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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11
PENNA. SAL00NIsT HEADS SCHOOLS
Political Puppets are Appointed as
Teachers School Buses Used to
Haul Whisky

The Philadelphia North American
of February II tells an amazing story
of the way the liquor interests of
Conyngham township, Columbia
county, Pa, have secured absolute
control OF the schools. The presi-
dent of the school board is a saloon
keeper and is specified by the Ameri-
can as the political boss OF the town
ship. The North American says;
While fathers and mothers of
500 children are pleading with
the members of the township
board of education to give their
children chance to obtain lit
tie education the schools are be-
ing neglected, teachers appointed
for political purposes, and the
convcyances which are to trans
port the children over the muddy
roads to the school houses are
being used to haul whisky and
beer.
Centralia, a town of $500 inhabi-
tants, seems to be the stronghold OF
the liquor interests in the county
The American says: "ln and about
Centralia there are seventeen saloons
and two wholesale liquor establish.
ments doing business openly without
licenses. Pool rooms, groceries and
cigar stores are also selling hootch."
Conditions became so bad that a
band of public spirited women. moth
ers Of children who, are vainly trying
to get an education in the township
schools, wrote a letter to Saloon
keeper Broderick demanding his res
ignation. In this letter Broderck is
accused of openly violating the Pro-
law and of being the head of
the whisky ring in Columbia county.
However Brodcricl steadfastly re-
fuses TO resign.
In the meantime, according to the
North American, the schools are con-
tnuing to be run more in the interest
of the whisky ring than in the inter-
est OF the children.
The charge is made that school
teachers are usually required to pay
their first months salary to the
whisky machine to finance its cam
paign.
If conditions are what the North
American story says they are, more
power to the North American in its
to rid Columbia county of
booze grafters. and more power to
the mothers and fathers of Conyng-
ham township who are protesting
against the public schools being run
in the interest of the outlawed liquor
traffic.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11

| took special pains to see the
cathedrals, art galleries, museums,
historical centers, etc. But even to a
greater degree l kept my eyes open
to see something of the social com
ditions. For instance, in all the in
dustrial towns | went around to sec
the slnm districts and in each case
found that the more disgusting and
beggarly the condition of the slums,
the larger by far was the number OF
public houses" (bar-rooms).
In Birmingham l went into a large
number of these houses" and the deg
radiation which confronted my eyes
de6es any possible description. In
some of them the people were so
jammed together that you could
scarcely move and at times the num-
Der of women was almost as large as
that of the men. In some cases girls
seventeen or eighteen years of age
were sitting in this disgusting and
putrid atmosphere making love with
men over their bottles of beer.
In many instances children, dirty,
ill-clothed and ill-fed, were hanging
about the doors of the saloons wait
ing for their mothers to come out
and in most cases young and rather
good-looking girls were acting as bar
tenders.
The whole atmosphere of these
places was for the most part one of
stagnation, repulsion and death.
Yet many a well-bred Englishman
who defends these places on the
ground of personal liberty has never
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11
WET.SRIP QUESTION NOT RAISED
Steamship Agent Grossman Does
Not Endorse AFranlSlin's Spool
Story

John J. Grossman, a steamship
ticket agent, is quoted in the Ohio
State Journal of February p as say
ing that there is no such thing as a
dry boat outside the thrce-mile limit,
that liquor Is freely sold on ocean
liners outside this limit. He says
that the impression which is preva-
lent that ii is necessary to take pass
age on a vessel flying 4 flag other
than the Stars and Stripes in order to
have bar accommodations is all
wrong, that booze flows just as freely
on American boats as on those flying
any other flag, and adds, However,
not one person in ten desiring to take
a sea voyage ever makes any inquiries
as to whether liquor is to be obtained
on the boats"
This statement from Mr. Grossman
is interesting i'll view of the fact that
p. A. Franklin, president of the In
tcrnational Mercantile Marine, is
quoted as telling the House Judiciary
Committee on January Is that in his
opinion the death knell OF the United
States merchant marine was sounded
unless the dry ban on American ships
be lifted. His argument was that
people will not book passage on a
dry vessel.
Mr.. CHEESEMAN'S statement sounds
reasonable. It is unbelievable that
booze is the first consideration OF a
man or woman seeking passage to
Europe, that they would place booze
ahead OF safety, comfort and con-
venience.
T. +. Blaine, of the Seattle Cham
Der of Commerce, is quoted in a
Washington dispatch OF February p
as urging lifting of the dry ban on
American-owned vessels. Mr.. Blaine
hastens to explain that he is not a
drinking man, and adds, Gut | would
not go on trip Oh the high seas on
a dry vessel. There are lots OF other
Americans who feel the same way so
something must be done"
Strange, isn't it, how almost in
variably the fellow who pleads for
booze these days prefaces his appeal
with the assurance that he himself IS
not drinking man. Such a state
ment wcakens the argument A traffic
that is in such disrepute that it is
hard to find man of influence who
will openly declare himself to be a
patron OF the traffic has reached a
point where it deserves oblivion.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11
BOOTLEGGING IN K. c.
PROFITABLE, BUT WANING
Police and New Dry Agents CO.
operate to Undoing Illicit
Trahickers
RAIDS BRING RESULTS
Blind Piggers Grow Charry Over
Selling Liquor Used as
Evidence

