The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-02-06
SALOONS ARE CHIEF
InfRACT0RS OF ORDER
DIR. Garfield's Monday Closing Order
Generally Obcyed-Saloons Big
ges Exception.
MQUoRITEs RELUCTANT
Response Was Given Even yb tho
Booze Dispensers--UHeinn Sa-
ioonists Interpret Order.

| DIR. Garfield's Monday closing order
was compiled with by most people to
whom 1t applied, according to news
paper reports. In reading these re-
ports as they appeared in tho various
metropolitan newspapers 1t was a no.
table fact that invariably saloons were
specified as the places that kept open
in def1ances of the order. in most OF
the cities many of the saloons obeyed
| the law, but nevertheless 1t was booze
everywhere that offered the most OPP
position to qarfield's order. In Chica-
go forty to ffty-three violations were
by saloons.
! The Chicago Daily Tribune of Mon
day, January 81. headlines it's story on
the observance of the order as follows:
SALOONS DODGE FIRST OF
AND OFFICES CLOSE TO SAVE
FUEL
The following are excerpts from the
Tribune story:
MANY saloonkeepers disobeyed tho
spirit of the fuel administrations order
this morning, when, between midnight
and 2 o'clock. they proceeded to do
business at bars that were in some
cases as cold a Labrador. Bartend-
| eTSL wearing ONefCpaLS, sweaters anu
gloves, hustled about setting 'em up
for the chilled patrons, who also kept
bundled up while they were partaking
of the drinks the government had rul-
ed were not to be dispensed"
| NJ. }. Mccarthy, secretary of the
! Liquor Dealers Protective Associa-
ton OF Chicago. expressed regret that
he was not able to impress upon the
saioonkeepers that it is the feeling OF
-
should be sold at ALL
The Chicago Daily Jouranl of Mon
day. January FL says:
Evident attempt to back up the
government ut every turn. with the
single exception OF numerous saloon
keepers who pleaded an interpretation
Of the fuel order to suit themselves,
was the outstanding feature OF the first
of such days I'm the city's history"
| And, speaking Of saloonkeepers' in
Iterpreting the law to suit themselves,
1t is worth while noting that the Gin
cinnati Enquirer announced that the
saloons of that city would he open on
Monday because of the Interpretation
that the saloonkecpers had given Gar
fields order.
The report comes that perhaps so
per cent of the Cincinnati saloons
closed but in many instances the bar
llenueFs, GTISSed IN oNEfCpAiS anu Iiil~
tens, served drinks to shIvering pa
irons in heatless rooms
Very few cases of ATTEMPTED viola
tons on the part of saloonkeepers
iwere reported in 1ndianspoli Ind.
where the saioonkeepers had felt the
full weight of the local federal authori-
ties because on Tuesday evening pre-
ceding Mr.. Garneld's order County
Fuel Director Or. Jameson rad closed
- l..
ban until Saturday evening at s
o'clock. when he lifted it to give wa
TO Mr.. Garhelds order. Some few
swaloonkeepers did try to run the
: gauntlet and were brought up with a
sharp turn.
Milwaukee reports pretty general
observance of the order ON the part OF
the saloonkeepers, however of the
twenty eight persons in his beer city
who are charged by the police de-
partment with having violated the or
der of twenty-six OF them are saloon
keepers.
Different Then.
You should love your neighbor."
why ."
Because the Bible says So"
4 "Huh--there is lot Of differences
between those days and these When
that injunction was written your
neighbor didn't live in the fat above
and move furniture around while you
try to sleep or play the piano in an