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yet the general impression is that he is one for whom prohibitionists can safely vote. ARE YOU AGOOD CI1IZEN ? More than this, he is an able man-one of the real big men of our state. Many of those who entered the second primary are considering seriously their u ~ Xou are a citizen of the United States as well as of your state. Your obligation to keep their primary pledge versu.s their obligation to vote for the welfare ~ ~)J.tizenship is dual; your responsibilities are two-fold. of their state. This is a question tl~at Home and State is not calied upon to decide. Do you know whether your police department is honestly enforcing It is a question that must be answered by eac;h individual voter's conscience, there- . ..-)_our dry la \VS? fore we leave it there. How the editor of ttie Home and State himself will cast his ballot is his own per- Do you know whether your state police, your sheriff, your county and sonal atiair, and is nobody else's business. He will follo,.;· his usual course of not district attorneys, and your district courts are doing their share to enforce announcing beforehand how he will vote. the dry law? An article given to the press some time ago stated that if Mrs. Ferguson should' Do you know who your federal prohibition agents are? be elected at the general election, the editor of Home and State would render all thliquor sur- This will be the thirty-eighth annual nual exposition. In addition to the fair state fair. Twice before within the last reptitiously? equipment, added to each year from decade, more than a mill.on visitors have Do you allow to be served in your home liquor that you did not acquire earned profits, there is a permanent passed within the great 156-acre enclo­ amu·sement park establishment, equipp~d prior to January, 1920? sure which houses $2,500,000,000 state with the most mode.:-n "rides" and other Do you indulge in the popular pastime of talking about "my bootleg- fair plant, made up of more than fifteen amusement devices. Plans are under ger" and by such chatter increase his illicit patronage? big permanent, substantial, modern build­ way for a mammoth S\ttmming pool ings, devoted to every phase of commer­ ARE YOU A GOOD CITIZEN? In the way of entertainn,ent and cial endeavor within the Lone Star State, amusement there is nn:ch to offer. ''The the exploitation of which is the primary Passing Parade of 1924," a musical com­ object of the fair. edy production of the f1rst magnitude, by ARKANSAS DEMOCRACY VERSUS TEXAS DEMOCRACY Prirparily an agricultural' common­ Ernie Young, of Chicago, with a com­ The Democratic convention of Arkansas in its recent session at Little Rock rec­ wealth, the State Fair of Texas is prop­ pany of seventy-five and at least six big ommended "the enactment of laws increasing the maximum punishment for bootleg­ erly significant of the state's chief activ­ specialty numbers, will be presented in a ging to fi-..e years in the state penitentiary." That is gc,.od for Arkansas Democracy. ity, in that it is an agricultural exposi­ specially constructed temporary theater. Those who are in the saddle under the Democratic rule in Texas are quietly but tion, and this year will see a magnificent Twenty Hippodromes Ot:" circus acts will earnestly carrying on a propaganda to reduce the penalty for bootlegging in Texas. agricultural building, 150x250 feet in be the attraction before the grand stand Home and State is informed that bills are being prepared, providin·g a minimum pen­ size, advantageously located directly at afternoon and evening, and the night fea­ alty for boodegging in Texas of $25. To pass such a law is equivalent to tearing out the entrance to the grounds, used for the ture will be "Tokyo,'' declared to be the of our statutes our state prohibition law completely. Texas Democracy will have to first time for agricultural exhibits. most stupendous pyrotechnic effort of the have another dry cleaning. The main exhibit building, 350 feet age, based on the catastrophic seismic de­ Can we depend on those noisy prohibitionists who were so eager to put the Fer- square, will also present a brand new and struction of the Japanese ctty · in 1923. gusons back in . charge of our state affairs to stand with us to save our state prohibi- uniquely attractive appearance. The More than 500 human actors take part, whole interior has been made over in the tion law? and the effect is carried out bef~re a Vvill someone page Judge J. E. Cockrell, Dwight Llewelling, M. M. Crane? replica of a quaint Spanish village, the Gargantuan back drv;) 600 feet _long. Six Moorish design in architecture having major football games are scheduled for been carried out in fullest detail. the great athletic stad1um, v.·hich has a HOW A CHICAGO FEDERAL ATTORNEY DOES IT The annual live stock show, for which seating capacity of 20,000, and another premiums totaling mot-e than $60,000 are unique feature therefor will be the "All­ "vVe have closed eighteen breweries in a year; emptied millions of dollars worth of offered, will be conducted in the great ' Collegiate Circus" and coronation of the bee into the sewers, and we are destroying brewery equipment wherever possible. live stock department, made up of over All-College Queen on the night of Sat- We have convicted over 2,000 illegal purveyors of poison. · 100 barns and a magnificent show arena urday, October the 18. This will be a "Ninety-nine out of every one hundred are convicted. That's our record. We of brick and steel. college event and wi!l draw college and arc enforcing the law as' it is written, against everybody alike, from beggar to million­ And Texas goes in for art, too, as at­ university peopl~ from all over the couu­ aire. Crime against the government has decre~sed fully one-third during the last year tested by the popularity of the art and try. and they will go down another one-third when our dockets are cleared, which we hope ttxtile department. In its own building The State Fair was established in 1885 to accomplish in another six .months. the handiwork of Te:xas women is dis­ by a group of pioneer business me.n and "The crying need of the hour is the enforcement of law. It must be either that played and paintings by foremost Texas the nucleus of the present site, consist-· or anarchy."-Edwin A. Olsen, U. S. Attorney, Chicago. artists are hung, along with those of ing of seventy-odd 2.cres of black waxy Compare the above with the records of the federal attorneys in Texas, and every prominent eastern painters, in the annual ' prairie land, purchased. Improvements citizen of Texas must hang his head in shame. Yet the moral support given by the art· salon. th@reon within the thirty-eight years public sentiment of Texas is infinitely stronger than in Chicago. The Republican The State Fair of Texas is a unique in­ have elapsed, have transformed it into national administration is carrying a tremendous load in the way it has handled the stitution, as compared with similar ex­ one of the most magnificent park prop­ enforcement of the Volstead act in Texas. positions, in that it st~nds four-square to erties .anywhere in the rountry. So there the world as self-supporting and self­ will he a diversity of amusement and en­ . '/1 J. sustaining. It receive<> not a cent of mu­ tertai;lment for th~ Texas merchants, the THE GOVERNORS RACE IN THE GENERAL ELECTION nicipal, state or natbnal financial aid. It Texas college and university students, t_"'-lc Those prohibitionists who are not satisfied with prohibition in name only, but want is controlled by a board of directors com­ farmer and in fact all our citizenry will prohibition in fact, are not very well satisfied with the nominee on the Democratic posed of the most prominent business find entertainment at our State Fair, the ticket for governor, and many of them are looking to the Republican nominee, Dr. men in Texas. They, with the officers, biggest thing of the kind in the wholl" serve without compensation, and many . Geo. C. Butte. United States. This gentleman is a man of very high standing ·and is generally reported to be a of them have been elevating their time real prohibitionist. He is a brother-in-law to Judge 0. S. Lattimore, one of the "war and talents to the institution for more The real object of <:very ~ · et orgar:.iza• horses" for prohibition during the last quarter of a century. . While he makes no than twenty years. tion · is to bring back the saloon. atatcment on the prohibition question in the first announcement that he has given out, Every cent of profit goes back into per- '!. FACTS INCIDENT TO H(}IJSE to break the power of alco~ olic