The Kansas City Star OF February
20 says:
Bootlegging still is profitable
and much practiced in Kansas
City but II has undergone some
decided changes since February |
when new staff of Prohibition
agents in the police department
under new leaders began opera
tons. Before the new dry staff
came here saloons and soft drink
places never hesitated to serve
customer whisky. Sue
eessful raids have brought a
change. Saloons still have whisky
but only the we'll known eusto-
mers can get it, A stranger may
be served if he acts all right but
his drink is supervised by the
bartender. The bartender pours
it, leans far over the bar at the
same time requiring the customer
to come close. Drink it," lie
commands as he places the glass
in the customers hand. No
chance is taken that the evidence
will get out of the bar-room.
There is no reason why illicit booze
selling can not be made to become a
lost art in every city in the United
States. The local police can enforce
the law if they will, can enforce it so
strictly that violations will be re-
duced to the minimum.
\ situation such as described by
the Kansas City Star indicates that
bootlegging is in its last stage in
Kansas City. 1t can never be made
a profitable business nor extended to
any great length under such handi-
caps as described
The traffic under such conditions
is sure TO diminish rather than in
crease.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11

PhIlh. CLERIC LEADS
ASSAULT ON AMENDMENT
DR.. Russell H. Conwell Would
Amend the Eighteenth Fed
eral Amendment
Jake" CAUSES CHOLER
DR.. P. A. Baker Alleges Dominic
Conwell Is Wont to
Play Safe
Jake" CAUSES CHOLER

Il have seen the impractical,
not to say ludicrous, sugges-
tions of DR.. Russell Conwell of
Philadelphia for propose
changes in the Eighteenth
Amendment in the morning
papers.
If any prominent minister
III the country was to take that
attitude, | would expect it to be
DIR. Conwell. When drunken
ness was rampant and saloons
were flourishing everywhere, we
got little cooperation from DIR.
Conwell and his church. His
attitude on all questions of
sharp cleavage, like the Prohi-
bition issue, has been to take
position that he was well
aware few people would agree
with and by so doing excuse
himself from all responsibility
for cooperation.
when Dr. Conwcll fixes the.
common conscience of the ma
jority' as the standard of law
enforcement, he gives the whole
fabric Of law and order down.
ward pitch, and his suggestions
TO turn the Constitution of the
United States into a statutory
document for purposes of def
milton will hardly meet with
serious consideration from any
thoughtful people.
I'VE are sorry that one OF DR..
Conwell's prestige and innu-
ence at his time of life should
lend the weight OF his influence
to the weakening OF the forces
that make for law and order"
DR.. p. A. Baker, Supt. Anti
Saloon League OF America.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11

Good Fellows of America" the
Sphinx" or by the Association OPP
posed to National Prohibitions" can
prevail against the fact that this Con-
gress was elected on the dry law en-
forcement issue. By an overwhelm-
ing majority the proposition to let
down the barriers to the brewers was
defeated and that was the real issue
in practically every congressional dis
trict last November
1t was unfortunate that a man OF
DR.. Conwell's prominence and inhu-
ence chould join hands with those
who are seeking to restore the liquor
traffic.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11
INJUNCTION METHOD is
EFFECTIVE IN N. Y.

