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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-03-01

question up again this year, that is
their right under the law But SO far
as we have been able to discover no
one has suffered as a result of ousting
the saloons; on the contrary, a general
improvement in the morale of the
community has been apparent on all
sides. Many at the time feared the
buildings vacated by the saloons would
be vacant long time, but the con-
trary has proved to be the fact
Therefore, very few have lost by the
change"
The best proof of the success of
Prohibition is the fact that the people
do not want TO go back to the saloon
once they have tried the dry policy.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-03-01
LABOR IN BETTER CONDITION
BY Geo. H. C.. Palmer

Editor the Galesburg Labor News
At the present time, if I were to
say that we are satisfied l would be
stretching the truth. because there is
entirely too much disregard for the
law, but notwithstanding this there
is no disputing the fact that we are
infinitely better off than when local
politics were dominated by the sa-
looms.
All the dire calamities which were
to happen to labor in case we put
booze joints out of business have
failed to materialize and labor is in
far better condition than when the
open saloon was in its glory"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-03-01
FREEPORT CITIZENS Salts
FED
By Jas. R. cowley
Editor the Freeport Daily Journal
Standard

Editor the Freeport Daily journal
Standard.
In reply to your recent letter ask
ing for my observations on Freeport
as a dry city, will state briefly that
Frceport has been dry during the past
four years, and believe that the
people of this city are satisfied TO
have Freeport remain in the dry col
umn. There has been less poverty,
less crime, and more money in the
savings banks during the dry years
than when we had saloons, and | do
not think the people of the city will
ever vote in favor of saloons again.
Some time ago the vets circulated a
petition to have the wet and dry is
sue submitted to the voters of the
city at the coming spring election,
but public sentiment was SO strong
against it that they did not file their
petition, and the issue will not be
voted upon this spring, and Freeport
will remain in the dry column with
out contest. Many of the local vets
are beginning to realize that the
liquor traffic is doomed in this coun-
try
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-03-01
Resolutions Demand
War Prohibition

The members of the Methodist Epis-
copal Sunday School of Monticello
passed resolutions recently demanding
the suppression of the liquor traffic as
a war measure, and calling upon the
government to use his authority to
convene a special session of the Leg
islature for the purpose of making
Illinois dry as a war measure and rati-
flying the proposed national dry
amendment.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-03-01
Essential For Fertilizer and
for Refrigeration and
Transportation
A WAR NECESSITY
Food Administration Asks Brewers
to Conserve Supply
CLOSE The BREWERIES

Not only are the brewers unneces-
Sarily wasting great quantities of coal.
needed by schools, homes and fac
tories lof lsaatine purposes. but they
are also tie greatest users of lam
moaia, essential Tor refrigeration and
tfanseor.ation Of food supplies. An
adelaa'e supply Of ammonia is neces-
sary to provide the proper shipment
OF foods throughout the United
States and for supplying our army
and navy.
MI OF the large brewers use am
monia not only for rcfrigerating. but
also to operate their huee ice plants:
furthermore, they use great quantities
OF ice for their Interstate beer ship
ments. The basic materials for the
manufacture OF ammonia are the same
as those used for the manufacture of
war ammunition and also for sulphate
OF ammonia for agricultural fertilizer.
As the production OF such materials
IN the United States is limited, all the
ammonia used in carrying on the beer
business in the United States cuts
down the quantity available to in
crease. the fertilitv ol theasaiI sfar feea
production and to provide the ele
ments necessary in the manufacture
OF powder
Ammonia Demands Increasing
a circular letter from {. W. Mer-
rill Of the Division Of Chemistry,
United States Food Administration,
calls upon the brewers TO conserve
ammonia as much as possible. The
letter explains that the requirements
OF ammonia for ammunition purposes
for May are three times the amount
required in February, and that these
requirements increase continuously I'D
to next December, in which month
they are seven times the amount re-
qured for February.
Every hour that the brewing busi-
ness continues to operate in the
United States decreases the supply of
materials absolutely necessary for the
carrying on of the war.
Apparently Germany understands
this much more clearly than America.
The production of beer in Germany
last year was about one-tenth that of
America. Instead of permitting urre-
stricted manufacture of beer, Germany
is using beer-making materials for
powder. The fact that before the war
Germany promoted the German-Amer-
ican Alliance, which in turn gave po-
litical power and protection to the
brewers, is significant The German
government, undoubtedly, knew years
ago that the brewing industry requires
enormous quantities of materials es-
sential to warfare; therefore, the Ger
man government used its influence in
America to firmly establish the brew
ing business in this country.
Now that the American people
know the facts will they continue to
permit the brewers to operate, or will
they demand that the manufacture of
beer be stopped by War Emergency
Law? Your Congressman will be in
terested to know how you feel about
this matter.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-03-01
DANVILLE BUSINESS BETTER
By Geo. w. Woolsey
ditor the Illinois Banner.

