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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-01-12
Hits Brewers Again

"The fact is" continued Mayor
Thompson, the brewers who say
they want proper saloon regulation
control large number of licenses,
fixtures and even the places them
selves so that the investment of the
individual is in many instances only
an apron.
"When licenses are revoked the in
dividual is, therefore, out only the
price of an apron. Because of this a
saiyo1fke pS.s -sariseesr X iilrc5 iillrc5 eaauiitiinu
cares little or not what happens 70
the place. He will take chance and
violate the law for profit.
at is because the brewers control
90 per cent of the saloon licenses in
Chicago that the business is so hard
to control They farm the licenses
out to irresponsible individuals.
Will Enforce the Law
mo matter how hard booze fights"
said the Mayor, nor how long this
farce continues in the Council, will
enforce the law to the best of my
ability"
The only reply which Alderman
Toman could make to the Mayors
rap on the License Committee, of
which he is chairman, was mouth
l
full of personal abuse.
"The Mayor had better have his
brain examined" was one of the
nasty retorts he hurled at the Mayor.
To the threats and personal abuse
of the liquor crowd, Mayor Thomp-
son replied:
I'm THE END IT WILL BE
BOOZE'S FUNERAL AND NOT
NINE"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-01-12
SENATORS VOTE FOR
DRY DISTRICT BILL
Wet Substitute Is Defeated by Tie
Vote 43 to 43-Majority on Final
Passage in Senate Is SIS to 81;
Lockers Forbidden; Ship
ment for Personal Use
Guarded

By a vote of 55 to 81 the Senate
of the United States on the afternoon
of January passed the bill of Sena-
tor Morris Sheppard, of Texas, pro-
hibting the beverage liquor traffic in
the District of Columbia. The bill is
made effective November l, 1917.
Prior TO the vote on the bill itself
there came a vote on the Underwood
amendment to submit the measure to
vote of the residents of the District.
This was defeated by the tie vote Of
43 to 43.
Neither the vote on the referendum
nor on the bill itself was along party
lines.
The prohibiting language of the
bill says that after November /:
"No person or persons, or any
house, company, association, club or
corporation, his, its, or their agents,
officers, clerks or servants, directly
or indirectly, shall, in the District of
Columbia, manufacture for sale or
gift, import for sale, offer for sale,
keep for sale, traffic in, barter, ex-
port, ship out of the District of Co
lumbia, or exchange for goods or
merchandise, or solicit or receive or
ders for the purchase of any alco-
holic liquors for beverage purposes or
for any other than scientific, medici-
nal, pharmaceutical, mechanical, ex-
perimental or other non-beverage
purposes"
Another section permits the traffic
in alcohol for mechanical, medicinal
or scientific uses, but limits that traf-
fc to licensed druggists or manufact-
urers. The locker system is specific
ally forbidden.
Common carriers bringing liquor
into the District must keep record OF
all shippers and consignees, and the
receivers must make affidavit that
the liquor is intended for personal
use. Property rights in illegally-kepi
liquors are destroyed. Strict regula-
tions guard the writing and filling oi
physicians prescriptions. Right tc
sue for damages is given victim ol
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IS PER CENT OF
COUNTY POVERTY
DUE TO LIQUOR
Judge N. A. Larson of Rock Island
Gives Official Evidence Showing
Saloon Is Greatest Source of
Pauperism

Judge N. A. Larson of the Rock
Island county court, in an address
given recently before the Tri-City
Press Club in Rock Island, presented
official evidence to show that the sa-
loon is the greatest source of poverty
in Rock Island county.
The Judge stated that he had in
controvertible evidence that rs per
cent of the poverty may be traced to
drunken fathers. Give financial aid
to such a father, and the money only
goes to accumulate new "jag."
The Judge would compel such
fathers to work six days in seven or
go to Jail, and in this connection
Judge Larson put in plea for a new
county work-house. He also stated
that there should be an institution
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-01-12

