The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-12-30
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Christmas season and the approaching
New Year holiday. forces all over the
state are getting in line for a general
'rousement for the two weeks follow
ing preceding the great series OF meet
ings and speakings that are being pro-
yided for in fifty cities and as many
counties, at community schDols. coun-
try churches and schools. etc. stimuli
ttaHeously on Sunday afternoon, Jan
uary is
so well liz tho organization IN hand,
Organization Director sHaryey Hole
man declares that when tho word
comes to Forward. march, he ex-
poets an army of men and women Of
the best that any state possesses to
spring forward to tho. charge, and
that all the people will be awakened
to tho need Of law enforcement here
and the extension of prohibition rrin-
ciples abroad, and the need also OF
providing the means for the necessary
orga MIA ton to accomplish results.
Under tho fine lead of Mrs Al Fair
brother, the women are responding
nobly to the call some localities lend
ing the benefit of their civic and social
ORGANIZATIONS for speeding systematic
concerted -acHnu-------------
Colonel IT. n. Nandcrford. federal
state prohibition director, here last
night said the drive made last week
ION blockaders by his forces In concert
with Sheriffs aud deputies in many
sections resulted in a large number OF
icpnfiscatiens Of stills and capture OF
;nioonshiners. He declares the people
OF the state have no conception of the
lamount Of laWlessness being commit
ted and bred in nearly every COM
rnunity and tho fostering sores some
cities have become on account of laxity
of supervision by local authorities.
There is every evidence, he says how
ever. Of fine response TO recent APP
peals for co-opera ton on the part of
the better element to assist the gov
lernment in its efforts and the World
prohibition Law Enforcement under
taking to arouse the public to the
danger and secure means with which
10 prosecute permanently an effective
or ganization.
Colonel Vanderford has .aysteme tic
tally canyasse3 conditions In each
county and has discovered that IN
Ififty-nine of the 100 counties the
sheriff is fully alive to his duties and
is consciertiousiy trying to enforce the
law OF the remaining forty-ore, he
said he did not care tn speak. but 1t
liS understood that they will be known
Through Inference when an honor roll
Of dutiful shoriffs Is published January
rs. As many stills AS have been de-
stroyed during the raids made by fed
era) and county law agents In the two
weeks movement. Colonel Nanderford
gays that it IS generally estimated ny
Those who have been in the revenue
sseryice f6r many years that for every
blockade still located and destroyed
there are ten undiscovered, except in
open countries. where. concealment Is
mort difficult This being So. he says
ut looks like the time has come when
everybody should join In crusade
against the lawlass conditions, made
so. he saws. by general apathy on the
part OF the splendid forces, churches
and civic, which won the flght for pro-
hibition in North Carolina over ten
years ago,
Tho following significant editorials
lin tho Charlotte Observer December
- hcartcn u great many who have
hoped for its strong support in this
movement:
! England having been filled mp with
contraband American liquor. and
| France Belgium, Italy and other
foreign nations having small use for IT,
the fow has been directed toward the
warehouses in Hamburg. About the
only thing the Germans now need
toward the final undoing is TO take
to American strong drink,
lObserver, Dec. IS.
/ The Curse Of White Liquor.
p, The manifest alarm OF the city
com missioners over the growing evil
! Of illegal traffic In whiskey is we'll
founded. It has come to such n pass
| in Charlotte that managers of indus
trial plants and local shops employing
day labor find that business during the
holiday season Is partly demoraiiaed
by drunkenness among workmen. AL
most every day hands whose services
have been needed on important jobs
| have turned up missing. and inquiry
/ has revealed that they were temper
.arily disabled through Indulgence In
| the white liquor" with which the
community has heen flooded. 1t Is
that produces the crazy drunk--and II
has been brought in through mysteri-
! Gus sources in great quantities, It is
/ as has been developed through police
| a gallon That the way has been
! this contraband article il perhaps due
/ to laxity on. the part Of ofacers charged
with enforcement of the law. 1t is
encouraging. nevertheless, TO note that
the authorities are at last fully awake
to the existence OF a community evil
and that they have expressed deter
mination to ahate it--Charlotte OBJ
server, Dec. 25..
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