Editor the Illinois Banner
We are more than pleased with
changed conditions here in the city
out last spring. Business is better
than ever and the moral atmosphere
is greatly improved.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-03-01
The Saloon Again? No,
Says Waukegan Sun
Prohibition Proved Success and Peo
pie Will Not Vote Wet
Again

The Waukegan Sun, discussing the
question of submitting the saloon issue
to vote this spring, made the follow
ing comments:
"The majority of Waukegan, to the
extent of 800, two years ago voted to
abandon the saloon. They kicked 1t
out,
However, If the men favoring IL
censed saloons desire to bring the
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-03-01
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
PIER"
By M. Max Coodrill


Editor Gaiesburg Evening Mail.
Prohibition has succeeded in
Galesburgl This city has been dry SO
long now that nobody--not even the
regular rounder-misscs the saloon.
Galesburg would vote down the sa-
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-03-01

loon, should the issue again be raised,
four to one. The city Jail seldom has
an occupant. Crime has been greatly
reduced. The city is cleaner, better
and happier.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-03-01

At least 81 per cent OF the cases re-
lieved by the California Society for
the prevention Of cruelty to children
can be traced to the use of liquors by
their parents, according to report in
tho San Francisco Examiner.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-03-01
MONMOUTH HAS NO COM.
PLANT
BY Hugh R. Moffet

Editor the Daily Review.
Monmouth has no complaint to
make concerning the no-saloon policy
Continued on Page y
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
France Recognizes
Armenian Claims
Premier Clemenceau Indorses
National Aspirations of
Oppressed People

LONDON, Aug. 3.-In answer to a
letter from Nubar Pacha, head of the
Armenian delegation in Paris, Premie,
Ciemenceau has declared himself as
being in sympathy with the Armenian
claims of nationality. it is learned by
Reuters from well informed Ar
menlan source. The Premier had been
asked by Nubar Pacha to make a dec
iaratlon similar to that of A. ]. Bal
four, British Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, in the House of Com
mons recently. The letter Of the Pre-
mler is quoted as follows
France. the victim of most unjust
aggression, has entered among her de-
mands one for the liberation of 90
pressed nations. The traditional pro
tectress of these peoples, she has
again and again evinced her deep svm.
pathy with the Armenians and has
made every effort to 20 to their assist
ance.
"The spirit Of self-sacr;fce in tn.
Armenians and their loyalty to the
Allies in the Foreign Legion on the
Caucasian front and in the Eastern
theatre of war have drawn closer the
links which attach them to France. am
happy to assure you that the govern
ment Of this republic, like that of the
United Kingdom, has not ceased to in
clude the Armenian nation among the
peoples whose fate the Allies count on
determining aocordine to the supreme
laws OF humanity and justice"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Workmen in Austria
Dying of Starvation,
Gratz Without Meat and Po-
tatoes Three Weeks; Epi-
denies Raging

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.--Austrian
workmen dying of starvation, accord
ing to an official dispatch received here
to-day, recently sent delegates to a
convention in Vienna.
"All the delegates" continues the
dispatch, declared that in certain
provinces the population was dying of
hunger. The death rate was enormous
and epidemics were raging throughout
the country.
Delegate Wetenhoser said that at
Gratz for three weeks the people had
not received any potatoes or meat and
only half ration 6f bread Delegate
Pankaz, representing workmeri's organ
izations at Teplitz, said that children
from SIX to ten years old were COM
PEELED to work at night in the glass
factories to get money to buy food for
their parents. The mortality among
these children was enormous. Dele
gate Scnawel, from Moravia, said that
there was absolutely no coal to be had
for the coming winter.
"A delegate from Innsbruck declared
in threatening tone that because of the
helplessness of the government to
solve the food problems the workmen
themselves ought to find means to re-
lieve the pangs OF hunger"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Edward L. Travis and Two
Others Accused of Seeking
Ship Contingent Fees
Trail Leads to Board
Minor Official Said TO Be In.
volved; Draft Obstruc-
ton Also Charged

