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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-07-24
Gems of Queen
Got Him in Bad

Louis Rernhciiner IN IN" n. Y. World.
DO you care for great jewels?
Have you ever socn "A glittering stone
as big as an egg? Would you iikc
to hold 1t In your hand?
II was the irrcsistible fascination
OF gems that forced mo to question
Joseph Dixon, famous explorer and
man OF fortune. lately returned from
Arkansas-whcrc he claims TO have
discovered n diamond pipc--concern-
Ing the famous emerald OF Mcnclik
H. lie had touched on the tale In
tho course of our conversation, and
after | had persuaded him to con-
tinuc he went on as follows:
"In 1907 | was in Abyssinia. You
have sccu my diary" tyes. | had seen
the alluring chronicle OF His adven-
turcs), hut there IN nothing In II
about the incident. That summer I
was at Adds Abba. tho capital OF
the country ! was dead broke, alb
solutoly stripped, doing odd Jobs
around TO keep myself from starv-
ing,
II did know An Assyrisn trader,
Mister Ydlibi, We always called
him Mister. He was rich man and.
Lord bless you. Il slick article. He
was well known and was the only
fellow had any hopes about. l
kept in touch with him on tho
chance of something turning up.
We'll. one day Mister Ydllhi came
and told me he was ~ a pickle. Ths
emperor wanted him to appraisc his
diamonds.
The Empcror's Emerald.
Now. Ydlibi was n keen trader,
hut ne didn't know anything about
diamonds. did and he knew IT, So
ne cnmc 10 mo 10 help him. and
Jumped at the Job. when | heard
that there was n chance OF secing
the omperor's emerald I got excited.
This emerald was supposed to he
one of the finest In the world. II
was said to weigh over four hundred
car1ts, and to hc worth about half n
million dollars, Everybody knew
about Il.
"1hc story went that Mencllk got
II from an East Indian prince az
present. Thoy are thcrc when Il
comes 90 Jewels
"And nobody outside tho royal
| family had ever seen tho stone.
we were 10 70 TO the place. tho
Jewels would loo brought out | was
70 mako the appraisal OF the dia-
monda and slip the word 20 Ydihi
Then he would pass it off as his own
valuation.
THE day came for us 10 make tho
visit We We're taken TO the palaco
| 10y couple Of messengers dressed
| mp in the regular white costume,
trousers and long coat bare feet,
red sash, bare head and black AZ
the ace OF spades
"Thc room in the emperor's palace
was full Of officials. Ras, Duggars,
/ fiuataris, They had their beet
clothes on, hung with nccklac1~.
bracelets, all dressed In white with
colorcd sashes, and with swords.
spears, knives M their waists. You
might have thought we wcro dan
E'rous. liut ! guess they didn't truWt
un. fearing We might try to get away
with the stones They lined nm
around the walls and watched, I'm
1.-THE middle of the room was a big
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-12-16
NORTHERN ABSTAINERS
ADOPT RESOLUTION

The following resolution was unan-
imously accepted by the Tenth Con-
gress OF Northern Abstaincrs, at
Copenhagen in its session of July 9,
1921. Delegates were present from
Denmark, Esthonia, Finland, Iceland,
Norway and Sweden:
Every civilized and sovereign ma
ton has the inalienable right of legis-
lation upon all moral, hygienic and
social questions and must reject all
interference of other states inc this
right.
Legislation upon alcohol is an I'M
portant part of this legislation. In
toxicating liquors being dangerous for
public health and morality, they
should occupy different place in the
commercial treaties passed between
states to that of ordinary merchan-
disc. Pressure brought to bear by
nations exporting alcohol, upon ma
tons working for temperance, is an
inadmissible infringement of the ma
tional right to free decision.
The Congress, which learns with
deep regret that Iceland and Norway
are now being subjected to this kind
of pressure, respectfully suggests that
the governments of these states and
their national assemblies assert their
rights to free decision in the interest
of their own and all other peoples.
THE Congress requests the central
Northern Committee to forward this
resolution, together with the state
ment of reasons therefor, to the gov
ernments of the northern states.
Moreover, the Congress charges
the international Bureau against alco-
holsm to forward this resolution to
the governments and peoples of the
United State., France, Portugal, and
Spain, as well as to the XVIth inter-
national congress against alcoholism"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-12-16
ENGLISH VISITOR BECOMES
3 ADVOCATE OF PROHIBITION

