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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21
THE HOPE OF THE
WORLD

Dry America is now the
hope of the world. If America
succeeds in the task and brings
about sober world, a new era
OF prosperity and happiness, of
freedom and good will, of JUS
tiee and right will come over
the world in which we ourselves
and all other nations will share
the benefits. If we fail in the
task, America will be drawn
deeper into the next world con-
vulsion than il was drawn into
the recent one, in which we sac
riiced about 100000 lives and
over thirty billions of Americas
treasure.
Since the war, Europe is
plunging still deeper into the
alcoholic current. If nothing is
done, further disintegration
will be due before long in which
bonds will be broken, not only
between nations but also be-
tween classes and groups within
classes. Revolution and an
arehy within nations will ac-
company wars without, being a
repetition on worldwide
scale of the bloody days of the
decadence OF Rome, when Ro-
man civilization went down to
its doom.-Captain Richmond
p. Hobson.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21

papers say that it has been brought
to light that Chicago policemen have
been known TO sell the same consign-
ment of contraband whisky at least
plan was 10 seize a shipment of liq
uor and accept graft for its return to
the owner. The owner would then
sell it and the police for certain con-
sideration would guarantee safe trans
portation but seize it in transit and
then demand tribute for its return,
repeating the operations as stated
above four or five times. 1t is said
that they even used patrol wagons to
deliver contraband booze to bootleg
gers.
A mass of evidence is at hand to
show that both Mayor Thompson and
his appointee, the chief of police, have
refused to take any active part in the
enforcement of the dry law except
when compelled to do so in some
isolated cases. In fact, the president
of the Chicago Law and Order League
under affidavit says that the chief de-
clared that as long as the government
continued to ship liquor into Chicago
he would not mop it up. Truly Chi
cago "sowed dragons teeth and is now
ra,o;,o tho barvest"
The Chief of Police of Oklahoma City
The Oklahoma News of September
80 announces that Chief of Police Carl
Glitsch Of Oklahoma City has de-
clared that the police department is
powerless to check the sale of liquor
in that city, and at the same time the
chief asserts himself as being out OF
sympathy with Prohibition. He de-
nounced Prohibition law as the cause
OF -tenths of the dope cases in
Oklahoma City. The Oklahoma News
says that prior to his appointment as
chief of police, Glitsch was vice presi-
dent, secretary and treasurer OF the
New State Ice Company. Adolphus
Busch, St. Louis, is president. Prior
to statehood and state Prohibition
the company was known as the New
State Brewing Company. Glitsch
was an official of the company then.
g Dry Chief of Maryland
The Baltimore Sun of September %
quotes Federal Prohibition Director
Edmund Budnitz as saying that his
department can not enforce the Pro-
hibition laws in Baltimore. Mr.. Bud
nitz in the interview dwells at length
upon the alleged unpopularity Of the
law.
These are instances which show
that if Prohibition is to be made eff
fective it is up to the people to see to
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21
Repeal, Says Pollock-or Revolution?

Repeal, Says Pollock-or Revolution?
Repeal or revolution ultimately is
inevitable. History proves it. Men
can not continue to make prohibitory
laws and retain their liberty or con-
tentment of mind. The. breaking
point will come some time and then
the laws will be repealed or there will
be revolution.
Saloon Closing Is Responsible for
Crime
The saloon has been taken away
In countless instances it was a meet
ing place for men who regarded it as
a club, men who took an occasional
drink but did not get drunk. Now
these same men are meeting in back
rooms where they can drink the bev
erages manufactured in secret places
from weird formulas. They are con-
scious that they are violating the law,
for which they may be caught and
sent to the penitertiary. 1t is nat
ural that such young men resenting
the laws which make them law-break-
ers because they buy and imbibe in
toxicating liquor, make up their
minds to do something really worthy
of the penitentiary since they are
already in its shadow, and that / be-
lieve is the start of the present crime
wave over the country-these secret
rendezvous of resentful men who
have been denied the privileges of the
public saloon. They meet, hatch
crimes and go forth to commit them.
Are we so gullible as. to believe that
character can be developed by the re-
moval of all temptation?
Happily there are not many judges
of this character, and yet there are
enough to furnish the liquor journals
material with which to appeal to the
prejudice OF the unthinking and the
ignorant and inspire such to violate
the Prohibition law
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21
DRY DIVIDENDS
Items Illustrating How Prohibi-
ton Pays

