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The north Mississippi herald., 1921-04-01
BORING FOR GAS AT JACKSON

The test well for gas on the Elton
plantation five miles south of Jack
SON is down $50 feet, according to
Driller D. M. Mcmillan, who declares
that something definite" should de-
velop within day or two.
A limited amount of gas was struck
at this well several days ago. The
necessary casing has arrived and the
work is progressing rapidly.
The north Mississippi herald., 1921-04-01
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

Mr.. Kilby Wiltshire, SON Of Mr..
and Mrs. w. r. Wiltshire Of this city,
and Miss Annie Bankstrom, were
married at 10 o'clock Sunday morn
ing. Judge G. T.. Chadwick perform
ed the ceremony at his residence.
The newly married couple will
make their home with the groom's
parents who reside on a truck farm
just north Of the city.
The north Mississippi herald., 1921-04-01

No need now Of wearing that suit,
all out of shape, when you can get it
pressed in fine shape for only so
cents at Happy's Pressing Club.
The north Mississippi herald., 1921-04-01

Remember the price now is only
Soc for pressing a suit at Happy'a
Pressing Club.
The north Mississippi herald., 1921-04-01
Colds Cause Drip and influenza

LAXATIVE BROMO QUNINE Tablets remove the
cause. There ls only one 'BrOm0 Quinine
W CROWF'S slsnssmr@ IN ~. ah
The north Mississippi herald., 1921-04-01
NOTICE TO Ex-SERvICE MEN

All Ex-Service men are requested
and urged to meet at the New Ma
sonic Temple on Sunday, April 3rd
at 2:30 p. m. wearing civilian clothes
with "Victory Medals" worn on left
breast.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-04-08
CHAIN GANG FOR S. C. B0OzERS
Representative Hamblin Champions
Welfare of Youth of the Palmetto
State
Ida A. Green)

Representative Hamblin of South
Carolina has been trying to get bill
through the House OF Representa-
tives of that state providing for
chain-gang sentences for violations
of the Prohibition laws. The tenn
perance people in South Carolina feel
such a bill would be a long step to-
wards curing the evils of illicit stills,
moonshining and bootlegging. At the
present time the bootlcggers make
so much money that fines are a small
matter to them. A chain-gang SEN
tencc, however, would be different.
In Swansea a strong law and order
league sent in resolution to the
Legislature approving of this meas
ure and it would be we'll for churches
and individuals to write their repre-
sentatives about it.
Representative Homafan when the
bill came up spoke in favor of the
liberty of the liquor interests, instead
of the liberty of the people who wish
to defend their homes. The voters
should remember this when they have
a chance to vote for Honahan again
and send someone to represent them
who stands for the home.
But it was Representative Jackson
of Sumter, South Carolina, who killed
the bill by making fun of the effort
of the Legislature to make their state
law-abiding and safe for young boys
and girls.
As Sumter is a town which stands
strongly for decency and law, the cit
izens there will undoubtedly find
someone to represent them in the
state Legislature who will not find it
a joke to make good laws for the
state.
The women of South Carolina are
not going into politics for politics
sake, but many of them are going to
make their votes count when it comes
to electing a new Legislature.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-04-08
DRYS GAIN 10000 IN
BAY STATE ELECTIONS

Additional returns from the town
meetings of Massachusetts continue
dry gains and with 81 towns still to
hear from the dry majority is 22,304,
a gain over last year of nearly 10000.
The proposition that is being voted
upon by these towns is one to license
the sale of beer and so-called light
wines as provided for in the rs per
cent beer bill passed by the last Leg
islature and approved by the people
at referendum.
The returns indicate that the people
did not fully understand the beer pro-
posal which was referred to them I'M
der the guise of law enforcement
measure. The vote clearly indicates
that there is no desire on the part
OF the majority of the people of
Massachusetts to make any exception
i'll favor of the brewer in the matter
of Prohibition.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-04-08
DRYNE:SS GIVES BAY STATE PROBATION
MEN TIME FOR CONSTRUCTIVE WORK
Dreary Uninspng Task of Savng DRINKS Has Given Place
Inspiring Work of Rebuilding the Music and Dream in
Drink-Wrecked Lives; More Effective Work Done

