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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18
U. S. Supreme Court
Upholds Sunday Law
Saloons Must Stay Closed on
Sabbath Day

The highest court in the nation has
sustained the Illinois law against open
Sunday saloons. The law is upheld in
every respect, affirming decisions of the
Superior and Supreme Courts of Hi
nos. The case which brought forth
the decision was that of Henry w.
Boerner, a Chicago saloonkeeper who
sought to restrain Mayor Thompson
and the police from preventing the
opening of his saloon on Sunday for
the selling of non-intoxicants. The
saloonkeeper's lawyers contended that
even if they did not sell intoxicants
on Sunday, they had right to keep
their places open for the sale of soft
drinks.
The Illinois courts have held that
saloons under the Illinois law could
not legally be open on Sunday for any
purpose. The unfolding of the state
courts by the United States Supreme
Court definitely settles the question
and will put an end to the legal eff
forts of saloonkeepers to keep their
places of business open on Sunday
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18
La,U Enforcement

Cities voting dry by small MAORI
ties and retaining wet men in Office
have had their laws tempered with
mercy and enforced with Indifference
but where public officials deem it a
privilege to do their duty, there is
very little trouble caused by booze.
Business men in dry cities and towns
who have learned that the voting out
Of saloons means more business and a
better town, are doing their part to
enforce the law. The result is that
places in dark alleys where liquor had
been illegally sold are being closed
and the defective swine are headed for
the sea to meet the fate that befell
those original blind pigs in the re-
gions of Gadara.
The work done by the Law En-
forcement Department of the Anti
Saloon League is much appreciated by
leading men throughout the Western
District.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18
Saloonkeepers Sell
Liquor to Soldiers
Federal Agents Obtain Names of East
St. Louis Dramshoo Men Who
Have Served Men in
Uniform

The selling of liquor by East St.
Louis saloonkeepers to soldiers home
on furlough is being investigated by
Federal agents, it was learned today.
Names OF several saloonkeepers al
ready have been sent to Washington.
Hundreds OF soldiers from various
camps on railroads which terminate
at East St. Louis are passing through
the city daily. All are in uniform, but
this does not seem to bar them from
obtaining all the liquor they may de
sire.
Most of these soldiers live within a
radius of 100 miles of East St. Louis
and are on their way home from Camp
Tag or, KY; Camp Grant, ILL.,, and
Camp Pike, Ark.
East St. Louis soldiers home for
the holidays are experiencing no diff
Guilty in obtaining intoxicants in sa-
looms, either, according to Govern
mcnt investigators.-E. St. Louis
Journal.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18
Millers Use Barley
for New Bread Flour
Great Mills Need the Grain Being
Wasted in Making Beer

An official of large Wisconsin
Flour Milling Company writes that
the barley being used by the brewers
is needed to make barley -four for
bread. The brewers have argued that
barley is not fit for human food, and
therefore its use for beer results in
notfood loss. Millers say that barley
flour is an absolute success. The
mills referred to above are turning
out carload day The great Wash
burn Crosby and Pillsbury Mills are
also grinding flour from barley. The
former are milling thousand barrels
per day.
Herbert Hoover has given the fol-
lowing endorsement of barley -four:
This rediscovery of barley as a
food comes as veritable Godsend.
The food value of high grade barley
is very similar to that of wheat"
For the duration of this war, every
bushel of barley is needed for bread.
There is not one bushel to spare for
beer.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18
SHIPMENT ISSUE up
Court Will Have to Decide Whether
Carriage of Liquor in Luggage
Constitutes Violation of
Dry Law