The number of complaints received
by the Pennsylvania Society to Pro-
tect Children from Cruelty shows a
marked decrease of cases caused by
drunkenness since the advent of Pro-
hibition, according to the society's
latest annual report. In 1920, of a
total of 1,959-~complaints, only 100
were due to drunkenness. In 1000 the
number of complaints ascribed to
drunkenness totaled ASS ont of grand
total of o78, while in 1909 drunken
ness complaints figured in 42S out of
1,44o cases.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21

SO long as the Eighteenth Amendment
stands, and to amend the Volstead
Code in such a way as to produce liq-
uor revenue would in itself be nulii-
cation of that Amendment.
Other Vices Would Pay Big Revenue,
Too
There are any number of vices that
would Willingly pay this government
vast sums in revenue for protection
and for privilege to operate
But a Detroit Congressman goes
Senator Calder one better in the rev.
enue proposition. He is making his
plea for taxing beer and wine on the
ground that it would supply money
to pay soldier bonuses. He is offer
ing a direct insult to the boys who
fought in defense of the Constitution
which his proposal if put into prac-
tice would nullify
Says Liquor Interests Must Save Gov
eminent From Bankruptcy
The liquor journals are pressing the
revenue argument The Champion OF
Fair Play, the official journal OF the
outlawed liquor trade of Illinois and
Wisconsin, in a recent issue said; -
The Finance Committee OF the
Senate of which Senator Penrose
is the chairman has before it the
revenue bill to which the great
business interests of the country
are so strenuously Directing.
Eight hundred million dollars
must be raised somewhere and
like in 1862 when war revenues
were so urgently needed the wise
heads of Congress are commenc-
ing to realize that the liquor in
dustry must come to the rescue.
The editor of this liquor journal
evidently knows history. He knows
that the liquor traffic got strangle-
hold on the nation when the govern
ment hard pressed financially as re-
suit of the war decided to raise rev.
enue by taxing the traffic as temper
airy means of relief He thinks that
the time is opportune for history to
repeat itself, but he is badly mistaken.
The people have learned their lesson
When the national Prohibition law
first went into effect the brewers de.
fed it and sought to operate in spite
of it; breweries padlocked by govern.
ment agents was the result. They
went to court and sought to prove
the law unconstitutional; the Supreme
Court overruled their contention.
They went before Congress and
sought to- put their product ON the
market disguised as incidence they
were defeated in this.
And now they come to the voters
with bride, and in this, too, they will
fail.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21
MULTIPLICATION ORGANIZATIONS LAUNCHED
SINCE THE EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT WAS
RATIFIED

/. American Peoples League.
, Anti-Bue Law League OF America, Incorporated.
3. Anti-Dry League.
4. Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
5. Auxiliary Caravans (Order OF Camels) for Women
8. Liberty Defense League
7. Light Wine and Beer League of America.
8. National Liberty Party
9. National Order OF Camels
10. National Order of the Sphinx.
II. New York Anti-P Prohibition League.
II. One Hundred Per Cent American Spirit League.
Is. Self-Determnation League of Liberty
IA. The Association of Moderate Legislation Clubs
IS The Association Opposed to National Prohibitions.
10 The Good Fellows of America.
II. The Constitutional Liberty League.
18. The National Personal Liberty League.
10. The Personal Liberty League.
20. The 177o Society.
p. The Veterans of Liberty.
p. The Vigilance League.
%. The Puppets League (SicD.
"a. The Free Peoples League.
Is. League of Rights, Inc
20 Sanity League
u. Peoples Liberty League
%. National Liberal Alliance.
20. Tax Adjustment League.
80. Authorization Society OF America
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21
LINCOLN ON REVERENCE FOR LAW