Dr. R. J. Campbell, former minister
of the City Temple, London, who
spent ten weeks in the United States
this summer, writes in an English
newspaper of recent date:
Il have come back home a con-
WINGED Prohibitionist. If trade is to
recover and genuine national wealth
to be built up once more after the
terrific period of destruction and
waste through which we have passed,
we must somehow get rid of alcohol
ism When all allowance has been
made for evasions of the law, the fact
is still patent to an observer that
America is in a healthier condition
than we-because she does not drink.
One often sees the statement in our
press that more alcohol is consumed
than ever i'll the United States owing
to sheer defiance of the law, but it is
not true. When a man has to pay
forty dollars for a bottle Of whisky he
generally prefers to go without That
police and public officials can be
bribed is, dare say, true enought, but
the fact remains that it is difficult to
procure Intoxicating beverages, and
the community is all the better for it.
Many business men, including the
president of a Chamber of Commerce,
told me that although at first they
had been opposed to Prohibition, they
did not now wish to see it reversed,
ef oerence of its effect having taught
item that it made for moral and
health and increased the
working power of the community. If
for no other reason than that it has
got rid of the drinking saloon, the
generating centre of so much crime
and misery in the past, it is worth sup
porting. Would that 1t could be
adopted here, and that soon."
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-12-16
METHODISM CHIEF ENEMY
OF DRINK IN ENGLAND

The president of the Methodist
Conference of England opened a
speaking campaign in behalf of the
temperance cause in the Grimsb,
area on October Il in George Street
Church, says the Methodist Times oil
London. The Times by way of COM
ment says:
Methodism is going to take a
front place in the fight for a sober
and clean England and the trade
fears no adversary more than the
Methodist Church. The battle
has to be fought on new lines
with new strategic methods. The
young people have to be taught
many things, among which are
the scientific facts about drink
and its results, the difference be-
tween liberty and license.
The president followed the Grimsby
with meetings in Scotland.
Rev. Henry Carter is also appearing
at most of these meetings as one of
the speakers.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-12-16
NEWS" FROM WALDEN
Editorial from the New York
Evening Mail, October "a

If some bootlegger had been ar
rested in Walden, Orange county, or
some dry official had gone wrong, the
news columns of our papers would
accord the incident generous space
and headlines; but all that has hap
pened up in that fine little village of
our state is that the people have re-
solved to sell the village jail, having
had no occupants for several months
past and apparently no further use
for it.
Under the false theory that nothing
is news unless it is vicious or SEN
sational-"u unusual" is the camouhage
term-we suppose that the abandon
ment of Walden's Jail is not news"
But it ought to be impressed upon
those who thoughtles boast that
there is as much liquor drunk today
as ever, that all through the country
following the obliteration of the sa-
loon the village Jail has lost its use
fulness and is also steadily disappear
ing. What has happened in Walden
has happened in most of the towns
and villoges of the country for jails
can not exist where jails do not
flourish. Throughout this state every
county Jail is now a heavy financial
burden upon taxpayers. There are
no longer enough inmates to care for
ii as in other times and most of the
help has to be hired from the outside.
Towns are considering the abandon
ment of their lookup" as Walden
has resolved to do and tho money
saved will mean just SO much more
for schools, health and village I'M
provements.
Good luck, Waidenl Even If your
news" isn't first page stuff.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-12-16

Secretary of British Labor Party
Says Stitch and Dawson "Out On
Their Own

Some time back Messrs, Stitch and
Dawson, who alleged themselves to
be representatives of the British
Labor Party, came to the United
States, spent a little time, went
through the motions of seeking to
learn something about Prohibition
here, and then issued strongly in un-
favorable conclusions which the wet
newspapers of the United States
Eberally featured
The Information Department of
the Anti-Saloor League of New
York asked Mr.. George B. Wilson of
the United Kingdom Alliance of
Great Britain to find out whether
these gentlemen did represent British
Labor. Mr. Wilson replies:
with regard to Stitch and Dawson,
Mr.. Arthur Henderson told me that
they had not Officially represented
the Labor Party but were out entire
ly on their own
The Mr.. Arthur Henderson to
whom Mr.. Wilson refers is the Sec
rotary of the British Labor Party.
One question remains, who con-
cocted this trip of alleged labor
Representatives and who paid the
bills' The signs seem to point in
the direction of those astute gentle
men who occupy places in the House
of Lords and elsewhere, and whose
names appear upon the letterheads of
various British breweries. 1t is not
the first time that a thing OF this sort
has been done by them.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-12-16
REED COOLS OFF
Now Asks Record be Cleared of His
Offensive Language