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.-Evidence
connecting at least one minor official Of
the Shipping Board with an alleged con.
splracy to obtain contracts from the
Shipping Board at extra high prices has
been gathered by government secret
agents, 1t became known to-day.
This was disclosed as result Of tho
arrest in Washington of Edward L.
Travis. former law partner of Repre-
sentative Kitchin, of North Carolina.
majority leader in the House, and man.
ager of Senator Overman's campaign
for election several years ago. and
Sellm B. Joseph and Leon M. Green.
The technical charge against the men
Is that of conspiring to obstruct IN.
draft by getting q job for Green which
would place him in deferred classifca-
ton. More generally. however. it is
charged that they, acting in connection
with government employees. promised to
get orders for between eighteen and
twenty-four ships at price of s1s5
ton, which is considerably higher than
most contracts provide, with view 70
dividing the bonus. Several govern.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Conboy Says u. S.
Will Face Shortage
Of Man Power Soon
Three Months To Be Re-
quired to Make New Reg
istrants Available

Although the new draft bill raising
and lowering the ages of men liable to
compulsory military service will make
available seventeen classes-counting
each year as separate class-.the
country will face a decided man power
shortage during the next three months.
1t will take three months, in the opin-
ion of Martin Conboy, director of the
draft for New York, to accomplish all
the tedious paper work incidental to
registration and classification OF the
new ne registrants., When New York
State, for example, furnishes the IA
600 to 10000 men for full military ser
vice to fill the August levies, Glass IA
will be depleted, even Of those young
sters who registered last June
The men in other sections of Glass
are not capable of giving full military
service. This exposes to service the
men in deferred classfcations, men
who have dependents or who were
granted exemption because their con-
tinuance in industrial life is of vital
Importance to the nations war work.
Deferred Classes Safe
eve do not expect to touch the de-
ferred classitications," Director Conboy
said" "Certainly we shan't do so until
we get very different instructions from
Washington, and we have not had any
lntmation as yet that Washington is
planning to call deferred classification
men.
"My best guess is that the seventeen
new classes will show registration OF
between 100000 and Is 100000 men.
Below twenty-one there will be high
average of Class IA material but it
must be remembered that large per-
centage of these will be found to have
joined the navy and Marine Corps. o.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

tne s me1 between thirty-one and forty
nSs, a large percentage will undoubt-
edly have Sependents. They will be
less qualified physically, taken as a
~hole, and mortality statistics show
mat men over thirt- ore d;.d faster
than those under twenty ,ne.
SO, on the whole, think q conserva-
Nv i've estimate of the country's regstra-
ton should be between 10000 900 and
io,oooO0O men, and of this total at
least le 100000 should be found fit for
Plan to Meet Shortage
10 meet the shortage that must exist
between now and the time when the
new men become available, Mr.. Conboy
suggested that 1t might be deemed ad-
VlsSble to use existing draft machinery
ana nave registration day once each
week TO take care OF the men who reach
their majority. There are about 6s..
ooo young men not in military service
VINO celebrate their twenty first birth
day each month.
Mr.. Conboy has caused to be mailed
to every local exemption board in the
state a copy of Provost Marshal Cen
erai Crowder's letter to Senator Cham
beriain in which the general declined
promotion to the rank of lieutenant
general. In an explanatory letter ac-
companying this MIR. Conboy requested d
that the letter bs displayed conspicu.
ously.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Huns Amazed, Soldier Says
Size Of u. S. Army in France
Astounds Prisoners

