I plants forbidding drinking on penalty of Manufacturing Beer of Illegal Alco­ have not seen liquor served in any fam­ clinching the arg_ument should these fel­ ily since it became a law; and I have con­ dismissal. He wants to make good ma­ holic Content lows be again arrested for a similar of­ fidence in my intimates as law-abiding chines. Uncle Sam has posted a law fense. The Portland Oregonian com­ against intoxicating liquors because he citizens. mends this action. It says: Theodore Menk, president of the Ment< Julius Cadman, who says the 18th wants to make good citizens. And Prof. There exists no reas·on whatever for Brewing Company, Louisville, Ky., was Amendment, "as a denial of liberty is con­ Carver of Harvard University expresses treating the intoxicated driver as any­ fined $1,000 in federal court October 20 trary to the principle3 of the Constitu­ the opinion that the United States will thing less than a public menace and ~ when he pleaded guilty to having manu­ tion," sets his judgment against the unan­ dominate the world because of prohibi­ potential criminaL : factured beer of an illegal alcoholic per­ imous declaration of the Supreme Court tion, unless other nations ~dopt it. centage. Menk's plea of guilty was en­ of the United States as to the constitution­ tered after a motion to quash the charge BONDED WHISKY STOLEN ality of both the 18th Amendment and TO PADLOCK 500 PLACES had been overruled. Menk is a represen· the V alstead Act. His praise of boot­ tative of the gang that are asking for a Taken From Freeport, Pa., Warehouse leggers and denunciation of the funda­ Cases Against 500 Eastern New York license to manufacture and sell intoxicat­ - by Masked Bandits; Eighteen of the mental law of the land is esset'Hia.lly an­ Places Already Prepared by Federal ing liquor regardless of · the Constitution Sixty Barrels Recovered archistic. As a committee of the Amer­ Attorney of the United States, as a means of pro-­ ican Bar Association declared: \Vhen moting law enforcement. people disobey and scoff at this law, they The United States district attorney for Sixty barrels of bonded whisb.."'Y were are aiding the cause of anarchy and pro­ the eastern district of New York .took stolen in the early morning of October 17 moting mob violence, robbery and hom­ steps last week by means of padlock in­ from the warehouse of A. Guckenheimer DRY CHOSEN SPEAKER l icide; they ate sowing dragons' teeth, junctions to close SOO places whkh had & Brothers Company, Freeport, Pa. G. ]. Simons, divisional chief of prohi­ " and they need not be surprised when been violating the prohibition act. The ·'' bition enforcement officers, who is per­ Thomas Walker, member of Parliamenf they find that no judicial or police au­ prosecutor declared that 250 injunction of West Australia, and several times a thority can save our country or human­ cases were prepared on evidence supplied sonally conducting the investigation of this robbery, reports receiving two threat­ visitor to America, has been elected ity from reaping the h~1 vest." by prohibition agents and that others will ening telephone messages from mysteri;. speaker of that body, according to a news To Julian Street, a v;itness who want~ be brought as soon as these have been story from Perth. He was the only nom­ the benefits (?) of wine and beer under ordered and decided. Permanent injunc­ ous sources in which he was warned that ' he is a "marked man" and his life is in inee. Mr. Walker is a prohibitionist, .and . some such system as that in Quebec, I tiorlS will then be sought in each of the in his capacity as speaker doubtless will' l commend the statement of Canada's 500 places which the government expects danger unless he discontinues the search I for the liquor thieves. Eighteen of the be able to accomplish something for the leading paper, the Toronto Globe, that to close as public nuisances for one year. forward movement in his state. ' provincial liquor sale:; do not end the 60 barrels were recovered. These were , I operations of the dive keeper and illicit MORE BOOZE FROM CANADA taken from a truck as they were being whisky peddler, according to "abundant,. hauled into a garage in Pittsburgh shortly IT IS ALL THERE testimony from officer-s of the law in Great Increase in Amount of Liquor IDe­ after the robbery. .~ Roger Babson, America's great­ ( British Columbia and Quebec." Dr. Er­ gaily Entering States Over Same The warehouse guards when questioned est economist, summed up in a nest Hall, a police commissioner of Van­ Period in 1923 by the government officers were unable to furnish good description of the bandits sentence at _a banquet the other day couver, says: "The government has set According t0 a government report more up a policy of alcoholizing our people because of the masks worn. a complete indictment of the liquor liquor than ev~r is il)egally entering the traffic when he said, "Traffic in liq­ for profit, a policy of saturation rather I U nitcd St:.1tes from Canada. In five uor is wrong morally, bad politi­ than control." And lion. H. H. Ste­ "Do you indulge in the popular pastime i months · there has been entered in the cally, and economically there is no phens, M. P., says: ''Never in the