1t has taken Senator Reed of Mis-
souri, more than three months to act
the man and admit he made sorry
spectacle of himself last August whel.
in a speech in the United States SEN
ate in opposition to the anti-beer bill,
he used the following language in an
alleged description of Congressman
Volstead, author of the Nolstead Pro-
hibition Enforcement Law:
Until the other day never had
the pleasure of seeing the dis
tingushed author of the Nolstcad
Act. His brief biography states
that he was born in the United
States. | am, however, informed
he speaks very broken English.
| do not know what his ancestry
may be, but | do know that
have gazed upon pictures of tie
celebrated conspirators of the
past, the countenances of those
who have led in fanatica1 cru
SADIE, the burners of witches, the
executioners who applied the
torch of persecution, and l saw
them all again when l looked at
the author of this bill
Senators protested against the use
of such language but Senator Reed
lost his head and refused to apologize
and would not ask that his remarks
be expunged from the records of the
Senate. Evidently he cooled down
sufficiently to realize his blunder and
last week asked that the offensive
language be stricken from the perman-
ent records of the Senate.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-12-16
ANCIENT BREWERY MODEL
rs UNEARTHED IN EGYPT

A model OF brewery OF about 1900
B. {. is included among the several
hundred objects which were excavatcd
during the last two seasons in Egypt
by Prof. Flindcrs-Petrie, says the
Philadelphia North American OF No
vember q. The objects have just
been received by the University
museum. All the objects were found
in Tombs at Lahun and Gurab in up
per Egypt.
The brewery model shows about a
dozen employees making beer from
barley A handful of barley was pre-
served but little is left except the out
side hulIs. Contrary to public opinion
grain from ancient tombs never has
been grown.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-12-16
BOOTLEGGERS' AUTOS TO
BE OFFERED AT AUCTION

Approximately 200 automobiles,
property of bootleggers and which
have been seized by Prohibition
agents, are to be offered at public
sale to the highest bidders by United
States Marshall Mathues, says the
Philadelphia North American of No.
vember Is.
The confscated automobiles are
stored in garages throughout Phila-
delphia and eastern Pennsylvania in
cluded in the territory of the Prohi-
bition agents of the Philadelphia dis
trict. All OF the machines are to be
brought to Philadelphia and assembled
at central point and offered for
sale.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-12-16
VAN BUREN, ST, CHICAGO,
is BEING DRY CLEANED

Van Buren, Street, Chicago, in the
old license days was not conspicuous
as shopping street Cheap saloons
predominated. The street is being
transformed in these days of Prohi.
bition. The Chicago Tribune of No
vember Is carries the following news
story under the signature of A
Chase.
Another sign that Van Buren,
is slowly but surely getting it
self into gold shopping street
is shown in the announcement
that the Fort Dearborn Hotel has
decided to move its cafeteria to
the basement and has leased the
entire Van Buren, frontage, 90
feet, to four retail merchants.
The term is ten years and the
total rental according to the
brokers, F. F. Keibler and Com
pany, will be $350,000. The Man
uel Floral Company will occupy
part of what was once the famous
Fort Dearborn Hotel bar 1t Is
claimed the rental figures of
these four leases are among the
highest on the street.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-12-16
DR.. FRIES GIVES HIS
IMPRESSIONS OF DRY LAW
International Secretary of Y. M.
c. A. Spends Month In
America
SAW NO DRUNKENNESS
Expresses Hope That Sweden
Will Follow Example Set
by America
Stockholm, Sweden.
November ), 1921.