Declaring that the bringing OF in
toxicants into dry Washington in a
suitcase or hand satchel is not a
Shipment" within the purview OF Sec
ton 240 of the penal code, Robert
Long, colored, has filed a demurrer in
the criminal division of the District
Supreme Court attacking the indict-
case is continued until December 2S.
The curtain falls.
Epilogue
The curtain rises again to the
plaudits of millions of citizens. Mary
occupies the center of Chicago's stage,
with face wreathed in smiles for hope
is just ahead. A million voices call
for a speech.
Mary: "I'll tell everybody / know
about the saloons near us; they are
bad, they let little girls and their
mothers in to drink. Mother might
never want whisky if she didn't have
to pass SO many saloons
Upon the next day the following
signed message was, at the request Of
the Chicago Dry Federation, sent to
every minister in Chicago and by him
read before his congregations:
ITO the Good People of Chicago:
My papa and mamma would be all
right and we would be a happy family
if it were not for the saloons. Won't
you please move the saloons and save
our homes? Your little friend,
"Mary Zeman."
Mary Zeman may be the instrument
of God to drive every saloon from
Chicago.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18
GOVERNOR CAPPER FOR RATIFICATION

Kansas discussing the Prohibition amendment
chief ambition people is the
of wartime it should be enacted
of
surprising, them that there
Prohibition?
The Kansas practically
hard
with dnou and the buffalo
will always qualification that it fell
help the My
will dry ready to do anything
and everything l speed that day.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18
hen Saloons Close
Other Evils Vanish

Houses of ill-repute, gambling
joints, and saloons are among the
influences that retard war work. No
man of intelligence will deny this
Since all of these are admittedly in
terfering, there naturally arise the
question, why does not the govern
ment put them out Of existence? Re-
move the saloons and the other two
evils will vanish.-Modern Woodman.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18
Pneumonia and Booze

At this time of the year pneu-
monia is prevalent The chances of a
hard drinker attacked by pneumonia
are very slight. Even when taken in
so-called Moderate quantities alcohol
lessons the chances of recovery. AS a
preventative of death by pneumonia
Prohibition is needed to keep the ma
tons man-power as high as possible.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

The city of San Francisco has put
a ban on bootlegging to soldiers and
sailors by passing an ordinance pro-
hibiting saloons from selling liquor in
packages after o'clock in the even-
ing All booze bought after that hour
must be drunk on the premises. Ny
prediction is that the government will
have to step in and close the saloons
OF San Francisco before our soldiers
are kept from buying booze and
thereby making themselves liable to
the temptations usually met with by
a man whose brain is dazed by liquor.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

One way that Mr.. McAdoo can
make the railways efficient in the ship
ping of coal for the people and sup
plies for the army is to make the
breweries stop shipping booze for two
or three months until the freight con-
gestion is relieved, at least. The An
heuser-Busch Brewing Company of
St. Louis manufactures 100000 bot
ties of beer daily. Estimate the num-
Der of breweries and then think of the
saving in fuel, freight cars, engines,
railway employees, ETC., which would
be conserved were Mr.. McAdoo to
act on this suggestion.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

United States soldiers in France
are proving to be the best marksmen.
In recent contest between repre-
sentatives from the different armies,
they stood at the head, being 81 per
cent higher than the French, who
stood second. The above reported by
Dr. George Wood Anderson, who
has recently returned from France,
shows that our soldiers do not need
beer or wine to make them clear
eyed and steady-handed.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

The following resolutions were re
Gently passed by the M. E. Sunday
School, of Gilman, ILL.,:
Whereas, 1t has been suggested
that the public schools be closed for
two months through the winter in or
der to conserve fuel, now therefore
be it
Resolved, That we as Christian
nation, protest such action and should
it become necessary to close any pub
lie ,laces, let it be the breweries, sa-
|1oCAs, poolrooms, and other places OF
amusement"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

AT session of the Chicago Police
Trial Board, it was found that during
the holidays there was considerable
drinking of intoxicants by policemen.
Over a score of policemen were
brought before the board on charges
of intoxication. Most of them testi-
fed that they had used only very mod
crate quantities of beer and light
wines.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18
IT'LL BE TOUGH FOR EN-
Bootleggers Who Sell Booze in Des
Moines to Soldiers Will Find
Thorny Way