appetit-. HELP GET CIWIT.ON BILL JHROUGH SENATE Vias the ''accessibility of liquor." VOTE ON GRAMTON BILL In those old days of license liquor The House of Representatives of the present Congress has already literally "pushing itself" all the time a~ Judiciary Committee Favorable; passed a bill (the Cramton bill) for We reorganization of the prohibi­ man or woman who had become addicfed tion unit, placing it under a bureau jn the Treaswy Department with to its use. When the Eighteenth Amend· Chief Controversy Over Industrial ment to the Constitution became op&a• t:>ne head who is to be responsible to the President of the U~ited Alcohol Regulations tive, 177,000 legalized saloons were clos~d. ~tates. This bill also provides that prohibition agents shall be under If any continued operation they continued RESPONSIB:{LITY IS SOUGHT Civil Servjce. It is vitally important that this measure be carried under camouflage. They no longer could through the Senate. Friends of dry law enforcement throughout the conduct their business openly as in the ' ' At Least 6,000,000' Gallons Industrial pation are urged to keep this measure in mind and get in touch with days when located on the best corners of Alcohol Diverted to Bootleg ~heir respective Senators and urge its enactment. the business sections of our cities and when their doors were open to all comers Channels Last Year who wanted a drink and who had using trade or their representatives who price. They invited customers by mal< g (By Wayne B. Wheeler) in the motion, and passing the bill. That their places as attractive as possible atl,.d desired to be heard were given an oppor­ the bill was brought up in the House un­ There has recently been much discus­ tunity to appear and present tfleir objec­ by openly advertising their wares. Th~ sion of the Cramton Bill. This measure der suspension instead of under special were literally "pushing" liquor upon the tions to the bill. It was reported unani­ rule was not. because of any preference by p~ssed the House of Representatives of mously by the Judiciary Committee on victim of alcoholic appetite. In short, the last Congress on June 5, 1924. It Mr. Cramton or other friends of the bill they sought the drinker. May 5 with an amendment providing for but because the House leadership pre­ has not been acted upon by the Senate. the creation within the bureau of a Di­ Under prohibition the man with a thirst Tlfe bill provides for· the extension of ferred that course as a great economizer . must seek the liquor seller. This fact in vision of Industrial Alcohol and Chemis.:: of time of the ·House, etc. The bill the provisions of the civil service act to try to be administered by a chief chemist itself is a fundamental fact that has made the Prohibition Unit as to other depart­ passed the House with Mr. Cramton's prohibition of such far-reaching value. who was to be appointed by the Secre­ amendment in it by a vote of 275 to 86. ments of government. It also provides a tary of the Treasury. In the form agreed The vast majority of former saloon pa· reorganization of the p~ohibition .enforce­ The position of those representatives of trons will not hunt the liquor seller he· upon, the amendment was never accepted the alcohol-using industries who oppose ment department by the creation of a Bu­ by Mr. Cramton. cause such quest leads through paths he reau of Prohibition within the Treasury the provision of the Cramton Bill, in­ refuses to travel. He doesn't like the Depattment, to be administered by a Com­ \Vhen the bill reached the floor of the tended to provide for a better fixing of back alley scenery nor the foul air of the missioner of Prohibition under the super­ House, Mr. Cramton appealed to the responsibility for prohibition enforcement, dirty room in the ceijar of the tenement vision of the Secretary of the Treasury. Steering Committee to bring the bill. be­ is strangely inconsistent with that of other building, the abode of the present day lixJ.· Many of the trade organizations and fore the House either through a rule or similar organizations which are demand­ uor seller. And most of all, he refuses :to associations of the alcohol-using indus­ by sust;>ension of the rules. The ~em­ ing better control of the distribution of in­ trample under foot the Constitution and tries have recently taken action with ref­ bers of the committee preferred that the toxicating liquors for non-beverage pur­ laws of his country. erence to this bill. There is a . growing bill be brought up through· suspension of poses. Professor Arney, president of the That is why literally thousands can say, indication in some quarters of a deter­ the rules, which would require a two­ American Pharmaceutical Association, re­ "I'm free, Bill, I'm free now that it isn't mined opposition to its passage when it thirds vote. Mr. Cramton expressed his cently addressing a convention of that pushing itself at nre all the time." is considered in the Senate at the next willingness to go either way and went t-o body, called attention to the abuses grow­ That's why literally. thousands of wb­ session of Congress. Most of the resolu­ the Speaker of .the House and asked for ing out of the handling of liquor by drug­ me.n and children can echo the chorus, tions condemning the bill which ha;e been recognition to move to suspend the rules gists. He advocated that the dispensing women and children who in the days of passed by taade asso~iations in~:hcate a and pass ·the bill with an amendment and· of medicinal liquors by druggists be dis­ the open inviting saloon were made .vic­ misapprehension of the true purpose and fully explained the amendment to the continued. tims of the greed of the liquor maker aiid effect of the hilt. Speaker. The press reports that the National liquor seller .because of the appetite of th~ The objection which has been most On June 5, he moved to suspend the Wholesale Druggists' Association in con­ wage earner. strongly urged is that it places too much rules and to pass the bill with the amend­ vention at Atlantic City have appointed a special committee to investigate the prob­ power in the hands of the proposed Com­ ment, which provided that the chief of HERE'S A PRETTY MESS missioner of Prohibition and deprives per­ the Division of Industrial Alcohol and lem created for the druggist by reason of mittees of the right to appeal. There is Chemistry should be -appointed by the the drug store whose sole reason for ex­ Sheriff, Deputies and Prominent Men In-. nothing unusual in the proposal to place Commissioner of Prohibition., subject to istence is the illegal sale of liquor. The dieted by Federal Court jhe subject of prohibition enforcement in the approval of the Secretary of the testimony before the Judiciary Committee a single bureau under the supervision of Treasury. at the hearing on this bill inc:!l.<:ated that at least 6,000,000 gallons of alcohol was a commissioner. Many similar bureaus When this motion was pending, the op­ Sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, and wou,d-h~ diverted last year for illegal purposes. exist: for the administration of other -laws. ponents of the bill and some of the friends · sheriffs in vVest Virginia seem to have a It is _not, therefore, an innovation. Fur­ of prohibition enforcement (who possibly Reduced to beverage strength, this would .· mania for mixing up with illicit liquor. be over 200,000,000 half-pints. The pres­ thermore, Section 3 of the bill provides did not know all the facts connected with The federal grand jury at Huntington ent division of responsibility is largely re­ ~hat the bureau shall be in charge of a the procedure upon this point), objected has indicted Don Chafin, sheriff of Logrut sponsible for this. Some trade organiza­ county, on two liquor counts. The i}l~ Commis;iioner of Pro!tibition under the on the ground that the motion and the tions, such as the United Meqicine Man­ fUpervision of the Secretary of the Treas­ amendment ought not to be combined. · dictments allege conspiracy to violate tlte ufacturers and the American Drug Manu­ Volstead Act, and· having engaged ury. The regulations affecti11-g matters of Mr. Cramton had requested that the bill unla~ facturers' Association, have indicated that policy in the enforcement of the prohibi­ be brought up in either way. If brought fully in the retail liqu:>r business. The ilf.io they do not fear any undue interference dietments were returned following sub­ tory law must be approved by the S~cre­ up under a special rule, it would have been with the legitimate trade from the passage mission of testimony that the sheriff was fary of the Treasury. In case of dissat­ possible to have a separate vote on each of the Cramton Bill. a partner in a speakeasy and that aneth~ isfaction upon the part of a permittee with amendment and a majority would have question should be met squarely. member of the speakeasy firm wa Tennis any ruling of the Commissioner, an ap­ sufficed to pass the bill. When brought T~is The great alcohol-using industry, which is Hatfield, now Republican nominee for peal may be had direct to the Secretary of up under suspension of the rules, a two­ daily becoming a more important factor in sheriff of Logan county. Hatfield served the Treasury. thirds vote was necessary to pass it and· our economic life, should not be misled -a jail term of 11 months, and paid a fine In addition to this safeguard, the right only one vote could be had on suspending by those whose prejudice against the pol­ of $1,000 for his part in the speakeasy. q which is. given under the National Pro: the rules, amending the bill as proposed hibition Kct of' an appeal to a court of icy of prohibition w.arps their judgment. is said it was his testimony that resulted in the indictment of the sheriff. equity for a review of the commissioner's findings is also retained. The Cram ton Five deputy sheriffs under Chafin also Bill in this connection in Section 41 reads: were indicted on various liquor charges "Provided, however, That nothing here­ "I'M FREE, BIU, .. J'M FREE"--"NOW THAT IT and so was Emmet Scaggs, superintt~n­ dent of schools in Logan county, and in shall be regarded as affecting the right Democratic nominee for sheriff. Scaggs of review in a court of equity as provided ISN'T PUSHING ITSELF AT ME ALL THE TIME'' in the National Prohibition Act." was indicted for possessrng liquor ille· The following incident is related by the now"-and he flung his arms up in the gaily. The only thipg that the bill seeks to Alliance News of London, England: accomplish is the reorganization of the air with the joyous laugh of a big A few months ago Mr. W. E. John­ TIME TO WAKEN ·up enforcement department to provide for a child-"but now I'm free, Bill, I'm Son after speaking in Ohio was The Democratic stat~ convention of definite fixing of responsibility for pro- free! I I know there may be some of greeted by a hearty slap on the back Connecticut adopted a platform demand.. hibition enforcement. · it about but it isn't pushing itself at and the words, "Well, Bill, I am glad me all the time." ·ing the legalizing of the manufacture and Another charge fs made that the bill sale of beer and wine. Conneeticut is one to see you." Turning round he found This reporter's experience is typical of was rushed through during the closing of the two states which never ratified the an old reporter friend of bygone years the experience of many thousands of days of the session and · its passage in Eighteenth Amendment. Somebody whom he had known as a capable man others in prohibition United States. the House secured by some form of par­ should tell that state it is time to waken who had bad drinking bouts from Jack · London a few years before his liamentary trickery or through a violation up. Old Rip Van Winkle is a piker for time to time and whom he had bailed death wrote an article which attracted un­ of an agreement by Mr. Cramton. H. R. out on more than one occasion. The sleep compared with Connecticut. 6645 was originally introduced by Mr. usual attention, in which he showed that two went off for a chat and the man the principal cause of the ever-increasing Cramton on February 5. Full hearings It is easy to tell the benefits of prohi-.o said, ''You know, Bill, that for thirty per capita consumption of intoxicants and ,rere had. All members of the alcohol- bition, but who can name any benefits o. years I :was never really sober, but .the biggest obstacle to a drinker's effort the saloon. Page Three

.~ ' ·...,. CRIME AND PAUPERISM ·1N DRY UNITED STATES I Has Crime Decreased in the U. S. During the Four and One-Half Years Prohibition Has Been in Effect? It has. There is no Guess Work About AFriving at the Answer. Police and Court Records of the Nation Prove the Assertion. Consider Massachusetts for Instance; Masachusetts is one of the Four States of the Country Without an Adequate State · Enforcement Code, and Therefore Enforcement of the Law is ~endered More Difficult than in Most States, and Yet Under Partial Enforcement: Seven of the Tw~nty-One County Jails· of the State are Empty--Tenantless, Under Prohibition - As an Indication of What is Happening, a Four Column Display ad Which Appeared in the Boston Herald of September 15 is En- lightening. The Following is a Reproduction in Part of the ad:

53 central St., Lowell, MasS I

REAR VIEW~.. OF BUILDINGS OF MIDDL~SEX COUNTY -JAIL PROPERTY, 5.32 ACRES Right in the Heart of Lo,vell, Massachusetts TOBESOLDON THE PREMISES AT PUBLIC AUCTION By Order of the Commissioners of Middlesex County WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 24, 1924 at 2 o'clock P. M.,. Daylight Saving Time • To the Highest Bidder Without Limit or Reserve 1· Money Making Chance Operators, Investors, Sp_eculators, Manufacturers 1

Then follows a description of the property, a description which eloquently tells the story of what crime conditions formerly were when to care for the criminals it was neces5ary for Middlesex County to maintain: ''A Massive 31-2 Story Granite Building, 3 Story Brick· Building, 2 Story Brick Workshop, Keeper's Residence of 3 Stories, and.231,656 Feet of Land" Warehouse; (2) Storage for files and papers of The main building is a three and one-half story in pholo, is of three stories in granite, thoroughly modern, containing fourteen rooms. The stable, large corporations, lawyers, architects, account­ granite structure, 60 by 120 feet, with slated roof; No. 5, is a two-story brick structure. All build­ ants and other professional men who now pay heated by steam, lighted by electricity. No. 3 in ings, excepting No. 2, the workshop, have roofs of costly rentals in Boston for floor space devoted photo. The building No. 2 in photo is three to such storage purposes; ( 3) Remodel for factory the finest quality slate. . · purposes; (4) Hotel; (5) Educational or inslitu­ stories, brick and granite, 47 by 85 feet also This property which used to be a boarding house for criminals supported at taxpayers' ex­ tional purposes; (6) Hospital; (7) Garage. The lighted by electricity, and heated by steam. 'Build­ lot area of 231,656 square feet is desirable for fac­ ing No. 1, the workshop, is of two stories, of pense, is now available for use in promoting legit­ imate industries. The ad suggests- tory location, dwellings or apartment houses, coal brick construction, with open floors, electrically terminal, etc., etc. lighted, and steam heated. The residence, No. 4 Splendidly adapted for: (1) Cotton Storage And· Prohibition Has Forced Brewers, Distillers and Saloonkeepers Out of J the BUSINESS OF MAKING PAUPERS There were more than twice as many male pau­ Read this from the government records made ords show. There 'vere 78,090 paupers in almshouses on pers as female last year, while in 1880 the males public September 16: only slightly exceeded the females. Males num­ There are fewer paupers in almshouses in the Jan. 1 last year, compared with 84,198 in 1910, when the last census of the kind was taken, lhe bered 53,967 last year and females 24,123. Of the United Stales than there have been in the last males more than half were between the ages of 60 twenty years· and the number per 100,000 of pop­ census bureau announced September 16. The ri.umber per 100,000 of population was 71.5, as com­ and 80 :years, the largest percentage being between ulation is smaller than it ever has been in the his­ 70 and 74 years of age. tory of the country •as far as the government's rec- pared with 91.5 in 1910 and 132.0 in 1880. PROHIBITION SAVES the TAXPAYER ,MONEY Page Four HOME AND STATE

