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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-07-06
BREWERS SOUND S. 0. S.
Appeal Comes to Rehabilitate Beer
Making Establishments De-
stroyed in Belgium; Help
Is Much Needed

American Issue is in receipt of a
circular letter in the form of a reprint
from the American Brewer which Is
an appeal for help to reconstruct the
devastated breweries in the war zone
of Europe. This appeal is sent to the
American Brewer over the signature
of the president of the Brewers As
sociation of the Guarded Regions in
France" We quote from the appeal:
We estimate that in France
about 5000 copper or iron cooking
boilers of capacity varying from
60 to $50 hectoliters; 1900 copper
or aluminium coolers and 100000
casks are wanted. We also think
that in Belgium devastated brew
cries are numbered at about $500.
They will want about double the
above quantities for the Belgian
breweries. We believe that
our American brothers will be
able to help us in that difficult
work of reconstructing our
hearths and our industries and
we thank them in advance.
We do not know how much the
American brewers will contribute to
the relief of their brothers in crime
in Europe, but we have an idea that
it will not be much for they are hav-
ing troubles of their own here in
America. 1t is common belief, freely
expressed by the press, that one of
the beneficial results of this war will
be the bringing about of worldwide
Prohibition. We hope so and if this
be the case the French and Belgian
brewers needn't worry about recon-
structing their plants.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-07-06
THE ROUNDUP OF PARASITES
even permitted to rank as society or
r. F. Bishop

even permitted to rank as society or
naments.
But now we are told: "Society's
hand is raised against the loafer. {.
Communities are studying methods
for turning him to some account"
while wrathful proclamations come
smoking-hot from various executive
mansions, all meaning the same thing
as the Governor of Mississippi
means when he orders all "loafers,
slackers, idlers and parasites to leave
the state or take licking"
But where are they to go? The
street corner loafer, familiar sight
everywhere, is not the real problem;
he is a symptom and must be reck-
oned with, a nuisance that must be
abated; but social diseases are not to
be cured by treating symptoms, any
more than those physical ailments
which afford quacks their great OPP
portunities and their great fortunes.
There are men who disdain even to
put on the white apron and wait on
customers in the thirst palaces they
claim to own. They have never done
what they consider mental work; they
despise the men who live by daily
toll, and still more do they despise
the women who claim that a hus-
bands wages should be spent for
family necessities rather than in sup
port of the saloon.
Strenuous times, these, for parasites
of every sort, but when the saloon
and its allied industries" -the gam
bling joint, the political conspiracy
against the ballot, and the house oil
assignation back of the drink shop
up over it or hard by-when these
have been disposed of the lesser
breed of parasites will presently dis
appear.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-07-06
WOMEN FOR DRY CITY
Will Try to Gust Saloons From Los
Angeles; Hundreds of Club
Members Sign Petitions to
New City Council

Women of Los Angeles, Cal, would
make the city dry. A petition origi-
mated by the Friday Morning Club
and signed by hundreds of club mem
bers, was presented on June 2 to the
new City Council, which sat that
morning for its opening session.
The petition stated that among
other reasons the movement was
started because I'VE stand for ma
tional prohibition of the use of grain
in the manufacture of liquor, for the
sake of conservation of food, and we
are ready to begin at home by put
ting our money and our grain into
those things which will add to the
efficiency of the country instead of
weakening it.
Because we stand not only for the
highest efficiency and morality of the
army, but also for the highest devel-
opment of those who stay at home to
raise crops, manufacture the imple-
ments of war, run railroad trains and
automobiles, and to care for the bust
ness necessary to keep intact our ma
tional life
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-07-06
SOLDIER IS ACCUSED
Trooper Accused of Doffing Uniform
and Buying Liquor to Give to His
Comrades; Is Scored
by Colonel

Colonel Hatch, in command of the
soldiers at Gettysburg Pa, told
Mayor Hugentugler, of York, that
whenever that city needs assistance in
handling his soldiers he will cheer
fully grant it.
The Mayor in company with other
officials took to camp Sam Bush, a
soldier who was arrested for furnish
ing liquor to other soldiers while in
York. Bush was seen to have changed
his uniform for civilian dress and then
to have purchased liquor which he
furnished to his comrades.
Colonel Hatch, instructing an under
officer to put Bush in the guardhouse,
turned to the accused soldier and
said:i
You knew the law. You knew
you had no right to take off your
uniform and furnish booze to
other soldiers. You know the
penalty is $1,000 and one years
Imprisonment. You are a fine
fellow TO make an example OF and
! think you will get it.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-07-06
FOR CLEAN SWEEP
St. Louis County, Mimi, Will Seek,
by Vote on September 10, to
Gust Its $50 Remain
ing Saloons

