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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30

One doesn't need to read so-called
Prohibition literature for condemna-
ton of the American saloon. Per-
haps the strongest announcement of
the liquor traffic in print comes from
the liquor dealers themselves. Speak
ing before the annual convention of
the National Wholesale Liquor Deal
crs, t. M. Gilmore. President of the
Model License League, said:
"Now, the saloon has its advocates,
Just as the cafe and mail order bust
ness and the original trade have their
= advocates,e but I feel assured that
every man in this audience is thor
ough1y awake to the fact that, how
ever much he be i'll favor of the sa-
loon as an American institution, there
is an antipathy to it on the part of the
people that is causing thousands of
men in every state to cast their votes
with the Anti-Saloon League, although
these men are just as much opposed
to Prohibition as we are ourselves.
II think that the antipathy is due
TO the bar, the screen, the perpendicu-
lar drinking, the treating habit. and
the exclusion of the women of the
family, and not to the commodities
that the saloon dispenses. If this is
true then it is undoubtedly the part
of wisdom for us to make such
changes in our methods of distrbut-
ing our commodities as the public de-
sire us to make. The people in these
states, whether right or wrong, are
not willing to have the American sa-
loon, as they have known it, re-estab-
1ished as factor in society,""
Even stronger language is used by
Mr.. Bigbee, former distil1er:
II became a distiller and liquor
dealer in small way in the spring
of 1881, and while one of the very first
resolutions I made was that I would
do business as nearly according to
law as it could be done, noticed that
the business, as rule, was being con-
Quoted in exactly the opposite direc-
ton; that is, contrary to law in almost
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30
MISTER BOOZE
BY c. A. Mcfarland


There's rank old sinner abroad in the land.
Who treads with sneaker-heeled Shoes
He always gives you a welcome hand
And he's known as Mr.. Booze.
His smile is as broad as sharks left fin,
And good fellowship seems to ooze
From every pore in his treacherous skin,
Such is deceitful Mr.. Booze.
He makes you think he's salesman rare,
That his wares will your blues,
But his promises are all horrible snare;
Beware of this Mr.. Booze.
Comes Mr.. Collector with bills without end
He asks, he implores, then he sues,
And you hunt around to find a friend
Do you find this Mr.. Booze?
No; he has sneaked away to hide himself,
AS he does when trouble brews,
To count his rank ill-gotten wealth,
This stealthy Mr. Booze.
But the worm always turns If you give II time,
So we're learning P's and our Q's,
And clamping the lid on the whiskiied slime
OF this slippery Mr.. Booze.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30
Liquor Laws Can
Be Enforced Says
0. R. Morgan
States Attorney Of Johnson County
Asserts All That It Takes to Break
up Bootlegging Il Nerve

Determination to enforce the law
and cooperation between city and
county officials, according to States
Attorney O. r. Morgan of Johnson
county. will break up bootlegging and
other violations Of the liquor laws.
1.-THE city of Vienna" says Mr.. Nor
gan, has not had open saloons for
more than 40 years, and there hasn't
been an open saloon in the county
for more than II or Is years, but prior
to the election in 1916 it was not a
strange thing to see one or more. per-
sons drunk on the street. After / was
elected States Attorney, the Mayor
of Vienna, R. A. Mccall, asked my
help in breaking this up. In Decem-
Der. 1916, we secured II convictions
and two pleas of guilty for bootleg
ging before the Justices Court, the
fines and costs totaling $1,400. Since
then, there have been only three ar
rests for drunkenness"
Bootleggers Given the Limit
Mr.. Morgan gives typical case
which shows the stern way the courts
of Johnson county have of dealing
with bootleggers.
Last Monday" he says, "Hiram
Lasley pleaded guilty in the County
Court to four charges of which he
had been convicted by the Justices
Court, and fined $500 with costs, MAX
ing a total in the Justices Court OF
$3.50 besides his attorney fee. The
County Judge, J. F, Hight, fined him
$500 and costs, the total amounting
to S367.S5, making grand total in
the two courts of $Sl7.55 against this
one bootlegger.
There is no question:" continues
States Attorney Morgan, "but that
the laws can be enforced if the officers
have the nerve to go after it."
Other States Attorneys Say Same
Thing
Other States Attorneys give similar
testimony.
"Menard county is completely dry"
says the States Attorney. I'VE have
comparatively little trouble in keeping
it dry"
II wish to state that before my
term there was more of this business
to do" says another States Attorney
speaking of the prosecution of illicit
liquor sellers, "but we now have it al
most completely cleaned up"
violations of the liquor laws,
writes another, s"has been reduced in
this county to few cases. believe
that we catch most all the offenders"
This is the testimony from prac-
tically all officials of Illinois. The
liquor laws, where the proper off,
Gals are elected. are as we'll enforced
as are other laws, and this. in the face
of the fact that the powerful liquor in
terests, are still at work to defeat the
enfotstmsnt OF these laws.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30
SALOON CONDEMNED EVEN BY ITS FRIENDS
Roasted by Distillers, Brewers and Salocnkeepers

