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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-05-23
MAYOR WILL SUBMIT
WATER REPORT TODAY
Hubbard Expected to Make Formal
statement NJ Meeting THIS Morn
Ing Of Hoard Of Commissioners.
ABOUT THE COMMITTEE
iicggcm Was Named Chairman OF
Special Body at Public Meeting
of-icndlng business Men.

The report Of the special water
committee. appointed by the city ad-
ministiation to check up on the plans
and estmuates presented by II. A.
Prcssey on the new Tulsa water
system. which in all probability will
be formally presented by Mayor
Charles Hubbard at the regular
meeting OF the city com missloners
today, is being anticipated with in
terest
The special committee composed Of
Ar G. lIeggem, chairman. Victor H.
Hughes and Barney Meyer. three Of
Ihe Guys most prominent engineers,
With tho aid OF two expert Computers
have checked Mr.. Frtssews figures
and found them exact In alt essen
ials They have Judged the fcnsiblli-
ty or safety OF the dam site. worked
out the engineering fcpjs necessary
to eliminate the possibility OF leak
age in the limestone bedding planes
OF the foundation. computed the
capacity OF the two great reservoirs.
and studied out the course over
which the great iron conduit win
have 20 hc carried 10 reach the city.
An obstacle was found In the enor-
nous soil depth, especially In N1c
NerdcEris bottoms, whore II would
be necessary 10 90 very dcep To- lay
a concrete conduit on firm founda-
iion, or n iron conduiis are used
the anchorage necessary where ihcv
cross the river 90 prevent them from
being washed away.
IIcggCm Heads Committee.
All 'g HCggcm was appointed head
of this committee early last
fall when the water proposition first
came before 'hc publlr. At meet
ing OF the mayor and commissioners.
at which the allied civic commit
CnNTINLLn on nAME EInMr
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-05-23

THE WEATHER

TULSA May 20 Maximum, 20,
minimum Sli south winds. clear
on lAlIOMA Friday partly cloudy
Shtlriav prohahlv unsettled
LOUISIANA: Friday fair, Saturday
general, fair
ARKANSAS Friday fair warmer In
tIirc'ne north portion, saturday partly
FNsT TEXAS. Friday i-cre,,lnr
e'oudin"s,. iocal showers In west por.
tion and ON west coast. Saturday cloudy
local shosrr,
WEST TEXAS Friday generally fair
IN southwest portion probably local
showers IN north and southeast por.
tons Saturday generally fair In south
"tst portion, pattly cloudy in north
portion, local showers In southeast por.
ti0u
KANSAS. Fair Friday: Saturday
partly cloudy possibly becoming unset
tied; not much change In temperature
WHAT WE DON'T KNOW.
We know whcr we're knee deep in
trouble We know whom We re- suffer.
ing pain
We know right away, any hour Of the
dar when we've rcSson TO grow and
complain.
We know when the Mos are against II,
We know when were losing fight
Buo We don = seem i1 know AZ the DAYS
come and 20. when evrrythiug's really
all right
We rAn talk Of our ailments quito r'n,'y
"" can tell all our fricuds Of our woes.
There isn't man hut with hithMlncss
can describe every burden he Knows,
But mighty few know when they re-
happy. and fewer are able 10 tel
Wuh JOY that Is real. the way that
ihey feel on the days they are per
fectly well
We know 'Il the symbol. oi sorrow. W.
know all the signs Of despair
We know when We 70 sick and We know
when 70 Kick. and We know how TO
grumblo al care
But when We have reason Tor smiling
when all Of our worries are small.
When tho sun, shining bright and our
world ~ all right. We don't seem TO
know it at all.
We value our Joys when we've lost them
"" have praise for our friends when
ihev ro dead
We can fceingly tell that it's fine 10 he
wc!l when were fat on a hospital
he'd
But We know not when We should he
hAppy with all Of our farsecinr
powers
You and must allow that We haven't
learned how TO appreciate Joy when
its ours
Copyright 1919 by Edgar 4. Guest.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-05-23
nt nsOS ARE GIVEN SEVERE
VtftAI IN NORTHERN RUSSIA

