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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-08
Final Figures In
Webster Fund GiUes
WidOW OUer $500

The fund raised through The News
Scimitar for the benefit Of Mrs, O. r.
Webster, widow Of the deputy United
States marshal who was slain some
weeks ago after he had been taunted
into resentment by the bootleggers and
other law violators, Saturday reached
the sum Of $2,562.03
Webster was faithful official and an
honest officer, He left the police de-
partment after raiding Jim Kfhnane's
place without instructions from Com
missioner Quinn and securing a large
quantity Of liquor
He resented every attempt to bribe
him and refused to be intimldated by
the element that apparently operated
with police protection. Following is the
amount collected, including checks and
cash, and held for Mrs. Webster;
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-08
FEDERAL DRY LAW
UPHELD BY OHIOANS

COLUMBUS, O., Nov S,--Ohlo voters
sustained the action OF the Legislature
in ratfyng federal prohibition by a
majority Of l0i votes at last Tuesdays
election, according TO complete unofn-
cial returns received this morning at
the office of the secretary of state.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-08
COMMUNISTS ARE NOT
TO HAVE ATTORNEYS

BUDAPEST, Nov. S.--The Hungarian
chamber OF advocates has passed res
olution forbidding any lawyer to defend
persons charged with participation in
communist activities.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-08
AMBASSADOR M'MILLIN
TO VISIT IN NASHVILLE

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Nov, s. tSpll -
Former Governor and Mrs. Renton Nc
Millin willNarrive in Nashville Monday
for months visit in Tennessee before
sailing from New orleans for Guate-
mala, Mr. McMillin's new post, on Dec.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-08
Entire \
Starting 81

OpeFhIIOn OF INH TUNuNa lI.I VT
"l Zen together these aefldAvits
show said Mr.. Anes, that the gov
ernment is operating the road now at
n loss which will increase with diminu-
tlon OF supplies for operation"
Counsel for the defense tried n OBJ
ject 10 the reading, but Judge Ander-
son halted them.
"These are equity proceedings and
am going TO let the evidence IN" said
the court.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-08
FORTY ARRESTED BY
RAIDERS AT AKRON

AKRON, o., Nov. S.--Department Of
justice operatives arrested 40 men here
early today in raids on alleged radical
and l. w. w. headquarters,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-08
MORE THAN $50 ARE
HELD AFTER RAIDS

received severe beatinRs. Several truck
loads of radical literature were found
in the building.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-08
PRINCETON LEADS

PRINCETON. Nov. S-Scorc, end
second period; Princeton Z Harvard ..
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-08
Ample Proof of Fraud.

Members Of the Citizens league were
on duty at ever polling place. and al
though they were forced to remain on
the outside, Witnessed many violations
Of the election laws which they stand
ready to present to the grand Jury.
Bolton Smith, president of the Citi-
zens league, will call the officers and
the Is members of the executive COM
mittee to meet Monday for the pur-
pose of taking any action that may be
necessary to assure the law enforcing
officers Of the county that the full force
of the league will stand behind them
In every movement for the enforcement
of the laws and the punishment of any
man who may be proved guilty Of cleo
tion frauds.
The Citizens league is permanent
tee is an entirely separate body from
the campaign committee which managed
the campaign so efficiently.
The Law Enforcement league, an en-
tirely separate organization, of which
d. B. Fargason Is president, Is also
ready to assist the law enforcing Off
GERS in any way in seeing to 1t that the
law violators, whoever they may be,
are indicted, prosecuted and If found
guilty, punished as the law directs
This organization was formed more than
six months ago, and has worked quietly
with the law enforcing authorities In
furnishing proof of various violations Of
the law.
Sentiment With Them.
The Chamber of Commerce has a spe-
cial law enforcement committee, with
Col Roane Waring at its head. 1t was
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-08
BOTH LABOR AND
CAPITAL BLAMED
. BY YSOL0NPROBERS
Steel Strike lnvestigatin
Commute. Presents AaaoI
Covering Wide s
Present Conflict.
ALL STRIKES ARE C
INDUSTRIAL Barb
Main Conclusion Is Pub
Right tp Demand p
Settlement Between
tiOnS. jus
Steel Strike Investigating