- HOME AND STA1'E A Peep Into the Pa~t (Established 1903) HOLD STEADY AND WIN ADRY WORLD The Chicago Tribune reprint~ the following from its Official Organ Anti-Saloon League of Texas By Dr. Geo. McGinnis, Chicago columns of sixty years ago (August 15, 1864): Published First of Eacn Month by Michael Shean, proprietor of a gr?cery and booz­ THE AMERICAN ISSUE PUBLISHING CO. Men like Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Co­ 130 South State St., Westerville, Ohio ing den at Desplab1es and Jackson streets: was FOR THE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE OF TEXAS lumbia University, who are wasting time, effort and-wet fatally shot in an affray in the place. Mtchael EDITORIAL 0I"FICE-G03-4 Slaughter l3Jdg., Dallas, Texas money in an attempt to re-establish the saloon in Amer­ Rourke is expected to die from a bullet wound, EHNEST H. CHERRINGTON, Editor ica under government control are like King Canute in and Daniel Coffee was stabbed but nQt seriously. REV. ATTICUS WEBB, State Editor his insane effort to sweep back the ocean. vVe cannot restrain the remark that these men Entered as ~econd-class matter at the posto-,m-=--ce--a..,.-t-=w:;;-e::-:st=-=e-=-rv=i;;-1;-::le-:-,'o" .. Go itito any town formerly wet and you will find a under Act of March 3, 1879 arc added to the long list of victims of strong legitimate business occupying the old saloon building: drink. Can we not do something as a people to­ Subscription Price--$1.00 a Year in the United States It may be a rastaurant, grocery, dry goods, shoe store, All letters should be addressed to HOME AND STATE, Dall~s, Texas ward at least lessening the evils which it now en­ Of;'FJCERS OF THE ANTl-SALOON LEf:..GVE OF· TEXAS tobacco shop or soft drink parlor. The big mirror is tails upon us? No better object of effort can be President- On. J. C. HARDY Belton still in evidence with its ornamental and beautifully found than this after the war for the Union shall Vice President-J. L. S:-..nTH . . . Amarillo 'carved mahogany setting, but the old brass rail and the Second Vice President-On. L. D. GnAFTON • Austin have been blest with a triumphant issue. Recording Secretary-JUDGE GEORGE SERGEANT Dallas atmosphet:e of skunky smelling beer is gone. Superintendent-REv. ATrC"C"S Vv'EBB Dallas And afte·:- having tried regulating these boozing dens for Go among the business men and you will not find one \,.../. NATIONAL DIRECTORS more than a half-century, the people, convinced that in a thousand that wants the traffic back. The business Rev. Atticus Webb, Dallas Rev. E. A. Maness, Crockett regulation failed utterly in "lessening the evils" of the Governor Pat M. Neff, Austin world has joined the religious world for the banishment Mr. "'· J. Milburn, Austin Judge George Sergeant, Dallas liquor traffic, wrote a prohibition amendment into the of John Barleycorn. The only danger that can come lo BOARD OF MANAGERS Constitutic.~1. And now this same Chicago Tribune never 1st Congressional Dist.-Rev. W. D. White • the dry movement is the indifference of its friends who Atlanta loses an opportunity to belittle and deride the law which 2nd Congressional Dist.-Geo W. Carroll . . Beaumont think that t~e fight is over. Srd Congressional Dist.-Judge E. M. Bramlette Longview makes this prohibition amendment effective, and broadly 4th Congressional Dist.-Prof. H. A. Ivy . Sherman The wets in foreign nations fearing that their craft 5th Congressional Dist.-Dr. E. D. Jennings . Dallas suggests nullification of the-amendment itself. Evidently 6tn Congressional Dist.-Hon. T. S. Henderson Cameron will be endangered if America makes good . on prohibi­ 7th Congressional Dist.-Rev. E. A. Maness Saur Lake tion are supplying campaign funds to their American the Tribune is no longer looking forward but backward, 8th Congressional Dist.-Rev. R. W. Adams Houston t;th Congressional. Dist:- friends to help break do·wn our constitutional amend­ and longs for those old days when Michael Shean and 10th O:::mgressional Dist.-Mr. C. E. McDannald . Lockhart his kind operated "boozing dens" where shooting and lJ th Congressional Dis t.-H.ev. D. A Hodges . . . . Temple ment, for the drys in these countries are clamoring that 12th Congressional Dist.-Judge W. Erskine Williams Ft. Worth their native land follow the example set by America. cutting affrays were common occurrences. 13th Congressional Dist.--Hon. Guinn Williams . Decatur 14th Congressional Dist.·-Rev. J. T. Curry . San Antor:io Steady, there, you, drys, don't be deceived and misled 15th ·Congressional Dist.-Rev. S. L. Batchelor Kingsvilld 16th Congres1=cider goes to­ C. S. Wood, eastern director of the Association Agair~st ward satisfying_the thirst of the whole gang of npllifica­ the Prohibition Amendment, is the wet statesman who tionists whose cause he chanipions. discovered why the immigration laws are violated. He Would Be Good Law reasons in this wise-Prohibition law made the rum run­ One of the most important law enforcement measures Wets Seek to Capture Ontario ners, and the alien smuggler operates from rum smug­ now pending in Congress is the bill for the deportation The province of Ontario will vote on the wet and dry glers' row, which he. says ''has become the headquarters of aliens who violate the prohibition and narcotic laws. issue October 23. of organized effort to break through every protective lt is the opinion of many prosecutors, judges and others The fight for the retu;n of the legalized liquor traffic barrier raise.d by American law." who have closely studied the subject, that the deporta­ is being led by the Moderation League. Rum row is just like the old fashioned saloon-in other tion of convicted aliens would have an instantaneous and The drys are busy organizing and campaigning, and it words, the natural hang-out for all sorts of criminals. So very marked effect in reducing the numb_er of violations is admitted that it will be a hard fougl-i.t battle. much easier for the enforcement officer. When one of of the prohibition law. "It is conservatively estimated The swing of the pendulum in the western provinces our new coast guard boats blowc~ ()ne of those rum smug­ that the percentage of liquor law violations perpetrated from their partial prohibition laws to the government gling boats out of the water it will, figuratively and liter­ by aliens ranges from 60 to 90 per cent. control system heartens the wets. They believe that On­ ally speaking, kill two birds with one <;hot, the alien tario has undergone a change of heart and will align smuggler and the rum smuggler. The Funny Antics of Mr. Hill itself with British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Alberta, But that isn't the solution of the problem, according Manitoba and Quebec. to the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. John Philip Hill, Congressman from the third district With the rescinding of the national prohibition law This Association would repeal the prohibition law or so of Baltimore, Md., is still trying to flimflam his constitu­ which was put into force as a war measure, the so-called amend it as to make it ineffective, and then there would ents. Two years ago he promised them that he would dry provinces were powerless to prevent manufacture, be no more rum runners or boot!eggers. bring back beer and wine. The wet Baltimore Sun at importation, exportation and transportation of intoxicat­ Will the Association Against the Prohibition Amend· that t;.~ue said if he came up. again as a candidate after ing liquor. Breweries and distilleries continued to oper­ ment ask for the repeal of the immigration laws? failing to mak~ good on his promise the people of his dis­ ate under the law, greatly increasing the difficulties of If the Association is consistent it will. trict would "bite him in the leg." He failed. The people enforcement of the law against sale in the provinces. are just as far from beer and wine as they were before The adoption of the so-called government control sys­ John Philip made his grandstand play. Now he wants tem by the western provinces is no indication that the to get himself arrested for violating the law. And ap­ Lasker Breaks Loose Again people of Canada have repudiated prohibition. They parently he will be accommodated, inasmuch as he has In the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune for Sep­ have never had it except for a short time under the na­ just been indicted by the federal grand jury on six counts tember 3 is a cablegram from Washington quoting for­ tional prohibition law. Canada's only hope of relief from of violating the Volstead law. Someone has been mean mer chairman of the United States Shipping Board, Mr. the burdens imposed upon it by the liquor traffic is a Albert Laskar, as blaming prohibition for the failure of enough to say that there are so many pe.ople in Hill's national prohibition law. district J·,!,at have been arrested for violating the law they Ameriacn government ships to make a profit. Accord­ However, under so-called government control drunk­ "ould have a more brotherly feeling if he went through ing to Brother Laskar, "the American passenger and enness has greatly increased, which clearly shows that their experience. Probably Hill's real object, however, merchant marine was sunk when liquor was abolished.'' even partial prohibition is better than license, notwith­ is that he counts upon the average