It's going to be hard old year for
the bootlegger who sells booze in
Des Moines, Iowa, to soldiers.
United States Commissioners Judson
Piper has announced his intention of
placing bonds as high as possible in
such cases.
When Joe Mazzo was arraigned on
charge of selling liquor to soldiers
his bond was fixed at $500.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18
AFTER THE WAR BEGAN

John speaks now in hollow tones and said
''Where art thou, Fritz? Whittier gone from me?
Lonely, robbed of all the joy had,
I'd nowhereon to lean, Fritz Brew but thee
Our old co-partner. Uncle SAM
Has cast me off this year of war:
Needs me no more, save to help him
The Kaisers fleet blow the Huns across the bar
No more Sam says. may | here join you
In killing his men, in manning them;
No more alas, shall we, thugs two,
Rejoice when Virtues lost to us her gem.
Brewer Fritz, it all your traitorous deed,
And Satan hence shall have his due,
Since rogues fall out, more succeed
In firm embrace, as held you"
Fritz wrinked deep his ford brow.
Said, chuckling low, meath rotuhd vest
'Johan, I, too, quite through now
With you. Separation henceforth seemeth best
Truth it is, you did the earlier dirty work
You bought and sold men, barterng we'll
But unless, base migrate, now shirk,
I'd have to go back with you to - well,
Good
Bye
John"
ITO be concluded by the President or Congress il
R1dU Chicapo
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

$1,000 PER MAN PER CoUNTY-stranx
Invention startles world-agents amazed. Ten
inexperienced men divide 1000. Korstad.
q farmer, did $4,000 in IA days. Scheicher.
a minister, sl9s first IL hours. $1,000 cold
cash made paid, banked by Stoneman in 80
days; 1000 to date, 4 no. or cold running
$3.50. Self.heating No plumbing or water
works required Investigate. Exclusive sale.
Credit given Send money. Write letter
or postal today ALLEN MFG. CO., 43S
Allen Bldg, Toledo. Ohio.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

Wine is wine, whether it is in
France or America or Timbuctoo.
And it is mocker, and will degrade
our soldier boys-and help breed dis
ease-whether they are in France or
America.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

If you think that beer and wine
lowers the standard of morals of the
American soldiers in France, thereby
making them less efficient, sit right
down this minute and write letter
to the National Council of Defense,
Washington, d. C., and tell the gem
t1emen your views. Be brief, be
courteous, but write that letter!
Every wcll-written letter will count.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18
Spies and Booze

The spy is abroad in the land and
everyone knows that drink loosens
the tongues of men and destroys their
judgment. Grave danger is there that
over dinner where champagne is
served, even without the participant
realizing it, state secrets of tremend-
Gus Importance may be divulged.--
Mary Harris Armour at w. c. T. U.
Convention.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18
Rock Island Saloons
are Bad for Soldiers

Rock Island saloons and dives are
getting that city in bad favor. They
are proving good deal of nuisance
because of the large arsenal and the
thousands of soldiers nearby. They
are making votes that some day will
knock them out altogether.-Gales-
burg Register.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

On New Years day in Chicago the
sale of liquor was stopped promptly
at l o'clock with few exceptions. The
city enjoyed the sanest New Years
Eve in many years.
Thus again was it proven that
where there is a will, there is a way
to enforce liquor laws at any time
and at any place.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18
CORKS AND BULLETS
By Harry P Rising

w. A. Yeats, well-meaning lad
from Honolulu, arrived in San Fran
CISCO met two strangers, visited two
saloons, and when he came to- he
found himself minus Sl55 in good coin
OF the realm and also draft for S805.
Efforts are being made to stop pay
ment on the draft.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18
THE STATES GOING DRY
By G. w. lanes

ay be sung to ''What Friend we have in Jesus" y.
Kansas Maine and North Dakota
Early led the temperance fight
Georgia then, and Oklahoma,
Mississippi next saw light.
North Carolina ousted dramshops,
Tennessee washed off her stains
West Virginia went Prohibition,
Sending joy across the plains
Washington and Colorado,
Arizona, too, went dry;
Oregon and Old Virginia
Said John Barleycorn must die.
Iowa and Alabama,
Arkansas among the rest
Idaho and South Carolina,
Voting temperance. South and West.
Michigan and great Montana,
Gave the vets big surprise;
South Dakota and Nebraska
Struck old booze between the eyes.
Utah joined with Indiana,
Then New Hampshire banshed rye,
When New Mexico had triumphed,
Twenty-seven states were dry.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