Just beautiful"
i herself" But
/ Dicky Norton
i$after she had
ssAlf into his Sc
rep. re pswnbroker
sihlipl creature is
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-08
Weather Forecast

Cloudy, with local
rains probable; sta
tionary temperature.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-08
COURT SAYS UNION
MUST RECALL IT'S
WALKOUT ORDERS

Mine Workers of
, order under whirk
ISSUED by Judge Al.
after a henl Ing in
lco TO present argu-
! issue the cancella-
adants were absent,
summoned BY tele-
Asncellation order.
d Secretary Green,
ial they could not
through their at
Hruin, asked at tha
lifted states district
he pr0oe asiImgs be
Hor ten DAYS n the
= the strike might
arnment. trrOugh
attorney rfA <rnl.
c. Il thereupou ls
Ok We the in3une al
on was that IN
Il 20 admit delTi.l y
Il agreed that M
ion for iiEsolutlag
tder the court nlialkl
festioR OF iss6inG. .aiS
tyed In the petition
Z the government.
cred affidayits from II,
Marion Underwood. OF
niniatration AT Wash
minishing coal supplies
g financial returns
II Of the roads. M
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-08
Sentiment With Them.

The Chamber OF Commerce has a spe-
cial law enforcement committee, with
Col Roane Waring at its head. It was
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-05-09
THE OLD 0AKEN BUCKET
DIPS In BREW NO MORE
Chicago Tribune)

Chicago Tribune)
The battered tin growler is now
memory. Those which survived the
increase of "a beer" to a dime were
heaved into the river and garbage cans
yesterday when Chicago's breweries
shut down the machinery that has
gushed forth the amber fluid for
many, many years.
When the domestic variety of the
tin growler, which might be granite
ware pitcher, a crock, or even a china
bowl, made its exit, there still lived
the old tin pail with a broken bail.
Up on the river, where the sweet odor
of malt and hops sweeps out over the
lumber and coal yards, relics OF the
one-tiine sport of "rushin' thu can"
could be found. 1t was a popular
utensil apd conyeyor in. places l4kere
horny-handed sons OF tail gathered at
noon to partakc OF refreshments.
But no more. Yesterday when the
boys carried their trusty receptacles
to the nearby brewery spigot, there
was no frost on the pipes overhead
and no gurgle OF brew to play its mer-
ry tune on the bottom of the growler
Yesterday the Chicago breweries,
acting upon the national command of
Uncle Sam, turned their attention to
distilling-alcohol, not whisky--pend-
ing the outcome OF the fight in Wash
ington for the permission to manufac-
ture 2A per cent beer. Some of them
turned to pop and near beer.
May was set as the last day upon
which real beer could be made-and it
was. There was plenty of govern
ment agents on hand to see to that
So the boys who labor in the shad-
ow of the breweries up Goose Island
way and elsewhere, threw away their
GROWERS. The alcohol being made is
the sort they use in hair tonic and
lamps and sell with the cross-bones
and skull on the bottle.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-05-09
Lutherans Favor
Prohibition and Urge
Active Support Of the
Anti-Saloon League

