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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-09-26
OVERHEAD IS HIGH FOR the REVENUE
TRAFFIC RAISES FOR NATION OF FRANCE
Advocates of the Alcohol Traffic Make Showing of Huge Revenue
o Nation but Fail to Give Accounting for
Extraordinary Items of Expense Necessary
Obtain This Revenue of Such Proven
Little Actual Value -

fast drive the advocates of the traffic
in France from this next-to-the-last
trench OF protection against the wrath
and action Of the people.
Already there is being advocated
largely the final argument of the right
aud liberty Of the individual to drink
as much and as often as he desires.
The controyening force against this
argument is widespread dissemina-
ton of the information relating to
individual bctterment in restrictions
Of the traffic, which means loss in
profits TO the makers and sellers, but
better conditions OF life to the people
at large.
A significant feature OF the light in
France is the awakening OF business
interests to the economic advantage
following liquor restriction, the ox-
ample of America being mighty force
ful. To compete in industrial affairs,
the industrial heads OF the nation
recognize the necessity for immediate
steps in the reduction of alcohol COIL
sumption.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-09-26

The drink question must be fought
out upon the ultimate foundation OF
morals, hygiene and social order-in
other words, the public welfare. If
the public welfare requires the sup
preston Of the alcoholic drink traffic,
it should be suppressed" 1t was rec
ognized during the war that the liquor
traffic was an enemy. 1t is the same
in peace. No Comeback" for this
enemy Don't slump!
The government is going to push
the sale OF thrift stamps with even
greater vigor than during the war.
Economy is as imperative-waste is
as unpatriotic as ever. Mr.. Hoover
declares that the task of America in
Europe now is greater than before
the armisticc. Speaking of just one
corner of Europe, he says it will be
impossible now to prevent death by
starvation of 100000 people in Arme-
MIA, but by faithful, energetic work
we may be able to save 100000. In
the face of the appalling want OF
starving world, there are those who
would allow the breweries to resume
their annual waste of millions of
bushels OF food stuffs. And when
we remember that the direct wastes
is only fraction OF the loss--that
there are by-products of crime, pau
perism insanity and general social
misery-can we credit these people
with patriotism? Sid says: "Out
from modern civilization is staggering
that old Blunderbuss, King Booze"
And we must see that he stays out
out with the Hohenzollerns. Don't
slump.
Witness, Eternal God" said George
Shelby. as he knclt beside dying Uncle
Tom, 20, witness from this hour, l
will do what one man can to drive out
the curse of slavery from my land"
Let every true patriot register sim
liar vow regarding the curse of the
liquor traffic, for some would rein
state that old tyrant, King Booze.
Eternal vigilance is the price of lib
erty." Don't slump,
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-09-26
New Capital for Theaters

One of the most illuminating bits
OF testimony regarding the effect
which Prohibition is to have upon
the picture business, and how this eff
feet is being foreseen by the liquor
people, is contained in the opinion of
Lieut.. ]. p. Anderson, special repre-
sentative for First National Exhibit
ors' circuit.
I'm Florida, Alabama, Georgia,
North and South Carolina, and Vir-
ginia," he declared, there are now
either IN process OF construction or
planning to be built within the next
six months, more than 120 new thea
tiers, most of the money for which
is coming from the liquor trade"
A similar statement was made by
w. E. Lusk, manager of the Cleve-
land, Ohio, First National Exchange,
who cites conditions in Ohio, which
has just joined the dry group. Mr..
Lusk said: II know that theaters are
being built in Ohio by man who in
the past operated large brcweries."
Boyd c. Cunningham, OF Washing
ton, D. c., spoke of conditions in the
capital with the authority of one who
has seen an effect follow cause.
He said:
at is the consensus OF opinion in
Washington that National Prohibi-
ton is going to increase the business
of picture houses.
an Maryland, and in Baltimore es-
pecially, the capital which is invested
in soloons is turning its face toward
the picture business"
Thus the testimony runs. What is
Peoria's and Milwaukee's loss evil
IDENTIFY is going to be Los Angeles
gain.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-09-26
PLEASURE BOAT PROVES
TO BE REAL BEER CRAFT
Over Fifteen Thousand Bottles OF
Beer Conhscated on Boat Which
Piled the Lake as a Chicago Pas
senger Vessel