St. Louis county, Mimi, will vote
on the question of abolishing its sa-
looms September 10. A dry commit
tee has been formed and Senator Rich
ard Jones, a labor leader, has been
engaged to manage the campaign.
While the saloons of Duluth closed
July l and large part of St. Louis
county is dry under Indian treaty,
nevertheless there are still $50 sa-
looms throughout the county and the
people will try to get rid of the 150
Drys of Duluth will give their
hearty support to this effort to clean
up the rest of the county.
Senator Jones has done successful
work in several states that have voted
or are soon to vote on the Prohibi-
ton issue. One of the features of the
campaign will be the organization of
trades union dry leagues throughout
the county.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-07-06
Is He CHAZY7

The owner of large plantation in
Mississippi, where the fine figs grow,
is giving away few hve-acre fruit
tracts. The only condition is that
figs be planted. The owner wants
enough figs raised to supply CO.
operative canning factory. You can
secure five acres and an interest in
the canning factory by writing the
Eubank Farms Company, 124S Key
stone, Pittsburgh, Pa. They will plant
and care for your trees for So per
month. Your profit should be $1,000
per year. Some think this man is
crazy for giving away such valuable
land, but there may be method in his
madness.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-07-06
Save OUNCE; WASTE TON
DR.. Bachman Urges That Government
Compel Breweries and Distilleries
to Close; They, as Well as House
wives, Should Economic

Many responses to Mr.. Hoover's
letter calling for campaign in the
interest of food conservation are go
ing forth similar in tone to the one
which is herewith reproduced. There
is no disposition on the part of any
who hold the view as expressed in
this letter to shirk duty with refer
ence to conserving the food supply,
but there is strong protest against
saving and practicing strong economy
while the government permits the
brewer and distiller to waste the grain
of our nation. Thousands upon thou
sands feel just as DR.. Bachman feels
in this respect. His letter is as fol-
lows:
Jonesboro, Tenn, June 10, 1917.
Mr.. Herbert Hoover,
Dear Sir:-Your communication is
at hand. When the government shuts
down the breweries and distilleries,
and thereby saves the millions of
bushels of grain, the millions of gal
Ions of molasses, and the millions of
tons of fruit which they are wasting,
I will more willingly cooperate with
you in the good and great work of
food conservation.
And when England ceases to manu-
facture millions of barrels of beer and
to distill millions of gallons of liquor
from her own grain, or from the grain
which our country sends her, I will
more patiently listen to her cry for
food, and more earnestly aid in an
swering that cry.
When our government urges econ
omy on the American housewife in re-
lation to food, it should practice econ
omy itself. If it is wrong for the
housewife to waste slice of bread in
these days of world hunger, it is far
worse, in my opinion, for the govern
ment to allow millions of loaves of
bread, or their equivalent, to be worse
than wasted by the legalized liquor
traffic of the nation.
Respectfully yours,
Robert L. Bachman.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-07-06
CRI1ICIsEs DELAY
Judge Raps Postponement of Liquor
Cases for Months; Finds Saloon
keeper Guilty

Judge Connolly criticized the man
ner of prosecuting saloon offenders
in Detroit, Mich, when he found Will
liam G. Kane guilty of keeping his sa-
loon open on the morning of election
day, November I,
This offense was committed on
November Z" said the Judge. "The
complaint was sworn to November IL,
but there was no arraignment in po-
lice court until December g. The
examination was made April 10 and
the case was not returned to this
court until May 20. If there were not
SO much delay, details of these liquor
cases would be fresher in the minds
OF the officers"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-07-06
ASKS BAN IN N. Y.
Anderson Points Out That Half of
State Is Entitled to Protection
From Liquor Advertising

William H. Anderson, Superintend-
ent of the Anti-Saloon League of
New York, has called the attention
of Postmaster-General A. S. Burleson
to the fact that New York has some
500 towns, representing half the area
of the state, where the sale of liquor
is forbidden, and suggests that the
federal bone-dry advertising act is
applicable to all this dry territory.
In Mr.. Burleson's orders on the
subject, this dry area of New York Is
not included in the territory from
which mailed liquor advertising is
barred. Mr.. Anderson asks the Post
master-General to include these towns
in his order.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-07-06