Dr. Karl Fries, General Interna-
tional Secretary of Young Mems
Christian Association, a Swede by
birth, now living at Geneve, has Just
returned from four weeks stay at
New York and Chicago, has published
the following statement concerning
how he found Prohibition in America:
The following depicts the impress
sion that | got from the American
Prohibition as | have seen and heard
in different parts OF, America what it
has accomplished:
First let me tell what l did not see.
| did not see one single person that
was in the weakest degree seemingly
intoxicated during nearly four weeks
have spent in New York, Chicago
and other cities. | was much of the
time on the streets, at all times, nights
as well as days.
Il did not see one single person at
the numerous hotels and restaurants
that | visited, who was smuggling in
toxicants
Il did not see anything of immoral
ity that is usually to be seen on the
streets in Paris or London.
According to what authoritative
persons told me, these good conditions
are largely to be ascrbed to the dry
law. They also told me that although
smuggling, -distilling and such
things happen, the enforcement of
Prohibition has been made more sue
.cessful than could really be expected,
and that it has caused evidently good
results in reduction of crimes and
poverty and on the other hand in in
creased efficiency regularity and thrift.
MANY employers who were pre-
viously against Prohibition, have, as
result of the increased order and pune
tuality, efficiency and intensity that
they have seen among their workers,
been converted to followers of Prohi-
bition.
81 wish that Sweden soon may take
the step and follow Americas ex-
ample"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-12-16
WELCOME Home" Ceremony FOR JOHNSON
BEFORE IMMENSE CROWD AT CALCUTTA
Pussyoot Speaks Big Mass Meeting Khaafa
For Cooperation of All Religions For Freedom of
From Drink Indian Papers Champion Prohibition

means suffering to each one OF His
children
The newspapers printed columns
about Johnson's dry crusade every
day during his stay and the photo
graphers and sketch artists worked
overtime. Cable correspondents sent
out the story to various parts of the
world and Mr.. George Pitcher, Indian
correspondents of the Philadelphia
Ledger cabled fourteen hundred
word story all the way to his paper
in America.
Some Opposition
This triumphal entry into Calcutta
was the elimination of series of
events through the United Provinces
and the Provinces of Behar and
Orissa, which caused much comment
The Associated Press" of India,
which, rnline the Associated Press
of America, is a privately owned con-
Germ and some of its owners are in
terested i'll the liquor business, in
structed its correspondents to abstain
from reporting Johnson's speeches.
But the local and special correspon-
dents more than made up for that de-
hciency.
1t is a curious and significant fact
that, without a single exception, every
vernacular newspaper and every Eng
lish newspaper owned by an Indian in
India is championing the Prohibition
cause. On the other hand, excepting
few missionary and temperance
papers, every newspaper i'll India
owned by a Britisher is opposing
Prohibition. This is serving to ac-
centuate the existing troubles be-
tween the two races.
Booze at Johnson's Party
At Agra, a curious affair happened.
By some freak of fortune, the man
agement of Johnson's visit there was
placed in the hands of the Aman
Sabha, a conservative political organ
ization formed to oppose the non-co-
operative movement, the president of
which is Mr.. Burnley Smith, the
British Commissioner for that dis
trict. A meeting was arranged for
Johnson to speak in St. Johns
Church, to be followed by garden
party on the lawn back of the church.
The crowded church repaired to the
lawn when to the astonishment of
everybody, Commissioner Smith pro-
duced a whisky bottle, took the first
drink and passed what was left of it
around Because of this, the Aman
Sabha or Agra and the head of the
British government for that district
did not magnify their interest in the
temperance cause very much. Com
missioner Smith and his bottle of
whisky became the talk of the whole
province.
Quick Results
At Benares, the "Holy City" of the
Hindoos, Johnson was entertained at
a tea party by the Faculty of the
great Hindoo University. The prin-
cipal rally held in the Town Hall, was
presided over by Bhagwandas, Pro-
fessor of the Hindoo religion in the
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-12-16

University. At the close OF Johnson's
address. Prof. Bhagwandas arose and
dramatically called upon any member
Of the Municipal Council who might
be present to pledge himself before
the audience to work in the council
to bring about Prohibition for
Benares. Immediately, the Profess
sor's son, who was a member OF the
council, arose and publicly declared
that as long as he was a member OF
the council, he would fight for the
prohibition OF the drink traffic.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-12-16
WORKING EASY MARKS"
ON BEER AND WINE FAKE