David Fielder, of 100 Rockaway Road,
Jamaica, Queens, the first soldier from
that community to return from the
war. said yesterday that the size of
the American expeditionary forces was
a never failing source Of amazement
to captured Germans. Fielder was in
valided home on account of she'll shockN
What puzzles the Germans more
than anything else" he said, "is how
our great army reached the other side.
Practically all the prisoners we
brought back from the front line
threw up their hands in amazement
as the size of our outfit dawned on
them. One of the German officers
rubbed his eyes when he got view
of our rear lines.
"'They told US that you Americans
had only 10000 men over here!' he
exclaimed. What liars they were!'"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

interference by their more powerful
and more civilized neighbors impera-
tive. do not doubt that this prin-
ciple is true in some cases, whether
or not it ought to be applied in these
Two particular cases. In any event
our continuing action in San Domingo
and Haiti makes it hypocritcal for
US to lay down any universal rules
ABOUT self determination for all ma
tions.
Our action also shows how utterly
1utlie II would be to try to treat
league t. enforce peace as subst-
.ute Tor training our own strength
for our own defence.
1gnoble Folly" of America
THE horse sense of the matter is
that all agreements to further the
cause OF sound internationalism must
be based on recognition of the fact
that as the world is actually consti-
tuted our present and prime need is
this sound and intense American na
tlonalism. The first essential of this
sound nationalism is that the nation
shall trust to its own fully prepared
strength for its own defence. So far
as possible. its strength must also be
used to secure justice for others. and
IT must never be used to wrong others.
But unless we possess and prepare the
streng,h we can neither help ourselves
nor others.
Next time we behave with the iq
noble folly we have shown during the
last tour years we may not find allies
to do what France and England and
italy have done for us. Thev have
protected us with their navies and
armies, their blood and their treasure.
while we first refused to do anything
and then slowly and reluctantly be-
gan to harden and make ready our
giant but soft and lazy strength.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Lieut.. Col. Sanderson
New York Officer Dies at
Camp Cody, New Mexico

News Of the death of Lieutenant
Colonel Mortimer Sanderson at Camp
Cody, Deming, N. NJ, was received yes
terday by his father. John r. Sander
son. 1872 st. Marks Avenue, Brooklyn.
Death was due to mastoditis.
Mr.. Sanderson served as dentist,
with the rank of lieutenant in the
Philippines and on the Mexican bor-
der When the dental and medical
services were consolidated at the out
break of the European war he was pro-
NOTED to lieutenant colonel He is
survived by a wife and three children,
living at Camp Cody A military ser
vice for the deed officer will be held in
New York on Wednesday by the local
branch Of the United States Medical
Corps,
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Loan Drive Plans Forming
Wilson Reported Contemplate
ing Trip to Coast

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.-Possibili-
ties of President Wilson visiting the
Pacific Coast during the Fourth Lib
erty Loan drive, which begins Septem-
Der 20 and ends October 10, have
strcnrtNcned into prob bilties.
1t became known some time ago that
plans were being made for the Presi-
oents particlpatlon in the next drive,
which will be a greater affair than anv
OF ITS predecessors, and probably viii
include speeches throughout the coun-
try by members Of the Cabinet and
members of Congress. Repres ntatives
from rNo- states hava wi ten the
White House inviting the Pre- sident to
VISIT their states
The plans are still too indefinite t,
be discussed, and it is desirable. anv-
wa. rot to discuss too far in advance
f''os' ms plans for speak
Ing throughout the country.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

m,ent employees are under suspicion Of
having agreed to be associated with th.
men. ~
The ship contracts, which never were
actually negotiated. were to have been
gwen to the Perth Amboy Dry Dock
company, of Perth Amboy, N. j., which
aided the government in running dowr,
the men after they were said to have
made proposals which seemed improper
20 the company officials.
Joseph, it Is charged. approached the
orydock company with the story that q
CLOSE friend of his in New York, who
ne SAID was nephew of a Cabine.
lnemner, was in position to get million.
Shipping Board at high prices.
The company notified secret agents.
who ASST gned Richard F. Mcdonald to
represent the Perth Amboy company in
an an effort to discover the mems game.
ne was said to have found that the
alleged Cabinet members nephew" wa =
Green.
1t was proposed, 1t was said, that
Joseph was to receive $3.50 ton on
each ship for which orders were oh.
tanned at prices above the average
while Green was to get SO cents a ton
and in addition a position with rhe
ssnipbullding company at q big salary.
lhls position would have made hj,.
practically exempt from the draft, it is
charged. ~ 30
100000 Fee Mentioned
Green referred the Perth Amboy COM
panys supposed representative 10
Travis in Washington, who was said ro
nave posed as having great influence
with the Shipping Board. He also men
toned his former connection with Rep
resentative Kitchin and Senator Over
man, it is charged
Several months ago, it was said, the
three men under arrest were involved
IN another effort to get ship contracts
on commission fee basis, but were un-
successful. For his latest efforts Travis
was to have received fee of 100000
it is charged.
Information leading to the arrest o,
the men was obtained originally by the
Navy Intelligence Department which
later was assisted by the Department
of Justice agents. Other shpbuilding
are being investigated.
In connection with activities of con-
tlngent fee agents it has been reported
for some time that secretaries of mem
bers of Congress acted as information
agents of the commission fee men. al
though as yet no evidence warranting
prosecution has been developed against
these secretaries.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Leonard Crey