:. LONDON May 22.-rhc allied
I,p' v,p' on 'No north Russian from,
m,,' carried ont successful turning
VII '''''s arl'ns, The main bolshe-
,.,. position forcing the enemy TO
,o,,s H''.hvard. according to
,,. -" RUSSIAN official communlca
received here this evening
,,,.' 'oNrs were captured. many
sn,, .,.oaer' n2en The enemy nlso
''''l heavy cnsualtiea
To.N NSN Monday. May - ,Ru.slan
Sss'anh'' Acency) Tho Tenth
rs,ig .,s.m'ol a part of the hn,6
Is ,'A army. mas sarrcndsre5 l'' wt, vU 4
sIbct,.' ''' ammunition. 10 The
,rnner, army u, the Kolchak gov
prlsa'r.. The rcrimcrp made mn
tor,,l' o' working men. refused
rdt.-. ,A' 'front.' and many OF the
'-d,.,' .y .ao rg,mcn, won, n tho
'.trP 's soon AS II reached the
bsrar a1d wen, over '' To- IN. '"siI siI
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17

picked from the best of the revenue
agents and organized similar to the
Pennsylvania constabulary, with auto
mobiles, or airplanes, II needed, these
men will cover the six states, attend
ing to moonshincrs and bootleggers,
who canno. be handled by local author
tiles.
Other plans were announced to-day
as follows:
Levy Mayer, counsel for the "wets"
Garry on. Fight to the last ditch by
attacking the constitutionality Of the
eighteenth, or prohibition, amendment
Such suit will be filed ut once"
NJ. j. Mccarthy, secretary, Illinois
Liquor Dealers Protective Association
There seems to be little to do but
shut up shop. Four thousand Chicago
bars will close January l. The rest
will become restaurants or soft drink
parlors."
Charles F. Clyne, United States Dis
trict Attorney-"The government will
enforce the strict letter Of the law
Sixty-two new suits will be filed in the
Federal courts at once"
julius Smietanka, Collector Of In
ternal Revenue for Chicago-"The lid
will be screwed on beyond possibility
Of fitting January 1. Two hundred new
men will be added at once to the moon
shine SUuad'"
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17

csts at Charleston, Brunswick, Jack
sonville, Savannah and Wilmington ar
rived to-day and conferred with Of
ficials Of the disti.lers' committee
which represents practically all dis
tillers of the state. The steamship p
men also conferred with railroad of
fclals in regard to number Of cars that
could be obtained to rush the vast ship
ments to seaboard before January l6,
at which time all whisky not outside
of the boundaries Of the United States
will be seized and contiscated, accord
ing to warning recently issued by
Commissioner Roper of the Internal
Revenue Bureau.
The movement of the whisky within
months time is gigantic enterprise
1t would require at least six thousand
cars, it is estimated It would be i'm
possible to get the ship tonnage nee
essary to ship it to Europe it is said,
but by sending it to Cuba, six hundred
o eight hundred miles nearer than any
other point, ships can make the return
rip quickly for another cargo. Then
warchousing the whisky after it
reache, Cuba wou d require the carry
ing out OF elaborate plans Of construc-
ton at that end of the line.
Arrests on wholesale scale began
nere to-day, when United States agents
served warrants on fifty saloonkeepers,
charging them with violation of the
wartime prohibition act. The saloons
have sold more or les openly since
July l, with occasional clamping of
the lid. Evidence has been col ccted by
dry" enforcement officers the last two
weeks.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17
Wall Street Brokers.
ID eny Knowledge of
Supreme Court ''Leaks''

A canvass Of leading Wall Street
brokerage houses yesterday brought
forth statements that members Of
Stock Exchange firms had no knowl-
edge whatever Of alleged "leaks" re-
garding United States Supreme Court
decisions or the activities Of the De
partment Of Justice. They declared
they had not been approached by any
one who was claimed to have advance
information to pending decisions
1t was recalled that In the Southerr
Pacific case in which the company W.
absolved from charges Of fraud in tn
acquisition Of more than 900 acre
Of oil lands, the stock was strkingls
weak the day before the Department
of Justice announced that it would not
contest the decision of the Fedora
District Court ut Los Angeles The
attitude Of the Attorney General was
made known the next morning befor,
the opening of the stock market, and
Southern Pacific stock had wild open
ing, the first few sales showing gains
of moro than 10 points.
The Southern Pacific suit referred
to in the Washington dispatches was
what is known as the Elk Hills case, in
which the Supreme Court reversed the
decision of the lower court dismissirg y
proceedings instituted by the govern
rHcnt to cancel patents for 5000 acres
Of California oil lands valued at Sl0,-
100000, alleged to have been obtained
by The company through fraud. This
decision was considered unimportant
at the time, despite the fact that il
brought about considerable selling OF
the stock.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17
Bibulous ''Dry'' Orator
Falls Off His Soapbox
Hailed TO Court, Admits He Was
Drinking, but Promises
10 Reform