When in the course of human
events, it becomes necessary for a
nation to shake off the incubus of
gigantic evil, and to assume that
righteous stand which nature and ma
lures God intended, it is eminently
proper to declare the reasons which
impel it to such action.
We hold these truths to be self
evident: that the supreme object of
government is the public welfare;
that whatever is subversive of public
welfare is, per Sc, an enemy; that an
enemy within the gates is more dan
gerous than one across the seas.
We are habitually conservative,
and, as experience hath shown, more
disposed to suffer while evils are
sufferable. than to right ourselves
by abolishing the wrongs. But when
long train of abuses and injuries,
threatening the very life of the ma
ton, are seen to flow from one spring
of iniquity-it is our right-it is our
duty-to free ourselves from its pol
luton. Such is now the necessity
which constrains us. The history of
the liquor traffic is history of re-
peated insult and injury. To prove
this, let facts be submitted to can
did world:
1t has impoverished our people in
many ways, direct and indirect. 1t
has filled our poorhouses, prisons and
insane asylums. 1t has reduced our
efficiency and increased our misery.
1t has ruined manhood, cursed wom-
anhood and blighted childhood. 1t
has endeavored to block beneficial
legislation, and has insolently tram
pied under foot the laws. To accom-
plish its evil end, it has resorted to
bribery, intimidation and corruption
of elections. 1t has not hesitated to
ally itself with other evils, but is the
soul-mate of vice. 1t has insulted and
degraded the sacred name of liberty
by making it synonymous with SEN
suality and unbridled license. 1t has
feared not God, neither regarded man.
1t Is even now, with the nation en-
gagged in life-and-death struggle for
freedom and democracy, clinging like
leech to the body polite to suck the
nations blood. While innocent peo-
pie by thousands are starving, and the
spectre of famine looms ahead for us,
it wastes yearly millions of dollars
worth of food. 1t converts that food
not merely into useless product, but
into an injurious one. 1t doubly weak
ems our man power by withdrawing
labor from productive industry and
employing it in a work of destruc-
ton. 1t wastes fuel and binders
transportation by the time, space, la
Dor and power required for handling
has, in short, proved itself an in
sidious enemy of the nation. An in
stitution whose influence is thus
marked by every act which may de-
fine an enemy must be so regarded
by all who claim to be patriots. The
time for half-measures is past; pa
thence ceases to be virtue. AS Lin
coin said, There must be no more
attempt to regulate the cancer; 1t
must be eradicated."
We, therefore, the people of the
United States, appealing to the ST.
preme Judge of the world for the
rectitude of our intentions, do de-
clare that the hour has struck for
freedom from this blighting curse
this tragedy of civilization" And
for the support of this declaration.
with firm reliance upon Him who,
to. this end was manifested, that he
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-07-06
WICHITA VERY DRY
Judge Lindsay Says Only Liquor
That Reaches That Town Comes
There in Motor Cars

Judge Frank P. Lindsay, Assistant
Attorney General of Kansas, in q
newspaper interview recently, said;
Wichita is nearer dry than II
ever has been. The bone-dry law
is certainly putting the joints and
bootleggers out of business in the
city. We haven't had complaint
for some time, and this is a good
sign. About the only booze
reaching Wichita consumers now
is that brought in by motor cars.
The fellows who have been oper-
ating in this manner are being
scared out by the conhscation of
their automobiles. l have been
in town for a day and night and
everything I have seen and heard
indicates that Wichita is a pretty
dry town right now.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-07-06
UNCLE SAM ISN'T SUCH A Big
FOOL
By ]. H. Larimore

III tillS present evil Gay WHcu OHCiC
Sam, because of his earnest desire to
maintain sober army and sober
nation back of the sober army, is
thinking seriously of dumping the
whole booze business into the discard,
along come the makers and vendors
of booze and have the gall to say
that if our uncle does such a thing
he'll be fiat busted and won't have
blooming cent with which to pay the
bills incurred in licking the Kaiser.
These booze dispensers without
turning hair or batting an eye are
declaring solemnly that they have
UNDERWATER the cost of every war
America has ever had.
They point out how they have been
paying the bills of our civil strife
and how it was alcohol that licked
Spain.
Well, Uncle Sam isn't as big a fool
as some folks believe. He's not even
as big fool as he was in the COS or
in '98. He's learned few things.
He's progressive old chap.
Uncle Sam remembers the days of
the blue and the gray. He recollects
its San Juan hill and Manila Bay.
He hasn't forgotten how the liquor
folks pulled the wool over his eyes
and persuaded him to license the
liquor traffic for revenue, thereby
making him a partner in dirty deal
He knows that some of his best
boys went out from clean homes in
past wars and came home again
drunkards. He is at war again and
he knows that if the liquor traffic
isn't stopped boys will go out from
clean homes in 1917 and come back
home drunkards.
Uncle Sam has taken his pencil and
set down some figures on the back of
an old envelope. He has found that
for every dollar he has received from
the liquor traffic he has paid out six
or eight +gste .~7
It's bad bargain, any way you
look at it.
Uncle Sam asks the housewives to
quit wasting the dribs. He's going to
make the brewers and distillers stop
wasting the tons.
Your old uncle has the lions share
of feeding the world. He has hungry
folks of his own, but he has bunch
of kin across the sea who are hun
grier.
The liquor traffic takes his grain, his
molasses, his hops and his fruits out
of the mouths of his children and
neighbours children, to make poison
for his children and his neighbor' S
children. He's stood for it a long
time, but now he's got his dander up.
Beware of the wrath of the patient
mani
And will he save the temperance
drinks" beer and wine?
Not on your life. Roses are roses.
Poison is poison. Booze is booze.
Uncle Sam has Weakened up. He has
seen the light. He's on the job. He's
going to dissolve partnership with
iniquity.
Send Wilhelm wireless to the eff
feet that America will have no futher
alliance with the Hohnezollern allies
of beer, wine and whisky in America
Speak to the children of Israel
that they go forward"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-07-06