liquor or his blood relatives. Heavy
penalties are provided for any viola
tions.
House Will Pass 1t
There is no doubt that the House
also will pass the measure. The
President is expected to sign it with
out delay.
There were number of pairs in
both votes.
The following statement was issued
by the National Legislative Commit
tee and the Legislative Superintend-
ent of the Anti-Saloon League on the
result of the Sheppard bill vote in the
Senate:
"The passage of the District of Co
lumbia Prohibition bill by vote of
55 to 81 is the greatest victory for
Prohibition ever won in the United
States. 1t is an index of the increas-
ing sentiment for Prohibition which
is sweeping the country. The affirm
ative vote lacked but three of making
two-thirds of the votes and indicates
the possibility Of passing the resolu-
ton for national Prohibition.
eff the people will appeal to their
members in the House at once to pass
the District Prohibition bill in eff
fective form, the nations capital will
soon be free from saloons and the
way opened for national Prohibition
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TO HAVE NEW
SKY-SCRAPER

The Waukegan National bank has
secured property adjacent to it and
will erect in the near future the city's
first sky-scraper. A FIVE or six story
office building with all modern equip
ment is planned. According to The
Waukegan Gazette, it will be the best
Office building on the North Shore.
No doubt some of the money that
formerly went into Waukegan's sa-
looms will be used in the construction
Of this fine new building.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-01-12

BRYAN TO ADDRESS ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS
Committee Of Fifty Calls Big Mass Meeting to Be Held
at Springfield
WILL ASK PARTY TO line UP FOR PROHIBITION

A committee of so Democrats, with
w. Scott Matthews as chairman, has
called mass meeting of leading
members of the party to be held
Tuesday afternoon, January %, in
the Armory at Springfield.
The meeting is to be addressed by
William Jennings Bryan who, it is
understood, will urge the party to line
up for national Prohibition.
Letters have gone out to leading
Democrats in every county and city
of the state urging their attendance
upon this conference.
Majority of Democrats Dry
A study of the recent election re-
turns shows that the majority of the
Democrats of the United States are
dry. Practically all the Southern
states which furnished the bulk of
the Democratic vote, are in the Pro-
hibition column, and of the Northern
states, which cast majority vote for
Wilson for President, the greater
number are dry. OF the rs states
which have committed themselves to
Prohibition, Is gave the Democratic
candidate their electoral vote, which
was almost enough of itself to nom
mate him.
As matter of political expedi-
ency, therefore, to say nothing of the
principles involved, it is argued that
the Democratic party cannot afford
to refuse its advocacy of the Prohi-
bition issue.
1t is expected that large number
of Democrats who are not classed as
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drys will attend the meeting and hear
what the Commoner has to say re-
garding the future of their party.
Drys Hold Key to Situation at
Springfield
The first meeting of the Legisla-
turc last week shows that the drys
hold the key to the legislative situa-
ton. OF the 81 members of the Sen
ate, 80 are dry and only Is wet. The
vote in the House is close, but ma
jority of the members Of the Legis-
lature are unqucstionably lined up
with the drys.
The Senate is aggressivcly dry-the
driest in the history of the state. OF
the 80 Republican members, 81 are
dry, and only six wet, and the Re-
publicans, of course, will control the
action of that body. They will have
with them on almost all dry meas
ures, six Democrats.
The license committee of the Sen
ate, which will have charge of all
wet and dry bills, will have a dry
chairman, and majority of dry
members, which will insure square
deal to dry measures in this session.
For Statewide Referendum
Members of the Legislature are be-
ing carefully canvasscd with refer
ence to their attitude towards
statewide referendum, and many
have expressed themselves as warm
1y in favor II it.
The plans of the drys on this inn
portant measure, however, have not
as yet been made public.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-01-12
CALESBURG VETS
MAY BRING ON FIGHT
Peoria Liquor Dealers Plan to Invade
Dry Knox County City-Town
Prosperous Under Dry Rule

