The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-29
WEST VIRGINIA IS
 LATEST STATE TO
 ENTER ''DRY" FOLD
SOME FEATURES OF LAW BY WHICH CHANGE WAS MADE EFFECTIVE TOMORROW AT anDNIGHT-DRAsT NEW LAW AND ,PENALHTEs IMPOSED.

Charleston, W. Va. June 2s.-stata- wide prohibition of the liquor busi- ness in West Virg ginia become effective next Tuesday midnight. 1t brings the totaa number of states in the pro- hibition tcolumn up to nine: With West VirsdniaA added. the list will be; Geor- Ria. Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahorna7 Tennessee, West Virgtnia- These nine sta4es of total prohibition terEt- tory, plus the local no-ncense area make up 2.132.72e square miles in which 4s,O29,75O persons or nearly fifty per cent of the country's popula.- ton live. according to the latest hg- urss of the prohibition leaders.
 rho eas0oO majority with whdch the people Of West Virginia accepted the dry prcposEft0n was relatively the largest ever given by any state It was approximately two to one for stafaiw1d0 grppreHsion of the liquor lDuetness. It was a surprise even to che prohibition forces. who were in- debted largely to the determined stand which many Of the large employers took i'm flavor of their cause The state s11ag a population of 1,221,119 by the census of 1szO-
 The mandate of the legislature, en- bodssdt4n the Y;ost tdH for the enforce meuf O9 the new law, beginning July 7st. Geparts in many respects from i 4ha ,uaeGh ods hitherto tried along this AHn@. The chief features center about 1h@ creation of commission o@ pro- aabnMrn. rvanows parthcuAar business it win Dc to 4see that by next Tuesday. xrzenszif efTt some 1,20Q liquor selling p1mose jim tine state have disposed of fhe1r stockH and that thereafter all ps<znsszs. sl1aa1 be punisaned by law if tkhev keep s1iquor for sale.
 me nswp ofice of Acommissd oner of rnuE hA&aDni automatically falls to State Taxa CoxnGn1 ssfoner Fred O. Blue of this FcAtE, who .sEaaa4 been spending several months tnS prepafatdon for strict en- IfOrremente eof the new law.
 ID Nmvn the state the time and ex- pense sof taking violations before state oouFts. .he has been urging municipal orasnarfces governing the violations, Ehus permitting the cases to be bHcmgXrk before the local courts.
 Tnn am effort to instruct the people mn to sf7aa provisions of the new law, Com1nasstoner Blue has also been 1ec- turing fhEoug1acut the state.
 sTn other states says MT. Blue, eaprotrfb1tion has been adopted. one, of the forces that has had to be confsnded with has been the drug store The Yost law will regulate fIrfs feature Druggists may sell al- roh0I only to persons not addicted to its use upon prescription of a reputa- ble physician ,who has examined the
 
 prescription the reasons flor the use of alcohol
 s-The governing bodies Of druggists have apprved of this plan. For sci en8if1c or mechanical purposes, alco- hoI win be- sold only after affidavit as to it's intended uses, and uniform rec ords of all such sales will be kept, to be Ainspected periodically by those in charge of the enforcement of the law. NO druggist however, can sell in any
 
 erageA of an intoxicatfng nature
 s~The Yost law also undertakes to do away with the drinking clubs, which have been the sources of so much trouble in other states he said "It provides that any person directly or sru7Rrsre4y agBoc&a1ed fh keeping such a club house or other place where uQn1w ,3s kept for gift, barter or saIeN sE4zzs E9 .pgzn3Azaaa51e upon cpnv9cfdon by a an8se6sf frcm S1oD to $500 and by i'm przsc411snt, from one to six months
 s-lxln9~ euactxnezts o6 ktzBs Webb-KenA aTpcxa shHw by congress will be of con mtdmmaiaa@h asslstance in enforcing the Ir0azE5atAons law in r1ais states'' he con 1sxmnea3x
 r-Onsaof at1ae benents of the Fed eEaEs AaSH5 Is s<E1af specor Of interstate aEzsal1seuts< o9l2fauorg maybe required, and fnersfozes every railroad, express cnEEs5nsaysa1ds any kind of transporta- tio9. 4ncanding steaInboats land~ svseBBels carrying freight or ex- EsBGgEas either A9EE1n. another state into cuRz scEF FRFsma aoneepart of our gtzte to an0<4tsr epaEes must obey the laws of flz1a .s4EsltB respecting nqurz Every onsfo oR tz1e transD Dortatfon companies vz1n< n<bssTezS11red to. keep special rec ordBlata the sposnha of delivery, showing ltzsssRsceaSyt of nqszorz, the kind and ezzauG4fys whom onsIgned. when de- l19vareH, and the~ conEgnee must sign i'm nerwen afOF .t1le shipment.
 @Tzne WebbaKenyon act vests the ,x4aRzkB1os senfoTce.t11ese provision Of the 1z-:1 szsds sregsa1arson flnerunder asraar,st 1r8eEztz19 carrfeEz- None Of these eaxx1eE1 will be permitted to receive conm1Bu1zents Of nQ1or to any point zEhaES there is not a regularly em- 11a5Te than1a open for inspection at all tamana
 '-Tlsssu who fs engaged in the tBSeazzll5oa5t business upon our waters, 1ntsxz1a1e or infrastate, must keep ifhsseeEecords, and will not be permit sale Of any nuuors upon board this svesssR while in oZE swaterys2
 This brings us to the question of how far one may get liquors for an other. In the first place if one acts ag the agent of the seller, he is guilty of seEnng- If one acts as agent of the purchaser he is guilty of selling. In othersWords, if one has occasion to go to some point out of the state and a friend hands him a dollar and requests that he purchase for him a quart of whigkey, and he does it and delivers 1t to him, he is gui1ky of making the sale, and by the act is guilty of rnak- ing 1t, not where he purchased it but where he delivered it in the state.
 'Again the representatives of those who sell liquor -c@aaot come into the state to solicit verbally, by letter cir eu1Rr or otherwise. There is only one of two ways that a citizen of this state may bring liquors into it; he may up- on his own initiative order it, oand have 1t sent to himself by common carrier, for his personal use, and not for any illegal purpose, or he may go and get 1t. But in either event he Fo,- ,fe-x