davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16
Stakeholder Sues
To Keep Brewery
Going After July I

The opening gun in the fight on ma
tional prohibition in this state was
fired yesterday when Joseph E. Ever
ard, through his attorneys, Guthrie
Bangs & Van Sinderen, filed in the
United States District Court a suit to
enjoin the James Everard's Breweries
of which he is a stakeholder, from dis
continuing the manufacture and sale
of beer after July 1.
The suit does not attack the validity
Of the prohibition amendment, but is
directed at the emergency prohibition
clause Of the Agricultural Appropria-
ton bill. It's success would postpone
enforcement of national prohibition
in January, 1920, leaving the matter
of the validity of that amendment to
be contested in other suits.
The complaint was drawn with Elihu
Root as chief counsel. 1t attacks the
constitutionality Of the prohibition
clause of the Agricultural bill, and
also the regulations of the Internal
Revenue Department restricting the
manufacture of "near beer" prior to
May J. to products not exceeding 2%
per cent in alcoholic content, as we'll
as the provision limiting the alcoholic
content of all brewed beverages after
May 1 to one-half of 1 per cent.
The bill alleges that when President
Wilson proclaimed the armistice there
ceased to be an emergency calling for
prohibition of use of grains or other
food products in the manufacture Of
beer or wine, or for forbidding the
sale of such products.
1t is contended that beer containing
2A per cent of alcohol is not intoxi-
eating and that the Internal Revenue
Department has no authority, under
the act of Congress, to limit the alco-
hol content of malt liquors after May
l. to one-half of l per cent.
is resident of Plainfeld, N. j., and
is minority stakeholder in the Ever
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16
Thus far shalt thou go, and no fur


"Then the red wrath of revolution
ilamed from Plymouth Rock to the
Carohnas' and the embattled farmers
OF lexington fired the shot that was
heard round the world. So the Asso-
citation Opposed to National Prohibi-
ton believes that, if a handful of per
sons, in population of 100,OO0,000,
thoroughly organized, skilfully man
aged and most literally supported. can
so amend the Constitution of the
united States as to take away the
natural and inherent right of free men
TO determine what they shall drink,
there is nothing to prevent some
otner handful Of persons, by similar
methods, bringing about an amend
ment to the Constitution to take away
the natural and inherent right of free
men to determine what they shall
smoke or what they shall wear
:. IF this seems far-fetched reasoning,
IL IS only necessary to remind any
one who questions it that, if some
one, twenty-five years ago, had as
serted that, by Constitutional amend
mlent, the manufacture and sale, the
Importation to, and the expectation
from the United States of so-called in
toXlcating liquors would be prohibited,
that person would have been written
down as harmless ass. Yet that
very thing has happened since the
i birth of the Anti-Saloon League.
IL some one were to say to-day that,
within twenty-five years, the manu-
facture and sale of cigarettes would
be prohibited by Constitutional amend
ment IN this country, the statement
would be regarded as equally absurd.
Yet, in the legislatures of three states
there are pending bills prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of cigarettes
within the limits of those states. and
in the legislature of another state
there has been introduced a bill pro-
vlding for levying prohibitive tax on
cigarette tobacco and the paper in
which cigarettes are rolled.
"The association proposes to see that
the rights and liberties won by the
founders of this Republic shall be pre-
served to their posterity 1t does not
propose to browbeat or intimidate, for
any member of the national Congress,
or any member of any state legisla-
ture, and it intends to see that neither
the anti-saloon league nor any other
prohibition organization browbeats or
intimidates any lawmaker anywhere
in this Union"
The association already has arranged
to organize state branches in twenty
nine states in the East, Middle West,
Northwest and Far East. No official
connected with the organization has
any interest in the liquor business,
and nobody connected with the state
branch organizations will have inter
ests in that business.
The association has received nearly
100000 application for membership.
The membership fee has been fixed as
81 and the annual dues 81, but the as
ISOLATION will receive no contributions
until its certificate of incorporation
has been filed in Albany.
Two of the associations plans al
ready have been completed. One OF
shosc contemplates mass meetings. and
parades in forty-three principal cities
of the United States on April 10. An
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16
Vets Open
Amendment
Fight Apr.l9
hibitions will meet any pertinent pro-
hlbition issue that may be raised
ee'Iha
Continued from page 1