And now New York is fol-
lowing the lead of Federal
Judge Lands and the Attorney
General of Illinois and is using
the injunction provision of the
Volstead Act. In Brooklyn a
permanent injunction by which
places found dealing in liquors
can be closed as common nui-
sances is being used as
. weapon to enforce the dry law
by District Attorney Lewis.
He estimated that there are
nearly one thousand such
places in that city.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11
MAMMOTH STILL AND GROG
TAKEN IN OHIO DRAGNET

The Franklin county, Ohio, sheriff
last week working in conjunction with
Columbus, Ohio, city police, battered
down the door OF secluded residence
near Columbus and uncovered what
is said to be the biggest still ever OPP
Grated in the county. The still is ca
pable of producing so gallons a day
Twenty barrels of corn whisky were
con6scated in the raid and the two
alleged operators of the still were
placed under arrest
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11
PHILADELPHIA MAGISTRATE
CONVICTED ON TWO COUNTS

Byron +. Wrigley, Philadelphia
magistrate. was convicted last week
in the courts OF that city of involun-
tary manslaughter, and OF operating
an automobile while intoxicated.
Sentence was deferred in order that
an application for a new trial might
be made. Ii given a maximum sem
tence Magistrate Wrigley can be sent
to Jail for three years and fined $500.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11
PACKARD BOOZE-LADEN
AUTO GOES UNDER HAMMER

A Packard motor car owned by
Louis Cline of Kansas City was auc-
toned off February 20 at Sedalia,
Mo, by the sheriff to ]. M. Potter, a
farmer for $8l5. The car was cap
tured on January 10 while carrying
whisky from Pittsburg to Kansas
City. Three men who were in charge
of the car at the time of its capture
were fined $3.50 and costs each. The
car was sold to pay the fines and
costs.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11
FOREIGN LANGUAGE PAPERS
WARNED ON STILL" ADS.

Twelve foreign language newspa-
pers in Chicago and vicinity last week
were warned by the Prohibition en-
forcement chiefs office that they
would be prosecuted unless they
stopped advertising illicit stills. OF
hcials of one manufacturing company
in Chicago were cited TO appear be-
fore the Prohibition chief and explain
why they had been selling stills.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11
KANSANS HAVE FORGOTTEN
ALL ABOUT LAGER BEER

Recently sixteen farm boys, most
of them from Kansas and few
from Texas, visited Germany. They
shipped on cattle boats and saw much
not only of Germany but of other
parts of Europe. Somebody in Berlin
remembered that Kansas was an orig
inal Prohibition state and asked the
boys how they liked German beer.
One OF them replied that they had
been too busy seeing the sights to
buy beer. Besides we have forgot
ten that booze exists anywhere in the
world"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11
FOR FIRST TIME VIENNA
WITHOUT BOHEMIAN BEER

For the first time since the discov-
cry of the beverage, Vienna is with
out Bohemian beer, says Vienna
dispatch of February 20. Its import
was prohibited in November in an
effort to restore the exchange value
of the crown and the supply on hand
is exhausted.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11
ARGENTINA HEADS OFF
U. S. BOOSE BOOSTERS

Argentina has concluded a treaty
with the United States in which
American commercial travellers rep
rcsenting American liquor houses arc
prohibited from doing business in th2t
country. The interesting feature
about this item of news is that the
request Tor its insertion in the treaty
came from Argentina.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11

A bill introduced in the Ohio Leg
islature provides for the observance
of Prohibition Day in the public
schools in the state each year on the
Friday nearest January 10, the date
the federal Prohibition Amendment
became operative.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11

Two automobiles loaded with 10
cases of whisky from Juarcz, Mexico,
were conhscated on February Is by
Reno county officers on road
twenty miles west of Hutchinson,
says a Wichita, Kansas, dispatch.
The liquor is estimated to be worth
more than 5000.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11