his­ of talking about 'my bootlegger' and by Canadian customs offices for exportation argument for it at all." That is a tory of this province was bootlegging such chatter increase his illicit patron­ to the United States over $4,000,000 worth big bundle ~>f uncontrover'tible comparable in murderous results to what age?" is the question asked by Mrs. Mabel of alcoholic beverages, an increase of more Walker \Villebrand t, assistant attorney truth tied up if! a small package. it is today." than $3,000.000 over the corresponding I commend the above testimony also general of the United States. period of 1923. Almost $2,500,000 was to Robert McCormick, editor of the no­ for ale and beer, going to the thirsty in toriously wet Chicago Tribune, persist­ the United States, while :the report shows ent advocate of nullification by the beer that $1,802,000 was the value of whisky QUARRYTOWN route. I wonder if editor McCormick cleared from Canadian customs for illegal "THE UNCLE TOM'S CABIN OF THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE" read the Moscow news item in his own entry into the United States. paper July 16th: "Alcoholism is on the Some Commendations: These figures would indicate that an "Some of your propaganda may be debatable, but your love s~ry is ideal "-Dr increase in Russia under the prevailing iron-clad treaty which means business W. ~t Stott, Ex-Pres. Franklin College (Ind.), 1915. · • regime of beers and light wines." Ac­ should be jnsisted upon by the United A fine,. well-?danc~ed bo?k. A beautiflu story and yet a reformer."-Father C. F. cording to this dispatch the number of Barr,?n, par~sh pnest, Franklm, Ind. (1915). States government. saloons and the per capita consumption ~ consider your book, Quarrytown, one of the few outstanding publications which· explams .~o the world mo.re clearly that?- ~~Y didactic books .could well. do, why America of legalized drinks doubled last year, wants, "Ill have, and wlll keep, prolubitlon. The story 1s 'well wntten with a plot and arrests for drunkenness trebled. More than SO indictments charging we~l worked out, and the development of the same is carried forward in a ~asterly way Bootleg vodka is everywhere available; violation of the prohibition amendment which a~tracts and holds the attention throughout."-Dr. E. S. Shumaker Stf)_)t. Indi- also imitation port :llld sherry. And yet were among those returned on October ana Anti-Saloon League. ' ' Y.ou can get copi~s ?f the author, Douglas Dobbins, Greenwood, Indiana, or of th4 the Chicago Tribune has the astounding 10 by the Grand Rapids, Mich., federal Amencan Issue Pubhshmg Company \V esterville, Ohio. tdfrontry-the iubl..imc j.n1pudence-tQ ~ra.ud jury. .Frice $1..35. pos~a.id.. ___..__._._:.__L_, _ __._-..~--.wU

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should not be jeopardized by; illegal qperations.· Liquor HOME AND STATE such organization as the \Vorld League Against Alco­ selling 'is not only bad ethics, but bad business. (Established 1903) holism. lt is gratifying to know that the \Vorld League "Employes who sell alcoholic · beverages to patrons Official Organ Anti-Saloon League of Texas Against Alcoholism did take a part in the campaign in should be dism.isscd as so9n as they are discovered." :Published I•'irst of Each Month by Ontario and contributed valuable help by supplying THE AMERICAN ISSUE PUBLISHING CO. speakers and literature. No country can be dry and· be While the resolution calls for beer and wine, it de­ 130 South State St., Westerville, Ohio exempt from the attacks of the !iquor forces of the mands strict obedience to the law as it is on the statute FOR THE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE OF TEXAS books. EDITORIAL OFFICE-603-4 Slaughter Bldg., Dalla:;, Texas wet countries. ERNEST H. CHERRINGTON, Editor It is also not amiss to call attention to the fact that REV. ATTICUS WEBB, State Editor wet leaders vf Canada realize that the liquor traffic is in -E-n-te_r_ed_a_s_s_e_c-ond-class matter at the postoftice at Westerville, 0., PROGRESS IN DRY ENFORCEMENT under Act of March 3, 1879 disrepute because of its past crimes, and therefore re­ sorted to . the subterfuge of what they call government (Christian Science Monitor) Subscription Price--$1.00 a Year ln the United States All letters should be addressed to HoME AND STATE, Dallas, Tsexas control the scheme that fooled many voters into the OFF1 CERS 01<' THE ANTl-SALOON LEAGUE OF TEXA belief ~hat liquor sold by the government wo.uld be It must be admitted that it is not always wise to ac­ President-DR. J. C. HARDY Belton somehow or other less harmful than liquor sold by a cept the estimate of. one who proposes to accomplish Vice President-J. I.... SMJTH . • . Amarillo Second Vice President-DR. L. D. GRAFTON Austin private corporation. They are finding out their error great things as to ,~·hat he can or will do, but it is Recording Secretary-JUDGE GEORG-E SlmGF.ANT Dallas in Alberta, British Columbia, and other provinces where equally true that if one desires to learn what progress Superintendent-lli>v. A'Jrct:s Vv"EBB Dallas NATIONAL DIRJWTORS the government cont~ol plan is in force. . • a pupil is making' in school he asks the teacher, or if Rev. Atticus Webb, Dalla~> Rev. E. A. Maness, Crockett The Ontario temperance a_ct of course is not adequate, ot~e feels !