The Boston Herald of March 20 I'M
der the caption Prohibition Allows
Real Reform Work by Probation Of
fcers," tells an interesting story OF
how with the passing of the saloon
the probation officers of the state
now have time to do real constructive
work, investigating many cases that
never come to the judicial attention OF
the judges. The following are ex-
cerpts from the article;
Noteworthy progress in the ac-
complishment of the more important
purposes of the probation laws OF
Massachusetts has been brought about
by Prohibition. Until last year, the
first full year of Prohibition, the work
of probation officers was chiefly hand
ling common 'drunbs'
"The passing of the legalized sa-
loon has reduced that uninspiring
task by about two-thirds and proba-
ton officers formerly not much more
than seekers of salvage, always of
doubtful value in dreary field of STU
pid inebriatcs, have become earnest
workers in the important duty of
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-04-08

differentiating between subjects who
are really criminal and those who have
strayed from the paths of aw-abiding
because of accidents OF mental or
physical defects or by force of tenn
porarily adverse conditions.
when the State Commission on
Probation was established in 1909
more than 81 per cent of the work of
the probation officers was dealing with
.drunks. The daily task of the officer
i'll an average district was to go to the
police station in the early morning
and there sort out from the unlovely
company of alcoholics gathered by the
police in the preceding twenty-four
hours such offenders as he regarded
as fit to be released without being
arraigned before the judge. The
work became one of dulling routine
and in many instances came to be
urged chiefly for the relief of con-
gestioh in court rather than the re-
form of the DRINKS. :.
"The whole number of arrests for
drunkenness in Massachusetts for the
latest fiscal year of the probation
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-04-08
BROOKLYN DISTRICT ATTY
NOTES BIG DRY CHANGE
Year Ago, 200 Saloons Flour
ished in City; at Present
Fewer Than 1000
CLEANUP is PREDICTED
Liquor Permits Decrease From
$4,000 Last Year to $50
This Year

The Brooklyn Eagle of March II
quotes District Attorney Leroy w.
Ross in an address on Prohibition en-
foreement delivered before the mems
club Of the Fort Hamilton Presby-
terrain church, as saying:
last year there were more than
ZOO saloons doing business in the
city while at the present day there
are less than 1000 and when we get
the injunctions against property that
tend to permit saloons to flourish
there will be hardly any of the rum
dispensaries. The ensuing year will
see a decrease of permits from the
original number which stood at the
appalling figure of $1,000 to below $50.
We will have the town pretty we'll
cleaned up soon.
at is a hard job because OF the
opposition. At one time it was diff
cult to get conviction on account OF
the indifference of juries. In spite of
all the talk i'll the newspapers and
otherwise, Prohibition is being en-
forced and is in effect now. That
does not mean no one can get a
drink. for there is not man in town
who is known by bartender who
can't get a drink ii he wants it. The
strangers are the only ones who find
it hard to indulge.
81 have often wondered at the pros
porous gentleman who stops at his
club and pays a dollar and fifty cents
for a drink and thinks what clever
fellow he is for putting one over on
the government. Every time he
laughs it is being re-echoed and is
used by those long-haired agitators
who want to show how weak the gov
eminent is. Take away respect for
the government and you have the
same conditions prevailing in Europe
today.
II believe If vote were taken in
New York City today you would find
so to IS per cent in favor OF Prohi-
bition. The average good citizen sits
back and says. nothing. 1t is the in
terested small minority with an axe
to grind that goes out and shouts its
head off at losing personal liberties.
This same class of people are in the
habit of attending dinners at the New
York hotels making a continuous
round OF banquets for wet purposes.
This is the class that is doing all the
shouting against Prohibition"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-04-08