A chorus Of fervent "amens" fol-
lowed Martin Conroy, forty, five years
old, itinerant preacher and self-styled
missionary, as he left the West Side
court yesterday after he had been ar
raigned on q charge Of intoxication.
Patro'man Edward Pointing com
p'ained Conroy had taken header
Avenue corner while admonishing a
crowd Of potential converts to beware
the awful curse Of drink"
"Oh, curse be the man that drinks!
Oh, cursed be the man that touches
red liquor" was the gist OF the Con
roy argument, according to the patrol
man, when the high dive ended his
discourse. Pointing thought Conroy
had been stricken III and summoned
Or. William Stokes, Of Bellevue Hos
pita', who diagnosed the case as in
toxication. Conroy was escorted to a
cell in the West Forty seventh Street
police station
II was drinking. your honor" he tod
Magistrate Levine, when arraigned in
vDrinking?" the Magistrate asked.
"Why that's incredible"
"But was, judge" Conroy insisted.
I'm q missionary, but if you let me
loose, judge, III never drink again.
have q wife and four children in Brook
lyn."
The Magistrate decided to free Con
roy, but ordered his finger prints taken.
1t then developed that the missionary
had been arrested nine times on the
same charge
"Well," the court sale, II suppose
a missionary can get drunk as well as
anybody else. But the next time you
have yearnirg for liquor go to Brook
lyn."
'Thank you in the name Of the Lord, -
said Conroy.
"Amen.' the court replied and the
entire courtroom Joined in.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17
NetU Year to Sip Cider
And Wear a Paper Hat
City Celebrations Will Turn to Confetti and Sur
prises to Take Place of Liquor, Hotels Will
Take No Chances With ''Dry'' Law Violations

Bacchus's breath will be tinged with
cider, his hair filled with confetti, and
head when the chy1s big hotels eeie-
brate New Years Eve, according to
hotel managers yesterday.
Resigned to an officially dry eele-
bration Of the new year, the hotels
have planned celebration entirely in
harmony with the laws of the land. If
any liquor is consumed. hotel man
ayers say, it will have to be brought
by the lucky consumer. As substi-
tate barrels of cider have been
ordered by the McAlpin, Waldorf.
Astor, Majestic, Pennsylvania, and
other large hotels to wet the whistles
of the cclebrators.
An attempt to bring the Mardi Gras
spirit to the city's hotels will be the
principal substitute for liquor, it was
stated. Music, noise makers, balloons,
paper hats, confetti, extensive decora-
tions, cow-bells, jazz bands and every
element of carnival spirit will be used
to stir up the spirit Of youth" as
one hotel man put it.
Expensive souvenirs will be handed
out at the principal hotels. One hotel
alone has ordered several thousand
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17
Buckbee, president Of the Cook d Bern
heimer Company, distiilers and export

Buckbee, president Of the Cook d Bern
heimer Company, distilIers and export
ers, said:
"The demand for American whisky
outside Of the United States is limited.
There Is a supply on hand now which
is q hundred times the amount that the
foreign countries would buy in year.
A demand for SO vast q quantity can
not be created overnight.
even Americans abroad drink the
native liquor Of the land in which they
are stopping, and it cannot be ex-
pectcd that demand for American
whisky can be developed when the
British government is turning hun
dreds Of thousands of gallons Of real
Scotch upon the market"
Poor Outlook for Sales
When asked about the possibilities
of exporting to some Of the neighbor-
ing American countries, Mr. Buckbce
said:
"Cuba already has more liquor than
she can consume in years to come.
Canada is almost as bad off rs we are,
and Mexico, which has been mentioned
IS the dark horse cannot afford to
paw the price of the American drink.
even If we could get the markets
for our goods, it would be impossible
to get enough cars and freight bottoms
to get all the liquor out Of the country
in time to comply with the law. More
.A..4 il...lloi. uAIrcis would haze to
os outside Of the three-mie limit in
less than q month"
Eugene Blum, of the firm of Dryfoos,
Of the cases decided by the Supreme
Court, expressed a similar view. He
said:
New York City has, comparatively
speaking, little Of the hard liquor Of
the country. Most of the so OO00,0 900
gallons are stored away in the dis
tillcry bonded warehouses; near the
places Of distillation. The storage
houses in New York where the liquor
s kept are genera bonded ware
houses established for temporary
emeGSSency; e9 e6S y; a. They qoGy contain between
charge for storage in the distillery
warehouses is 10 cents month for a
barrel. In New York it amounts to 81,
besides extra charges for handling
Leakage and evaporation are other
sources Of expense, which place t.e-
mcndous burden upon the dealer, who
not only has his money tied up, but is
under obligation to keep on paying
storage rentals and other costs. He is
faced with the alternative of either
keeping his stock under bond in these
warehouses or shipping it outside of
tho country. He cannot do the latter,
for the demand abroad for American n
whisky is extremely small. The en-
tire foreign demand for a whole year
is less than the consumption in New
York City during one month. And so
the New York dealer finds himself
staring confscation straight in the
face"
1t is not expected that much of the
whisky will be used for medicinal pur-
poses. M. ]. Stroock, Of Stroock &
Stroock, counsel for the Wholesale
Liquor Dealers Association Of the State
of New York, in commenting on this
said:
"Spirits that have been made into
whisky or brandy cannot be used in
arts and sciences except to a negligible
extent. Furthermore, the amount of
liquor that could be used for medicina
purposes is reduced to minimum un-
der the Volstead law"
There are about 8,500,OO0 barrels of
2.75 per cent beer in the countr and
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17
'Wets' Beg Wilson s
Aid as Last Hope
Brewers Ready to Desert
Hard Liquor Men if
ITS Pct. Beer Wins

