Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-12-29
ANOTHER CITY
LIKE ANNAPOLIS
rot,w, Example Of sending ResO-
Iu.ion To Washington 10
Be Made Dry"
NEWPORT, NAyAL CENTER
uS,loop, Are Menace On Christmas
Day Are They Not 0o Every
Other Day In The Year?
communicated

r, the Editor, Evening Capital:
r. eoar r. T., naval center like
.-r.aalfa has followed the example
o. rFis city in sending resolutions to
M sblneton. urging that the city be
naIe Ddry" Annapolis passed sim
-. res9lutions at a mass meeting
9.T5 h. the Republic Theatre few
SUNDAYS ago. Now Newport follows
th@ oood example set by this city
. Ealmore American Of yesterday
~ be following item concerning tho
action OF Newport:
Newport, r. l., December 27.-
pradent Wilson was requested
Ia solutions adopted today by
~ Newport war Camp and COM
muniIv Service Committee to pro-
hlba the sale Of liquor here be-
rargs the presence Of intoxicants
smrebf be q source OF disaster to
vI Foyernment interests" The
nalggions. signed by Mayor
Clark Burdick, as chairman Of the
committee, which is composed Of
army and navy officers, ministers
and leading men and women,
we're teleeraphed to the Presi-
dent They urge that through
tho control Of The source Of sup
div Of liquor by internal reve-
nue officers. no intoxicating
LIQUORS Re allowed to be sent to
Newport
m he same issue Of the American
appeared also this item concerning
Annapolis
Crusade On Bo0tIeggers.
In an effort to break up the
bootlegging" practice which is
said 20 be much in evidence in
Annapolis. Special Agents How
ard Butler and Edward W. Smith,
OF tho Department of Justice,
travelled to The state capital yes
tcrjay and arrested five negroes
four men and woman. They
were brought to this city and win
be placed on trial Complaints
had been made by the residents
that the negroes about the city
bad been supplying the soldiers
with intoxioants. It is thought
that there win be a number Of
other arrests in the near future.
The Annapolis Liquor Dealers As
ISOLATION ordered their saloons closed
on Christmas Day If saloons are
dangerous and q menace on Christ
mas, they are a menace every day in
the year. It looks just a little like
the liquor dealers Of this city passed
Judgment on their own business in
this action. and admitted that IL was
a menace. Il closing the saloons on
Christmas, election day, etc, is good
thing, it would be an infinitely better
thing to close them for all time. The
United States Congress seems TO
think So SO does twenty-seyen
States in the Union, and before three
years have passed more than thirty
six States viii have expressed them
selves in Ike terms, and then away
with saloons in the United States
The question that worries us, is Will
Maryland be one OF the thirty-six?
lt is interesting also TO know that
Canada on December % prohibited
t1e importation of Intoxicating liquor
within her borders after Monday next,
and their manufacture win be pro-
hibi,ed after q date to be determined
within a few weeks, as announced by
Premier Borden officially Mary
hardly wants to hold on to an institu-
0on fast being outlawed all over
North America If she does, thank
God the other states win make her
dry
II. w. BURGAN.