every particular, and by almost every
dealer. Liquor was sold to anybody
and everybody by some of the dealers
Prostitutes were allowed to prone
made the streets in company with
their gentlemen friends at any time
of the day or night And lawlessncss
of almost every kind became so ram
pant that respectable competition in
the liquor business was in manner
destroyed, and as the number of sa-
looms gradually increased, the morals
of the business became lower and
lower" .
| Just before Rockford voted dry one
of the saloonkeepers of the town, adj
dressing meeting of the Retail Liz
uor Dealers Association, is reported
to have said:
"lf this town goes dry-as it prob
ably will-you'll put up an awful
howl. But cheer upl You'll be better
off when you're driven out Of the bust
ness. can count on the fingers Of
one hand all of you who are really
making more than wages. The brew
cries are getting the money. You'll
not lose anything financially by being
forced into other business. Most of
you will gain by the change. Nearly
every one of you is going down hill
physically. Your saloons are a long
way from being health resorts. You
get about as much bad air in the
course of a day as any set of men in
this town. Then most OF you take
too much of your own medicine and
too little exercise. But you'll keep
on just as long as you're in the bust
ness, and you'll stay in it until you
are driven out. And 7 think the time
has come"
All of which reminds one Of a
statement made by the brilliant editor
of the Liquor Dealers Journal who,
! in commenting upon the alignment Of
Boss Penrose with the liquor interests
in Pennsylvania, quoted. liquor
drummer as saying:
THE D. LIQUOR BUSINESS
HAS JUST SUNK ITSELF OUT"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30
Hauana is Going Dry
mason City Banner)

Havana is very enthusiastic over
the question OF putting out of bust
ness her fourteen saloons. A petition
to vote on the question has been
signed by over 700 voters, this is
really almost enough to carry the
election provided they all stick. There
are good many who will vote against
saloons who do not care to sign a
petition. If Havana goes dry it
should add one more county to the
dry list. | am not sure whether
Mantle and Bath are voting this year
or not. In any event if the county
seat goes dry, the other two towns
will soon follow. If Havana Sue
ceeds in eliminating the saloons, her
biggest problem for the next two
years will be law enforcement. The
Mayor, whoever he may be. should
enforce the local option law impair
TALLY both in regard to the drinker
and disturber of the peace as we'll as
the seller and the bootlegger. Ha-
vana has Mason City's moral support
in this fight.
II Havana is successful in eliminat-
ing the saloons and can stick it out for
two or four years. they will never 60
back to the old way. Mason City's
experience without saloons is entirely
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30
'REE BOOK OF FLORIDA FACTS.

FREE BOOK OF FLORIDA FACTS. II
interested in Florida before visiting or set
Ting in this wonderful state Of fragrant how-
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tual photographs and real conservative facts
co-cerping this state. There is poor, good,
better and best land in Florida This book
will teach you what IS BEST and WHY.
The members of the Association are not
land agents; they simply wish to tell actual
facts to those really interested in the state
They have no time to waste on curiosity
seekers, children or people who expect to
grow rich without effort, but TO those OF
character, energy. some capital, with de-
Sire to learn more OF the opportunities in
this most prosperous state we would he glad
10 give fullest information.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30

PATENTSP ioiurr OF Psten, Office and syear calendar
Free. FitH Gerald Co.. Patent Attorneys ass Street
Washington. D. C. Established 1850.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30
IS HE CRAZY?