hibitions will meet any pertinent pro-
hlbition issue that may be raised.
The association therefore is as
strongly opposed to any bill introduced
in the Congress of the United States
or in the legislatures of the several
states, providing for the sale of light
wine and beer and excluding the sale
OF all other alleged intoxicating bever-
ages, as it is opposed to any bill pro-
vldlng FOR sale of whiskey and other
so-called hard liquors and excluding
the sale of light wines and beers. It
IS as strongly opposed to prohibition
by constitutional amendment, Of the
manufacture and sale of cigarettes or
opposed to prohibition, by Constitu-
tlonaI amendment of the manufacture
and sale of so-called intoxicating bey-
erages.
THE association insists the personal
rights and liberties hitherto insured
ana ssafeguarded by the Constitution of
the United States must and shall be
preserved. 1t has no quarrel with the
people of any state or any territory or
dependency of the United States who
nave the opportunity, by popular vote.
at any election legally called for the
purpose, to decide for themselves
""eInei thelI SCate, territory or de-
tendency shall be bone dry, and who
by majority vote so declare. The
question of national prohibition has
never been put up to vote Of the
people of this Union, and until it is
not even the omnipotent wisdom of the
Antl-Saloon League can say what the
will of the people of this nation is on
this question. On such q platform any
prohibitionist who loves his country
more than he loves fanaticism can
stand.
GAS matter of fact, the people have
only recently realized the menace
which threatens to take away one of
the rights hitherto guaranteed by the
Constitution. This attempt to take
away one of the liberties that are in
herent in the citizenship of a free re-
public is only matter of history re-
peating itself. That which brought
about the American Revolution, the
establishment of this Republic and the
adoption of the Constitution of the
United States was the encroachment,
little by little, by Great Britain upon
the rights enjoyed by the American
colonists. One after another the Brit
ish government promulgated the Stamp
Act, the Writs of Assistance and the
tax on tea. Finally the colonists. real
izing there was no limit to the length
to which the British Grown might go in
cur ailing the rights of free men, said
to George III and his government:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16
Pershing Reuie,us Veterans
Where Kaiser Sa1U C00sestep
American Commander Gives War Medals to He
roes of Second Divi sion at Coblenz; ssWhen
Do We Go Home?'' Is Query of Doughboys

+, charger and galloped off to another
portion of the field, where, surround
ed by his staff, he viewed the thou.
sands of men marching by, every head
erect, every rifle at precise angle.
AS far as the eye could reach almost
there swung columns of marching men.
In the towns and villages of the
bridgehead there is nothing extraordi-
nary about these men. They are mere
ly American troops in Germany, but
put them together in an ordered mass
as they were to-day and it is SYM
bolic of America. Their youthful faces,
the swing of their shoulders, their
firm step make onlookers proud of their
country. The flags preceding each reg
iment in the review thrill
After the infantry came the artil-
lery, sleek Missouri mules by skies
drawing the lighter guns, powerful
tractors dragging the heavies.
Almost on the very spot where Cen
eral Pershing sat on his horse to-day
the ex-Kaiser three times during the
last ten years watched his Prussian
goosesteppers parade, and then ad-
dressed officers and men enthusiastically
regarding the might of the Fatherland.
few kilometres from the same parade
Old Glory now floats over the fortress
of Ehrenbreitstein. American sausage
balloons lowered aloft, American flags
floating from their cables, while Amer
lean aeroplanes hummed high and low
and American excursion boats ploughed
the Rhine, hundreds ,of feet below the
great plateau, carrying American
troops on holiday.
There we're dozens of other things
homogeneous with the ex-Kaiser's proud
predictions, but the great incongruity
was the rumble Of American soldier
feet and guns on grounds formerly died.
icated to the Prussian military goose
step.
Nothing more impressive could be
staged anywhere in the world.
Following the review General Per-
shing addressed the officers and non
commissioned officers, praising the high
moral standard maintained not only by
this division but the entire American
army under more than ordinary temp
tations.
Looks Into Future
General Pershing also referred to
the new political status American SOL
diers would enjoy upon their return to
the United States, suggesting that
every man who had so valiantly car
ried out the trust reposed in him by
the people of America and who will
carry victory home will be regarded
hereafter by civilians as leaders. He
urged that every man remain faithful,
to be as faithful to that trust as he was
to the trust of the nation on the battle
field.
The general spoke with especial fer
vor to the division that came to France
under his command. He told the men
that the peace now being dictated
would not have been possible except for
the bravery, virility and energy dis
played by American troops at the criti-
cal juncture.
Before the commander left the field
the entire division gave him a series of
rousing cheers, interspersed with cries
of when do we go home?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16
Shooting Called Accidental
Sailor Says Indian Did Not
Know Revolver Was Loaded