The Illinois Conference OF the
Evangelical Lutheran Augustana
Synod, comprising Illinois and parts
of Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin,
in an annual convention assembled in
t he Ebenezcr Swedish Lutheran
Church, Chicago, April p to 81, unan-
imously passed resolution, of which
the following is a part:
1--WE express our great gratitude
that through national Prohibition the
legalized liquor traffic will be exter-
minated from the United States of
America forever. Thus the greatest
enemy of the church and all that the
church stands for will be removed
from American life, making is pos
sible for the forces of righteousness
to work more effectively for the well
fare of mankind.
1--WE desire to express cur apprecia-
ton to the members of the Illinois
State Legislature who vo.ed to make
Illinois one of the IS states needed
to ratify the national constitutional
amendment.
We also express our gratitude to
the United States Congress which
submitted the National Prohibition
Amendment.
1--WE realize that Prohibition law
must be enforced to make it effective
and therefore earnestly urge the
present Legislature OF Illinois to pass
the law enforcement measures recon-
mended by the Anti-Saloon League.
1--WE realize that our duties as
Christian men and women extend not
merely to others in our own land, but
to other peoples throughout the
earth. We, therefore, endorse the
program of the Anti-Saloon League
to assist in winning Prohibition
throughout the world.
1--WE wish to emphasize that the
best way to promote the cause of
world wide Prohibition is to make
Prohibition in America so successful
that our example will be followed by
other nations.
"As the Anti-Saloon League meth
DDS have been proven by experience
the most effective way of combating
the liquor traffic and as this organ
ization has been proven itself worthy
of our confidence, and as this organ
ization represents the best means of
promoting the Prohibition cause,
we urge our pastors and members to
cooperate to the fullest possible ex-
tent in all campaigns of the Anti
Saloon League.
"(Signed) Geo. A. Fahlund, Andrew
P. Westerberg, Peter Peterson, c. A.
Lindvall"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-05-09
YOUNGSTOWN BREWERY
NOW PACKING HOUSE
Will Employ Between Fifty and One
Hundred Men

A company of Johnstown (Pa.) cit
liens headed by Clarence L. Fergu-
son, for over twenty years in charge
of the Armour & Co. plant in Johns
town, have organized the Ferguson
Packing Co., capital $250,000. and
have bought the plant of the Ger
mania Brewing Co. in that city. This
concern will give employment to be-
tween fifty and one hundred men.
They will slaughter and prepare meat
for the market and in a short time
expect to go into canning and the
preparation of food products on an
extensive scale.
1t is said that the men back of this
movement are some of the leading
Christian men of the community and
that the new enterprise located in the
populous foreign district will un-
doubtedly be great object lesson to
these people accustomed to the old
brewery scenery, of what legitimate
American industry is.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-05-09
CHAMPAGNE FOR THE
HOUSE OF COMMONS
Wine Supply Cut Off to Dinner Par
ties in Strangers Room of Over
Ten

The following news item is from
the Alliance Press Agency, London:
The Daily News. of March Is in
Under the Cloc. column says: "A
very remarkable whip has been is
sued. The House of Commons kitch-
en- committee have passed resolu-
ton that the Commons champagne
shall not be supplied in any strangers
room to dinner parties of over TO-
Members may purchase from stock
specially provided for that purpose
(Which sounds ominous) or they may
provide their own champagne at a
corkage charge of Is per quart bottle
or Is per pint bottle. 1t is true that
there is real shortage of champagne
Il heard the other day that a great
quantity buried for safety during the
war had been lost, the place being
no longer identihable owing to she'll
FREE. But ! believe the causes of this
particular shortage are more local.
have been informed that in two
weeks more champagne has been con-
sumed in the House of Commons
than the ordinary supply for half the
session. l have heard Of one dinner
at which Is people are said to have
consumed 1o bottles"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-05-09
.Ex.sOLDIER SHOT BY BARTENDER
Columbus, O., Scene of Pitiful
Tragedy
Soldier Expected to Die From
- Wounds
Both Had Been Drinking Say
Police