Recovering somewhat from the blow
dealt to them by the decision Of the
Supreme Court upholdng the war time
prohibition act, the liquor interests
indicated yesterday that they haven't
by far given up all hope of obtaining
an "open season" for their hard bever-
ages before the constitutional amend
ment becomes effective January is.
They are placing great store on In
tervention by the President.
Realising that all hope Of Congress
coming to their assistance vanished
with the House Agriculture Commit
tees vote against repeating the war
time measure, they pointed out the
Supreme Courts opinion specifically
stated that proclamation by the Pres
ident that the war is at an end and
rehabilitation Of the army completed
would be way out of the difficulty.
Deluge Of "Wet" Pleas
The attention of the "wets" for the
moment is focused on Mr.. Wilson, and
thousands Of kilograms have been dis
patched to Washington officials urging
every means be used to impress upon
the President the great losses that
Will result unless he grants to the
dealers a week or two In which to dis
pose Of their stocks.
In the event Of the Presidents fail
ure to act it was gloomily agreed that
no other recourse remained but an at
tack against the validity of the con-
etitut;onal amendment. Such an action
already has been begun by the Rhode
Island Legislature, but no satisfac-
tion from this move it looked for for .
long time.
The brewers look for q loophole in
the forthcoming decision by tho Su.
preme Court on the 275 per cont beer
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17
Girl Says She Passed
Bad Money for Coiners

Eight men and a seventecn-y year old
girl appeared before judge Mack in
the Federal court yesterd y, the men
charged with participating in CON
spiracy to alter United States currency
and passing spurious CONS and the
girl with aiding and abetting the other
de pendants.
The girl, Margaret Murray, now in
the Waverly Home and who has turned
states evidence, ran away from her
home in Hoboken. Soon afterward an
other girl introduced her to the men
and together they went to a saloon in
l3oth Street, where the work of the
alleged counterfeiting was accom-.
il1shed. She was the principal witness
yesterday.
The Murray girl said she saw 81
bills converted into tens, which she
was ordered to distribute This. she
sa'd. she did. usually passing the in
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17

such presents at cost Of $3.50 each.
The price Of places will be slightly
higher than last year, but only on
account Of generally increased costs
Of everything
Promptly at midnight special stunts
will begin. Heralds may spring from
q balcony, bugling; pies may break
forth, disclosing sing ng blackbrds;
fairies will spring from unsuspected
bowers among the decorations, and gen.
orally bedlam, whitted principally by
cider, as hard as the law will allow,
will reign.
At the Hotel Astor a special "diner
grande surprise" with French accom-
panmcnts, will BEGIN at the appointed
hour in accord with a general plan to
produce novelties at the midnight hour
to take place Of the missing "kick" in
the cider and the missing liquor with
real "kick" in it.
Clubs or associations, however, which
have provided we'll for the future prob
ably will not be forced to rely upon
cider, it was stated. Hotels report al
most unprecedented demands for pri-
vate banquet rooms, where the private
supply is expected to flow freely, since
there is no law against so doing.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17