Ernest Dawson, navy yeoman, told
the District Attorney in Brooklyn yes
terday that Mrs. Frank Cody, whose
husband, Cherokee half-breed, is &C.
cused of having murdered her. was
accidentally killed. Dawson said he saw
the shooting, and that it was done with
his revolver.
He said his weapon was in a suit
case he had taken to the Cody house at
% Debevoise Street. Cody saw it, and
playfully told his wife that if it were
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16
By Wilbur Forrest
Net0 York Tribune
Special Cable Service


Special Cable Service
,rnovrtsh,. 1919. New York Tribune Ina)
COBLENZ, March 14.-To the strains
If martial music from q band of $50
IN the great parade ground overlook
;nO the Rhine where formerly the
Kaiser often watched his legions do
the roosestep, the famous American
% Division marched in review to-day
before General Pershing. Astride a
magnificent white charger and sur
rounded by aids and generals the COM
mander in chief saw a typical picture
OF American military strength-acres
upon acres of moving platoons, their
polished bayonets glinting against a
dull sky. The soldiers of land and
sea--regulsrs and marines-gave the
general admittedly one of the best re-
views he has ever witnessed.
During the next five days approx
mstely 10000 men will be reviewed
by General Pershing, all of them vet
Grams. Seven divisions are competing
to give the commander the best show,
and judging from the exhibition of
military smartness given by General
Lejeune's amphibious I'd Division to-
day, the others have gigantic task to
win the laurels.
Parade Before Leaders
Before o'clock this morning about
$4,000 troops had gathered on the
great parade ground, the infantry
standing stiffly at attention, the ar
tillery with mules or tractors attached
to the guns and caissons, and other
units shined and polished, stood like
sculptured phalanxes, while General
Pershing, with General Hines, COM
handing the Sd Corps; General Lee
jeune, of the I'd Division, and General
Dickman,, of the Sd Division, walked
miles and miles up and down the close
ordered columns.
Then nearly a hundred heroes-of-
fcers and men-were assembled in the
middle of the field, and General Per-
shing presented the long overdue med
ais for valor displayed in battles from
Belleau Woods to the Mouse. That
medal presentation, heretofore impos-
sible, was a prelude to General PERISH
ing's address, in which he told of the
honor he felt to be able to decorate
"men who have made the American
army what IL ia -
He was still astride his white horse
when the citations we're read, but he
descended to pin medals upon the
breasts Of the men. General Leieune.
f1rst made Commander of the Legion
OF Honor, received the Distinguished
Service Medal Of the United States.
General W. c. Leville, commanding
the marines, next received the Dis
tingufahed Service Medal. Then other
officers and men grasped the hand of
the commander in chief after he had
ipvasted them with tokens of honor.
! aaw tears spring into the eyes of
men as they received the medals for
which they had waited so long. Men
guilty of the utmost dare deviltry on
the field Of battle became as shy as
girls as General Pershing addressed
them as gallant men of a gallant d.
vision"
Then the commander mounted his
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16
Chinese Change Headquarters

The China Society of America, which
was organized in 1911 to establish
closer relations between America and
the people of the Celestial Republic.
has opened new headquarters at sos
Fifth Avenue. From here it will carry
on campaign to acquaint the people
Of the United States with conditions in
China and with the justice of her
claims at the peace table.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16
lndiuidualized Types in
COUNTRY CLOTHES
SPORTS & RIDING TOCS