Mr.. Marion was in New Zealand to
assist the drys in their campaign look
ing to the elections which are to be
held the latter part of 1922. The
campaign had just fairly started and
Mr.. Marion was doing excellent work.
He was born October 2, 1879, in
South Australia. He enlisted early in
the temperance cause, his first public
efforts in South Australia being to Sc
cure 9 o'clock closing OF the liquor
bars. He also took part in the six
o'clock closing movement in Tas-
mania.
He had an active and leading part
in every temperance movement in
Australia since 1907.
In 1911 and 1914 he toured New
Zealand in the interest Of Prohibition.
In 1913 he was appointed general
secretary of the New South Wales
Alliance, and his first year of leader
ship was signalized by general local
option campaign.
In 1910 Mr. Marion visited the
United States of America as a dele
gate to the conference of dry leaders
from many nations, at which confer
ence the World League Against Alco-
holism was launched
He was one of the signatories to
the constitution of this League.
Not only has Australia lost an ag-
gressive and efficient worker in the
cause OF Prohibition, in the death of
Mr.. Marion, but the cause of world
wide Prohibition has lost true friend
and valued counsellor
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-04-08

commission was 34,543. In the pre-
ceding Il months during three of
which the saloons were still doing
business lawfully, the aggregate num-
Der of arrests for the same offense
was 1925. Before the advent OF
Prohibition the arrests for drunken
ness ran about 100000 annually. In
1917 there were 1928 arrests for
that misdemeanor,
probation work in cases in which
the offense was other than drunken
ness has risen from 80 per cent in
1000 to more than 70 per cent in
1920. These statistics should not be
misread TO mean that arrests for Of
lenses other than drunkenness have
increased nearly 40 per cent since
1900 and mostly since the coming OF
Prohibition. They show no such
thing for they relate only to cases
i'll which the offenders have been
placed on probation by the courts.
Whether or not Prohibition has
brought about an increase in crimes OF
the more serious sorts is a question
not answered by the figures given
here. The change in the character of
effort by probation officers is not
susceptible of complete demonstra-
ton by figures alone. These officers
now have time to investigate many
cases that never come to the judicial
attention of the judges. Where cases
of this class are settled out of court
it is good thing all around better
for the parties involved and less ex-
pense for the people in the mainte-
nance of the courts.
"The probation officer is now able
to attend to much more 'out-of- court
work and so has become a sort of
community worker rather than a mere
court attache. In this kind of activ-
ity he saves many a boy or girl from
a court record.
Herbert c. Parson, executive
worker for the commission, declared,
In their new opportunities for what
we might call higher work. the pro-
baton officers of the state have de-
veloped interest and enthusiasm far
beyond that which they showed be-
fore"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-04-08
PROHIBITION CUT BIG
INCOMES OF LIQUOR MEN

Deductions from income taxes
from persons whose businesses were
ended with the enactment of federal
Prohibition legislation will amount to
approximately a million dollars, ac-
cording to an announcement on
March 5 by the Bureau of Internal
Revenue. The estimate was made
public as a. result of statements re-
Gently made in the Senate which
placed the losses from this source
at one billion to four billion dollars.
1t was based on records of claims
filed by distillery and brewery inter
ests, officials said.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-04-08

since the Nolstead act went into effect
Commissioner Kramer made a spe-
oial trip TO New York from Washing
ton on March 50 for the purpose OF
looking into the seizures. He pre-
sided at hearing attended by Super
visor Langley and Director 0'Connor
at which the Prohibition officials re-
lated the alleged violations reported
by their agents.
The agents had said that the stores
were doing business without permit
and that they had bought sacramento
wines in all of the stores operating by
the Menorah Company without pur.
chase permits which are required by
law.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-04-08
ENGLAND HAS FULL SHARE
OF LIQUOR "INVALIDS"