EVERY AMERICAN, every lover of liberty well
poset the blood of the revolution
the least particular the laws of the and NEVER TO
violation by others AS the patriots of eventyx
support of Independence the
port Constitution let American pledge his life
his his honor Let remember that to
VIOLATE THE LAW trampe the blood of his father and
his chiden liberty LET REV
ERENCE FOR THE LAWS be breahed by American mother
babe prates lap let be taught schools
and in let it be written primers spelling
books and ana let be preached from the pulpit proclaimed in
the Legislative halls and enforced in courts OF Justice In short let it
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21

James B. Forgan, chairman of the
board of directors of the First Ma
tional Bank of Chicago, according to
the Herald Examiner recently said,
Prohibition has been responsible
for a large influx of savings accounts
that are being kept up. OF course,
the present hard times are compelling
many families to draw upon their ac-
counts, but money that once went into
the saloons goes into the bank now"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21
gust this year compared with the
same month in 1920

DR.. Henry A. Cotton, medical di-
rector of the State Hospital in Tren-
ton. New Jersey (for the insane), re-
ports that alcoholic cases in that in
stitution have decreased from p per
cent to per cent. He explicitly at
tributes this to Prohibition.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21

The secretary of Peoria loan and
homestead association, according to
the Peoria Star, recently said, Since
Prohibition many of our shareholders
have paid more each month than they
were obligated"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21

Reporting the annual report of the
Chicago police department the Chi
cago Herald and Examiner said, car
rests for disorderly conduct continued
to decrease also. There were $3.50
such arrests last year as against
35,60S the year before, 45,4l4 in 1918,
and 55,o42 in 1917 Murders were
fewer being Ito, as against 154 the
year before.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21

it that men in sympathy with the law
and not openly hostile to it are en-
trusted with the duty of enforcing it.
As long as this hostility to the Eight
zenith Amendment on the part of the
courts, enforcement officers and So
called respectable people, exists, the
fight against the liquor traffic is far
from finished.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21

DR.. Vim. A. Evans, health writer
in the Chicago Tribune, says accidents
following the noon hour will greatly
decrease and good health greatly in
crease because workers do not spend
the time in saloons.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21

The Portland Oregon, Telegram
recently printed the following:
There is not large city or state
in the Union where drunkenness,
and crime resulting from
drunkenness have not decreased un-
der Prohibition For example, St
Louis reduced its cases of drunken
ness from zoos in 1919 to 691 in 1920;
Minneapolis from 6,0S9 to 1850; New
York City from 1872 in 1917 to 5,813
in 1920; Connecticut from SIT in 1919
to 043 in 1920; Massachusetts from
1926 in 1910 to $3.50 in 1920"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21

The judicial section of the Ameri-
can Bar Association in its recent
meeting did we'll to pillory those
leaders of business and society who
encourage the violation of prohibit
tory laws and to announce to them
in the name of the judges of the en-
tire nation that if they continue to do
so nothing can save the nation or the
world from reaping terrible conse-
quences. 1t seems that there are
some judges who might have been
included in the arraignment issued
by the judicial section of the Bar As
ISOLATION. On September 10, Judge
Frank S. Cannon, Jr., justice of the
Supreme Court of New York, speak
ing in the county courthouse of Kings
county at meeting of the Kings
County Grand Jurors Association
surely combination of orator, place
and audience which should - have
prompted utter regard for law--was
reported by the Brooklyn Daily Times
of September II and other papers as
having said:
Our people are discussing re-
cent constitutional amendments
and the legislation regarding Pro-
Inhibition. However beautiful the
idea of a spiritless world, the
spectacle of great movement
employing thousands of agents
and spending millions of money
and endless effort to realize a
theory whose excellence, if at
tanned, is not foretold by the his
tory of mankind while so many
pressing and practically neces-
sary problems wait to be at
tended to, is something that the
average citizen can not under
stand.
"Mr. Cannon was at the time he
spoke candidate for denomination
to the Supreme Court. He is now re-
nominated to the Supreme Court.
His public assault upon what is law
is kind of behavior which does
more to promote disregard for law
than do the practices of criminals.
Judges are to administer the law, not
to spit at it. When judge does the
latter it is high time respectable mem
bers of the bar begin urging that the
Bar Associations attention be given
to his case"
Judge Pollock
There have been instances, how
ever, where judges have been much
more outspokenly hostile to Prohibit
ton. Consider the case of John c.
Pollock, of the Federal District Court
of the Kansas district Judge Pol
lock was sitting temporarily in Denver
for Judge Robert f. Lewis. Denver
newspapers of February ?, 1921, car
ried an interview credited to Judge
Pollock of which the following are
excerpts. He is discussing the Eight
zenith Amendment and Volstead act.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21
COURTS that give COMFORT To
CRIMINALS WHO VIOLATE DRY LAW