When the small pleasure boat,
Mineral City, quietly locked in the
Chicago River at the foot OF Rush
Street, Chicago, agents OF the United
States government sprang from the
shadows OF the wharf and served
warrants OF Thos. Young, owner Of
the steamer and Captain Mccall,
charged with violation Of the Reed
Bone Dry Amendment, which pro-
hibts the transportation OF intoxi-
cants i'll interstate shipment. Tic
pleasure boat contained 1920 bottles
OF real beer. Trucks were waiting at
the wharf to carry the cargo away,
when the proceedings were rudely
interrupted by the government
agents. Under the law the boat is
now in the possession OF the United
States Attorney
Some time ago the Department of
Justice became interested in the ac-
tivity of Mr.. Young who had seen
ct to purchase lake steamer as an
adjunct TO his saloon business. In
day time the boat piled between Lin
coin Park and the Municipal Pier
carrying women and children and at
night it made mysterious trips to
Kenosha, Wis. The mystery was
cleared up by the seizure OF the beer
by the government agents. The beer
was the product OF the Kenosha
Brewery.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-09-26
~MOvIES ARE ENJOYING TREMENDOUS BOOM:
PROHIBITION DOES II, DECLARE PROMOTERS
New Capital Being Raised Extend Motion Picture
From Malt Movies Is Route; Family Shares in
Benefit of Money That Formerly
Went Saloons

Writing in the Los Angeles Ex-
press, Monroe Lathrop says that
from all quarters of the country
comes testimony that the exhibition
OF motion pictures is enjoying tre-
mendous boom. Never, according to
the writer, has the interest in this
form of popular amusement been SO
keen and widespread. 1t has been a
sudden boom, too, an emergence out
of the dark cloud which envcloped the
business as result OF the influenza
epidemic into the ehulgence of a
Nrosperity that year ago seemed
farthest from possibility. Mr.. Lath-
rop goes on to say that it seemed at
that time to many as If the movie
had passed its peak of popularity and
was receding into a precarious rut
from which miracle only could res
cue it.
Producers were making no money,
with few sporadic exceptions, and
exhibitors were trembling with appre
hension over the investments they
had made in what is speculative
business at best.
The miracle happened. While sew
erai things occurred that gave push
to the sudden forward impetus, one
thing stood out as the prime cause of
the renaissance.
1t was the curb that war exigencies
put upon the liquor trade. Prohibi
ton, at first partial and finally gen.
eral, has turned golden stream OF
dollars into the box Offices every
where.
All kinds of trade were stimulated,
but none so much as that which sup
piled the substitute diversion for the
saloon.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-09-26