One Parks, self-styled president of
the American Common Sense League,
an ti-Prohibition organization, was
arrested on October p, says the
Seattle Post Intelligencer, and held
under an open charge. The belief is
that he swindled several hundred
Seattle citizens of anti-Prohibition
tendencies out of money by an alleged
swindle purporting to seek the repeal
of the Volstead act.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-12-16

At Benares, the Holy City of the
Hindoos, Johnson was entertained at
tea party by the Faculty of the
great Hindoo University. The prin-
cipal rally held in the Town Hall, was
presided over by Bhagwandas, Pro-
fessor of the Hindoo religion in the
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-12-16
Many Meetings

Beginning with luncheon a few
hours later given him by the Rotary
Club of Calcutta, there followed in
rapid succession a series of functions,
sectional meetings, workers meetings,
dinners, all eliminating in a monster
mass meeting at Mirzapur Park, pre-
sided over by Nitya Banarji, mem
Der of the Bengal Legislative Council
and Professor of English Literature
in the University of Calcutta. Tele-
grams and letters of greetings were
read from The Metropolitan OF India,
The Minister of Excise of Bengal,
DR.. Babndranath Tagore, the great
Hindoo poet, and others. More than
ten thousand people crowded around
the table from the top of which John
son spoke, his speech being inter
preted by one oil the Khalafat leaders
who himself made a great plea for
cooperation on the part of all re-
ligions in working for the freedom of
India from the great drink curse.
"The soul of all religion" he said,
essentially teaches one thought and
that there is one Father above in
Heaven and that we-every one of us
whether we call ourselves Christians,
Hindoos, Mohammedans of Parsees,
are His little children. And just as
there is one Father in Heaven and we
are all his children, so is it also true
that suffering to one of his children
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-12-16
PATRIOTIC COMMON SENSE

I'm not Puritan, think;
i rather like my little drink,
And yet to me
1t seems I'd be
A pretty rotten sport,
IT, just to get nip or two
OF stuff that's legally Taboo
I should defy
That law that |
Ought rightly to support
It's plain bad craftsmanship claim
To help the great bootlegging game,
For those who choose
To smuggle booze
Are Just the same old
OF thugs and law-defying knaves
Who reused our anger into waves
And brought about
The laws they fout
Just as they used to dol
If booze from such as these bought
I'd be tormented by the thought
That was aid
In making trade
For rogues who ought to hang;
Some folks may view it otherwise,
But if those rogues you patronize
And pay them pelf--
You make YOURSELF
partner with the gang
Perhaps you keep your self-respect,
Despite these partners you select
Perhaps you feel
bootleg deal
Is clever as can be;
But you'll excuse me, if say
That when you view the thing that way
You sort
Of rotten sport
Or so it looks to mel
Copyright 1921 N A. Service and repubshed by perm
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-12-16

On October llth, Calcutta the sec
ond city of the British Empire, gave
"Pussyfoot" Johnson, the American
"dry" campaigner, a most royal well
come. As the Punjab mail pulled
into the Howrah station, at seven
o'clock in the morning, a great shout
went up from thousands of threats.
The railway station was carpeted and
flags and bunting appeared every
where. The great crowd not only
filed the railway station but filled the
streets on the outside. Representa-
tives of numerous civil and social
bodies were on hand and five short
addresses of welcome were given
from a little table arranged for that
purpose.
Johnson was welcomed formally in
behalf of the Hindoos, the Moham-
medans, the Europeans, the women's
organizations and the Good Templar
lodges. Then followed a beautiful in
cident. Little Bina 'Das, a thirteen
year old Hindoo girl, stepped forward
and ceremonially placed a little red
stain on Johnson's forehead, the
orthodox Hindoo family custom in
welcoming back home brother. 1t is
ceremony almost never extended to
any one but member of the family.
Johnson, much affected by the demon
stration, responded in few words.
81 am unable to believe" said he,
chat this great demonstration is ex-
tended to me for my own self. But
rather it is because of the country
from which | came and because of the
great cause with which my name is
associated"