}articularly solicitous regarding the condition Governor Pat M. Nel'f, Austin . Mr. \Y. J. Milburn, Austin Judge George Sergeant, . Dallas and yet it is infinitely better than unrestricted' traffic of on~ who has committed himself to the care of a doc­ BOARD. OF MANAGERS as attested by the fact that the liquor interests bitterly tor· he asks the doctor. One would not go to a black­ 1st Congreso:;ional Dist.-Rev. W. D. White .. ,• • Atlanta fought to repeal it. The benefits accruing from it in de­ smith to 1nquire regarding either of these, or to a banker 2nd Congressional Dist.-Geo W. Carroll . . • Beaumont SI'd Congressional Dist.-.Judge E. M. Bramlette • Longview creased drunkem~ess, crime and poverty are' prophecies or lawyer to advise bow the status of either of them 4th Congressional Dist.-Prof. H. A. I~ • • Sherman of what full prohibition would mean to the proyincc and might be improv('d. 6th Congressional Dist.-Dr. E. D. Jennmgs ' . "•- Dallas

LAW CRUSADERS STAGE AGGRESSIVE CAMPAIGN RUM ROW MOVING INTO DRUGGAN-LAKE BEER VANISHES SHORE ~our State in Automobiles~ Holding Effective Meetings in Interest of ~ According to the New York Her­ Missing From Plant of Brewers Enforcement Code Which Is Subject of Referendum; Women of ald-Tribune of October 14, rum Who Have Been Sentenced to Massachusetts Are Taking an Active Part row seemed to be moving to an Year in Jail lr anchorage off the Statue of Lib­ On 1\fonday evening, November 3, in women form an' interested and often pre­ erty ·when on October 13 t-vvo more captive liquor ships, the Norwegian Two of the most notorious law-defying Somerville, Mass., there will be concluded dominating section of the audiences and steamet· Sagatina and ·the British brewers of Chicago, Frank Lake and, one of the most unique and one of the after asking for the special campaign lit­ schooner Dimatine, were ushered erature distributed by the campaigners, Terry Druggan, \YCre convicted about a most aggressive campaigns ever waged in into position beside 'the French give forth such comments as "\Ve never year ago in Chicago for violation of the the United States in behalf of dry en- trawler Fred B. against which libel had it explained to us before," or "vVc are Volstead law. They were each sentenced, proceedings arc in progress in fed­ forcement legislation. This will be the going to vote yes and get others to do the 1 eral court. to serve a year in the county jail. About last meeting of the "Law Crusaders" who same. ' It is not wise to make predic­ two weeks ago their case came before a since August 24 have been carrying on a tions at this time, one week before the LIQUOR DRIVE CONTINUED higher court on appeal. Clarence Dar­ stumping .campaign in favor of ratification vote on the referendum, but it is apparent t:hat there is an ever-increasing sentiment rov,·, famous criminal lawyer of Chicago of the law enforcemt:nt act passed by the manifesting itself for the ratification of the Philadelphia Booze Supply Decreased who ree-cntly publicly thanked God for last Legislature. enforcem,ent code. If the referendum ~ and Prices Mount as Officers bootleggers, appeared as thetr counsel. The law crusaders , w111 have completed wins, a large share of the credit must go Make Many Arrests Incidei1tally it is worthy of note that Dar­ a schedule including 151 towns and cities to the splendid work of the "Law Cru­ row is said to have received a sharp re­ saders." , buke from the court for his part of the located in every section of the state. It is The Philadelphia police and state and federal officers are continuing the drive case. estimated that between 1,000 and 1,500 against the booze makers and booze The court sustained the conviction of citizens of Massachusetts every day from SEIZE BOAT AND LIQUOR sellers of Philadelphia with increased these two criminals and ·Frank Lake is August 24 to November 3, inclusive, have enthusiasm. The effect of the continu­ now serving time in the county jail. heard the crusades. The tour has been First Large Cargo of Liquor to be Taken ous , activities of the officers is seen in Druggan, however, thus far has not been apprehended. His bonds were ordered made it1' automobiles and the most effec­ in Vicinity of Lewes Canal Inlet, the marked decrease in the amount of Delaware hootch 'on the market. The Philadelphia forfeited. His attorneys report that he · tive met;tings ha;ve been open-dir meet­ ''I North American says the price of re,dis­ is settling up his private business and win ings, tl;e speakers advith the outlawed liquor interests. American Legion !'ad indorsed a de­ conformity " ·ith it. It has been indorsed the Constitution of the United States and American Issue has been receiving pro­ mand upon Congr<:!ss for light wines by the governor, the lieutenant-governor, in the interest of law enforcement. tests from Legion men and thcit--friencls and beer because r.ews dispatches the attorpey general, and 174 police chiefs declaring that the St. Paul convention from St. Paul, printed ,in the daily pa­ CLOSING UP L. I. JOINTS in Massachusetts cities. took no action whatever