England should seriously heed
Americas example in Prohibition,
say some British editors, who take
this stand not so much on moral as
on the material ground of the mental
and physical efficiency of dry nation
Others declare that Prohibition will
not prohibit, predict worse conditions
under sureptitious evasions, or brand
the law as blow at human freedom.
The Manchester Guardian, however
sees the entire Anglo-Saxon race COM
ing around to Prohibition, with Eng
land alone hanging back, American
Prohibition it considers the biggest
blow at the use OF alcohol that has
been struck since Mohammed banned
liquor among his followers, unless. in
deed, we except the cars ukase
against vodka at the beginning of the
war;" and this daily adds:
"The growth of the movement
toward abjuring alcohol among the
English-speaking peoples has been
FASTENED by the war, but in no sense
caused by it. 1t has made slow and
steady progress, district by district
province by province, and state by
state. Canada is dry except for Que
bee; and it may soon be impossible
legally to obtain liquor between Hud-
son Bay and the Gulf of Mexico
New Zealand in the latest OF many
referenda, narrowly missed achieving
dominion-wde Prohibition. Already,
like Australia, she has by local option
ended the liquor traffic in many dis
tricts. Scotland and Wales steadily
tighten their hold on the trade and
the former is about to embark on a
far-reaching plan of local option"
Then, in somewhat censorious
mood, the Guardian wonders why
England alone moves with extreme
caution i'll the matter" and it sug
gests that the Englishman may we'll
ask himself how it happens that he is
brake instead OF source of power
to a movement that is sweeping all
before it among the men of his race
overseas" The London Daily News,
noted supporter of the dry cause,
tells us that hitherto the British peo-
pie have refused to regard Prohibition
as practical social politics, but have
thought of it merely as fanaticism."
Now they must face it squarely, and
this journal proceeds:
4. Europe will be confronted by dry
America-commanding, not only ma
terial resources, but an efficiency in
industrial and civic life going beyond
any standards in European society.
For us and our national future, what
is that going to mean?"
Similarity the London Westminster
Gazette believes that "if we are to
meet the future and to hold our own
equally against demilitarized Germany
and dry America, we shall have to
find better specifics than unlimited
beer" A less fixed idea is expressed
by the London New Statesman, which
says that though at would be unques-
tionably true to say that while the
multitude of British people hold that
nation like the United States cannot
possibly Danish liquor from its society,
an extraordinary number of Amer
lean citizens are persuaded that it
can" A very interesting feature of
the whole controversy in the United
States is the use made on both sides
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-09-26
PROTEST AGAINST STAMP SALES
Both Drys and Brewers Think
Uncle Sam Inconsistent
Stops Sales of Beer, but Keeps
Selling Stickers
Sale, However, Not to Be Held
as License
Palmer Thinks They Give Line
on Violation

Complaint that while wartime Pro-
hbition is in effect United States
Government is still selling internal
revenue stamps used on beverages
containing more than one-half of |
per cent alcohol is made by the Anti
Saloon League OF Illinois and also by
some of the larger brewing compa-
MES of the state.
In view of the fact that Uncle Sam
has forbidden the manufacture and
sale of such beer action in selling the
stamps is declared to be inconsistent
in letters written by the compliments
to Attorney General Brundage of
Illinois
Mr.. Brundage put the question up
to Attorney General Palmer OF the
federal government who replied, ad-
hitting that stamps were being sold
and would continue to be sold.
Il reached the conclusion" said
Mr. Palmer, that the internal reve-
nue. commissioner can not properly
refuse to sell stamps which he did
when the wartime Prohibition
amendment became effective, and this
also was the decision of the federal
court of New York. But these stamps
are in no way license. Their sale
ought to be helpful as it gives the
government line on those who are
violating the law"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-09-26
AUTOMOBILE OFFENSES IN
CHICAGO ARE DECREASING

Since the coming into effect of
wartime Prohibition, speeding and
other automobile offenses in Chicago
are decreasing. Tabu1ation of cases
in the speeders' court show that in
the wet month of June there were
l,343 cases with fines amounting to
more than $4,000. In July, the first
dry month, the number of cases
dropped to 1898 and the fines to
$500 In August there were only
$50 cases with fines amounting to
$4,000,
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-09-26
(From Paris Correspondent, OF Tht
American Issue.)

Ali IT'S not so hopeless. There
are those who interpret the situation
in France as one wherein temperance
reform has such meager footing as
to be most remote consideration i'll
the life of the nation. The wide
spread use of wines, coupled with the
arguments that wine is necessary for
the health and life, has been hope
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-09-26
BOSTON is ENJOYING
MUCH MONEY SAVED

There has been saved to the city
of Boston nearly $4,000 in the cost
of operating the house of correction
on Deer Island. The Deer Island in
stitution for one year will cost in the
neighborhood of 100000. This is
stated as decrease of more than
100000 since 1915. 1t is estimated
that next years cost will not exceed
$l68,500. In 1915 the population of
this institution was LOO inmates.
Today it is 800.
The reduction OF population in this
penal institution is credited entirely
to the influence of Prohibition.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-09-26

George Mclean, business agent for
the Bartendefs' Union in Chicago, was
arrested and 100 quarts of beer were
found in his auto. He said man
with truck load of beer broke down
and asked him to take the stuff to the
Walters Club for him. Mclean was
released.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-09-26
WILL SELL MOTOR CARS