BEFORE THE WAR
By Ira Landrith

Boon companions two. were we,
John Barleycorn and Herr Fritz Brew;
No beasts could more devoted be
Than brethren fond and true.
We fought together against all good
And stood right out for every i'll:
We organized brotherhood
To steal and rob and loot and kill
Our hands red with selfsame gore,
Fouled alike with outrage. stained with shame;
By our conspiracies and crimes galore
We wrought to wreck Rights
We slept together-nay. never sleep,
We dined at common grooming board
On murdered Babes drunk tears good women weep,
And fed on food poor toll should hoard.
We went forth bold and bade a nation bow
To united. vile and brutal will
In treason, many time
We conquered courts took Capital Hill.
Politicians sought shoes to shine,
Then editors found friendship dear;
Fen some ecclesiastics. accents fine,
Spoke we'll of when were near.
We had our treas'ry over full,
One p1underbund, one ruin rule;
One way to do our work. common pull.
One fund we freely used to buy tool;
Shust Fritz und Johan.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

William J. Palmer, recently pleaded
guilty in a Chicago court to the
charge of numbering his wife, in his
plea to the judge he said that he did
not realize what he had done until
hours afterward. He said he had
been drinking.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

Another man who met grief in
San Francisco saloon is Charles Yam
cey who was held up and robbed of
$2l. He claims the hold-up man is
a regular patron of the saloon, which
is located at S2o Howard street, and
that the barkeep made no attempt to
interfere.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18
WOULD SAVE GIN GRAIN

A Paris dispatch, bearing date o
December 20, says:
The Chamber of Deputies today
adopted resolution asking the
government to prohibit the use of
cereals in the manufacture of gin.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

State iqaer license inspectors Of
Ohio have closed up the saloon Of
William Hummell, at Chillcothe,
chatged with having sold liquor to
soldiers III uniform.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

Every saloonleeper in America has
splendid opportunity of presenting
the u S. A. with one good citizen,
by closing his snake factory and go
ing into some legitimate ard honest
occupation.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

. l hope the preachers of America
will never let W on the liquor traffic
until the nation is entirely dry. Now
is just the right time to get your Sec
ond wind" on this crime against the
youth and young men of our nation,
Mr.. Minister of the Gospel!
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

HOPELESS beer has so affected the Sac
ramento hop market that only one
fifth of last seasons acreage will be
planted to hops next year, the re-
naming acreage being used for grow
ing vegetables, which are to be kiln
dried and shipped to our allies.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

WANTED-YoUR IDEA. Patent your in
sention--I'll help market it Send for Free
Books with list Of Patent Buyers. hundreds OF
Ideas Wanted, etc. Patents Advertised Free.
Advice Free Trade marks registered. Rich
ard B. Owen. Patent Lawyer. ioa Owen Bldg.
Wash D. c.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

Army and navy officials appear to
be very patient with the liquor deal
ers and dissolute women of Sa; Fran
cisco or else they are ignorant of
conditions. Drunkenness is increas-
ing among enlisted men stationed
there at an alarming rate.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

II the proposed Prohibition amend
ments to the Constitution should be
affirmed by the states there will be a
lot of orators released for use in
other lines of endeavor, opines the
San Francisco Bulletin.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

My compliments to the holder of a
sick kitten-Mr. Joseph DeBar, presi-
dent of the Liquor Dealers Associa-
ton! Why worry? The future for
the young men of America never
looked brighter!
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

The bootleggers' trust in Denver is
only an evidence Of the eternal fit
ness of things" for the liquor traffic
has always been Especial privilege"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