with reference to pers in both' Chicago and Milwaukee, The method of campaigning by the the proposed modification of the Volstead stated that the Legion had taken Federal Attorney Takes Steps to Place "Law Crusaders" is comprehensive and Law in favor of beer ,;nd wine. American that action. I have read those pa­ Padlocks on Doors of Law Vio­ unusually effective. Three· stops a day Issue accordingly made inquiry of Na­ pers daily ever since and ha\ e seen lating Cafes are scheduled, meetings being held at 2:30 tional Adjutant Russell Creviston con­ no contradiction. Ralph C. Greene, United States_ attor­ p. m., S :30 p. m., and 7:30 p. m. The cerning the report as carried in the daily Since you assure l!le that the Le­ ney for the eastern district of New York, afternoon meetings are street meetings; a papers, and received statement from him gion did not consider the subject at covering the counties of Kings, Queens, the evening meetings are held in a church that no 1action was tc.ken by the conven­ all that I commented upon, I regret Nassau, Suffolk and Richmond, took steps or public hall, at which the motion pic­ tion on this question. He says: exceedingly to have been led into er­ last week py means of padlock injunc­ ture "Lest \V c Forget" is shown. A vast No action was tal~ en by the con­ ror. I honor the Legion too highly tions to close 500 saloo11s and cafes which amount of literature is being distributed. vention on this question. It v;as not to willjngly misrepresent it or un­ had been operating on Long Island and In addition to the street and hall meet­ submitted to the convention by any justly censure it. Staten Island in violation of 'the Volstead ings, the cresadcrs hold noonday shop committee of the convention. Our -Sam W. Small.· act. The federal prosecutor declared that meetings in the towns visited . .. One of the records of the several committees of 250 injunction cases were being prepared most encouraging features of the cam­ the convention, which consist of DRUNKEN DRIVERS JAILED upon information obtained by prohibition paign was the willingness and readiness copies of resolutions approved and A court in Marnt: 1 ecently convicted agents and that others would be brought with which manufacturers opened th~ir rejected, do not contain any reference 11 persons charged with driving auto­ as soon as these were heard and decided. shops for a presentation oc the arguments to this question. However, we are mobiles while intoxicated, imposing upon Permanent injunctions will - then be in favor of the referendum to their em­ unable to say that the question was each a fine of $500 and six months in . sought in each of the 500 places which ployes. not mentioned in cornmittce as ver­ jail. In six other cases convictions were the government expects to close as public­ \Vomen have shown a great int~rest in batim ..repotts of the committee were secured on a single wle and punishment' nuisances for one year. the street meetings, according to Mrs. not kept. In summing up the situa­ in these cases ranged from $200 and four A permanent injunction was taked on a Jeannette Mann of the \Voman's Chris­ tion I desire to state that .,~ a~ti?n mont113 in jail, to $500 and six months' D~troit grocery store last week on the was taken hy the organi,.dtion on this tian Temperance Union and a member of impri,sonn~cnt . In all cases jail sentences charge that the place ~\· as used for viol~.. the crusading party. Mrs. Mann said that question and no reference 'to ·it were imposed. tion of the V ols tcad law. Pa.ge Six

ACT OF CONGRESS SI&1PLY AIDS ENFORCE~iENT COST ~OT INCREASED FOR NEXT YEAR TO PROBE MOUNT CLEMENS

Must Be Backed by Individual Present Enforcement Corps Is Adequate Unless There Is Material Change Grand Jury Will Make Inquiry Into Rightousness to Be Effective; in Situation Is Opinion of Secretary of Treasury; Anti-Saloon League­ Alleged Conspiracy in Law Declares Coolidge Regards Appropriation of $8,000,000 as Satisfactory Violations The other day a monument to Bishop The Detroit Free Press in a Lansing. Prohibition enforcement in the United essary next year. Asbury was unveiled in \Vashington. Mich., dispatch of October 19 says that States next year will cost the government The report going cut from the head~ The monument is a gift from the Meth­ Mt. Clemens, for years the so-called about $8,000,000, according to estimates quarters of the Anti-Saloon League of odists in the United States and Canada. made by the United States Treasury De­ America at Washington is to the effeot Monte Carlo of Michigan, will be the President Coolidge made an address at partment. The Secretary of the Treasury that a tremendous w,1ve of sentiment fa­ center of a grand jury probe paralleling the unveiling and the address was in regards the present enlorcer.nent corps as vorable to better enforcement of the pro­ in scope the sensational inquiry of last reality a sermon. In the course of his adequa•te. He feels tl:at unless there is a hibition law is apparent, and League offi­ spring into Hamtramck's conspiracy of talk the President said: material change in the situation no in­ cials are quoted to the effect that the ap­ bootleg and vice. This information was An act of