Nullifcatonists were great
cheered in their hopeless fight to
overthrow the Eighteenth Amend
ment by the news that Rev. DIR.
Russell H. Conwell, pastor of Grace
Baptist Temple, Philadelphia, had
launched a movement to amend the
amendment 1t is reported that DR..
Conwel1 has sent tentative draft of
his proposed amendment to the
Eighteenth Amendment to a hundred
prominent men of varied activities for
criticism and suggestions. 1t is pre-
sumed that after he hears from these
men he will proceed with some sort
of petition campaign in the expec-
tation that sufficient number of people
will be enlisted to influence Congress
to submit an amendment resolution.
The good doctor is doomed to dis
appointment. He will rally to his
cause the ex-distillcrs, ex-brewers,
x-saloonkeepers and all people who
are not in favor of suppressing the
liquor traffic but he will not find any
support from citizens who desire to
see accomplished what the Eight
centh Amendment is designed to ac-
complsh, namely the complete sup
preston of the entire beverage liquor
traffic, including beer and wine. He
does not represent the sentiment of
the clergy on this question.
DR.. Conwell desires to weaken the
law, not to strengthen it. He raises
no new objections TO the Amend
ment nor offers any new reasons why
the Vostead Code should be weak
ened His objections are objections
that were raised by the brewers and
distillers' attorneys even before the
amendment was ratified by the requi-
site number of states and were later
presented by the ablest legal talent
these booze makers could employ to
the Supreme Court of the United
States. The Supreme Court over
ruled all the objections thus raised
and held that the Eighteenth Amend
ment is valid and that the code to en-
force it is constitutional in every par
ticular, including the one-half of l
per cent definition to which DR.. Con-
we'll objects.
1t would be merely threshing old
straw to take up the good doctors
objections singly and reply to them.
His declaration that the Prohibition
law as it now stands can not be en-
forced ought to carry no more weight
than a similar statement coming from
any other opponent of dry policy
that includes the suppression of the
entire beverage liquor traffic. He
simply reiterates every brewer,
distiller and saloonkeeper in the
United States is saying. And in the
meantime the dry law enforcement de-
partment of the government is putting
into force new regulations that are
making it more and more difficult for
the liquor criminal to evade the law
The wholesale liquor dealer has been
eliminated and other permit regula-
lions have reduced the bonded ware
house leakages to a minimum. Courts
are inficting heavier penalties and
there is vast improvement in law en-
forcement conditions the country
over.
No amount OF petitions sent to Con-
gress. whether by DR.. Conwell, the
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11
WHAT A CANADIAN STUDENT FINDS OUT
ABOUT THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC IN ENGLAND

From written American friend by J. Wesley Brady
merly but studying Economies
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11
"Not dry page in this book clpeond Christian
Pussyfoot" johnson
Crusader -- Reforner -- A Man Among Men
BY F. p. 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.
1--WE commend this volume to any liquor
dealers who are still wondering what hit them.
We commend it to Mr.. Roln Kirby, OF the New
York World, who delights to portray all Proh-
b;+;oo;etc raJ nj o1o
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11

mend also citizen who interested reading record of
the life of who has devoted himself with nglehearted
realization of ideal 1t impossible
the which resulted the passage the
Eighteenth Amendment without knowledge the
men Mr. Johnson."-The Outlook.
Hlustrated--Cloth, so Net
Orde Pub
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-08-25
J. L. MACK'S BODY FOUND
Believed to Have Been Thrown
From Moving Train

Missing since Wednesday night,
August 10, the body of ]. L. Mack,
OF Savannah. special officer of the
Atlantic Coast Line police department
was found Saturday lying in the ditch
by the railroad tracks mile and a
half north of New Hope. Section
hands who found the body were un-
able to identify it. Word was soon re-
ceived from Charleston that Mr.. Mack
had been missing and the body was
identified by railroad officers who
went to the spot from Florence.
Mr.. Mack's neck had been broken
and his body had every appearance OF
having been badly bruised. It is sup
posed that the officer was thrown
from the top of the freight train on
which he was travelling by some per-
son whom he was attempting to ar
rest.
Mr.. Mack's pistol and his fashlight
were found some distance from the
body. There were no papers in his
pockets. Mr.. Mack had not been heard
from since Wednesday night, when he
left Florence on a Charleston-bound
freight train.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-08-25
RESPONSIBLE FOR
BERGDOLL'S ESCAPE
ANSEL, COL. HUNT AND
COL. CRESSON CHARGED
WITH CONSPIRACY