intelligence of his con­ Mr. Laskar has j_us.t landed in America from the Levia­ standing the licensee may be the government itself. stituents being of so low standard as not to know better than. According to the same cablegram, the ship was than to accept him as a champion worth while. "crowded with returning tourists." It is common knowl­ vVhile Mr. Hill has been thinking it smart to violate The Wage Earner Profits by Prohibition edge that the dry American ships haYe been "crowded" the law, American Issue has about come to the conclu­ most of the time since American ships went dry. On the financial page of the Chicago Tribune of recent sion that if he wants to be lock.ed up he should get what What's the matter with these ships and their manage­ date is an interesting story which is reproduced in part he wants in that respect. He should not be allowed to ment if they can't make a profit when they go "crowded?" in American Issue, depicting the marvelous prosperity flaunt the law and go unpunished. The example is bad As a matter of fact, the ships are losing much less wl1ich this country has enjoyed during the past year. Re­ and there is no way to defend delay in accommodating money than they did when they were managed · by M·r. ferring to the unprecedented volume of factory output, this 1'iolator of the nation's law. Laskar and when they sold barrels of whisky. When 1 the writer says: . Laskar managed this shipping) business on a whisky N o c:•.)ubt Hill must feel somewhat ch;grined on read­ The quiet revolution that has transferred so basis, they were losing $50,000,000 a year. If prohibition ing Raymond S. Tomkin's article in the Baltimore Sun. much capital and buying power to the wage-earn­ causes a loss in the operation of these ships now when Mr. Tomkins made fun of Hill's latest cider party to ing class made it possible to consume the output they go "crowded," why is it that they lost a whole lot such an extent that only a fool would fail to understand with the aid of some hang-over spending in 1924. that even the wet Baltimore Sun is making fun of Hill. more money when they sold whisky and when they were There is a wealth of information written between the not so crowded? The ic!•2a of Hill's shaking hands twenty times with lines in the above

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A1UST CLOSE UP OR GET OUT DETROIT BUILDS MORE .MEXICAN STATE VERY DRY · _} C~NFEI:E~CE SETS AI~i President Issues Order Closing All Liquor General Butler Tells Poljce to Shut lhe Detroit Free Press of Sep­ Places on Celebration of Day of Bombay Christian Leaders Resolve Up Joints or Quit Force tember 7 reports that Detroit build­ ing in the first eight months of 1924 Independence to Seek Total Prohibition as General Smedley D. Butler, head of the increased $22,539,338 over the same Goal for Community A news story. from · S'a11 Luis Potosi, police force of Philadelphia, has issued the pcrioq in 1923. The Free Press de­ Mexico, under date of September 12, is as following order: "Police must close the clares that indications are that De­ At a conference of the leaders of the follows: saloons and rum joints on their beats or troit in 1924 will have the greatest .Protestant Indian Christian Community "The declaration of the Municipa! Pres­ else I am going to recommend them for building year in its history and of Bombay City held in the Centenary ident Don Pedro Hernandez to the re­ d.ismissal for neglect of duty." that it will roll up a volume of con;­ Hall, 'Grant Road, on Saturday evening, porters who interviewed him yesterday In a conference with Assistant Director truction totalling $150,000,000 in August 16, after a stirring appeal by Miss has given cause for alarm to part of the antl Superintendent of Police Mills, value. Mary ]. Campbell, organizing secretary c~11iott public and especially to numerous mer­ Butler outlined his plans for "the Prosperity of the c1t1es of the of the Women~s Christian Temperance ~General chants. That official ·said that for to­ • r greatest drive on vice and <;:r.ime" in the U nitd States· has not been re­ Union of India, the following resolutions morrow all the drinking places would be ~ - history of Philadelphia. He is quoted in tarded but greatly increased with were passed unanimously: definitely closed in order that on the 15th the Philadelphia North _American as say­ the closing of saloons, breweries and (1) This conference of Indian Chris­ day of the present month, on which even­ ing: distilleries. tian leaders of the Bombay Churches ing we celebrate the 'cry' of independence, commends the total prohibition of alco­ "With the return of 1,300 men from va­ the dry state in San Luis Potosi may be a holic liquor as the go.al to be gainetl by cation I have made up my mind that we RAIDS ARE VERY FRUITFUL fact. The sale of alcoholic drinks will be the Indian Christian community. will take no more excuses from patrolmen entirely prohibited, even in sealed bottles; on the beats as to why they can not close Prohibition Agents Make More Than and in the traditional festivals of the vari­ (2) The Conference earnestly requests saloons and joints. From now on I want Sixty Arrests Along Florida Co?st; ous districts, which take place in the the Indian Ministers' Union of Bombay the police to arrest at least 100 saloon­ Much Booze Seized course of the present month, only the sale to do all that is possible to le~d the keepers and bartenders a week. This old of the special drink called 'colonche,' in churches to this goal. excuse they can't find any evidence will Prohibition agents on September 13 consideration of the very small quantity (3) ·Believing that the Churches as a not go. I know and the police on the conducted a series of raids along the Flor­ of alcohol which it contains, will be per­ rule are using unfermented wine in the street know that a saloon can not stay ida coast which netted more than 60 ar­ mitted." Lord's Supper, the Conference urges open selling soft drinks. Now I want the rests and the seizure of a large amount ')f every Church to do so. police to make up their minds that such expensive liquor and other wet goods ( 4) The Conference calls upon every "MA" SAYS ITS SETT!..ED conditions will not be tolerated any longer. brought in by coastwise rum smugglers, member of the Christian Community in I have applications from 7,000 men who according to reports reaching the district vVher.. "}...fa" Ferguson became the Bombay to consecrate himself or herself want to join the force. If the cops have prohibition enforcement office at Jackson­ Democratic candidate £or governor of to the temperance cause and by a per­ any sense they had better get busy and ville. Texas the people wondered what her po­ sonal example of total abstinence as well close up the vice and rum joints because Miami and. West Palm Beach were the sition would be on the. liquor question, as by personal effort to work for the up­ if they don't I will quickly dismiss theni centers of attack on the east coast, while knowing that her husband while governor rooting or' the drink evil from Bombay and put others in their places." Pensacola was being cleaned up on the of the state was wet. However, imme­ City. west coast. More than 30 alleged liquor diately after "Ma" won the primary elec­ (5) The Conference expresses the runners and bootleggers were arrested in tion she declared: ernest hope that a branch of the Blue GRIFFIN GOES TO PRISON the raids at West Palm Beach and Miami All I have to say about prohibition Ribbon Temperance Association may be and 28 were arrested in Pensacola. is-it is settled. Hov;ever, I will tell established in every Church and in every Former Head of Philadelphia Secret Ser­ you that I will veto any liquor bills Centre_ ·where Indian Christians live and vice Convicted on Liquor Conspir­ that come before me as governor. AGAIN A RUM RUNNER that all our Christian people, young and acy Charge old, will take the Blue Ribbon Temper­ Motorboat Once Seized and Sold by Gov­ ALL ARE SIGNING UP ance pledge of total abstinence. Matthew Griffin, who for years headed ernment for Rum Running Is Cap­ Miss Campbell spoke daily in Bombay the secret service in Philadelphia, was tured a Second Time Anti-smuggling treaties similar City from August 7 to September 3. taken to prison last week following his to that with Great Britain have About 20 centers opened -to the temper­ conviction and that of seven other men Sold by the United States government been signed with Germany, Swe­ ance cause. for conspiracy to divert $500,000 worth of at publiccauction at New London on Sep­ den, Denmark, Italy, France, Pan­ liquor to illegitimate channels. Griffin