The owner of large plantation in
Mississippi, where the fine figs grow,
is giving away few five-acre fruit
tracts. The only condition is that
hgs be planted. The owner wants
enough fgs 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, l243 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 ihink this man
IS crazy for giving away srch valua-
BILE land, but there may be method in
his madness.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30

the high school. But those liquor
dealers who sell liquor to minors are
guilty of violation OF law and some
way should be adopted to ascertain
the guilty parties and their licenses
cancelled.
Parents who have children attend
ing the public schools of this city
arc directly interested in suppressing
the evil of supplying liquor to minors
which, it seems, has grown up in the
city until it has produced blot on
our highest public educational instl-
tuition.
1t may be that other cities are SIM
ilarly afflicted and that Springfield is
no exception to the inroads of the
liquor habit among high school STU
dents. It is no wonder that parents
and others interested in the sobriety
of the rising generation are voting
their cities and towns dry, if for no
other reason than TO protect their
sons from temptation and from ac-
curing the liquor habit.
According to the school officials,
the boys stated that they secured the
beer at Springfield brewery. They
also had whisky and wine, but re-
fused to say where they obtained it.
AS result of their offense, three
boys were suspended. All three, it
Is said, "have good mothers"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
PROHIBITION REV LU-
TON IN PORTLAND. ORE.
By II. L. Albee, Mayor OF
Portland

Portland
Portland, under Prohibition,
! has undergone a great revolt
!. ton.
January, 1916, shows arrests
! of 81 DRINKS and 2l0 Migrants
as against 526 DRINKS and 355
!. Migrants in January. 1915.
!. Mercantile business has i'm
proved over previous condi-
!. tons, the financial situation of
the country considered.
! The moral improvement is
wonderful. Many notorious
!. underworld characters have left
! nerc.
The enforcement of the Pro-
hibition laws through the CO.
operation of county and city Of
/ iccrs is bringing convictions of
the few violators. Heavy fines
. and jail sentences are being
meted out.
The abolition of the liquor
traffic as far as the statute pro-
vidcs is the greatest possible
forward step for hundreds of
. workers who are now spending
their money for food.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30
SHALL THE PEOPLE OR The BREWERS RULE?

Lesson From Indiana by Oil M Sayler Republic
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30

yer M. Sayler in New Republic
a hundred saloon politicians from
Terre Haute to Leavenworth prison.
/ can remember how in the small
town where lived as a boy a hand
full of saloonkeepers dictated who
should be Mayor and Councilmen
and even School Commissioners.
Your Hoosier is born politician,
and your Hoosier saloonkeeper came
into the world with university edu-
cation in the craft The revolt
against him has been civic and social
rather than moral and religious, and
the result, therefore, is likely to be
more permanent than if it had come
on the crest of some transient emo
tional wave.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30

"A Lesson From Indiana by OIL
Indiana's Punishment of the saloon
might have been forecast by anyone
who believes that a community can
finally be aroused to action by the
persistence of a brazen abuse. Brew
cry politics had SO long held the en-
tire state in its grip---from the small
est town up through the state offices
and the Legislaturc-that self-rc-
specting citizens were ready to fore
go personal privileges to win back
again their civic rights. The police
had been corrupted, the courts had
been tempered with, elections had
been bought and sold until the fed
eral government stepped in and sent
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-22
Amateurs Fight
Sunday For the
Seasons Title

Tacomans who like good base
ball will have their last chance of
the season to see a game Sunday,
when the c. & B. Ideals and
Knights of Columbus teams mix at
Athletic park for the city amateur
title.
These teams, representing the
best baseball talent in the city,
have wrangled for two months
over their relative merits. At last
a game has been planned, and the
teams have agreed that the con-
test shall determine which team
Is entitled to the seasons pennant
for independent teams.
Both clubs have won many
games this season, and are in
prime condition for a hard battle.
After Sunday both teams will dis
band.
Hearing reports that the Knights
were planning to load up" their
team with outsiders. "Pinky" Sew
erence, manager of the Ideals,
made arrangements Saturday to
also put ringers" in the game, II
necessary.
II was reported that Billy Mar.
tin and Joe Graisey would be on
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-22
HERE'S LIST
OF PLAYERS
Omitted Press Leased wire.)