Leonard Grey. an actor. who had
played in this country for thirty years,
died yesterday in Riverside Hospital.
he was born in England. Among the
plays in which he appeared were The
Happy Ending" Treasure Island"
The Rented Earl" and Evidence" He
also had played in motion picture pro-
ductions. At one time he was Isadora
Duncan's manager. Funeral services
will be held at II q. m. Tuesday in the
campbell Funeral Church, at Broadway
and Sixty-sixth Street.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
ST, 800 Found on Prisoner

A patrolman who arrested Morris
Modden as panhandler early yester-
day on Osborn Street. Brooklyn. no.
'ticed that his prisoners pockets were
bulging and extracted about dozen
separate rolls of bills, aygregatine
$500. Modden declared that he had
no home and was h,ld for invcstga-
ton in the New Jersey Avenue po;ice
court
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Red Cross Receives News
From Captured u. S. Airmer

GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug. g.
Communications have been received
here by the Red Cross from ten
American aviators who were taken
prisoner during recent aerial raids by
American squadrons on towns along
the Rhine River. All the aviators are
in excellent health. They have been
intcrncd at Baden and Rastatt The
names OF the pilots and the details of
their capture have been forwarded to
Waahington.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Michael A. Dunn

Michael A. Dunn. chief of the Ho-
boken Fire Department., died yester-
day at his homo, 230 Hudson Street,
in that city. He was hfty-six years
Old and was aroointed chief in 1905.
Before that he I'D been fire commits
sioner and assistant chief.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Mrs. Mary N. Sweetzer Buried

ORANGE, N. j., Aug. S.-FuneraI
services for Mrs. Mary Newman Sweet
Ter. widow of Charles H. Sweetzer,
founder of "The New York Mail" and
also Of "The Round Table" were held
this afternoon at her home. Is Ivanhoe
Terrace, East Orange. Mrs. Sweetzer
died Thursday night after long i'll
ness. She was prominent member of
the Woman's Club of Orange and had
lived in the Oranges forty wears
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
New War Course at Columbia

a course In organization and leader
ship Of recrcational and patriotic
activities for working girls will open
at Columbia University on September
II and continue until October II. II
will be given under The auspices Of
the National Council OF Defence and
with the cooperation Of the Nationa.
League of Women Workers.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Queens War Club Opened

The Richmond Hill Soldiers and
Sailors Club, formerly the home of
the Republican Club, was opened last
night by the Richmond Hill War Camp
Community Service Committee, Of
which james j. Munro is president
An entertainment WAS given by mem
bcrs Of the Stage Women's War Relief,
and there was dancing.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Obituary
Robert Thompson

BELFAST, Ireland, Aug. S.-Robert
Thompson, Unionst member Of Parlia-
nlent for the North Division Of Bel
fast, died here this morning.
Robert Thompson was born in 1888
at Ballylesson. He was chairman of
Lindsay. Thompson & Co., fax spin
ners and linen manufacturer. of Bel
fast, and was director or chairman
of several other concerns. He was
formerly president of the Belfast
Chamber of Commerce and was a mem
ber Of the advisory committee and Of
the conciliation board for the settle
ment of disputes of the Board Of
Trade. MIR. Thompson was made a
privy councillor in 1916 He was
elected to Parliament from North Bel
fast in January 1910