Lorenzo Gordon, aged 81, maya
zine solicitor and discharged soldier,
is expected to die at St. Francis Hos
pital, Columbus, Ohio, from a bullet
wound in the neck. His assailant, a
Columbus bartender, is being de-
tanned by the police. 1t is said that
both he and the bartender were in
toxicated. Gordon's jugular vein
had been nicked by the bullet.
The officers went to the home and
found the wife, cripple, and four
children, the oldest aged about FIVE,
and the youngest, babe in the
mothers arms. The family is i'll dcs-
titute circumstances, the police say,
although Gordon was said to have
earned about twenty dollars daily.
He was discharged from military
service in January.
Here is case where the soldier
escaped the Hun bullet to be laid
low by the product of the liquor in
tcrests, which interests claim the SOL
der boys allies. These interests are
sending up a terrific howl for COM
pensation because they will have to
close their places of business May
81, in the state of Ohio in accordance
with the verdict of the people. Will
the saloon keeper who sold Gordon
the booze compensate this wife and
these children left without support
because of booze?
Cry for compensation comes with
ill grace from this fraternity.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-05-09

in any event, we are now commit
ted to the amendment, and constitu-
tional law is made for one purpose
only--to be obeyed in the letter and
the spirit. Its enforcement will cre-
ate some difficulty, but you have to
put over against these the tremendous
increase in efficiency and the decrease
of idleness, disease and crime. The
saloon we know, and few there are
who support it. Drastic Prohibition
upon a national scale we do not know.
But the majority of these who have
tried it out in limited areas, and
against the obstacles of contiguous
wet states, are in favor of it,"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-05-09
GOD BLESSED THE
BABIES

National Prohibition will be
great thing for babies of
America. Babies born after
July | will come into different
sort of a world than those who
came before. When they ar
rive, whether their birthplace be
a humble cottage or costly
mansion, the law of the land
will protect them against one
OF their worst enemies OF child
hood. By the time they are old
enough to toddle about and ex-
plore for themselves the mys-
teries of this world, the illegal
liquor traffic will be nearing ex-
tinction. For thousands of in
nocent, helpless babies national
Prohibition will mean better
homes, better training, better
education and better lives.
Truly God blessed the babies
when national Prohibition be-
came law.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-05-09

Crime has decreased in Norwich,
N. Y, under the no licnsc regime.
The number of indictments has been
reduced more than so percent. From
October |, 1917, to April I, 1918,
while the city was wet, there were
81 convictions for crime in the police
court, 44 of these being for intoxi-
cation. During the corresponding
period under the dry administration
from October 1, 1918, to April 1,
1919, there were only Is convictions
of which seven were for intoxication.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-05-09

Regi Martin of Washington in
attempting to lose motorcycle
policeman speeded his car up to 65
miles an hour and was apparently
getting the better OF the race when
his car capsized while taking sharp
turn in the road. The car was
heavily laden with whisky. Martin
was taken from the wreckage with
no other injury than twisted leg.
He is said to have admitted purchas-
ing ten cases of liquor in Elicott
City, Nd, and FIVE cases were found
intact in the wreck, besmattered
with re remainder. He declares that
ne was hauling the liquor for
another man.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-05-09
THE OATH OF CITIZEN
SHIP
(From U. S. Statutes, 1907, Act
June 20, 1900

He shall, before he is admit
ted to citizenship, declare on
oath in open court that he will
support the constitution of the
United States, and that he abso-
lutely and entirely renounces
and abjures all allegiance and
fidelity to any foreign prince,
potentate, state or sovereignty
OF which he was before a citi-
zen pr subject; that he will sup
port and defend the constitu-
ton and laws of the United
States against all enemies, for
eign and domestic, and bear
true faith and allegiance to the
same.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-05-09

The Ohio State Journal says that
most saloon keepers of Columbus
who hold the leases on the sore
rooms occupied by their saloons,
plan retaining the leases and enter
ing other business. However, more
than two-t1lirds of the saloon leases
in Columbus are held by breweries
and wherever possible the brewing
companies are cancelling the leases.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-05-09
MICHIGAN DRY MAJOR
ITY 2O7,o36

