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The New York herald., 1921-04-10
High Prices and Bad WhiSkey
Prevent Many From Drinking

For ninety-nine hundredths of the
United States, yes" Langley said "As a
matter of fact most of the country Is pretty
dry right now. Liquor Is so expensive and
SO bad in most places where 1t is accessible
ut all that few buy except men conf med
in their addiction. The only true wet spots
are the big cities and along the border.
Talking about the bic cities | heard a
story about Chicago the other day. true
story It's supposed TO he 4 man told me
that he went TO Il physician to get n pre-
scription for a pint Of whiskey and that
he found string Of people reaching from
the doctors office half way down the
block, and that when he finally got inside
doc was ripping off the prescriptions as
fast as he could write. hardly looking up
except to grab his fee. Things are not that
bad in New York yet. Physicians rs rule
play the game pretty squarely.
But 1t will be long time before this
great city actually goes arid. have indi
Gated why. Much booze Is hidden In and
around New York. 1t Is seaport and
some Will always be smuggled in. IL is
very accessible from the Canadian border
and doubtless much will continue to come
from our friends Of the north. Then II will
never be possible to prevent some alcohol
being diverted from medicinal to beverage
purposes. And finally there will be the
home distilled home brewed stuff
Its going to take n long time, maybe
whole generation, for public opinion Ia New
York to .change as regards the prohibition
law The fact Il, New York doesn't seem
to care for the Eighteenth Amendment and
it's stepchild, the Nolstead at. But we Of
the enforcement agencies will just have to
rack along doing the best we can"
The New York herald., 1921-04-10
HugheS'S Attitude Involves
Duties to Friends and Old Enemies

But coming 10 power and responsibility,
the new Administration found two problems
confronting VI. Germany had defed our
associates. refused 10 comply with the terms
Of the Treaty Of Versailles, both ~ 10 dis
armament ana ~ 10 reparatons She re.
lied upon us for aid and expected that
action ~ the incoming Republicans would
enable her to escape her conquerors On
the other hand, our recent associates. while
still demanding our sympathy and cooper
alton continued 10 refuse 10 grant TO rs
the restoration of the slender rights which
wc had preserved NJ Paris
Secretary Hughes, then he'd TO face two
duties. II was essential 20 deprive the
Germans of the smallest basis for Their be-
lief that the United States would consent
70 play their champion. that we would be
led by anti-Britlsh emotions to back Ger
many. II was not less necessary tc demon
ctrate 70 the British, Japanese and the
French that we were In no mood to tilk
with them as friends. MS induigent and sym
pathetic friends while they continued to
follow course. which in our eyes seemed
~ bc inimical to our interests and con.
The New York herald., 1921-04-10
That All World Will Stop
At Americas Voice Is Legend

| know there is very general impress
sion that the new Administration has only
to take one decisive step and the whole
world will be influenced by that step. We
have only to speak and our voice will per-
suade nations to abandon their present
courses whether the British course jim Ire
land and MesopotaIha the French oa the
Rhine and in Syria, the Italian in the Bal
kans, or. for that matter, the Polish and
Rumanian on the confines of Russia. But
this Is a legend which has survived from
the peace conference and will probably die
only after long time.
III you analyze what Mr.. Hughes has
done so far recalling that every decision
which he has made has been made in con
sultation with the President, / think you
viii perceive that underlying it is a double
purpose-to meet the immediate issue with
n sufficient clarity and to reserve to the
United States full freedom of action in the
larger field 1t seems to me he is striving
TO regain that complete freedom of action
which was measurably lost at Paris, to
establish the principle that we stand
squarey with our former associates on the
issue fought ont in the war but to indi-
cate that no solidarity on that issue carries
with II the sacrifice or essential American
interests or the subordination Of legitimate
American pights to the purposes of another
III the world Is to bee saved from chaos
from economic diSintegraton. sooner or
later there must Ice some common ground
Of action. economic rather than political
If there Is world chaos the United States
will suffer acutely; il Is now suffering he
cause there is proximate chaos. To suppose
that we can remain isolated from the world
while dislntegratlon or reorganization takes
place Is 10 suppose something absurd. But
before there can he useful cooperation there
has got 10 he sound basis-a basis sound
not only intrnscaIly. but appealing 10 the
American people as sound. Such basis
will not be created in day. but all hope of
IL may he destroyed in an hour If the perls
are little obvious to country naturally I'M
patient. they are plain to those who have
the responsibility.
And to sum up, N seems 10 me that Mr.
Hughes M to the present moment has been
striving to establish this basis by two proc
csses the first expression In tho clear warn
ing 10 Germany. the second In the necessarily
more restrained hut hardly less definite in
tlmation to our allies Of Yesterday that one
Of the duties Of a Government Is 10 defend
the rights Of It's country-its rights and It's
interests-even against friends Moreover
either process were overlooked in Europe.
Copmighf, 1921. bV The Mcclure Newspaper
SVndicdtc.
The New York herald., 1921-04-10

