Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-25
PROTEST OF
NO EFFECT
LIQUOR INTERESTS ENTER HOME
AND SCHOOL DISTRICT
LICENSE GRANTED WHERE ONCE
REFUSED
Member Of School Board Adds His
Remonstrance to w. C. T. Y. and
Church Federation, but
Without Avail

| In the face of protests from schoo
directors, members of the w. c. T. u
and the church federation the police
commiss toner's yesterday granted 9
permit to f. G.. Johansen to handle
wholesale liquors in his new grocery a.
500 Temple street--in the same build
ing where a few weeks ago whole
sale liquor store permit had beer
turned down.
Encroaching as this site does on the
residential district, located on a high
way traversed day after day by pupils
attending the high school and the Cali
fornia street school and almost with
in the shadow of the w. C. T. u. temple
the right-about-face move of the com
missioners has created CONSERVATION
among the city's organizations for
civic betterment.
Yesterdays action was deliberate
after the usual weeks notice, that the
petition was pending but precipitate in
the sense that the women who APP
peared before the board asked the
favor of weeks continuance in order
that the signers to the consenting petit
ton could be canvassed.
Falsely Represented
Members of the w. c. 7. U. stated
positively that many of the signers
appended their signature to the con-
sents because they thought 1t called for
a grocery and not a grocery and liquor
house combined
Were the same petitions circulated
today, 1t was claimed, that not one
half would be willing to sign.
Yet ignoring these requests for a
short delay Commissioners Lewis,
Woodill and Fuller voted aye for
granting.
Mayor Harper voted no, saying that
a weeks delay should be extended to
the professors. The mayor said in the
board he was inclined to grant the ap-
plication as he knew the interests
back of the store and he was satisfied
the place would be conducted as are
Jevne's, Anderson Chanslor's and SIM
liar establishments.
The board rooms were crowded with
women opposing the granting who had
for a week stirred up opposition to the
move.
With them 1t was a fight against
invasion of the home district and
against threatened temptation for the
children.
When some weeks ago Harry
Schooner made an attempt to get a
similar license in the same (Lichten-
berger) building these women had
franA-y explained their views. They
were ready to repeat their views with
emphasis and as early as O'CLOCK
fiocked into the mayors ante room.
All commissioners were present
when Mayor Harper called the meeting
to order at 2:30, except Nathan Cole.
IT., while "the other side" in the permit
case, headed by Attorney w. T. Craig,
was also on hand.
School Director Protests
Secretary Charles McKeag had a
bulky package of documents in the
case, the latest being the protest sent
in individually by School Director Mel
vile Dozier. 1t was as follows:
IT desire to add my protest as a
member of the board of education
of the city against the granting of
a liquor license to a party desiring
to sell liquor at 500 Temple street.
This is in the immediate vicin-
ity of the Los Angeles high school
and very near the place at which
many of the students buy their
lunches. It would be directly In
violation of the highest interests of
the pupils to permit this menace
to their morals and manners to be
established where they would be
in daily danger of contamination
by Its baneful influence.
while not specifically author