The pre-eminence of Bonwit Teller & Co.
country clothes is established by the fact that
they are studously regarded in every detail
for their harmonious relation to country life.
Featured are capes and coats of Worumbo
natural color camel's hair, tweed coats, hand
woven homespuns and tweed suits, leather
fashions. wool knit capes and coats, novelties.
And riding toys that are designed in accord
with the accepted English standards.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16

other, national convention of the
organization, some time between June
and June Is.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16

loaded he would shoot her. Before
Dawson could warn Cody the weapon
was discharged and Mrs Cody, a white
woman, fell dead, he said.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-05-20
ADOPT
!. NJ. c. A. METHODS

T,aris, May 1G.-Sixtv-nine Chir7se
Y. NJ. c. A. secretaries have been 70
impressed with the work of the as
Sociatien among tho armies of The AL
lies that at q conference recently held
at Versailles. they decided that SINH
lar methods should he adopted in
China. Tho use OF huts hike those
used so effectively in ,,he army camps
VIII bring the work Of the ~" in
China directly 10 all the people.
Chinese coolies by the hundreds OF
thousand were used in the labor
units in rance and these men for
the first titua came into contact with
the work of the association. Native
secretaries wei" provided as far as
possible.
Some Of these. il was decided at
the conference. will remain in France
and some will co 10 Great Britain TO
study in the schools of practical arts.
There wore thirteen students. as
many preachers, half a dozen teach
ers, q cowtester and a hoy scout
secretary among t7r professions rep
resented at the conference The men
cane from widely separated parts of
the republic, Manchuria. Shaning,
.Toukien, S~zeeherin. Chi LII. Tukien.
C~heckieng. E%avahnin kiangson.
Shansi. Auhnler and Hupeth.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-05-20
HOUSING CAUSE
OF LABOR TURNOVER

Every now and Their interesting bits
of evidence comes TO the United States
home registration service, bureau of
of industrial housing and transporta-
ton. regarding the relation OF housing
conditions to the labor In
a southern city. in which a room and
house survey had been made. n par
ticuiar block was selected as typical
Of the conditions under which work
men were living. and this particular
block was canvaSsed on Monday and
then recanvassed on Friday of the
same week. The Monday canvass re-
vealed a total Of 100 men rooming in
the houses of the block. They were
living under ~congested conditions and
sleeping in shifts. ON Friday OF tho
same week II vas found that rs mon
were sleeping in the same actommo-
dations. but that only thirty OF the
original TOO were still rooming In the
block. The majority of the others
could rot be Tocatad. and 3nrestiga-
tion revealed that they had left the
city inasmuch as tho Workmen were
employed at good wage and under
fairly comfortable factory COM
ditions, the manager of the canvas
and those cofversart with the situa-
ttion concluded tina the large turn
over was due TO nothing so much as
TO unsatisfactory housing conditions.
W~ide-awake business men are every
where realizing that one of the
greatest losses sustained by them re-
suits from tho shift in their labor
force. Cities. moreover, are realizing
that the rapid migration ~ workers
from plant to rlan NJ and from locality
IN locality represents not merely a
serious economic loss but an obstacle
10 good citizenship and 10 the com
munifS welfare. For this reason such
organizations as the United States
home registration service and eftcc-
ltixe
constantly coming to receive Il more
hearty support.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-05-20
MUST REDOuBLt
RELIEF EFFORTS
Food Situation in Eastern Europe
Grows worSe-Jews To increase
Gifts.

New York, May 1a--Despite the
great misery of their own condition.
Jews of Warsaw have raised large
sums for the relief OF their even less
fortunate co-religionists who have
suffered severely from pogroms in
Lemberg, Pinsk and elsewhere IN
Eastern Europe
This information was contained IN a
cable made public today by the
American Jewish Relief Committee for
Sufferers from the war. The message
was sent from Paris by Jacob Biili~
kopf. former director of the commit
tee, who is now engaged with an nm
rortant relief commission broad
According to Mr. Rillikopf, social
and economic ~dislocatious in the u
tries 10 the cast OF Germany are SO
dire thai vast numbers OF people are
daily facing death from starvation
and disease. These populations nave
been kept alive for months ny Ameri-
can relief. but the money and supplies
now being regularly sent abroad are
not sufficient TO the need II VIII nc
necessary. according to Mr.. Rilikopf.
for all American communities raising
funds for Jewish relief 10 douhle their
quotas for the mex few months If the
really ~a~nai1inE conditions existent IN
Poland. Galicia. the Balkans and
other portions Of Europe are TO be
ameliorated TO any effective degree,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-05-20
POLICE COURT