above all, in the matter Of Yap. We are
willing to be friendly, considerate, generous
according to our own lights but 10 be hood
wnked, deceived, separated from things we
hold our own, made the victims of a foreign
policy, of diplomacy far more adroit in
operation than our own-on this score the
answer in good American Argot is frankly :
Nothing doing"
This, 1t seems to ME, is about as far as
the new Administration has progressed in
its foreign policy up to date, save in the
case Of Russia, but there too, there has been
clarity. We are not going to associate with
murderers in order to pursue imaginary
trade and we are not going to recognize a
system of government which is founded
upon an injudicious combination of assas-
sination with anarchy, merely to lay hands
on probematical concessions. AS TO Russia,
we are not without patent reason, still
from Missouri, just as in the case OF
Germany we are still signatores Of the
Treaty of Versailles so far as it affect, ter
rltories and reparations payments.
The New York herald., 1921-04-10
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of course your face was no1 known, and
get u drink Saloon keepers sell nowadays
only to people they know and can rely on
not to give evidence against them There
seems to- be very numerous class Of such
persons Then, too, they keep little liquor
in the place, sometimes renewing the sup
ply half a dozen times in the course Of the
day from n hiding place in the neighbor-
hood 1t is served from pitchers often so
that the damaging fluid can be tipped into
sink or into knothole before an invad-
ing officer can seize it.
In some places the proprietors wilt sell
booze only in small TASKS, which the patron
must buy entire and from which he must
serve himself Other places keep the chain
on the door to give time for getting rid Of
evidence in case of a raid. The stratagems
are endless. ] don't say it is hard to get a
drink in New York If one is known. Other
wise it is tough proposition.
The New York herald., 1921-04-10

great riddle of how payment is to be made
or absorbed. 1t does not preclude the pos
sibility that payment may be found in
something besides money, service or goods.
1t merely established the principle, which
has been adopted by the Harding Admins
tration, that the loans are not to be wiped
out without some sorl Of return and that
discussion on such a proposal would be
mere waste of time.
Yet even here in establishing principle,
the Administration has demonstrated us
desire to avoid any semblance of injustice.
Conceding that there must be some sort of
payment public statements indicate that
pending satisfactory adjustment Of perma-
ment sort there Is great disI osition on the
part of those responsible to avoid embar-
RAISING or crippling our debtors by asking
for too prompt or too excessive payments
at the moment, If we ale unwilling to be
benefactors we shall not be usurers or even
over-exigent creditors
Now look backward for a moment and
see what this frankly slow but not neces-
sarily halting or imprecise policy has lei
to. We have not committed ourselves to
anything so far as European entangements
are concerned. But we have indicated that
the purpose Of the new Administration is
to sustain our allies in the realization of
what was their established right as a con
sequence of the common victory. We have
not only avoided but repulsed all efforts by
the Germans to use us for their ends in the
great European game they are playing.
They know now that If they refuse to pay
if they refuse to dsarm. the punishment
which follows will not awaken our protest
The New York herald., 1921-04-10
Proof Not Without Germany That She Must
Acknowledge Guilt Pay Hughes Also About Ready Demand
the Few Crumbs That Were Comng Us From the Paris Peace Table