English Firm Has Sufficient Califor-
MIA Wine to Heal the British
"Sick"
The following item from the Lon
don Daily Express OF March 10 re-
vcals the fact that the sick whose all
ments require alcohol for remedy
are not all confined TO the United
States The item reads:
American "Pussyfoot" legisla-
ton will allow of the export of
wines il an undertaking is given
that it is for medicinal purposes
and it is anticipated that Ameri-
can expenditures of the produce
of the wine presses of the Cali
fornian seaboard will on this plea
succeed in keeping pace with the
demand from the United King
dom and other countries.
Messrs. Grierson, Oldham &
Company, Ltd, whose "Big Tree"
wines have become very popular,
have been fortunate in securing a
stock of fine California wine that
should prove sufficient to meet
the demand for the next two or
three years.
There has been an exceptional
demand for Californian wines in
the United Kingdom during the
last year or so and there is every
reason to anticipate that it will
be maintained.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-04-08
sNot dry page in this book Cleveland Christian Advocate
Pussyfoot" johnson
Crusader Refor1ner A Man Among Men
By F. A. MCKENZIE

Let Johnson alone - more power to his
elbow"-Theodore Roosevelt.
81 have come to love Mr.. Johnson, just as,
when boy, loved Mr.. Greatheart'."-Dr. Will
fred T. Grenfell
"We commend this volume to any liquor
dealers who are still wondering what hit Them
We commend it to Mr.. Ron Kirby, of the New
York World, who delights to portray all Prohi-
:. : rIno Va
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-04-08
ATTY. GEN'L. DAUGHERTY
ORDERS INVESTIGATION
Wants All the Facts Relating to
the Menorah Wine Seizure in New
York

According to the New York Trib-
une of March 81 Attorney General
Daughetry telephoned Assistant
United States Attorney Robert A.
Peattie of New York city to get com
plete facts regarding the circum-
stances under which the Prohibition
authorities confscated sacramental
wines valued at 100000 belonging to
the Menorah Wine Company said to
be the largest seizure of wines since
Prohibition.
The Menorah Company is subsi-
diary of the Garrett Company of
Brooklyn, which has been dealing in
sacramental wines for more than 80
years, and the seizure created one of
the biggest stirs in Prohibition circles
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-04-08

Lady Henry Somerset, ardent tenn
perance reformer of England, died on
Saturday morning, March L, from
heart failure following an operation
for-appendicitis. The following are
excerpts from memoir by Mr.. T. p.
O'Connor, M. p, appearing in the
London Daily Telegraph of March
IA. After speaking Of Lady Som
erset's determination to devote her
life to useful service, Mr. O'Connor
says of her:
at struck her when. she came in
contact with the poor and especially
with the women of the poor. that the
greatest of all their weaknesses was
their despair and their outlet from
despair in drink; and to the temper
ance cause especially among women
she made the great resolve to devote
her money, her boundess energy, her
brilliant powers of speech. II ever
there were a case of sanctifed dedica-
ton of a whole soul and a whole life
to sacred cause it was that OF Lady
Henry Somerset. In some respects
the parallels | remember that come
nearest to it are when Florence Night
ingalc went to Scutari and Sister
Dora to Wasall where her status
stands today in the garb of nurse.
These three women were, so to speak,
the Nurse Cavells of world in peace.
Appealed for Abstinence by Her Own
Example
"The moment when Lady Henry
Somerset proclaimed her consecra-
ton to her life work can be easily
fixed. She was making her first
speech and it was at a meeting in
Herefordshire. She did not allow the
meeting to separate until she had
taken the temperance pledge herself.
She did not require a pledge to con
troll herself but she thought that she
was bound if she preached temper
ance TO others to begin by giving the
example herself By this time she
was in a position to support hnan-
cially any of the big undertakings of
which she dreamed for she was the
heiress to the large estates of her
father the last Earl Somers, estates
that were in several counties.
Special Appeal to Women
Temperance she preached to large
and mixed audiences but it was tenn
perance and welfare work among wo-
men in which she took the deepest in
terest. To women she adopted the
same attitude as the Salvation Army
and the Sisters OF Mercy; there were
none too 1owly, none too vicious, none
even too degraded to alright the
valor of her hopefulness and love, and
her zeal. for her work among such
unpromising material was boundless.
Internationally Known
an time her work and her zeal
were known to the whole world for
she became tbc associate of another
woman who had already reached the
same position of international rec
ognition, Miss Frances Willard.
There could not be two women much
more unlike. The one was a typical
nglishwoman, the other was typi-
cally American The American one
had the characteristic slightness of
the women from across the ocean,
the other the robust physique of the
typical middle-aged woman of Great
Britain; the one had something of
the exuberance of the younger coun-
try, the other never lost the reserve
and se1f-repression of her race. In
fiery ardor of spirit and in indicate
gable industry they were, however,
akin. Miss Willard died at COM
paratively early age. Her statue
stands in the Capitol at Washington,
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-04-08