Congn'ss may indicate crease in the appropriation will be nee- propriation of $8,000,000 is satisfactory. given out by Attorney General A. E. Con- that a reform is being or has been ac­ verse. . complished, but it does not of itself The sweeping investigation of conditions Tokoly was indicted and convicted in bring about a reform. \Ve can nQt SENT SOUTH FOR WINTER is to be conducted in Bath City where it is the Christian county circuit court and was depend upon government to do the charged the police and possibly other offi­ sentenced to serve from one year to life work of religion. Society can not Federal Judge Killits of Toledo, Ohio, cials have openly winked at flagrant hw in prison. Records of the case show that succeed when the inJividual fails. sent a delegation of 34 prisoners to the violations. For weeks as was the case in he was alleged to have sold poison liquor Of course, •government can . help to Atlanta penitentiary one day last week. Hamtramck prior to the state investiga­ to four other men, all of whom died as restore the victory CJnd furnish a fair It was the largest detachment sent from tion there, state police and · the attorney result of drinking the poison. Tokoly degree of security arid protection for Toledo in more than five years. A staff general have been quietly at \vork gather­ appealed to the Supreme Court for a re­ religion but the real reforms which of 16 special guards accompanied the ing evidence. society in these days is seeking will prisoners. Of the total 21 were convicted hearing and his appeal was denied. come as a result of religious convic­ of violations of the narcotic act and r.nost Baldwin, Pana resident. October 11, 1923. tions or they lvill net come at all. of the others were prohibition law vio­ DRINKING CLU.BMEN SCORED That is good soutd sense and should lators. NORWAY RETAINS DRY LAW find lodgment in the hearts of those The following cablegram regard­ Judge Bruce in Broadcasted Address Hits church members wh'l conspire with crim­ MANSLAUGHTER LAW UPHELD , ing the elections in Norway was re­ So-called Respectables \Vho Vi~late inals to break down the dry law. In such ceived under date of October 24 at Volstead Law persons religious ccnvictions are not Illinois Supreme Court Holds State Law the headquarters of the \Vorld strong enough to overcome appetite. Valid, That Holds Deadly Hooch League Against Alcoholism, Wes­ Judge Andrew A. Bruce, professor of · Seller on Murd~r Charge terville, Ohio, from .Rev. David law at Northwestern University law PADLOCK USED AT RESORT Ostlund, vVorld League represtmta­ school, and former chief. justice of the Su­ The Illi~ois Supreme Court on October tive in Norway: preme Court of North Dakota, in a talk It Proves Very Effective Weapon in At­ 10 again sustained the state law providing "Prohibition majo·rity in Nor­ last week from the Chicago Daily News lantic City Cases; Many Closed that vendors of poisonous liquors be / wegian elections is nearly the same 'broadcasting station, declared, "If any per- prosecuted under charges of manslaughter as previously. It is considered that son should be hanged and hanged as high In the last month padlock suits under when the use of the liquors results fa­ a plebiscite only can abolish prohi­ as Haman was hanged in the B.ible story, the Volstead law have been filed against tally. The case on which the decision bition. Enforcement is greatly im­ that person should be the bootlegger an

ern district of Ohio, sustained the conten­ LEGAL NOTES tion of the petitioner and ordered his dis­ THREE RUb1 VESSELS TAKEN Edited by Wayne B. Wheeler, General Counsel and Legislative Superintendent, charge, holding that the committee had and Edward B. Dunford, Assistant exceeded its authority in the matter upon Machine Gun Used in Battle in New which it was engaged and was possessed York Bay; Sachem One of the of no authority to punish the petitioner ~ NATURE OF CONTEMPT PRO- tober 20. The provisions of the Clayton Boats Seized for contempt in refusing to comply with ..,..,., CEEDINGS Act regulating the issuance of injunctions its demand. This case on appeal is also Several cases of unusual interest have labor disputes and providing for pun­ After a running hand-to-hand battle, ~n expected to be argued before the Su­ Ishment for contempt for violation of such in which a police machine gun partici­ recently arisen concerning the nature of preme Court during this term. The ques­ orders provides that the accused may, in pated, three rum-running vessels, includ­ contempt proceedings. These haye in­ tion of the extent to which a le'gislative contempt proceedings under this act, de­ ing the. notorious Sachem, 'vere captured volved both the power of the courts and body may pursue its investigation of the manU a trial by jury. In the :r-;iichelson October 18 in the lower New York Bay. administrative departments and compel of legislative bodies to punish for con­ case, the defendant v>as charged during Their crews were placed under arrest and the attendance of outside witnesses is a tempt. Some of 'these questions have al­ the shopmen's strike in 1922 with conspir­ their cargoes confiscated. matter of great public interest. - There ing to interfere with interstate