tember 2, the rum-running motorboat for­ ama and Canada. The 'first four was sentenced by a federal judge. merly identified in Connecticut waters as MUST HAVE MISTOOK HIM were ratified by the Senate under the Anna S. and also as the ] -1151, was · GrifGtn had been con~icted at two trials dates as follows: captured again last week by a customs Recently John \V. Davis, candidate for of having withdrawn $250,000 worth of Germany, M3y 26. service chaser off Cononicut Island, R. I. President, addressed a meeting in the whisky for shipment to Greece, filling Sweden, May 26. This incident emphasizes the weakness stockyards of Chica:so. He defined real the original shipments with water and Denmark, June 3. of the government's policy of selling Americans as those who · stick to tlre then selltng the whisky to bootleggers. Italy, June 4. confiscated rum boats to any purchaser three great ideas embodied in the pream­ The first conviction was obtained in April The treaties with France, Pana­ without an iron-clad guarantee from such ble of the Declaratio:1 of Independence­ of last year, but a new trial \Vas ordered ma and Canada have not yet been purchaser that such craft will not again ''human equality, personal liberty and by the circuit court of appeals and in a ratified. second trial conviction was secured. be put into the rum-running service. popular sovereignty." According to dis­ patches the candidate's audience cheered lustily at the mentioa of personal liberty, --STrtYi1alf-b;;~els"""~f b~er ~nd 2,000 g~l~ U. So BARS LIQUOR CARRYING SHIPS FROM PHiLIPPINES evidently believing that Mr. Davis meant Ions of beer in vats were seized by De­ the kind of personal liberty demanded by troit police last week in raids on an illicit the wets. 1 brewery in that city. A number of arrests State Department Instructs Consuls in U. S. Foreign Service to Decline were made in connection with thi3 seizure. to Clear Vessels on Which Beverage Liquor Is Loaded Destined WON'T EMPLOY VIOLATORS for Philippine Ports The Grand Rapids Plaster Com­ ENRIGHT PRAISES BUTLER Instructions have been issued by the The dispatches indic~ted a' belief on the pany has issued an order that any Accomplishments, of General employee who finds himself re­ State Department directing all consuls in part of General V\·ood that the Philip- Smedley Butler since he became quired to defend in court a charge pines were exempted by th~ Volstead Director of Public Safety of Phila­ the United States toreign service to de- Act and that the consul was refusing of violation of tre liquor law need delphia were repeatedly praised by cline to clear vessels on which liquor clearance to vessels enroute from Ron­ not return to his job with the com­ Police Commissioner Enright of for beverage purposes is loaded and des- kong to the fhilippires. The Philip­ pany. New York on the occasion of Com­ The Volsteari Act hadn't been missioner Enright's visiting Phila­ tined for the Philippir..e Islands. pine Department of .Justice has given its The instructions were issued on the opinion that neither the Volstead law effective many months before the delphia to attend the police base­ superintendent of the company, ball game. Mr. Enright said: basis of a legal opinion by the Depart- nor the Eighteenth _·\mendment applies ment of Justice. that the Eighteenth to the Islands·. Alfred H. Apted, who is also a city General Butler has made a commissioner, let it be known that marvelous showing since he Amendment prohibits the carriage of At the Department of Justice it was liquors for beverag.~ purposes by for· explained that no e~itempt had · been the fellow who winks at the Ameri­ has been in office. He has done can Constitution need not expect splendid work in view of the eign ships sailing to Philippine ports. 'made to set up machinery for enforce- Distribution of the instructions by the ment in the Philippines under the Vol­ to retain his job with the plaster fact that he did not know the company,. and t}Iere has not been a city particularly in such a short .department was made known on Septem- stead Act. The letter on which the ber 23 upon the r~ceip t of dispatches from State Department acted, written by Mrs. sh0rtage of hel:> so far as this par­ time. Everybody in New York ticular company is concerned. is watching his every move Manil ~ reporting that. Governor General Mabel Walker Wille brandt, ' Assistant · Leonbar thirsty are slacking in. liberal contribu­ The .action of the American Legion of that the court had decided to "take a va­ tions. More than 100 brewery officials may be World vVar veterans, at St. Paul, in en­ catio.n" from trying him on drunk charges However" it is suspected that much of prosecuted criminally for liquor violations dorsing the movement for beer and light and in order to get that needed rest would that complaint is pure camouflage. Of committed in their plants as result of an wines is disappointing and humiliating to commit him to 'jail for thirty days! course the old soakers should be levied important decision made September 16 by the best allies the Legion boys have ever It is to be hoped the judge will enjoy on for the campaign, because they will United States Commissioner Manley of had at home and abroad. the vacation and at the end of it will have be more active to follow up their contri­ Philadelphia. Who was it that entered fully into come to the same conclusion that the safe butions with their personal activities; but Handing down his decision in the case every movement for the care and relief of and honest way to enforce the law is to the English, French, Spanish and Italian of three officers of the John Roehm Brew- those soldier boys when they were in make it a terro.r to the transgressors. anti-prohibitionists, who are tremendously ery Company who were being prosecuted f camp or on the firing lines in France? The greatest enemies of prohibition in concerned to have prohibition fail in the for the manufacture ·of beer above the ~" Vv' as it the brewers, liquor dealers and the nation are those prosecutors and United States are the real and plentiful legal alcoholic content, the commissioner bar-room bums of the nation? judges who are always finding excuses for backers of the A. A. P. A. ruled that they be· held for court, setting Or was it the fathers and mothers, so­ leniency to the wilful and repeated vio­ Our prohibition people in America a precedent which is expected to result ber and prayerful, "vho sacrificed for their lators of the liquor laws. Some of the should realize that this is no fancied fight in the similar prosecution of other brew- comfort and health in every possible way? officials should be locked up along with in which they are engaged. It is a real ers, the case against the Roehm brewery Vvhat men were more active and earn­ the repetitious drunks. foreign war to recapture this nation to officials being the first of 27 similar. cases est for the welfare and victory of those the world-wide liquor trade. And if we against more than 100 brewery officials boys than the Christian ministers of S. 0. S. BY THE A. A. P. A. who made a "Dry America" lay do\vn on in eastern Pennsylvania. Commissioner America? Did not the government itself The Association Against the Prohibi­ our job of keeping it so, we will certainly Manley deliberated for two weeks before appeal to and rely upon those preachers tion Amendment is sending out S. 0. S. fall easy victims to our alien enemies. delivering his decision to hold the men for to stir- up the patriotism and generosity trial. After hearing evidence from gov­ of the people that Christian ideals might ernment witnesses which implicated the not perish in a new flood of barbarism men as officers of -the concern, Commis- and the world made safe for civilized hu­ WHAT THE CURRENT MAGAZINES .ARE SAYING ABOUT sioner Manley made an exhaustive study manity? ENFORCE~1ENT of the law affecting the brewers and finally Did not the women's organizations de­ PROHIBITION AND LAW decreed that the brewers can be prose- (Reviewed by Emma L. Transeau) vote themselves to the many works in­ cuted criminally in addition to the civil volved in caring for the boys in the serv­ action which has been instituted in the ice and their families here at home? (The Saturday Review Aug. 16, 23, 30, way to well and properly cooked foods federal courts in an effort to padlock the And now these veterans deliberately Sept. 6, 13, 1924) and other edibles . . . plants and destroy the brewing apparatus. ~'There are thise who eat to 'excess as Although this was not the first time slap all those devoted friends in the face LIQUOR CONTROL well as some who drink to ex~ess . . . the brewery officials have been .held for with an ungrateful resolution in aid of Correspondence the brewers and saloonists who are fight­ The average person has been , given his court on criminal charges in addition to A series of letters from readers of this ing prohibition and seeking a new inunda­ reason, judgment, and will-power, and it the equity suits, the fact that all of the English weekly have brought out some tion 'of drunkenness, ·debauchery and na­ is for each one to be encouraged to exer­ 27 cases are similar to the Roehm case points which show progressive thinking tional degeneration! c~se restraint in his everyday life, which indicated that similar action will be taken on this universal social problem. Here, then, is a great and vital work he would be deprived of doing if every­ by the commissioner in all the cases where Referring to figures that had been of­ for the women of today. Let them, led thing that might be abused was rationed Assistant United States Attorney De fered on the results of disinterested man­ by the W. C. T. U., take up this matter or withheld from him.'' Young, who has charge of the pro-secu­ agement, Mr. Frank Adkins (August 16) with the American Legion Posts every­ This fallacious view, common among tions, can prove that the men named in remarked: where and secure the reversal of the un­ those who ai·e ignorant of, or ignore, the the warrants are connected with the brew­ • grateful action . "Much of the injury and misery which weakening effect of the drug upon judg­ eries. follow a lapse, in any considerable de­ ment, will-power and restraint, gives Mr. Adkins opportunity for further needed SOFT PEDALING BOB gree, from ~trict moderation, finds no rec­ ord save in the memory of friend and re­ educational service to the public. In the CATHOLIC DRYS CELEBRATE In his hunt for presidential electoral lation. Such misery will certainly not be followinig issue, Sept. 13, he explains: 1otes Senator La Follette has evidently neutralized by maldng the places where "The action of alcohol, in common with Observe Fiftieth Anniversary of Founding decided to soft-pedal on the prohibition liquor is sold more attractive. Given the other articles of the same class is to grat­ of Pioneer Total Abstinence Associa­ question. general use of these liquors, under what­ ify an in;,.mediate craving, but at the same tion; Asks Reforms for Ireland Vvhen he started his nearest supporters ever conditions~ experience proves thiit time, or shortly afterward, to create a de­ promised that he would make a "wine and many and grave evils will inevitably fol­ mand for a further supply. This is the According to a Dublin dispatch in the be~r" plank a foremost one in his pro­ low." secret of the ability, and the desire, to Duluth News-Tribune of recent date, gram, but so far he has been as silent as drink alcoholic liquors in quantities utter­ 10,000 persons from all parts of Ireland Tutankhamen on the subject. A careful AnotheT reader, who misses Mr. Ad­ kins' point, disagrees about the effects of ly impossible in the case of other bever­ participated in the celebration of the canvass of the country regions where he fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the reforming ptlblic- houses: He argues ages ... hopes to win electors, I am assured has Pioneer Total Abstinence Association. (Aug. 23): "I freely admit that this characteristic convinced him that an open advoc·a~y of of these liquors is only operative to a A dozen bands and 500 clergymen "The more ~holesome the atmosphere wine and beer would drive away from him serious extent in the case of a minority of marched in the J)rocession which took and surroundings of a man's existence, the 'myriads of votes otherwise safely for him. their users, but I submit that the number forty-five minutes to pass a given point. greater is the likelihood of his self-respect He knows as well as he knows his own of these is sufficiently large ·and the con­ A monster mass meeting was presided r ·.'1. initials that to promise any such modifica­ and sobriety." sequences of thetr lapse sufficiently disas­ over by Rev. S. J. Flynn, S. ]., and ad­ tion of the Volstead act is to offer vision­ But Mr. Adkins, who knows that he trous and far-reaching to render the com­ dressed by Rev. U. ]. Gannon, S. J., who ary goods that, even as president, he could has opened up the kernel of the whole mon sale of the article which has caused deplored the general return of drunken- never deliver. While a large number of problem, will not allow it to be overlook­ it an act of grave social unwisdom." ness in Ireland within the last six years his allies want beer and wine there are ed. He sharpens his point (Aug. 30): Another correspondent, meanwhile, and urged the support of a bill introduced other things in his program that they "The mischief lies in the essential char­ contributes this much in little: in the Dail to check abuses ·of liquor. He want more, while there are milli.ons of acteristics of the article itself and not in ••rt is not the place that makes the per­ urged the 250,000 members of the organi- farmers, women and workers, who are the conditions under which it is supplied son drunk but the liquor. They (advo­ zation, most of whom were voters, to sup- now favorably inclined to vote for him or consumed. cates of the 'improved public house') port the effort to bring the membership_ but who would vote strongly against him "My position is that the liquors under would find a more effective solution of the up to one million voters and said 40 new if he were to declare openly for any weak­ consideration are, by virtue of their im­ drink problem by deahng with the liquor centers of the Total Abstinence Associa- ening of the prohibition ·laws. mediate effect, so attractive as to, provoke than with the place where it is old." tion have been added since Christmas. \Lf So Battling Bob is so far treating the· and in some cases to insure a demand for / The Most Rev. Dr. 'Gaughran, Bishop of liquor issue as "a purely local problem." themselves which may, and ofte~ does, (McCall's Magazine, Oct6bcr, 1924) Meath, also addressed the meeting. glide into excess. If this is so-and no THE GULP STREAM A resolution was passed demanding the A COURT'S VACATION one 'denies it-and if the demand in its in- By Louis Joseph Vance tnactment of temperance reform meas­ ep at Menasha in \Visconsin there is a tense form is so widespread as 't:o assume A bootlegging story, the . plot of which ures by the Dail and the meeting con­ judge who tries liquor cases. Since pro- national importance-also not deni~d-1 concerns a rum-runner who planned to cluded with the papal blessing. hibition came along a certain citizen there submit th'at a good cause exists for the marry a girl of good social position and has been often arrested and convicted of' exclusion ·of this Delilah among drinks to put out of the way a ,~vung man who, The Democratic convention of Con­ intoxication in public. The court hereto- from the neighborhood of Samson." he thought, was a revenue age11t. H[)w necticut adopted a rlatform demanding fore. has .dealt witlr him leniently-in fact, Still the point is not clear enough for this wicked rum-runn,~ r W?-S outwitted \)y the legalization of the sale of beer and too h1uch .so-in view of his chronic appe- another read~r, who s::.ys: a real government agent wh9m he did not wine. Connecticut is one of the two the for "joy juice." "The 'attractiveness of which he (Mr. suspect and all of his plans thwarted anvet record as p.;arty's choice for Governor, becoming a sold the property No 435-439 East 51st hibition agents June 20 and 16,000 gallons a public official. He was the only Re­ ca.n:td}d:ate for the third term without op­ Street, New York City, with a frontage of alleged illegal alcohv~-:>c content beer publican Senator to vote against the rum posnition. of 236 feet extending to the East River, seized. The plant is valued at $200,000. smuggling treaty. He is an ardent advo­ Governor Smith' is a consistent and per­ where the property embraces a half a Four arrests were made, and six truck& cate of modification of the VolStead lar.v sis1ten:t enemy of prohibition and prohibi­ seized. block. whereby the Eighteenth Amendment tion enforcement. He showed his loyalty John F. Trommer Brewing Co., Garden City Brewing Co., Missoula, may be nullified. ro the liquor interests when he signed the Brooklyn, N. Y., is ieaturing White La­ 'Montana, has discontinued business. His opponent, Hamilton F. Kean, de­ bill vetoing the state law enforcement bel Malt Brew. James Hanley Brewing Co., Provi­ clared for strict enforcement of the law