tions are at peace and doing business with
the German. But there is a valid reason
why we should not permit our action to in
jure Britain or France or benefit Germany,
when German policy has entitled Germany
to no such benefit
/ do not undertake to forecast that the
Knox resolution will be passed, although it
seems probable. 1t may he that the Treaty
Of Versailles, minus every League of Ma
tions circumstance, viii be put through.
But l am sure that whatever way may be
chosen to make peace with Germany the
German will draw no open or concealed
support for resistance therefrom. So much
Is written into everything that the new Adj
ministration has said or done, and this Is
not small thing for our European friends,
even if it falls far short of the maximum of
their hopes.
1t is doubtless accurate to say that the
new Administration is fcelina its was and
that the predominant characteristic is eau
ton, but not only is this natural, but also,
in the midst of all the caution, there does
not seem to be as much real as appa rent
confusion. After all, Mr.. Hughes's IIob-
lem, under President Harding, is one of the
which has ever confronted Secretary of
State. He has get to construct foreign
policy. So far. in the larger sense, we have
never had one. save as the absence of
policy has constituted one.
And in undertaking this gigantic task
Mr.. Hughes has to start, not into the will
derness, tangled to be sure, but untro' den,
but into forest which has been swept by
fire and blocked by timber fall There are
as many trees down as up Moreover he
has not leisure to elaborate his plans.
There is something pressing ut every hour
Of the day. Every step. TOO, necessitates
counting the effect i'll remote Europe and In
adjacent regions on Capitol Hill. 1t the
responsibility Is mainly his. the power is
very far from resting in his hands alone.
Taking the German case. as an example ::
If Mr. Hughes fails to give clear evidence
that the United States stanGs with Great
Britain. France with the Allies in the asser-
tion of the principle that Germany must
pay. as the guilty aggressor, we shall have
new German resistance and following that
The New York herald., 1921-04-10
Sees Finish of Gin Mills
Under New State Law

Eventually these saloons will go out of
business. wish could have put them out
myself, but with the insignificant staff !
have that is impossible. 1t is my opinion
that the new state enforcement law making
the police force enforcement agents means
the finish Of the corner gin mill / don see
how the saloons can buck that game. Not
only will the heads of the force be held per-
sonally responsible by the Governor for
strict enforcement but the saloonkeepers
are definitely threatened with ruin by pro-
visions Of the act authorizing damage suits
by their patrons for selling liquor. If the
Governor means business / predict that the
cdict will 20 straight down through the
force and that the saloon must quit. There
may be some grating for a while, but It
won't last long. in my judgment
without this new State law / don't see
now the saloons could have been closed up
very soon or how much progress could have
been made in prohibition enforcement in
New York Before the new law there were
only 10 men at work TO catch violators.
That is the whole size of my field force in
this city.
"As Chief Supervising Agent for the State
Of New York have under me the stagger-
ing force Of 175 men, including Office at
taches. In our three sub-oflices at Buffalo,
Syracuse and Auburn we keep an agent and
4 stenographer on duty and ten or a dozen
inen in each field. As said, we have only
eighteen men to watch the Canadian border
with its ia smugglers' gateways. In this
city we need nj least 500 men, If not 1000,
inste0d of the bare 125 we have The way
we are organized In this city the territory
from the Battery 10 Fourteenth street con
stitutes an enforcement district, with it's
own staff of agents. Then comes the terri
tory between Fourteenth and Fortysecond
streets. with Its staff; the territory between
Forty-sccond and 125th streets; the terri
tory from 125th street northward: The
Bronx, district in itself, and then Brook
lyn, which includes Queens and Staten
Island For these grca. stretches Of terri
The New York herald., 1921-04-10

Trajectory of their fepeated assertions Of
friendship
All action at the capital from Ma h 4
to the present moment has turned around
these points. Stripped of all of the fiuesse
Of diplomacy, the Harding Administration
has been saying to the Germans: you must
pay. The question of the reasonableness
of the allied claims against you is not now
open 10 debate. 1t will not be open TO de-
bate, so far as we are concerned, until
there Is some evidence of your recognition
of the moral and the legal obligation. Until
YOU have demonstrated proper app ecia-
tion of this fact, the United States asso-
cates itself with its recent allies +"
This sentiment was expressed in many
ways. 1t was expressed with great clarity
in our postponement Of the withdrawal of
our troops from the Rhine, IN the discus
sion of the postponement OF the passage
of the Knox resolution, finally in the in
spired declaration Of policy, which came
with the first Viviani conferences. Berlin,
moreover. indicated that some direct in
timation had been conveyed through other
channels to the German Government.
The New York herald., 1921-04-10
The Fight to Make New York City "Dry"