Sol Frohlich, for years wholesale
liquor dealer of Galesburg, and now
connected with Frohlich and Nird-
linger, a Peoria liquor firm, plans to
start another fight to put the Knox
county capital in the saloon column.
Mr.. Frohlich argues that the wet vic
tory in Boston shows that there is
hope of a similar victory in Gales
burg.
Utters Usual Campaign Lies
Despite the fact that the Galesburg
papers in reviewing the business stu
alton for the past year, show that the
city never was more prosperous and
despite the further fact that the pres
ent dry administration paid off a large
indebtedness left over from the last
wet administration Mr.. Frohlich utters
the same old saloon bunk" about a
dry town being dead town, and is
trying to make the people of Gales
burg believe that the city would be
better off if it would turn over the
affairs of the town to the liquor
dealers of Peoria.
Galesburg Taxes Comparatively Low
Mr.. Frohlich makes special point
of the increase of the city tax rate.
He is careful not to mention the fact,
however, that the tax-rate has gone
up in practically every wet city in
the state, and especially the fact that
the Galesburg tax rate is lower than
that of almost any city of its class in
Illinois.
What Frohlich wants is to help, not
Galesburg but Frohlich, and the peo-
pie of Galcsburg know this.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-01-12
CITY EMPLOYEES MUST NOT
DRINK

The city Commissioners of Paris
have adopted resolution against
the employment of users of intoxi-
eating liquors.
"You cannot think clearly and act
safely if you are boozer," Mayor
Hoff said, in speaking of the action
OF the Commissioners. "We want
only clear thinking men in our en-
ploy."
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-01-12
CHICACO'S MAYOR
RAPS WHISKY
RING in COUNCIL
Hands Chairman Toman Of
the License Committee
Several Hot Ones
WILL ENFORCE LAW

Mayor Thompson is showing up
the Chicago Council license COM
mittee in its true light as part of
the whisky ring that has misgoverned
the city for years. Referring to the
proposal to make the Council party
to the revocation and restoration of
licenses the Mayor said:
about all there is to this matter is
that the whisky interests through the
license committee are trying to take
authority away from the Mayor and
give it to the Council"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-01-12
IN THE MORALS COURT
With his eyes cast down and


With his eyes cast down and
look of shame upon his face
young man stood before
Judge Fisher in the Morals
Court one morning last week.
The officer who brought him
in told the Judge that he had
watched the young man with
two girls turn into hotel and
call to fellow on the sidewalk,
"Come on joe"
After listening to the police
mans story the Judge asked,
"What have you to say about
this?"
well, it was Saturday night
and I had had some drinks.
was not quite myself and what
the officer says is true" said
the shame-faced one.
Then the girls told their sto-
ries. Each was young and did
not realize what she was doirIE
until it was too late.
This is just an ordinary in
cident in the Morals Court and
in nine cases out of ten drink
plays the leading part.
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where children might be given proper
care in cases where it is necessary to
incarcerate both parents.
Rock Island has the distinction of
the longest bar in the
state"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-01-12

Mr.. McKenna, clerk of the record
er's court in Macon, says that Prohi-
bition has decreased crime in that
city 50 to 20 per cent.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-01-12

During 1916 the 354 cities and
towns of Massachusetts gave net
majority of 21,00S votes against Ii
cense.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-01-12
Webb-Kenyon Law Held Constitutional

United States Supreme Court Sustains Ban Shipping Into
Prohibition States
In what is characterized the most sweeping of dec
sons uphodng Prohibition laws that OF the Supreme Court
Monday which upheld constitutional and valid the
Webb-Kenyon law prohibiting shipments of liquor from wet
1t also sustained West Vrgnas recent amend
her laws prohibiting importation in interstate
of liquor for personal use
The law sustained in the Supreme Court by vote
OF Dry leaders declare it is to their fight against the
saloon second only in Importance to the proposed constu
tonal amendment Liquor lawyers admitted that upheld
and applied the law 'in its fullest sense"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-02
TALK OFTHE TOWN

Antonio Mast left this morning for
Burlington, where he is passing few
days with friends.
r. o. Balch has returned to his home
in johnson, after passing few days in
the city on business.
Mrs. Martin Mcmahon of West street
and Miss Clara Loranger of Summer
street left the city this morning for
Sherbrooke, P. O., where they are max
ing a visit of few weeks with friends.
Pursuant to recommendations made by
an inspector from the office of the FL
deity & Casualty company recently, the
aldermanic property committee is get
ting ready to repair one of the two boil
ers in the basement of city hall The
rear wall OF one of the boilers is to be
bricked and steel plates which have out
lived their usefulness will be replaced be-
fore the fire box will stand the test.
In view of the most recent report from
the state laboratory of hygiene at Bur
lington, householders are advised to boil
the city water, as the report received by
DR.. j. w. Stewart, secretary of the local
board of health, indicates that the
Orange reservoir is slightly contaminat-
ID. The authorities are not alarmed over
he report, as the water is invariably
yiven a clean bill and a slightly adverse
analysis is not altogether surprising at
his season.
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TALK OF THE TOWN