commerce ready been argued before the Supreme have been a number of cases involving In one instance a single policeman Court; others will be heard during this by picketing and the use of force and vio­ the matter before the Supreme Court, but leaped across eight feet of open water to term. The nature of the contempt pro­ lence. After a hearing, the Federal Dis­ in no instance has any attemp't been made effect the capture while the crew of ii.,-e ceedings growing out of a violation of an trict Court for the \\Testern District of to define the scope of legislative author­ stood co\',;ed in the hold. One of the injunction issued under the provisions of \Visconsin issued an injunction restrain­ ity. crew leeped overboard. ing Michelson and his associates from the National Prohibitioi1 Act and the The ships and their cargo are valu~d at po·wer of 'the President to pardon a de­ certain acts. Subsequently contempt pro­ It has sometimes been intimated that the right of legislative committees to con­ $100,000. The Sachem, reported to be the fendant committed for such violation is ceedings were instituted against them. duct investigations is confined simply to fastest rum runner afloat because of her involved in the case of Grossman v. Denied a trial by jury, they 'vere held by airplane motors, put up the sternest re­ United States. the court after a hearing to be in con­ those instances in which legislation is pending or is contemplated. In other in­ sistance, twenty rounds of machine gun In this case an injunction was issued by tempt and sentenced.. This judgment wreme Court, first making use of a decoy ship to lead ments, and of the House and Senate Court of Appeals for the 7tb Circuit, declared that Ivhile the power to punish the police astray before making her clash jointly to enact legislation creating ex­ Grossman v. United States, 280 Federal for contempt is inherent in all courts and for the Fort Hamilton shore. She was ecutive offices, would seemingly imply 683. Subsequently he was pardo11ed by essential 'to the administration of justice, apprehended as she attempted to put to the right upon the part of Congress to the President. United States District at the same time it could not be doubted sea and her crew arrested. In all 11 conduct within proper limits, im:_estiga­ Judges Carpenter and Wilkinson declined that such power could be regulated by prisoners and 570 cases of whisky and al­ tion of the manner in which public mon­ to recognize the authority of the chief ex­ Congress within certain limits. The leg­ cohol were rounded up. The liquor was ies are expended and executive officers ecutive to pardon in such a case. The islative body could not abridge the power worth about $40,000 at bootleg prices. discharge their duties. The decision of Constitution of the United States declares of the courts to deal with contempts com­ 'the Supreme Court will be a\vaited with that 'the President "shall have power to mitted in the presence of the court, but interest, especially in view of the fact g1•a11t reprieves and pardons for offenses Congress, by the terms of the Clayton that resolutions for the investigation of MAYOR DEVER'S ANSWER against the United States except in cases Act, had not done any of these things. several executive departments are either of impeachment." The District Court held The court in its opinion distinguished be­ proposed or have ~lf'.cn introduced. that contempt of court growing ou't of a tween the civil and criminal contempt and Mayor Dever of Chicago last violation of an injunction under the N a­ held that the contempt in this case was of week summoned Chief of Police RUM CHASER LAUNCHED tiona! Prohibition act was not "an offense a criminal character. Collins to his office and ordered the against the United States" 'vithin 'the prohibition lav,-s to be strictly en­ POWER OF LEGISLATIVE BODY First of Fleet of Ten Speedy Craft Being meaning of those words as used in the forced without fear or favor. The TO PUNISH FOR CONTEMPT Built by Rodgers Company for Constitution. In speaking of this Judge mayor's action was his reply to the : Coast Guard Service Carp en tcr said: The power of Cbngress to punish for attack made upcn him by Clarence "The word 'offense· in Article II, Sec­ contempt is involved in the matter of the The John lvL Rodgers Company, which S. Darrow at the dinner tendered to tion 2, referring to the pardoning pow

,\ppealed Cases of 52 M~n Affi~med Visit to Central Europe, Balkan States and Turkey "Surprisingly Success-: Direct~r of Philadelphia Force Will by Court of Appeals; Include · ful," He Writes; Cordial Welcome Extended to Traveler for World Dismiss Police Who Do Not Mayor of Gary, Ind League Against Alcoholism; to Speak in Canada Enforce Law