tory we have only few men using about
fifteen in Brooklyn most of the time and a
dozen in The Bronx. There are times that
we simply haven't 4 man to spare Tor a
problem that comes jumping at US.
do you have confidence in your agents?
DO you believe that the majority of your
subordinates are honest?"
Il do" said Langley. Il have only been
here little while. i haven't had al. the
opportunity / need to study the personnel.
But ] have watched the men pretty closely
and ] have talked TO all of them. / be-
lieve they are square men. If find one of
The New York herald., 1921-04-10
Will America Ask for Chips
She Left on Paris Poker Table?

At the same time not less clear eSpres-
sion was found for the other question:. 1t
is not the fault of the United States Gov
ernment, of the new Administration, If the
british, the French. the Italians do not now
understand that before there can be any
satisfactory discussion OF a variety of mat
ters intensely interesting to them there
must be restoration of some of the con-
ditions which existed when we quit the
conference table. To be sure we left the
table and our departure might serve as a
pretext, at least, for the division of our
chips. if one may venture upon a poker
figure of speech, but, since the question Is
now of our coming back at ne suggestion
Of our former associates we may well ask
that former conditions be restored il adj
vance of our return.
More than this, expression has also been
given to the purpose not to cancel the
foreign loans. This does not mean that
President Harding or his Secretaries of
State and Of the Treasury have solved the
The New York herald., 1921-04-10
A ttitude Toward Germany Presents
Many Angles, All Worth Study

Every sensible man recognizes as one of
the most conspicuous members OF the new
Administration recently said to me, that we
are and must remain economically intermn-
gled in European affairs beyond all present
hope of extrlcation. But II is equally neces-
>ary said the same commentator TO appre-
ciate the fact that il was the will Of the
country expressed in the referendum of last
fail TO avoid all political entangleEients
and TO escape from such entanglements as
still survived from the last Administration.
But escape is not easy. In the first place.
in certain respects momentary escape has
been had at price which is not within the
wish Of the nation to pay. At Paris our
representatives gave no attention to ma
terial advantages affecting the United
states. Only in the matter Of mandates.
cables and, perhaps, of Zap did they even
reserve the right to America to participate
ia the fruits Of the common victory. For
al Of our sacrifices and efforts we had to
show only problematical rights in these re-
spects when President Wilson came home.
Yet even these problematical advantages
disappeared when the Senate repulsed the
treaty. Europe went calmly ahead and al
located or abolished those slender gains for
from the war. NeNprIueleSS, AT the sdHle
moment and on every occasion since that
time Europe has clamored that we should
return TO the place which we vacated. Ap-
peals based upon alleged duty, upon ques-
tions Of humanity, upon matters of selfish
interest have been showered upon the
United States from the moment of Paris
onward. and all Of these appeals met the
Administration which came to power =
month ago.
The difficulties OF the situation were pat
ent IN the first place il was dear that both
President Harding and Secretary Hughes
looked at the war from far different point
If view than had Mr.. Wilson. With him It
had been i case Of the league or nothing
lie was little moved by any feeling for our
associates in the war: for him the Germans
ceased TO he enemies on the morning Of
November H. lie was neither interested in
helping our friends nor concerned in the
task of holding our recent enemies to the
terms Of the treaty. When the Senate re-
iected the League Of Nations he folded his
hands
The New York herald., 1921-04-10
Simple Slope Indicator

A KNOWLEDGE OF the actual slope
"A OF a road is often OF considerable
Importance 10 automoblists be-
cause Il affords an explanation Of the
varying action Of the motor and means
OF quickly adjusting the mechanism.
one Of the simplest slope indicators IS
that Of the French, a vertical tube fixed on
the front of graduated scale like ther-
mometer and containing column OF liquid
which Is so adjusted as to stand at zero In
the middle Of the tube when the road is
level and to indicate either an upward or
downward slope by Its rise OF fall along the
scale.
The liquid in the tube Is connected with
a reservoir placed behind the scale. and rises
or falls as the automobile ascends or de-
sccnds o slope. showing both the fact and
the degree Of inclination.
The New York herald., 1921-04-10
By FRANK II. SIMONDS.