Drys of Lawrence county, Pa, will
devote all their strength toward help
ing to put the state right on the issue
of ratifying the nationwide Prohibi-
ton amendment.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

The saloons can't exist without
Young men to feed upon. Since so
MANY have gone into the army and
navy, many saloons have been COM
PEELED to close the doors.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

Harry Shultz, a resident of San
Francisco, who doesn't seem to real
ize that Uncle Sam is fighting for his
very existence, got Lille Feldman to
peddle booze to our soldier boys, and
now both are in the coils of the law.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

Last year there was shipped from
the port of San Francisco $1,4oo,oo0
worth of liquors to poor little Siam.
This year the scarcity of ships will
reduce this crime to practically moth
ing.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

Every loyal American, with red
blood in his veins, should stop drink
ing booze-and help our boys in
France.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

No more free lunches" in San
Francisco SALONS. This war Is pinch
ing wen the booze baronsl
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

An even dozen Cairo saloonkeepers
failed to renew their licenses. This
leaves the city with only AZ saloons.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

A dry nation will increase the eff
cheney of farm labor 25 per cent. 1t
will d. still better than that in Cali
fornia.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

the continued friendship Of Americans
that they should keep wines and other
liquors from our soldiers.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

The world will not be safe for de-
mocracy until King Alcohol is de-
throned
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

Writing ARTICLES about the liquor
traffic seems just like handling a
corpse.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

The officials and people of France
ought to be told that if they wish
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18
Don't Wear a Truss
HalHlIllN GUITAR on c0UNeT

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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-01-18

ITO be concluded by the President Congress in 1879
405 Association Bldg, Chicago
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-07-05
HINCKLEY

The new depot is receiving coat OF
paint. Bert Currier is doing the work.
Mrs William Ham of Fairfield and
her three children, Everett. Doris an |
Evelyn. visited for several days Mrs.
Hams brother D. W. Sawyer
Mr.. and Mrs Melvin Palmer attend
ed the funeral of Mrs. Melvin Wiley
of Clinton Sunday. Mrs Wiley be-
longed to the Eleazer Parker Chapter,
ID. A. r., Of which Mrs. Palmer is also
a member.
Children's day was observed Sunday
at the church with a good program.
After the exercises Mr.. mckinney
spoke briefly. An offering for the Red
Cross was taken.
Miss May L. Palmer Of Waltham,
Mass, is a guest in town
Ernest Crocker is pressing hay in this
neighborhood.
Marshall Clifford came from Bath
Sunday to visit his family
Miss Floy l.. Walker has accented a
position as bookkeeper for Alton Rich.
ardson of Waterville and began her
duties Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philander Bessey have
returned from Brunswick. where they
visited relatives for several days. They
attended the graduating exercises Of
their granddaughter, Mrs. Evelene
Priest. while away
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-07-05
MONMOUTH

Mrs. Myrtle Harden and Mrs. An
ME Cook Of Lisbon Falls are the
guests Of Miss Claribel Smith.
Mrs. Mary Pulsifer Of Auburn is
the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs Henry s
Bates.
Mrs. Fannie Brown is visiting rel
atives in Litchfield.
Mrs. Allie Morris and friend of Au-
burn were in town this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Powers CT
Litchfield We're Sunday guests Of
Mr. and Mrs. w. F. Lord.
Miss Theodore Harrington, who has
been teaching in Rockland, is at
home for the summer vacation.
Winfield Packard Of Augusta, .,,l-
perlntendent of schools in Halloweil.
Manchester and Winthrop. and Mrs.
Packard are passing few ia ~
with the formers parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. b. Packard.
Harold Packard. principal Of the
grammar schools in Middietown, Ct.
and sister, Miss Florence, PRINCIPAL
OF the grammar school in West Pea
body, Mass, a position she has he'd
for the past six years. are at home
for the summer vacation with their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. &. Packard.
Their Youngest son. j. Roy Pack
ard "a student at Union Theologica a,
Seminary, New York. has been sent
to Creede, Col. by the Home Mis-
sionarS Board Of New York to supply