Judge w. H. Mechanism of
the Wyandotte Kansas City
District Court has ordered a
sale of motor cars conhscated
May 31st while being used to
transport liquor into Kansas.
In the car were three Lawrence
negroes and liquor valued at
$1,000.
Under the Kansas law motor
cars used for bootlegging may
be sold and proceeds given to
the county school fund.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-09-26
From Malt to Movies

And whereas under former condi-
tions John Jones got the sole bene-
fit % of money spent over the bar,
now Betty, his wife, and the kids had
money to spend in the movie theater.
This more than anything else ex-
plains the sudden multiplication of
playhouse patrons.
In another way the movies bene-
flied. Large amounts of capital re-
leased from the manufacture of drink
sought new investment and found it
in building and expanding theaters.
Since every dollar devoted to these
lines pays some tribute to Los An
geles. the fountain head of motion
pictures, the present unprecedented
activity in the local studios is easy to
) understand.
Thus Prohibition, once looked at
askance by business men generally
because of doubts as to its effect on
trade, has built up a powerful organ
lied support on its economic side.
American motion pictures, placed
,in possession OF the entire world mar
ket by the arrest of foreign develop
mcnt in these lines by the war, are
now in a position fairly radiant with
promise.
Great as the movie industry is in
Les Angeles, it is striding forward
with seven-league boots to a vastly
bigger horizon that is radiant with the
glow of riches.
Testimony From the Field
The Exhibitors Trade Review, a
trade journal, has been canvassing the
showmen and exchange managers of
the country on the effects of the dry
regime on their business.
1t reports that the exchange men
can see nothing but an immediate and
slall date from the opening of the
dry era.
The most significant thing report
cd by the statesmen and managers is
the interest in the motion picture
business which is being taken by
brewery, distillery and cafe capital.
This seems the very strongest sort
OF proof that the motion picture is
held to be the logical successor of
the bar.
y 1t comes from the camp which has
lost its battle, and which is seeking
now to join forces with an institu-
ton that is to have the popularity
without the odium OF the once pow
erful liquor traffic.
The statesmen and managers who
give their opinions are in territories
which have been dry for a matter of
months or years, as well as from
states where the great debate of the
hour is, "How will things be when it
goes dryl" '
From the territories where the
bone-dry rule has been in effect for
some time comes the fiat statement
that the theaters were helped from
the date that the Prohibition enact
ment went into effect.
From the states which are standing
on the eve of an arid era comes news
of great preparations to convert
liquor money into picture shows, to
build new theaters for the enlarge
ment of others by experienced picture
men, who predicate their acts on OBJ
servations in the states which have
gone dry.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-09-26

full stronghold OF the alcohol forces
of the country.
Now we awaken TO certain facts
which indicate that the true position
fthe alcohol interests of this coun-
try is we'll recognized by the factors
prohting through the heavy alcoholic
consumption. Experience in America
| has shown that the two last argu-
nents of the trade are money and
personal liberties. When the trade is
driven to the use of these arguments
it is sure indication of an approach
to the point of armistice where there
will by concessions, promises and re-
trenchments for the permission to
continue to operate.
There are those who see only the
unlimited consumption OF wines and
heavier alcoholic drinks and the al
most dictatorial power of the trade
in communal, economic and political
channels. They do not realize that
this position of power now not only
is threatened but is seriously threat
ened, the surest indication of this be-
ing the type of arguments presented
by the publicity forces OF the trade
NeXt-to the last stand argument is
now brought to the front-the finan-
cial argument embodying the claim
that wine revenue is necessary to sus-
tain the government. At the time
this argument is presented there
comes the immediate challenge of the
sensible forces of the nation which
analyses the statement of the traffic
on the basis of hard dollars embrace
ing the item of return to the govern
ment against which is shown the eco
nomic loss to the people of the ma
tiv,. fhe figures total up into huge
sums.
Early this spring statement APP
peared covering the item Of revenue
involved in the alcohol trade in
France. This statement, wish cor
rectness, showed that from the price
paid for alcoholic drinks in France
the government received approx
mately 600000,000 francs, of which
100000 would be the states and
200,000,000 the communes' revenue
returns. Taking this statement OF
revenue, which is both accepted and
promulgated by the alcohol interests
of the nation, there is presented by
opposing interests a complete sum-
mary of the expenditure items in
volved in the conduct of the trade to
obtain this revenue. These items are
tabulated as follows:
Francs.
Money paid for alcoholic
drinks in France. $50. 1890, 100000
Days of work lost by
laborers because of
drunkenness ......... 4,Sl3,s55,0oO
Mortality through tubcr-
culosis due to alcohol
$4,000 francs estimated
value of laborer's life) 800,000,000
Days of work required
by laborers in produc-
ton of alcoholic poi
son ................1,2 Oo,OOO,Oo0
Expense for treatment
| and care OF victims of
| alcohol announcement. 100000
Expense for repression
of crimes and suicides,
etc, due to alcoholism. .20,000,000
The supporters of the liquor trade
in France are able to show an esti-
mated (francs) 600,000,000 revenue to
/ the state and communes from the sale
of liquors per year, but they do not
account for the huge discrepancy be-
tween revenue and cost, the general
\ & ..-t...l t. a.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-09-26