CINCINNATI, o., Sept. 81. -
The national commission today
announced the following players
as eligible to participate In the
worlds series games:
Chicago Americans: Joe Benz,
r. Byrne, e. Collins, John Collins,
q. V. Cicotte, d. Danforth, U.
Faber, o. Felsch, A. Gandii, r.
Hasbrook, J. Jackson, ]. Jenkins.
7. Jourdan, H. Liebold. B. Lynn,
e. Murphy. r. McMullin. G. Ris-
berg, A. e. Russell, r. schalk, ].
Scott. George Weaver, G. Will
Jams, M. Wolfgang, q. H. Row
land, manager, and w. Gleason,
coach.
r NewsYork Nationals--Fred An
derson, J. C. Benton, A. w. Baird.
jr., George J. Burns, Al Demaree.
Arthur Fletcher. George Gibson,
Walter Holke, O. L. HerEog. Ben
ME Kauff. John Lobert, Lewis
McCarty. J. J. Murray. John ].
Onslow, w. d. Perritt, Davis Rob-
ertson, william A. Rariden. James
L. Smith, n. y. Sallss, Ferd
schupp, Charles Tesyeau. James
Thorpe, Joseph without Henry
Zimmerman. John Me0raw, man
1&cE.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-22
SEATTLE AND
TACOMA ELK
TEAMS PLAY

The Northwestern golf cham
pionship for Elks lodges will be
settled Sunday when Seattle an
Tacoma Elks Will play off the
third and last game of the title
series. Each team has won one
match. Ten Tacomans will go to
Seattle 10 play on JeffeSson park
course. and 10 Seattle players will
come here to play at the Tacoma
Country club.
Tacomans In the match are:
Pat McGraw. E. q. Perkins. Bell
Benson A.. X. Martin, G. J. Back
us. u. c. Clarahan, Howard
Wright. e. C. Cooney, II. J. Jack
son, Sid Anderson, Roscoe Teats,
Frank Oakley, Harry Coleman. A.
B. Howe, George Dunn, Jack Sib-
BILE, Harry Opie, James North,
Stanton Warburton, Leo Tests.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-22

In comparing the offensive or
attacking strength of two ball
is not much less important than
clubs the question of base running
that of hitting.
The club which gets men on
bases and can't get them around
is no better off than the team
that can't get them on.
Baserunning today is highly
cultivated art, but In spite of the
attention paid to it managers have
never been successful in making
great base runners out of men
who have not the natural ability.
Cobb is an example. There are
many men in the league who are
faster, but his natural Unborn
ability makes him the greatest Of
them all on the paths.
Chicago has the greatest base
runner IN this world series in Ed
die Collins, than whom there are
few better base runners In either
league. In this department he
outclasses Burns, the best path
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-22

mission to leave the camp to box
Thursday. His real name Is
Francis James Sandorse, his
height feet 2 "a inches, and his
weight 116 pounds.
Chef Neff, who meets Muff
Bronson next week in the main
event of the Eagles smoker for
the lightweight title of the North
west, is only 10 years old but has
had 70 fights. He has boxed
in Tacoma several times In the
past, having met such men here
as Joe Hill, Paul Steele, Charlie
Givens, Chris Mussen, Kid Jack
son and Eddie Shannon.
Elizabeth Tucker, the only
woman fight manager in the
world, is an object of interest in
Seattle these days. She has
brought her brother, frankie,
from California, to meet Chef
Neff at Dreamland next Tuesday.
Joe Rivers, the clever Mexican
lightweight, is casting his eyes to-
wards the Northwest, and may be
expected for bouts In Tacoma, Sc
attic and Portland within a short
time. His manager, Frank Or
satti, is already here trying to ar
range matches.
The COMPLETE card for the open
ing show of the season, next
Thursday night, will be as fol-
lows: Chef Neff VS.. Muff Bron-
son; Joe Harrahan VS.. Weldon
(Toughy) Wing; Eddie Quinn We.
frankie Sanders; Battling Bunk
err vs.. Ray Cunningham: AL Whit
man VS.. Vince Moore.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-22

hand to help the Knights out. So
Severance will have Oscar Jensen
and AL Running on the grounds,
ready to play for the Ideals II any
outsiders join the opposing club.
The correct lineup follows:
Ideals-Severence. C; Dicker-
son, p; Lick, 1b; Danielson, IS;
Keffler, 3b; Kelly, 2b; Adams,
CT; Clearwater. RI; Elkins. II;
Libke and Browns, subs.
Knights-Leftwick, C; Murray,
p; johnson, ID; Mclaughlin, 2b;
Coen, 3bj Kierstead, s.; Wilkow-
ski, II; g. Mclaughlin. CT; Woods
or Foley, .rf.
Russ Hall will probably umpire.
Strangers, reach the grounds by
taking cable car and transferring.
Game starts at p. m.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-22
Billiard Hall
MakesChanSeS