Figures announced by the
secretary of states Office show
that the wet beer and wine"
amendment voted on in Michi-
gan on April was defeated
by a majority of 207,936.
This is an increase of $780,
312 dry votes since 1916, when
Michigan went dry by 68,624
majority. Michigan's vote
does not substantiate the
claims of the vets that there
has been a reaction against
prohibition or that the people
favor beer and wine.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-05-09
William Howard Taft
on Personal Liberty
Ex-President Writes in Favor of Law
Enforcement Measures

Is Prohibition blow at persona.
liberty? The above question is dis
cussed by former President William
Howard Taft in the May number OF
the Ladies Home Journal Mr.. Taft
was opposed to national Prohibition
and gives his reasons for his former
attitude. But although Mr.. Taft OPP
posed national Prohibition, he favors
enforcement of the law now that it
has become part of the constitution.
In his article the only living ex-
president submits the personal liberty
arguments to the test OF law and logic
and shows that there is absolutely
nothing to justify opposition to Pro-
hibtion on the ground that it inter-
fcres with the citizens personal lib
artV
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-05-09
BRITISHER EXPLAINS WHY"
OF u. S. PROHIBITION
This Foreign Booze Connoisseur
Opines American Prohibition is Di-
rectly Due to Poor Quality of
American Liquors

An eminent British whisky drinker.
according to Herbert Corey in spe-
cial article in the Kansas City Star,
is credited with saying that if Amer
lean whisky had been good whisky
and American beer good beer there
would be no Prohibition in the United
States on July l. He says that if
we had gone little further and ar
rested some of the brewers and dis
tillers, and above all, the "rectihers,"
on a charge of attempting to poison
the world, we would have been justi-
fed.
Well, that is sure rubbing it in
some. But isn't our English friend
a little rough in kicking poor old
John Barleycorn when he is DOWN.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-05-09

According to the Chicago Labor
News of April rs beer bottlers re-
ported that they had asked their In
ternational for permission to go on
strike July 4 in behalf of Thomas
Mooney.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-05-09
LITTLE RIPPLES ON THE
DRY WAVE

Arrests for drunkenness in the
eight largest cities of the State of
New Hampshire during the past
year as compared with the year be-
ginning May l, 1917, during which
saloons operated have been as fol-
lows:
Under License against Prohibition
1908 and for Prohibition 1925
Nearly every building in Lincoln,
Illinois made vacant by saloon clos
ing year ago has been rcoccupled
by other lines OF business.
Soft drink manufacturers say there
is nothing in the story that scfr
drinks can be made hard by the adj
dition of raisin.
AT beverage exposition to BIZ
held in Chicago next fall the public
will be permitted to experiment witt,
raisins, yeast and other alleged fer
menting sub distances and satisfy
themselves tha. these rumors arc un-
founded" said an Official of the ex-
position recently.
prohibition has so greatly de-
creased criminal offenses as to make
the Office of sheriff no longer pro-
ftable or self-sustaining," asserted
Sheriff Penwell of Macon County
before the senate judiciary committee
recently.
AT a hearing in Washington on
military justice, General Wood said
that when liquor was accessible Of
fcers often were at fault.
"Officers who have been drink
ing" he said, "irritated their men
to such an extent as to provoke ac-
tons subjecting the latter to dis
cipline."
1--WE want this matter thrown into
the courts and are taking this way
of bringing it there" said Mr..
Mayer. Mr.. Mayer is attorney for
the liquor interests and he was talk
ing about Chicago brewers making
2H per cent beer. Certainly the law
yers want the matter in the courts.
Many Americans in Russia have
become alcoholics as the result of
imbibing too freely of vodka, ac-
cording to Sergeant Louis Karel OF
Chicago, who served in hospitals to
which soldiers from Russia were
taken in England and France.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-05-09
When the Roll Is Called at Springfield

The day which the Prohibition law enforcement bills
in the House Representatives will be the important
the Prohibition history of Illinois See to it that and
by the floor of the House