occasional
multiplying
bench
assuredy be
violating The York
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21

When history is written let it be
said that the ministry of the nation
in the hour of law defiance sounded
the warning notes from their pulpts
everywhere on October 80, 1921, that
saved the nation.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21

The report of the Superintendent OF
Banks in Ohio for the fiscal year end
ing June 30 shows an increase of
$2o,0o7,11o in savings deposits over
the report of the previous year.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21

The Lone Star Brewery of San An
tonic has been converted into a cot
ton mill employing $50 operatives.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21
BOOZE INTERESTS PUT LOUD PEDAL ON
REVENUE PLEA--HOPE To BRIBE PEOPLE
Failing in Medicinal Beer Strategy They Now Hope Win
the Revenue Argument Liquor Journal Says the Time Is
Opportune for Such Plea

Senator Calder of New York has
given notice, since the Finance Com
mittee of the Senate in considering
tax revision has turned down his pro-
posal to tax beer at the rate OF five
dollars barrel, that he will make a
determined fight for this amendment
to the tax bill on the floor of the
Senate.
He argues that something like a
thousand million dollars could be re-
allied yearly from taxing so-called
rs per cent beer.
OF course Senator Calder knows
that the Eighteenth Amendment pro-
hibits the manufacture and sale and
possession of Intoxicating beverages.
He knows that levying tax of five
dollars barrel on beer having a much
greater alcoholic content than that al
lowed by the Volstead Act would by
implication at least legalize the man
ufacture and sale of this so-called
non-intoxicatine beverage.
The Eighteenth Amendment Settled
Revenue Argument
The wet Senators have lost their
fight to flood the country with beer
disguised as medicine, but still intent
upon restoring the liquor traffic they
are resorting to the revenue plea. The
revenue question was definitely set
tied by the people when they ratified
the Eighteenth Amendment. They
knew exactly what they were doing.
They knew they were depriving the
government of the vast sums of money
that were collected for the govern
ment by the brewers and distillers
from the victims of the alcohol habit.
But the experience of more than a
score of states that had abolished the
traffic and thereby lost the revenue,
had conclusively proved to the people
of this nation that liquor revenue is
liability and not an asset. This ex-
perience had conclusively proved that
the traffic cost the tax payers for the
care of criminals and insane and pau
pers, made charges of the state be-
cause OF Intoxicating liquor, vastly
more than the state received in rev.
enue, and when the decreased pro-
duction in the industries caused by
time lost on the part of those work
men given to over-indulgence in alco-
hol was taken into consideration, to-
gether with the inevitable accidents
following a holiday when liquor was
accessible, an economic cost was
added to the cost of the care of liq-
uor-madea dependents that made liquor
revenue ridiculously small in COM
parison.
The people of this country have got
past the liquor revenue stage of ar
gument. 1t is an utter impossibility
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21

Arrests for drunkenness in Column
bus fell off nearly Is per cent in Au-
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21

In the Chicago Juvenile Court de-
linquent boy cases decreased from
1912 last year to 1882 this year. In
explanation Joseph L. Moss, chief
probation officer said, Prohibition
seems to be the usual answer. Many
of the boys who were formerly in
this court committed the delinquent
acts with which they were charged
while under the influence of liquor"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21

Deaths from alcoholism in New
York City, as shown by the Health
Department Weekly Reports:
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21

This is about Chicago as reported
in the Tribune; Aided by Prohibi-
ton, the 5,l52 policemen on the force
made fewer arrests than the 400 po-
licemcn did in 1918. In 1920 arrests
number 94,453; in 1918 l10.Sl9.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1921-05-05