More than a year ago 52 men of · Lake • Dy J. II. Larimore Striking warning to the politicians that :ounty, Ind., a number of' them ~ublic they must keep hands off the Philadel.. Pussyfoot Johnson has been the guest noplc. The chief daily paper of Belgrade, >fficials, were found guilty 'in the United phia police force was given last week when of Dr. Michael 1-\'linisch, president of the which, by the way, is a dry paper, gave )tates district court of Indianapolis on the Assistant Director Elliot demoted Lieu­ Austrian republic, thi:;; interesting event practically its entire front page to Mr. ·harge of conspiring to violate the prohi­ tenant McBride for his failure to raid an occurring October 11, according to a let- Johnson. >ition law. Among other Gary city offi­ illicit distillery found operating a block · tcr from Mr. Johnsor. to the World An interesting thiug in Jugoslavia was -ials convicted was the mayor. A former and a half from his station house. The League Against Alcoholism. Dr. Hain- the sale of post cards, bearing Johnson's >herifl of Lake county was also found Philadelphia North Atnerican says Me.. isch is a total abstainer and a believer in photograph, and these words; ~uilty and sentenced. Bride is a follower of "Uncle Dave" Lane: the principle of prohibition. E. Johnson, Pussyfoot, in Juga- The government charged, and the •·vv. veteran organization leader of the Twen· Following his engagement with the slavia 1924." ·harge was proved, tk,t the convicted of­ tieth Ward where McBride lives. Two president, 1fr. Johnson went to Zurich, These cards were peddled about the icials of Gary and Lake county and their street sergeants were also demoted for the Switzerland, from whence it was ex- streets by 20,000 Scrbi'an abstainers, the ssociates by a system of prosecutions and same purpose and three patrolmen whose t)ected he would come \vest to London, resultant funds to go toward the tem- ·nes without jail sentences virtuatly im- beats cover the location of the illicit still and, reaching Halifa'C a little later, begin perance fight. rovised a license system as a substitute will also be punished on the same charges: speaking engagements in Canada. In Bulgaria Mr. Johnson spent five lr the penalties o£ the prohibition law. In speaking of the demotion of Lieuten­ During his absence of four months 1\fr. days in speaking, and writes that he has 'he sentences impose;! .upon the vio!ators ant McBride and the two ser;;eants, As­ Johnson has visitc:l Great Britain, "flowers enough to set a Greek up in bus- ·anged fr.om ten days' imprisonment to sistant Director Elliot said: France, Switzerland, the Balkan states iness." ·ighteen months' imprisonment and a fine It is obviously impossible that a and Constantinople, s~eaking in all the A delegation of 40 accompanied him lf $2,000. The cases were appcaied to moonshine plant the size of this one countries. He writes that "this whole ex- from Belgrade to Budapest. He 'vas wel- 'he United States circuit court of appeals. could have been operated without the pedition has been surprisingly successful." comcd by the lord mayor and at least a Last week that trib~tnal handed down a knowledge of the police. From what Especially good were results among thousand persons with banners, photog- Jecision affirming ttl'.~ United States dis­ the reports state, the entire neighbor­ the Moslems, where l1e found intense in- raphers and the rest. The newspapers all trict court. hood knew all about it. The hus­ tcrcst in the subject of temperance re- gave him a great spiurge. It is not known if tl!e cases \vill be car­ bands and sons of the neighborhood form. In some of the Balkan states Mr. John~ ran in and out of the place without ried to the United States Supreme Court. In ·the Balkan states the newspapers son found quite a bit of temperance pro- the police on the beat ever attempt­ played him up as a good story, giving grcss, while in others there is but a scant ing to interfere with them. The fact him front pages, witi.1 streamer lines, and beginning. Everywhere, however, he that we seized a huge five-ton truck printing his picture r~peatedly. This also fourid intetise intcreest in and love for loaded with distilled denatur~d alco­ CHANGE JAIL TO SCHOOL was done in the newspapers of Constanti- Ameri~:;a. hol shows how openly the still owners \\That used to be a joting. This high I hope this will be a warning to That's the way with . prohibition-it DIDN'T ADVISE VOTERS civic obligation, however, does not carry ot~1er lieutenants and police who may • :oesn't destroy pro)crty-just changes TO IGNORE POLLS with it any mandate to mark a ballot . tl~mk they can wink at such bootleg­ he character of the Lasincss that goes on for specific candidates for a given office gmg places ~nd get away with it. property, from a had business to a :n Bishop Adna \Vright Leonard of the chosen by party leaders in contravention The police who will not play our · ~ood one. l\[cthodist Episcopli.l Church on October of the will of the rank and file of the game will soon find themselves with­ Recently the jail at Lowell, Mass., that 14 gave out the following correction of a members of the respective parties. On out a job. is, the Middlesex county jail, no longer statcme~1t he is reported to have made in every proper occasion I have and shall l>eing needed for jail purposes, was put the Central New Y o:-k Methodist Confer­ in the future earnestly advocate the ex­ np at public auction. There had been a enc'e held last week in Newark, N. J. ercise of the elective franchise by every dearth of prisoners for. several years, and .. I have been widely reported as having qualif1ed voter and its exercise in a man­ the jail was