Owing to the quarantine regulation
there will be no meeting of the board of
managers of the Presbyterian church.
All pledges, donations, etc, are request
ed TO be handed TO William Hurry of
A. w. Badger & Co., 260 North Main
street.
Hotel men and Others In Washington
county who have been advised Of a no
tiee emanating from Burlington which in
effect encourages tourists TO avoid this
section by taking a route prescribed as
No. SOP, are not inclined 20 the belief
that travellers will be dictated as TO the
course they shall pursue in passing
through Vermont. BY many the tenor of
the notice, which is said to have been ia
thered by commercial organization in
the Queen city, is taken as an indication
of the straits in which Burlington hotel
men find themselves as a result of re-
strictions taken by army officers at
against visitors from YER
mont. While the notice, copies of which
have been posted in out of the state no
tells, do not mention Barre and Montpe-
lier, it appears that the plaeard seeks
to eliminate these two cities from the
tourist travel that naturally heads this
way Apparently the notice has not
been taken seriously by travellers, as Ho-
tel Barre, for example, has been doing a
capacity business.
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TALK OFTHE TOWN

Ballardvsle spring water for sale at
Russel's; a fine, sparkling water.
Rev. w. j. NJ. Beattie of fremont
street left the city to-day for Boston,
where he is making business visit OF
few days
orreste Bofino of Maple avenue, who
has been passing vacation of 10 days
at Woodbury. pond, resumed his duties in
the Union Clothing store to-day. Mrs.
Boffino is remaining with friends for a
more extended stay in camp at Wood
bury,
Miss Bessie Higgins and Miss Isabel
Tobin of Lawrence, Mass, who have been
spending several days in the city as the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Guthrie of
Cliff street, left yesterday on trip to
Montreal, p. O., and Quebec City, after
which they win return home.
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Lost In the Mountains"

Every year, almost without fail, the
newspapers of the country chronicle one
or more instances of visitors among the
White mountains wandering from their
hotels or other temporary headquarters
and losing their way in the dense for
ests or underbrush of that region. Hap
PLY, owing to the readiness of expert
guides and mountain folk generally to
form search parties and seek out the
wanderers, few of these cases have the
tragic results which might easily at
tend many or all of them. The people
of southern New Hampshire know their
mountains thoroughly and know, too, the
perils which beset the too venturesome
strangers who, unaccompanied by per-
sons familiar with the country, under
take mountaineering expeditions of their
own; but visitors, some of whom assume
a self sufficient attitude because of ex-
perience in climbing mountains in other
parts of the world, are prone to minimize
the dangers here, often with sad results
to their personal pride, at least, even
if they are so fortunate as to escape
damage to their physical being.
The case reported Sunday, from Fa-
byans, apparently involved people who
were or thought they were-more or less
familiar with the mountains. A woman
in the party having sustained painful in
jury to an ankle, her husband was left
to care for her while the other members
of the company proceeded down the trail
for help. Becoming impatient at delay
in the arrival of assistance, the couple
disregarded the injunction to wait, and
attempted to find the way unaided. The
result was hours of anxiety for their
friends and serious discomfort and nerv
Gus strain for themselves, before they
were found and brought back to the Fa-
byan house. The experience of the Den !
isons of Boston, in Dixville Notch last
summer, is still fresh in mind.
Granted that the lure of the noun |
tains is strong, and that the stranger,
as well as the native, finds 1t hard to
resist Granted that one may have |
climbed the peaks of the Alps or the
Andes. or both. The fact remains that
peculiar perils, to which the uninitiated,
however adept at mountain climbing as
a general proposition, are liable. Visit
ors should keep this fact in mind and
take no chances. Memory recalls a re-
mark of Arthur Walden Of Wonalancet,
as he sat on the porch at Wonalancet
farm one evening year or more ago: Il
put in three years in the Klondike region
Of Alaska, without getting thoroughly
lost more than once; only to come home
10 Mt. Chocorua and get lost on my own
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farm, with a barbed wire fence clear
around me. "--Manchester Union.
WITT CALLED INTO DRAFT.
Former Goddard Athlete Likely to Join
the Army.