The supporters of the liquor trade
in France are able to show an esti-
mated (francs) 600,000,000 revenue to
the state and communes from the sale
of liquors per year, but they do not
account for the huge discrepancy be-
tween revenue and cost, the general
knowledge of which is expected to
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-06-05
Sensations of an
Artists Model
MY POOR RICH MAN

10 believe all the more that he wah
a poor. struggling artist and the
sketches that no was making Of me
l knew DO could not intend Co sell
because We had talked 30 much.
he had not done much work. and
whom IL came time 90 pay me |
felt that l could not take Tho money
from him I looked around at the
bleak room and hla old clothes, and
said 20 myself; II cannot take
this mans money; perhaps no has
not enough 60 buy proper food for
himself | viii make some excuse
not TO take the pay" And 30 | said
20 him Perhaps you need this
money today and you can pay me
some other time"
lie looked at me in surprise and
I thought he was about 90 burst out
laughing. but with an effort no com
troiicd himself and said Eravoiyi
mo. not ht all I have enough to
live on this week anyhow And. be.
sides even ~ had not. YOU must
not refuse 60 take your pay after
you have worked hard for It."
The next time I saw him was az
tho Pig and whistle" In Green.
wich village one 81 his friends
then told me the truth. which was
that this man was quite rich and at
the top OF hia profession as a paint
er Ana 80 the Joke was on me.
and all my friends ask me 10 this
day How l. your poor rich little
artist"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-06-05
Doctor Tells How to Detect
Harmful Effects of Tobacco
Try These SIMPLE TESTS

taking your usual smoke. walk up
three flights of staira at a regular
paee, then stop ff yen find that
you are out Of breath. your heart
beat " forced. trembling or iffeEu-
lar. you may be victim ~ fuuc-
ttonsi or organic heart trouble "
you feel that you must smoke. chew
or snuff 10 quiet your nerves. you
are a slave % the tobacco habit. and
are. positively poisoning yourself
with the deadly drug. nicotine, In
tcTnAsfVes~-keep on with the self.
poisoning process irrespective of
tho dangers. and suffer the cnnae-
auenccn. or give up the habit and go
cape tho dangers You can overcome
the craving and stop the habit in n
very short time By using the follow
ing inexpensive formula 90 10 any
drug store and ask for Sicotoi tab
let's take one tablet after each
meal. and in n comparatively short
time you viii have no desire fer to-
bsceo. the craving will have left you
With the nicotine poison out OF your
system, ycur general health VIII
quickly improve.
lets. one % our leading druggists said
1T a. truly q uonesff,ii remedy for the
tobacco habit. away ahead ~ anything
Ne have ever sold before We are author.
ikcd ~ the manufacturer 20 refund the
money 70 every dissatisfied customer. and
W. would not permit tho u@e Of our
name unless the remedy possessed ua.
usual merit NIcotoi tablets are sold In
this city under an iron-ciad money back
guarantees ~ all up-to.dasa drugxiata
Including nartsll and O. G Guy.