The cast Of Thomas Finesee, col
ored, ffty-tlve a Did, of zoos Hick-
ory street. charged with the murder
of Richard johnson, coiored. thirty
five years old, was continued until
May 80, The unwritten law, it is
said. will h. illnesses defense.
l.. n. Pitts, t~h,rty-two years old, lol
South Fifta street. received a fine or
500 on the charge OF exceeding the
speed limit in has automobile sunday.
This is said to be his second Of
tense.
The case of j. w, Cox. twenty-six
years old. charged with reckless driN-
inr, was continued Until May a6r
william Fields. colored, who is said
to have been tho ~ring!eader III a fight
between several negroes in an auto
motAle and several White men at
Twenty-third ard Jefferson avenue.
Sunday afternoon, was fined $50 and
costs. Policeman Anthony. who made
the arrest said that considerable eX-
element was going on.
Justice Crutci.field continued until
June 4 the cases of the seventeen men
arrested in a raid on ain alleged garnb-
street.
Adena Fields was fined $50 and
costs for being disorderly and firing a
gun into the street.
Mary White was assessed SIS on
the charge of conducting a disordcrly
house.
c, Y. Snoddy was fined $c5 and
costs for being disorderly.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-05-20
MECHANICS INSTITUTE
CLOSES FOR SESSION
Exercises and Address by The Gov.
ernor Of Virginia Thursday
Might.

The closing exercises of the SEES
sion at Virginia Mechanics Institute
wi,i lie t..., IN the instit On sud-
%,ariin, ut ! eventh at,i i'r"ah streets
on Thursday evening, at S:l5 O'CLOCK
The principal address of the even
ing will be delivered by Governor
Davis. Arthur G.. Jones of this city.
a member of the board of directors
Of the institute, will follow Governor
Davis, addressing his remarks par
ticularly to the student body.
This will conclude the sixty-hfth
year since the adjustment of the
school and the thirty-fifth year since
its reestablishment under the leader
ship and control of such men as
George A. Ainslie. Thomas Elliott.
Lyon G. Tyler, Thomas Nelson Page.
Lewis Ginter and other distinguished
gentlemen.
Medals. diplomas and honcrs in the
courses will be delivered by the
superintendent.
Despite the difficulties which have
beset such educational enter prises
during the last school year. the stu
dent enrolment has bee about
eighty-ive per cent Of normal, the
total for the session being 5o4. Mum
hers Of the men stationed at the local
military camps have taken advan-
tage OF their opportunity to do work
In various classes.
II Is worthy of note hat when the
United States government called for
cooperation from the schools OF the
country for training men for special
duties for war service, Virginia
Mechanics Institute was among the
first to respond.
Glasses were started and training
given in gas engine study and opera
ton for men about to enter the SER
vice. and later classes were conducted
in cooperation with the Richmond
schools training detachment estah-
lished in this city.
The work Of the year. in the face
Of all tho distractions and difficulties
encountered. has been carried through
with good success. The work done by
the students Outing the extension OF
the session. occassioned by the time
lost in October. has abundantly
demonstrated their earnestne~.
The public is cordially invited to
the commencement exercises and 10
inspect the Laboratories Of the insti-
tnte following tho exercises in the
auditorium.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-05-20
WELCOME FOR
HOSPITAL UNIT NO. As

Every man and I'M WHO served
in France with base hospital unit
No. H. is urged to be present at the
City Auditorium ON Thursday night
to attend the formal welcoming of the
unit home by the local chapter Of the
American Red Cross. All doctors.
nurses and enlisted men who were
members OF the base hoppita! unit.
known rs the Mcclure unit, will be
seated on the platform.
Coleman Workman. chairman Of
the Richmond Red Cross. Will pre-
side at tho meetinC. He VIII re-
ceiNe an official report from Lieu
teuant-Coionel Stuart McGutre of the
work done by the unit while in
France and the flag which was
brought BACK from France VIII be
presented TO the Red Cross. Lieuten-
ant-Colonel J. Garnett Nelson, who
brought the unit hack from France.
viii he present A band from Camp
Lee viii furnish music.