code, thus putting the burden of enforce­ dence, R. I., is liquidating its business. Lexington Brewing Co., :Lexington, and against modification. mernt of the prohibition law 1n New York Ky., has changed its name to Dixie Senator Edge's victory is a wet victory. sttate wholly upon the federal govern­ The former Magnolia Brewery at Realty & Products Co. and incorporated However, the drys will have one more ment. It is also announced that the con­ Houston, Texas, has been purchased by the same with $200,000 capital. Col. John opportunity to defeat him at the N ovcm­ vention will adopt in its platform a plank Messrs. M·orrison & McCall, who will Klocker is president of the company. ber election. Dr. James K. Shields, for­ declaring for modification of the Volstead operate the plant for cold storage and ice Peterson Beverage Company, Grand mer superintendent of the New Jersey law to permit the sale of light wines and making purposes. · Moore & Quinn, brewers at Syracuse, Rapids, Mich., has had a petition filed Anti-Saloon League, has entered the race beer. against it to have ;.t receiver appointed as an independent candidate for Se';'.ato.r. The Republican convention in session N. Y, have incorporated with $50,000 by creditors who seek to have the busi:.. Dr. Shields had announced that he wcvuld in Rochester. on September 25 selected capital to operate and maintain grain ness liquidated, the ]>roprietors having withdraw if Mr. Kean were victorious in Theod~re Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary elevators. National Products Co., formerly West been convicted of violating the prohibi­ of the Navy, .'S the party's gubernatorial the primary. tion law and s·entenced to a 3-year and New Jersey's hold-over Senator is for­ candidate. Col. Roosevelt has a wet rec­ Side Brewery, Detroit, Mich., · has been seized and its officials arrested for alleged 8 months' term in the Federal Prison, mer Governor Edwards, who is also an ord as a public official. Leavenworth, Kan. outspoken, aggressive enemy of prohibi­ The platform as adopted carried a violation of the prohiLition law. p1ank declaring for strict law enforce­ tion and prohibition enforcement. ment and the enactment of such legisla­ ARE DISMANTLING PLANT It is charged that the owners of the tion necessary for such enforcement. place manufactured near beer for bever­ Deputy Marshals at Work on La~-De­ age purposes, that no permit was obtain­ NATIONAL LEAGUE SPEAKERS fying Brewery; Machinery and ed and that the government was thereby INDORSES COUZENS Beer To Be Destroyed cheated out of a tax amounting to six dol­ Col. Smith, Dr. Banks, Dr. Morrow, lars a barrel. It is said the owners of the D. Landrith. Dr. Small and L. R. brewery will have to face charges for vio­ Deputy marshals under United States .Republican State Convention Gives Wet lating the prohibition law. Horton Busy Campaigning Seuator Clean Bill of Health, and Marshal Mulherdn have begun the work Asks for Law Enforcement of dismantling the plant of the Olden Beverage Company, Inc., of Trenton, N. DRUNKEN TAXI DRIVER · Milo G. Keiser, Manager of the speak­ J. Federal Judge Bodine issued the writ ers' bureau of the Anti-Saloon League of Senator James Couzens was given the calling for such actio~1 following the fil~ng USES AUTO IN ASSAULT America, has made the following sched· offi.dal recognition and indorsement of of a libel against the brewery by United ules: · the· Republican party in Michigan, says I States Attorney Winne. Three men dismounted from a taxicab Colonel Dan Morgan Smith will fill a Detroit Associated Press dispatch of The plant has been in the custody of in Washington recently and accused the periods as follows:- September 24. the United States Marshal since last July. driver of the cab of being intoxicated. Colorado, November 9 to 16 inclusive; This is the first time in Senator Cou- More than 3,500 barrds of beer in storage Whep they started walking along the Kansas, November 17 to December 5, in­ zen's public career that he has had the un­ at the brewery is among the material to street with the announced purpose of re­ clusive; Missouri, December 7 to 14, in­ qualified support of his party. Charges meet destruction at the hands of the dep­ "porting him the driver charged into them clusive. that he is a "renegade" and an "irregu­ uties. Judge Bodine'5 order calls for the with his car and severely injured them. Dr. Louis Albert Bvnks is being dated lar" · were swept aside by the delegates destruction of everythmg 'in the building When later apprehended by the police up for the following itineraries:- to the Republican state convention and Iowa, November to 19, inclusive; Illi· which has been used in the manufacture the driver was walking about in a stupor. 5 a resolution warmly commending him of liquor. Metal, etc., to be derived from Here evidently is a ca£e where the auto­ nois, November 20 to December 3, inclu- was adopted. the pumps and tanks are to be sold at mobile was actully used as a weapon of sive. Senator Couzens :s one of the most Dr. George W. Morrow is being dated auction. assault. aggressive opponents of prohibition in as follows:- the United States Senate. He is a loud­ Iowa, November 5 to 30, inci.usive; Illi- voiced champion of beer and wine and is "There is absolutely no place for alcoholic liquor in any form in internal medicine nois, December 1 to 14, inclusive. working energetically for the modifica­ which can not be replaced by something better and without danger to life or moral Dr. Ira Landrith ''• :1: fill the followin~ tion of the Volstead Law whereby the habits."-Dr. J. R. Bridges, secretary, Clark County Medical Society, Kansas City, Mo. itineraries:- Eighteenth Amendment may be nullified. Minnesota, Novembe:r 5 to 26, inclusive; The same convention which warmly Congressman Flip-flop Hill who has been defying the prohibition law arid yet Illinois, November 27 to December 16, commended this advocate of modificatioil retaining his seat among the Congressmen of our nation has at last been indicted by inclusive. of the Volstead Law, also went on rec~ the federal · grand jury. We are glad to see that a federal grand jury even in Mary­ L. R. Horton began September 14 in ord "as favoring rigid \aw enforcement." land has got the backbone to "buck" a wet Congressman. If Congress wants to main­ Oklahoma on a five months' itinerary. taJ_n its. self-respect, they will be called upon to pass a vote of censure, or expulsion, on Dr. Sam W. Small is speaking this fall OXFORD VS. U. OF C. ON tlus no1sy wet Congressman who can not reconcile himself to the Constitution of his as follows:- PROHIBITION country. We hope that Congress will not side-step the issue. Wisconsin, September 14 to October 10, inclusive; Pennsylvania, October 12 to The Englishman's opinion of 24, inclusive; Wisconsin, October 26 to American prohibition will be pre­ POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CLUBS ARE RAIDED November 2, inclusive: Florida, January sented at the University of Chicago 11 to March 8, inclt!'.>i\·e. Pussyfoot Johnson will not be gi l } November 3 when the Oxford Uni~ Butler Causes Arrests at Strongholds of Philadelphia's Powerful Leaders versity debating team, headed by speaking in the United ~tates until after in Politic~; Ninety-Nine Men Are Taken in Union Republican Malcolm MacDonald, son of the the holidays. Premier of Great Britain, opposes Club and Washington Square Social Club the University of Chicago squad. NOW WEARS PADLOCK The visitors will argue against pro­ General Smedley D. Butler, director of men were arrested in the raids on the two hibition. The team which will rep­ public safety of Philadelphia, last week places. , Dreamland Cafe, one of the most noto• resent the University of Chicago in caused the police to raid the Union Re­ This is one of the haruest blows th::tt rious bt"ack and tan cabarets in the city the debate has not yet been decided publican Club of the tenth ward and tl~e Gen.;ral :'lutler has struck at the ·Philadel­ of Chicago, has a padlock on its front upon but will probably be selected Washington Square Social Club. Both of phia political gang. The decent citizens door and its three other entrances are shortly after· the fall semester of them are strongholds for the henchmen of of the city standing solidly at his back are tightly nailed up. Yes, Federal Judge classe~ which opens the fi~st of Philadelphia's powerful political leaders. now on tiptoe to see where he will strike Wilkerson dicl it on evidence that the October. Both clubs are chartered. Ninety-nine next. jQiut w~s d-i.spcnsini li~uor,

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