A dispatch from Washington late
last week says! Former Acting Judge
Advocate General Ansel, Colonel John
E. Hunt and Col. C. C. Cresson are
charged with conspiracy N connection
with the escape of Grover C. BergdoI,
in report signed by three of the five
members of a special legislative inyes-
tigating committee ard filed with the
House.
The report characterized Ansel as
the master mind" in the plan by
which Bergdoll was released from
military prison, under guard, to dig
up a pot of gold and further recon-
mended he be disbarred from prac-
ticing in courts of the nation.
A minority report that no testimony
supports the charge thnt Ansel con-
spired to effect BergdolPs release or
that his motives Were improper. The
majority report said Hunt was direct
ly responsible by his failure to provide
adequate guards and accused Cresson
of only a pretense at prosecuting
Hunt.
Major Bruce Cambel, was accused
of accepting a bribe from Mrs. Berg
doll but was exonorated by the major
ity, who recommended the dismissal,
from the Justice Department Of Earl
B. Wood for his failure to warn the
War Department of Bergdolls plan
to escape. -
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-08-25
Items From Beulah.

Beulah, Aug. 23.-Mr. and Mrs Ed
Morris and children from North Car
olina visited the latters sister, Mrs.
w. H. Thompson, the past week.
The Beulah base ball team defeated
Cedar Swamp Wednesday afternoon,
the score being 25 to 9. They also
played Spring Branch Saturday, the
score being IA to 9.
Mrs. Herbert Cox. Mrs. E. A.
Snipes and children of Florence are
visiting their father, Mr.. E. H. Thomp-
son.
A weeks revival meeting, which be-
gan Sunday night, is being held at
Beulah church.
Misses YEA and Marie McCutchen,
Louise McClary and Donald Nc
Cutchen motored over to Greelyville
Saturday afternoon.
Miss Lucille Allen is visiting Misses
Marie and Vera McCutchen.
A crowd of young folks enjoyed a
straw ride out to Mrs. Addie Nc
Cutchen's Wednesday afternoon.
-"Red Wing.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-08-25
CAUGHT Snake Milking Cow

This is a true snake story, because
Mr.. Thomas Chapman, a most reliable
citizen from the Montmorenci section
vouches for it. Last week Bub john
son, the colored caretaker Of the H. NJ.
Dibble place at the Vale Of Montmo-
renci, noticed one of the fine cows
standing hunched and cramped IN the
pasture and went up close to the ami
NAL to see what was the matter with
her. Imagine his surprise when ne
saw long black snake coiled around
Bossy's hind legs with its head and
mouth held tight to one of the teats
busy sucking the milk from her. AS
Johnson had nothing with him to at
tack the reptile he seized a large lump
of clay and threw it at the snake,
which at once let 60 of the teat and
rapidly uncoiling itself shot through
the grass.-Dillon Herald.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-08-25
TO ORGANIZE
ASSOCIATION
MEETING TO BE HELD 1T SAL
TIERS TOMORROW AFTER
NOON AT 500

There will be meeting tomorrow
(Ekday) afternoon at Salters for the
56se of organizing the first OF a
number of truck growing associations
in Williamsburg county. These local
associations will later Oh become af-
filiated or consolidated Into county
association. The banks of the county
are planning for this meeting and will
be represented at Salters tomorrow.
Agricultural agents of the Atlantic
Coast Line and the Seaboard Air
Line railroad, DR.. w. w. Long of
Clemson College, and Mr.. T. B. Young,
district agent, of Florence will also
attend this meeting. 1t is important
that every farmer and citizen who pos
sibly can, be present. 1t will be great
ly beneficial, we believe, to their in
terestS.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-08-25
FIND SAFE IN RIVER
Sixty Thousand Dollars In Bonds and
Securities Taken Out.

While bathing in Lynch'a river at
Welch's bridge, about seven miles
from the home Of s. w. Young, last
Friday party of young boys discov-
cred the iron safe containing, it is
said, 100000 in liberty bonds and
securities that was stolen from Mr..
Young's home on Sunday night Aug
ust IA. The safe Was hidden under wa
ter and was discovered by one of the
boys striking against it. Being small,
it was easily raised to the surface and
appeared to have been opened with
cold chisel. All it contained was an ac-
count book, a wallet containing tax re-
ceipts and bill Of sale. The safe. was
loaded in the rear seat Of an automo-
bile and taken to Mr.. Young No clue
has been discovered as to the robbers.
has ben discovered as to the robbers.