One of the most popular indoor
sport resorts in Tacoma this sea-
son is the Donnelly billiard room
an the Donnolly hotel. The man
agement changed recently, and
many improvements have been
made to the big hall. A new floor
manager will take charge Mon
day, and preparations have all
ready been made for the installa-
ton of several new indoor games.
The. Donnolly has one of the larg-
est billiard and pocket billiard
roomsin the city. Automatic ia
bles are used thruout.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-22
just TWoClaSS
Games onSked

Inter-class games at Stadium
high this year will be little more
than practise scrimmages. Coach
Perkins has called the games for
Thursday and Friday of next
weeks good practice and will
boys will have had about one
weeks good prjactise, and will
not be in any shape for regular
play.
The sophomorss play the fresh
men Thursday and the juniors and
seniors play Friday. There will
be only the two games.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-22

man of the Giants. .
Counting Burns out the White
Sox have at least three men other
than Collins superior to any
Giant, general base running, not
base stealing being considered.
They are Hap Felsch. Buck
Weaver and Memo Leibold, any of
whom will keep Giant pitchers
and catchers busy.
There is another element
which will make the SOx
more dangerous on bases
than Gants--Ray Schalk.
The Giants will not steal
bases on Schalk-it isn't
done with any kind of reg
uIarity by any club.
The White Sox may steal
bases on McCarty and Rari-
den, both of whom are good
catohers, but neither of
whom is up to the standard
of the little ChicagOan.
There has been little base run
ming in past world series, mainly
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-22
ALL STAR TEAM
FOR CAMP LEWIS

% Eighteen regimental teams
o at Camp Lewis, from which
o will later be selected one all
g star team for competition
o with Pacific coast collegiate
. elevens, Is one OF the football
o plans of Van" Cook, camp
@ athletic director.
q Cook is going into football
@ first, because the season Is
o at hand and because many
9 of the men are eager to start
y the game. He will immedi-
Q ately inaugurate other games
g at the camp, which men can
o enter who have no liking for
o the pigskin battle.
. Some of the best football
D material In the west Is al
= ready assembled at the camp.
n ~ a Il n a - n u u a - a - a
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-22
New PLAYERS

Among new men who turned out
for football practise at Lincoln
high yesterday were Darrell Mot
Ter. George Harader. Gordon Cult
UNI and Robert Wadsworth. There
are SO team candidates at the
school. and vigorous practise will
start Monday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-22
Sloan's School
For Dancing
North End and ! SITS.

Beginners class every Thurs
aay evening. y y. M. to 10 j. IN.
Advance pupils every Friday
evening $50 to- ..
Assembly Dance for advance
ed pupils AMI friends every FRI
day evening from D to 12 p. III.
High School class every Sat
urday evening, 7:30 to D p. m.
Children's class every Satur-
day afternoon, 2 to $3.50. Be-
ginning October 10.
Private lessons by apoint-
,ment. Six lessons So. Single
lessons $1.5
Special Rates made for pri-
vate classes under the exclusive
control Of those forming them.
Beginners may enter at any
time during the season.
p. Francis Sloan will person.
ally instruct all classes.
Hall leased to parties.
Phones, Office, Main 66O5;
Res, Main 1851.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-22
Biz Racers In
New York Test

NEW YORK, Sept. 22.-Fore-
most automobile drivers who will
start at Sheepshead Bay speedway
this afternoon In the 100000
Hardness trophy race over 100
miles are Dario Resta, Ralph de
Palma, Louis Chevrolet, Gil An
derson, Ralph milford and Eddie
Hearn.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-22

SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. %. =
One of the hopes of the Seals
parsed out of Coast league base
ball today when Pitcher John Old
ham went to Camp Lewis with the
San Francisco draft contingent.
Owner Henry Berry's effort to
have Oldham's service delayed
failed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-22

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 90. -
Benny Leonard declines to meet
Willie Richie In four-round
bout. His manager, Billy Gibson.
said Richie 10 too heavy for the
lightweight champion. Local pro-
moters are trying to arrange q
match between Leonard and Joe
Rivers.