TN COATS for little folks MS In
l. their hats, the season repeats many
style features of importance In grown
up apparel. Just like mama's' APP
pears to be a strong argument In fav-
or of anything that little Indies from
four to eight have the privilege of
choosing for themselves. In utility
coats there are such amusing little
affairs as the miniature shown above
where n brown, rough surface cloth
Is made up with machine stitching
for decoration on its wide. cape collar
and roomy sleeves and a narrow belt
that crosses at the front and buttons
at each side. 1t Is as much like
grown-ups' In these features ms It can
be.
Similar coats with narrower collars
are shown In sturdy wool materials
woven in youthful pattern, as black
and white checks. tan or grey with
small cross bars In green or red
navy and red-or other lively com
%binations. 1t Is the material that Is
featured In these and not the style
which Is simply the straight coat
with plain sleeve and round collar.
They fasten with bone buttons.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1921-05-05

~ EHSSIFA:

A ive-gallon can Of gasoline retails
in the Argentine at anywhere from Q
pesos to 10 pesos Zone peso equals
S0.4246).
A background of gold and numerals
and letters Of black is the color COM
bination adopted by Tennessee for the
1921 automobile license plates.
In Belgium, the three largest auto
mobile factories In the country are at
present capable of turning out weekly
between 20 and 80 finished cars apiece.
Between 100000 and 100000 people
were employed in automobile factories
In this country last year. The pay
roll amounted to more than 100000
600.
While there are only 401 persons In
Iowa and Nebraska whose income ex-
ceeds $4,000, there is an automobile
for every six persons residing in those
states.
Arizona, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan
Nebraska, Rhode Island and Vermont
have adopted black and white as a
color combination for 1921 automobile
license plates.
At least once in six months ball
bearings should be inspected. the
rough or worn cams replaced with per.
feet ones and the ball-run filed with
graphite grease.
Eight attendance officers in Seattle,
Wash, constantly search the city In
passenger automobiles and roadsters
for school children who have a ten
dency to play ~"hookey."
Spark plugs of British Manufacture
are made TO fit the American automo.
bile, while the American spark plugs,
as a rule, will not serve for British
made cars or motorcycles.
In the states Of Victoria and Tas
mania, the consular district of Aus
tralia, there is a registration Of ap-
proximately 22,285 motor cars and
trucks, and 1925 motorcycles.
Did you ever look at your fan belt
when you found your engine over
heating? A slipping belt means the
fan is going at a slower speed and
does little cooling for the engine.
The oil pressure gauge furnishes a
rather accurate meal OF determining
the condition OF the engine bearings.
As the bearings wear the oil circulates
more freely and the pressure natural
ly drops.
Because there are several particu-
larry fast automobiles In this country,
there is a plan among motor interests
to get up a subscription to send Ameri-
can cars and drivers abroad to enter
in the French Grand Prlx automobile
race this year.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1921-05-05
AUTO JACK that
WORKS QUICKLY
Prolongs Life Of Tires by Taking
Off Heavy Load While Car
Is in Garage.
CONSTRUCTION VERY SIMPLE
Once Made and Put to Use Set Will
More Than Pay for Themselves
In Few Months-lllustration
Shows Operation.

II is possible to prolong the life of
automobile tires IL the car is lacked
up as often as possible when not in
use. During the night, and at other
times when the car is In the garage,
which usually represents more than
half Of the time, the car might Just
as well be raised from the floor, saw
ing that much weight on the tires.
Extra load is not only removed from
the tires, but any tendency to-
ward flattening Of the shoe and maxi
Ing its wearing qualities uneven is
lessened considerably.
Pay for Themselves.
A set Of homemade jacks will not
take long to make, and once made
and put to use, will much more than
pay for themselves in a few months.
The construction of the jacks is
simple. A slx-foot length Of strap
iron three-fourths inch in thickness
and n inch wide is required for
each Jack. This is bent nearly double
In the center. and each end provided
with a right-angle turn and four
inches turned to slightly more than
right angles with the length of the
Jack. A block of wood. preferably