The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-09-10
-, MIC VILLAGE UNCHANGED.

special Letter to the daaette.)
cs,csro. August l5.--After an abb
- q more than year, l returned
rs,csso a few days ago expecting
some changes. or course there
huildings that were not in exist
-. when left, and many OF those
s's,eh we're once cslled sky scrapers
:. having their roofs showed nearer
s..,eu BY the building of additional
....,.s. new streets are laid out and
mar thoroughfares are being cut
.sroush to the south, west and north.
n. wonderful new Rush street bridge
-. been finished and has been in Use
~ several months and there are
m.ny wonderful changes visible to the
..,ootsr--for Chicago must" go for
..rd in that line-but the changes 1
,.ored for (but did not especially
sone tori are OF different character.
wheu turned my face westward a
-, aso the saloons were at q low
~ and the anti-booze crusaders
-. on their toes for all violators of
~ eighteenth amendment; it was
,;aky business for saloon man to
ali whisky, and not one per cent OF
:. 1000 booze emporiums took the
.h.nce Of being raided by the pr0hi-
s,,,on enforcement outfit. Now it Is
atfarent: the saloon that does not
.,.slv sell "hootch" Is a curiosity and
=, but q few have real beer ON tap.
~ price Of the former is six bits, and
,.,v about two fingers is served at a
.hot At that, while the real suds" is
A.l,vered at the uniform price Of Is
anita glass. | am not particularly in
s.vor Of law violation, but 1t appears
- m. that IL the amendment is to be
,ronArly enforced the authorities re-
.nonsible for its enforcement should
hire men with two good eyes and not
/, flock Of boneheads from blind asy-
lums. The only difference in Chicago
aince the saloons were. in theory, put
ant Of business is that the city derives
m revenue from liquor licenses.
where prior to June 30 1919. the 1000
aaloons paid into the city treasury the
,um Of $1,000, 900 annually. Chicago is
broke-there is not a cent available
with which to pay salaries of the city
employees and has not been for sew
eral weeks. The banks refuse to dis
count the city's scrip, and those who
hold municipal jobs are up against it.
sun, have not heard of any of them
quitting on that account-a city job
Il too good thing to cast aside. Per-
hsps the fact that the treasury is
empty has something to do with the
general lack of interest in prohibition
enforcement. The cabarettes are in
'fuli swing. and nobody cares what
happens-it's certainly the same old
nee and easy village by the lake.
Chicago hates to go backward. Some
Ifolls who object to the great number
n deaths BY automobiles In past years
started q campaign to reduce such
casualties: with record Of more than
80 killed in 1919 to their credit, the
speed fiends evidently disliked to fall
below, and as evidenced that they are
soIag to make good in 1920 they have
low 3S4 to their credit and nearly
me months still to 60 on. The muir
a. record Of last year probably will
aot b equaled as there have been
oily about 120 murders SO far this
ysar; which small number may be due
% the fact that there have been num-
erous hangings since the efirst of jan
ualy, and there are now in the county
IN fifteen condemned to hang, a dozen
Il whom are scheduled to be topped"
tAe first week in October.