. proelanstisa declaring 6emobilisa.
zion % the army terminated. The
~drys," however. sought to Discount
hopes based upon The presumption that
tAe Supreme Court's decision paved the
way for such action by Mr.. Wilson.
The court held the statute provided
that wartime prohibition should come
20 IN end when peace was proclaimed
and ~ soon thereafter IS the Prssi-
cant should have. ~ vrc~iAmAtion, de-
cared demob1iization to be at an end.
Peace had not been proclaimed nor de-
mobilization erdod It was ruled.
The question is whether 1t requires
proclamation that rehabilitation Ia
ended, or whether the proclamation end
ing rehabilitation is sufficient.
"The Wet Argument"
The "wets" argue that Justice Bran.
deis, in announcing the courts deci.
sio', contended that neither peace nor
de, nbiization were IN effect. They cay
h;s action in going at length into the
question Of whether rehabilitation had
ended. after having held that state
Of war still exists. showed that in the
courts opinion either the ending Of
the war or the ending Of demobiliza-
SVn was e"ook" '" Gnu wartime P1V-
Had tho court held both crcum-
stances necessary it wou d have been
sufficient to have found that the state
OF war was still in existence, it is con-
tended. That circumstance also would
have been sufficient grounds upon
which to sustain the constitutionality
of wartime prohibition, it Ia urged.
But the court reviewed the facts with
L. AA AAx,<
&t could not be considered ended. under
the provisions of the act, until so de-
cls1ed by Presidential proclamation.
President Gives No Sign
It is on these grounds that the
dent will now end wartime prohibition
by issuance Of rehabilitation proc
lamation. The Attorney General ruled,
for the President, that it was neces-
sary to await the proc amaton Of
peace. So the "wets" view the Su-
preme Court decision as reversing. so
to speak. this decision by the Attorney
General. Their appeal will be to the
he ys rs9'fs srsne S THIS hst sH"" tSe Senate
placed in the statute the actual re
quirement Of peace and rehabilitation
at the demand of the prohibitionists
and that the Supreme Courts decision
cannot be properly construed as an
implication that the ending Of de-
mobilization alone is sufficient basis
for the ending Of wartime prohibition.
Another point Of view is that the
President can construe the statute to
suit himself; he can act upon the At
torney Generals construction, or he
probably can find in the courts de-
cision basis for reversing his past ac-
ton. What the President intends to do
az a matter of policy no one pretends
to know
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17
Rush to Export
Whisky Begins
ShipIoads OF Contraba,,d
to Leaue Chicago for
Cuba: Dry Men Actiue

Special Correspondence
CHICAGO, Dee. -Shiploads of
whisky will leave Chicago within the
next fortnight bound for foreign ports,
most of it destined for Cuba 1t is the
last attempt of liquor men to protect
their investment and it started to-day
with rush, following a warning from
the government that those who wis h
to export the contrabrand will have to
have it outside the three-mile limit
by January 16.
Meanwhile, calmcr scene was being
enacted where Captain Hubert Howard
in charge Of prohibition enforcement
in Illinois, was conferring with A. "
Dalrymple, prohibition Commissioner
for Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wis
consin, Iowa and Minnesota. They were
planning a drive to start January Is.
Mr.. Dalrymple will have eighty men
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17
Jeliicoe's Report en- Canada's
Naval Policy Expected Ian

OTTAWA. Dec. Is Admiral Y.
count Jeilicoe, former FIRST Sea r,
Of the British Admiralty. who Re -
here to-day after his tour q C-rs,..
east coast ports viii make rsne
and recommendations TO the Dom:1;,
Cabinet or Canada's future rsS
policy. it was announced to-aav 7.
the United States. lie viii be ms,
his flagship a. some Southern nor.
at Cuba. whence he and his par,v r
proceed to South Africa.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-17
9OPerCentofRur1
TORemai5a IL, Il. S.
Little appetite for Amer
ican Whisky abroad,
Say Dealers Here

Only 10 per cent of the liquor in
the country will be shipped abroad by
January Is, according to an estimate
made yesterday by one Of the largest
whisky exporters in the city. Since
the British government released 10O,-
000,0 900 gallons of Scotch whisky the
foreign demand for the American prod
uct which had always been small, has
become almost negligible. The local
dealer said that it would be better to
take a chance with the product at
home than allow it to be shipped to
some foreign country, with no mme-
diate prospect Of sale.
In discussing this situation Louis R.