- HE last few days Fave seen the strik-
ing refutation Of The Wilsouian
doctrine that American influence
upon world affairs could only be eN-
pressed in Paris and that our presence our
diplomatic presence, in Europe was condi-
ton antecedent to all possible solution Of
war problems. To-day I is Washington
ana not in Paris that problems of world
policy are being discussed and Europe
events are patiently waiting upon American
decisions.
II is not merely the Vivian mi sion
which emphasizes the dominant position the
United States occupies in the world. this
is but the most conspicuous Of a series of
incidents Thus. while ,iviani was arriv-
inc Germany was indicating through in
direct channels that she sought American
assistance and was manifestly and for OBJ
vious reasons anxious not alone TO involve
the United States in the reparations tange
hut also 10 transfer 70 America some cf the
accounts owed 70 her European conquerors
10 judge from Berlin statements, even be-
fore viviani arrived Berlin had suggested
that we take over some Of the allied claims.
What is more important, before Viyiani
arrived thus giving clear evidence of
decision reached without, any French or
allied suggestion the United States reElied
and Berlin noted the reply and revealed
ii in press despatches-that the United
States regarded the moral responsibility of
Germany for the war as established beyond
debate and, as consequence. her financial
liability, up to the limit of possibility,
equally beyond discussion.
After Viviani arrived the same root con-
ception found new expressions. and II may
well be that before this article reaches my
readers what was disclosed without the
use of any official name as the policy Of
the United States in the German matter,
that is the conviction that Germany should
pay up to the limit, will find new utterance
either from the President or from the Sec
retary of State. Here. then we touch some
thing fundamental in the Meter of policy
But there are many angles, many details
vet 10 be established, and in the present
article / mean to discuss the situation both
as il affects American and European situa-
tionS
The New York herald., 1921-04-10

following up the permits issued by the State
Director" he replied. You can see the
Importance of this checking up on six or
seven different kinds OF permits covering
millions of gallons of alcohol. Take Grug-
gists alone. There were 39000,000 gallons
of grain alcohol released in 1920 for pat
ent medicines hair tonics and such, three
times as much as ever before, and checking
up on these items involved an immense
amount of work. Another important ac-
tivity is district sleuthing in which our
men cover certain bits of territory at GER
tain times, visiting all saloons and sus-
pected places; entering into conversation
with all kinds of people working with po-
licemen wherever possible in getting in
formation and using their best common
sense and alertness in getting on the track
of law violators. We change men from dis
trct 70 district. preferring not to keep one
crew too long in any territory.
comes to us from informers, people usually
with grudge TO pay off. Often 1t is an
onymous. a mysterious phone call or note,
that If we visit such and such place at
such and such time we will be sure to
get results. The prohibition law has fur
nshed way for lots of people to pay Off
old scores, it would seem ana Uncle Sam IS
the gamer thereby"
We'll, what's going to be the eventual
results-will prohibition really get down to
prohibition?'
The New York herald., 1921-04-10
Regard the German IS "Boche"
Unsympatheric to Us Still

AS for our former associates, they KNOW
that we are friendly, sympathetic, willing
to lend all OF our moral aid to their difficult
task OF dealing with German who re-
mains, for the half mt least "Boche" III
spirit and in action. But they must also
perceive that President Harding and his
Secretary of State look with no little susp-
cion and frank resentment upon certain
sharp practices which have been disclosed
in the case of mandates Mesopotamiq oil !;
The New York herald., 1921-04-10

them betraying me he will know that some
thing has hit him. | will try to get more
pay for these men. Uncle Sam doesn't seem
TO realize that it is difficult to get intelli-
gent, vigorous, incorruptible men for a pit
tance Enforcement agents get about S1,7O0
a year. They should have $1,000. l be-
lieve there would be less disposition for
men to go wrong and that better class of
men would be drawn into the service
'What are the principal ways in which
you get tips and evidence?" Chief Langley
was asked.
THE first and most important way is