$1,000 PER MAN PER COUNTY-strangs
Invention startles world-agcnts amazed. Ten
farmer. did $500 IN Il days day.. schleicher,
a minister. s195 first IL hours. $1,000 cold
cash, made, paid, banked by Stoneman in 30
days; 900 to date. A hot o., cold running
water bath equipment for any home at only
$3.50. Selfheating. No plumbing water
works required. Investigate. Exclusive sale.
Credit given. Send no money. Write letter
or postal today. ALLEN MFG. CO.. $50
Allen Bldg. Toledo. Ohio
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-07-06
BETTER THAN BOOZE
From the Washington Starr

(From the w ashlHBtOH otaIJ
"The boys have taken to runnin'
motor cars since Prohibition struck
Crimson Gulch," remarked Bronco
Bob.
do you approve of the changer"
Eyes. As between alcohol an gaso-
line, give me gasoline. You can get
just as reckless an excited an you
don't have to upset your system by
swallowing it"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-07-06

If whisky were as good fighting
stuff as people used to think it,
whisky would now be in better stand
ing, as this is an extremely bellicose
world.-Chicago Daily News.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-07-06

The government should seize the
distilleries and make Its own alcohol.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-07-06
new DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
H. H. Culver, Buffalo, N. Y.

might destroy the works OF the devil"
we mutually pledge to each other our
lives, our fortunes and Our sacred
honor.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-07-03
-. LIsTED sTOCKs
MONEY AND METALS.

New York July Mercantile paper
Exchsn-s-sterIing so day bills. SAFE
commercial so day bills on bands, SL5l- !;
commercial so day bills, SAL X demand
fL75s- cables. S4-76 us
Bar silver 1I5sc-
Mexican dollars, 61Ac-
Government bonds. weak
Railroad bonds irregular
Time loans. soft 60 days 4Eiiz per
cent; 90 days. aGf5s percent months
can money. easier. High, 81 percent;
low. g. ruling rate So; last l0--i- . = .
closing bid. g. offered at SA-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES spot and NEARBY
months. ss2Gs55 August and later
s2sFsL
Iron-FIrm. No / northern. So 50: No
. 7o-thern. s5I a5s- No ! southern. SIS @
49, No. . southern. $3.50 g $3.50
Tiu-Sreadv. SPOT. S6l-75g 6--l-iz-
Spelter. r. St Louis delivery g Sc asked
TOSDOS METALS MARKET.
London. England July s--Eo-loWlns
were the closing quotations IN the Lon-
don metals market
T,ead-Spot. $50 los; futures E-9 los
SpeIter-Spot, E54; fuLures, $50
Corper-SpoL $780, futures, El2s lesi
electrolytic. El42
Tiu-S1dt. EZ41 15s, futures. 1881 los
TIE LOCAL MARKET
Nacionales 19Ac
Mexican bank notes, state bills. 10 G lee
Mexican pesos SIC
Mexican gold size
Fl Puso Smelter Quotations.
Corrected daily.
Bar silver Handy & Harmon quota
Londo1 lead $50 4os-
Copper. Seq5o-
Pig lead. lie
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-07-03
STOCK TRADING
IS RESTRICTED
Course of the Market is
Irregular, But Clos
ing is Firm.

