The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-17
CALL TURN ON COLBY
EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM
ficiency is Disproved by North
west Shapyard Workers.
PRESENT ACTUAL FACTS.
Spokane and Seattle Newspapers Take
Issue With Him, Showing Actual
Record for Efficiency.

1t is interesting to know exactly
how those who live under the dry or
der in the northwest view the atti-
tude of cambridge Colby before the
senate committee when he boosted for
beer Washington Is prohibition
state. and hence a peerless state, and
the Spokesman Review of that state
has this to say regarding Beer for
Ship Builders"
ANY time that the demon rum to
say nothing of the modified demons
beer and light wine, can find in these
arid days a good argument or con-
tinued existence. the occasion Is worth
noting. There are not as many argu-
ments. even for the less potent bev-
erages, as there were a few years ago.
or even few months ago. Such ar
guments have suffered heavy casual
ties in the war. and they were not
any too numerous before the war.
so hope must revive. particularly
among the friends OF beer, when
cambridge Colby. a member of the
shipping board, explains to the sem
less beer is allowed to shipyard work
ers the output of shipping will be re-
duced 25 per cent.
There Is likely TO be some conten-
ton over this, and when the argu
ment gets started this part of the
country will take "A lively interest. be-
cause occasionally a ship is built in
the Pacific northwest. In fact, there
is a strong suspicion that quite a mum
Der of ships are being built out here.
one goes over the bulletins issued
from time to time by the emergency
fleet corporation. and finds that the
yards at Portland Tacoma and
Seattle, and at other points along the
Oregon and Washington shores. lead
of completing ships launched. speed
of completing ships, rivets driven
and few other items,
The natural inference Is that the
workers In these shtpyEds on the Pa
cafe must have loa% OF beer. II
beer means output the per capita con-
sumption Of what Ia sometimes called
the foaming amber brew in Seattle.
Tacoma and Portland must be rather
staggering in more senses than one.
But Washington and Oregon are dry
states. There k about as much bona
fide beer in those states as there are
snakes IN ireland. Oh. well, II la an
interesting argument. this one OF Mr.
Colhy's anyway"
while all that the Spokesman Re-
view has to say controverts the argu-
ments OF Mr.. Colby which arguments
by the way were printed as paid sd-
vertfsing by the liquor interests, the
Seattle Daily Times gives It's view In
an argument on Booze VS.. Efficiency"
Washington state. where prohibition
reigns and the record fer national ef-
fciency in shIphuiiding ia held has
prosted ny the abolition of rum. 1t
seems that the farther away people
are from Washington the more they
argue that Washington needs beer
especially those who are In the beer
game either by direct connection or
through politics or pull Here Is what
the Seattle Times has to say In meet
ing Mr.. Coihys arguments:
cambridge Colbys arg ume {;
against prohibition before senate
committee recalls similar arguments
advanced by the British liquor inter
ests at the time David Lloyd George
was striving to cut down the con-
sumption OF tntoxicants in the islands,
TT would he most unfair. af course,
to assune that Mr.. Colby ia the
fact remains that he echoed the fer
vent assertions Of the British manu-
facturers when he declared The work
In the shipyards Is very Rrduous. Men
are taxed to the utmost of their abN-
lily. II deprivation Of heer> would
impose great hardships and injustice
upon them
David Lloyd George persisted in his
plans in the face OF this earnest oppo-
sition He could not eliminate thu
manufacture and sale of booze. but
he cut down the consumption TO de-
gree that amazed and aggrieved the
vested interests turning out this COM
modify.
Ana the results were Just the or
posite to what the brewers had pre-
dtcted There was no visible hardship
imposed upon labor.
There was no concerted and passion
ate denunciation Of the new policy. To
the contrary. the workers recognized
the necessity for the governments &C
tion and sought In every way TO con-
form to the new regulations.