Winchenden, Mass, Aug. 2.-Red ink
number 1860 will call one of Connie
Mack's youthful baseball stars to the
colors with the first draft. Lawton w
Witt, better known as Laddie and Whit.
ey to his many friends in this town
holds that number, and, of the more than
500 registrants, his number was drawn
3sth.
This means that young Witt will be
called the first for examination. As Lad.
die has no dependents, it is likely he will
be accepted as fit for service and may
have to leave the Athletics before the
baseball season closes.
In looking over the SO names proceed
ing that of Wits, it is seen that num-
Der of the men are married and others
are not physically qualified. Therefore,
when the Winchendon quota is an,
nounced, and it will be about IS to 20
men, Witt will be among the first called
to the exemption board.
Whitley has been out of the game now
for the last three weeks, his place being
taken by Joe Dugan, the youthful Holy
Cross star. The Winchendon boy in.
jured his ankle and it has not mended
as fast as was expected, with the result
that he has been watching the game
from the bench. The injury was the first
serious one sustained since he entered
major league baseball
Witt played the entire season last
year with the Mackmen and was herald.
ed all over the circuit as coming hitter,
one of the fastest men on the Philadel.
phia team on the bases and great stu
dent of the game.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-02
The Liberty Loan as a National Force.

The Liberty loan of 1917 already con
stitutes an important factor in our ma
tional life. 1t has given new direction
to thought among the people and new
impulsion to popular aims. The effects
OF the loan on the government, on the
body of the people and on the individual
citizen of the United States are sure to
be great and manifold.
The 100000 holders of Liberty loan
bonds will look with more care and at
tention on financial legislation by Con-
gress than heretofore. Much of the ma
tional indifference to alleged extravagsnt
and unwise legislation will vanish so far
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as they are concerned. The direct, in
dividual, financial interest which every
bond holder has in the governments
finances viii make every bond holder an
effective agent for economy in admins
tration and for wise legislation.
The Liberty loan is going to create
new voting force in the body politic--a
civic force in which partisanship and ex-
travsgance are to be subordinated to
better and wiser things.
The Liberty loans influence for good,
in another way, is going to be largely
effective through its influence on the in.
dividual bond holder. To thrift for ones
own sake there has been added the in
centive for thrift for the nations sake.
Thrift for the nations sake will benefit
the individual and combine two strong
motives patriotism and self.interest
Economy, like extravaganza, is more
or less infectious. We are just passing
through an era of extravaganza and en-
tering on period of economy. The Lib
erty loan furnished an inspiration and an
opportunity for economy and saving.
As the intolerable humiliation of ow-
ing to Germany the war indemnity in
1870 made the French people nation
of savers and government bond buyers,
so the great Liberty loan of lol7 with
its call upon the patriotism of Americans
will make this nation more nation Of
savers than ever before.
The number of subscribers TO the loan
and the amounts subscribed make the
two billion dollar loan more than sue
cess. II was a triumph and its effect on
the people of America will be far reach
inc and lasting
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-02

4 A There will be no
.<aSAxM2&S>M, meeting of Win
k% Meta council to-
night on account
Of the quarantine regulations.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-02
Automobile Door Protectors
lido Afanera.
s. Cometta,

The things you have been trying to find.
Neat serviceable leather pads that prevent the
nish being worn off from your door by constant open
ing and shutting
Not only this but they give your dressed up
appearance that is well worth the price. S15O for
full set or soc for single pair.
OldsmObile Company of Vermont
46 No. Main Street Phone 275-W
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-02

We wish to thank the neighbors and
other friends for their many acts of
kindness and expressions of sympathy
during our recent bereavement; also for
the numerous floral offerings, including
the flowers from employees of c. W. Nc
MILAN & Son.
lido Maners.
S. Cometta,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-02
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

TO RENT-Two furnished rooms, kitchen
and sleeping room apply TO Michael Coughlin.
rs Maple avenue iIsu