mend it interested reading of
life who has devoted himself with snglehearted pur
realization of ideal 1t impossible understand
temperance which resulted in the passage of the
Eighteenth without knowledge of the of such
mel Mr. Johnson" The Outlook
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-04-08
AUSTRALIAN DRY LEADER
JAMES MARION, SUMMONED
Stricken Suddenly While Ad-
dressing Meeting in New
Zealand, February ~
VISITED THE u. S. IN 1919
Delegate to Conference Which
Launched the World League
Against Alcoholism

Mr.. James A. Marion, Australian
temperance leader, was taken i'll while
addressing a meeting at Duntroon,
New Zealand, on the evening of Feb
ruary "a and died at 3 o'clock the fol-
lowing morning.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13
BURIAL OF BONUS
BILL IS FORECAST
Senate Expected to Vote to
Recommit Measure to
Committee
TO TAKE BALLOT TODAY
BY the Associated Press

Washington, July 13.--The Soldier
Bonus Bill, in the opinion Of both Re-
publican and Democratic leaders In the
Senate, probably will be recommitted
today to the Finance Committee "for
further consideration" The vote will
be upon motion Of Senator Penrose, Of
Pennsylvania, chairman Of the com
mittee, offered after President Hard
ing's appeal In person to the Senate
ferred because Of the condition Of the
treasury.
When Senator Penrose offered his
motion for recommittal yesterday, op-
position, principally on the part Of
Democratic Senators, prevented a vote
that, 1t was said. probably would be
reached today with recommittal assured
by a wide margin.
Rejects View OF Bills Proponents
Mr.. Harding in his special address,
delivered In person to the Senate yes.
terday, persisted in rejecting the
the bill, including the American
Legion, that 1t contemplated adjusted
compensation" He insiBted it meant
nothing short of gratuitics to the men
who fought the war. He said he had
commended generous treatment" of the
Nations defenders mot as a part of any
contract. not as the payment Of any
debt which, is owing. but as a mark Of
the Nations gratitude.
And, he added, significantly, "every
obligation is to the disabled and de-
pendent" as though to exclude forever
from such category the soldier bonus
bill, of which he said further. "This
menacing effort to expend billions in
grntuities will imperil our capacity to
discharge our first obligations to those
we must not fail to pid."
Enactment of the bill. the President
contcnded, would greatly imperii tie
financial stability of our country" and
he felt It his duty to state to both
houses Of Congress and the country at
large the "ditiicultics we daily are called
upon to meet and the added peril this
measure would bring"
Penrose Moves to Recommit
While the applause for the President
still was ringing through the Senate
chamber. md the crowds were seeking
egress from the stuffy galleries, Senator
Pcnrose arose at his desk, holding in his
right hand n copy of the Soldier Bonus
Bill. The chairman of the Finance
Committee was obliged to wait two full
minutes before Vice President Coolidge
could restore order in the chamber. Then
Mr.. Pcnrosc made his motion to re-
commit the bill to the Finance Com
mittee. He said the motion was made
"in so far as am personally concerned,
in order that careful further consider
alton may be given to the measure"
Senator Robinson, Democrat. of Ar
kansas, a member Of the Finance Com
mittce. arose Mt once, to speak in oppo-
SltiOn to the recommendation of the
President and the motion of the Senator
from Pennsylvania. He declared the
appearance of the President to assume
personal responsibility for shelving the
bonus bill was patriotic demonstra.
ton of courage" but Mr.. Robinson
proceeded then to a vigorous criticism Of
Rcnmhlicnn Senators.