NOTE-Ouotations reflect closing prices
Tuesday, July g.
New York. July s.-The approaching
holiday served very materially 10 restrain
operations in foday's restricted and pro
fssslonaI market.
Leaders were under further pressure
at the opening OF today's market. the
movements also embracing many special
and minor issues United states Stee- was
-he only stock 20 change hands IN more
thau ordinary amounts. 5000 shares being
offered at an extreme loss OF half point
Atlantic. Gulf & West Indies, SrudehaleI
and Central Leather yielded large rae
tions TO over point Rams were Ie-l-15
rnfred- fractional recessions In c0alers and
equal advances in Pacifics and Baltimore
& Ohio The market became more lrree-
MAR before che end Of the first half hour-
The activity Of the morning was accom-
Dznfed by a succession OF rallies and lFesh
declines Many important stocks teI TO
Lowest quotations Of the current move
-nert chief among those were United
H. rjzs.vranna steels. Union Pacific, Souih-
ern Pacific. Reading, Baltimore 81 oI-lo'
the prominent metals and American
From surface indications the setback
was mainly caused by short selling ana
lack OF public interest Baldwin LocoIno-
tive Republic Iron and Mexican Petroleum
were almost the only strong features FTo-
uounced Improvement was shown uiiueI
lead OF equipments and coppers-
Bonds were Irregular, Liberty Jas holo-
inE firm at par TO a premium
The close was flrm-
saIes approxiruated $4,000 shares
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-07-03
Legal Nohees


IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN
DISTRICT OF TEXAS. Ell FASO d.
VISION
In the matter OF WILLIAM c. KEN
DALI. CHAS. AUSTIN SNAPP, DANIEL
JOSEPH NcCANTY and Los ANGELES
WINE HOUSE, Bankrupt In bankruptcy
No. 2z1.
To the creditors Of the above named
bankrupt
Notice is hereby given that on the 2Sth
day OF June, A D.. 1917, the person
above named was duly adjudicated bank
rupt; and that the first meeting Of his
creditors viii be held at my office. 500
Trust building. in E Paso. Texas. on the
18Th day OF July. A D., 1917. at 10 o'clock
IN the forenoon. at which time the said
creditors may attend. prove their claims,
appoint a trustee examine the bankrupt
consider the trustees application TO sell
the entire property. both personal and
real. belonging TO said bankrupt estate.
and transact such other and further busi-
ness as may properly come before said
meeting
Dated at Fl Paso. Texas. this the End
day OF July, A D.. 1917
HARVEY p GAMBLE.
Referee in Bankruptcy.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-07-03
Livestock Markets.

AuAGlE0 AaAA EsL0lAs AAuec-
Chicago. ILL.,. July -Hcgs-ReceiDts.
1900 Market strong. CSC above yes-er-
days average. Bullz. 2lH-sJEl 1913. light
$3.50 @ 1856 heavy. $40 . -5-sS pigs,
Csttie-Receipts. 5000. Market STEADY.
and feeders. $40 q 800 cows and heif-
erz, $500 1l-1ss calves, $3.50 @ Is
Sheep-Eeceipts. 5000 Market slow
Wethers. SI-75 Oil; lambs. S109l5-50-
Kansas City Livestock. Close.
Kansas city, No, July s--Hogs-t.e-
G15.155 heavy, sl5-65 Q l5-e5; packer
and butchers, $3.50 q 1915 light. Sli-5-
115--5; pigs. SIS O 1z--5-
Cartle-Receipts, sBDJ. Market steady
Prime fed steers, $3.50 9 lS-41s dressed
beef steers. $500 1875 western steers.
91S; stocEers and feeders $3.50 @ 1880
Sheep-Recelpls, z0oe- Market strong
Lambs. SIS q l-25i yearlings, $3.50 9 II
wsthers. SS-T5 GS-5oi ewes. ss-25g 9.
Denver Livestock, Close.
Denver. Colo, July S--Cattle--Htecelpt pts.
cows and heifers. IS g l0-l3' stockers and
feeders, $500 SIS. calves. 81 q 10
H0Es-Receip-s. 1000. Market steady 20
SC higher Top, S15-A5s bulk. $3.50 G los
Sheep-Receipts. z400- Market steady
Lambs. S15.15 g 1885, ewes. 50 q $50
Fort Worth Livestock, Close.
CBy Hotel ZelgerJ
FIoz-Receipts. 1000. Market higher.
Top. sl5.55s bulk, S15G1 1850
Cattle-Receipts. $500, including 1oue
calves. Beef steers top, Sll-S5s bulk
sI-50as .50s cows. top. $780, bulk, s. g
calves. TOP. S12.5O5 bulk, S6G1Z- Stockers
Steers, S6G7.75; heifers, S6.50gsi cows,
3BGS; calves. $50 @ $50
sheep--Receipts, 1900 Market steady