turned into cash for the advised voters to stay away from the polls ncr which represents the conscience of MAY BE BREAK IN CHAIN county. on election day. Nothing which I have the voters rather than the will of the Dr. James n. O'Connor, of LO\Yell, bid party leaders." Some over-enthus·iastic wet of New in the property on behalf of Cardinal said at any time could by any possible construction be twisted to this meaning. York has launch.ed a chain letter cam­ O'Connell, and it is understood the Car­ I have insisted and· do insist that the at­ GROSBERG WILl. . RETURN paign in the interests of beer and wine. dinal will use it for school purposes. \Vet candidates are much disturbed as a Officials said the jail had become a titude on the prohibition question of the Has Been Fighting Extradition; \tV ill result, because the letter urges voters to ''surplus plant" since prohibition came candidates for Governor of New York nominated by both major parties is such Return Voluntarily to Face Permit write on the margin of their ballots these 1 bout. that it would warrant the voters of this Forgery Charge words, "Abolish prohibition.'' Officials A couple of other jails recently \\'ere of the board of elections point out that state in refraining from voting for either Harry J. Grosberg of Cleveland who · old in Massachusetts. writing of any kind except an X opposite one of them. Governor Smith's vd10le has been fighting extradition to the United a candidate's name or the writing in of a record is wet, Mr. Roosevelt's record is States since June, on October 13 told .candidate's name will invalidate the bal­ DAVIS DOESN'T TAKE BAIT wet, his political spomorship is wet and Deputy Marshall (ingenfcits that he lot. The chain letter bears 110 signature his statements on enforcement are ev~­ would return voluntarily to face the and is typewritten on ordinary office sta­ Candidate Ignores Booze Issue After sive. charge of having forged liquor withdrawal tionery. It says: Wets Try to Get Beer Declaration "I have ahvays insisted that the first permits to the amount of $4,500,000. ac­ Let us, the taxpayers, have our own obligation of dtizcnship is to vote; that cording to a Montreal dispatch. Gros~ referendum on prohibition. The poli­ Baltimore, Md., has the reputation of no person who participates in the priv­ berg has agreed to return to the United ticians evidently don't want to hear bein6· one of the >vettest spots in the ileges of citizenship bas a right to es- States November 1. the marshall added. United States. Captain Stayton of the the votce of the people. \Vrice on Association Against the Prohibition your ballot Novembet 4, "Abolish prohibition." Let us write it fifty Amendment receives much encourage­ VINTNERS FIGHT SACRAMENTAL WINE PROSECUTIONS million strong. ment for his organization from Balti­ Send this letter to fifteen of your more. Wine Growers Association of California Who Supply Most of Sacramental friends and request them to send out '\Vhen it became known that John \V. fifteen more copies to their friends Davis, Democratic candidate for Presi­ Wine Used in Chicago, Regard Inquiry as Blow at Their Business; ::tnd make. a nation-wide chain of this dent, was to make an address in Balti­ Will Defend All Persons Indicted jn Alleged Wine Graft appeal. Don't hesitate. \Vc have no. more, it is report\!d that the wets, time to lose. N ovcmber 4 is election headed by Stayton, r.et the stage to have A wine growers organization of Cali- ­ ing Yiolation of the l<.tW through the use day and we want fifty million ballots Mr. Davis declare for booze in hi.s Bal­ fornia has prepared to fight Chicago's of fraudulent permits: The wine grow­ marked. · timore speech. sacramental wine prosecutions in the fed­ ers have retained counsel and will defend Full page advertisements appeared in eral courts in Chicago, says the Chicago all persons indicted fer complicity in the Daily News. Becau&e they supply most alleged sacramental w·:ne graft. The wi.ne the newspapers of the city on the day of B~D .BOOZE KILLS THREE the meeting asking Mt. Davis to declare of the wine sold in the city for sacramen­ growers' lawyers, it is said, will take the himself on the proposal to legalize beer. tal use, the wine gro·Ners regard the Chi­ position that the w:ne permits have no But Davis did not deliver a wallop at the cago inquiry as a blow at their . business, legal standing and so can not be misused. Three. of four men .arrested October 5 in dry law. He ignored the subject en­ it is said. Permits are not needed to Yalidate the Boston charged with drunkenness, have tirety. · The result is the wets are dis· The inquiry into the sacramental wine sale of sacra men tal wines, according to died. at the. city. . hospital, . apparently as gruntled. They see no encouragement business in Chicago is reported to have their views of the law. They are ex­ result of alcoholic poi.soning, says a dis­ for· their cause in the election of either shown graft of $35,000 a week. A number pected to challenge· the indictments im­ patch. of October l6. ' The fourt_h .man .is Coolidge or Davis. of indictments have been returned' charg- mediatelJ upon constitutional grounds. still at the hospital in a serious condition.