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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
Appropriation Bill
For Dry Enforcement
Is Passed by House

After week OF debate in which a
number OF proposals were made by
friends and foes OF National Prohi-
bit:on relative to the dry law enforce
ment problem, the House on Janu-
airy l. adopted an amendment to the
appropriations bill increasing the ap-
preparation for dry law enforcement
from $6.500,000 to $7.100,000 The
amendment which was adopted by a
vote Of so to IS was offered by Rep
resentative Nolstead of Minnesota,
father of the dry law enforcement
code. The enforcement department
had asked for an appropriation of
81, 100000.
On January 10 Representative
Wood, Republican, Indiana, proposed
that the enforcement be transferred
from the Bureau of Internal Revenue
to the Department Of Justice. 1t is
understood that this proposal WAS
opposed by Chairman Volstead OF the
judiciary committee Mr.. Volstead
admitted that enforcement was fail
ure in some localities, but expressed
the opinion that Prohibition could be
enforced if ten states which have
failed to enact state enforcement
laws would only do So
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
Dry Officials Active
During Past Dry Year
Shown by Statistics
Enforcement Departments S h W
Many Arrested and Much Wet
Property C0nhscated

A Washington dispatch to the
Tribune gives these figures relative
to the enforcement work:
With 17,5o5 persons arrested for
violations of the Volstead law, pen
alties and taxes of $22,57l,63o have
been collected by the internal rev.
enue department, it was learned re-
Gently.
These figures from Commissioner
Williams were made public when
Representative Wood, Indiana, intro
duced an appropriation bill in the
House.
Revenue agents have destroyed
$3.50 illicit distilleries, $500 illicit
stills, 1873 still worms, 93,745 gallons
of spirits, 40116 fermenters, 2,712,012
gallons of fermentcd mash, 137, $50
gallons of wine and cider l22,865 gal
Ions OF spirits were seized, but not
destroyed.
Paul F. Myers, assistant commits
sioner of internal revenue, has said
to Congressman officially that the
bureau would need about $7,000,000
for the next fiscal year for Prohibi-
tion enforcement Members of Con-
gress insist that with the deficiency,
to be taken care of later, the amount
would exceed $o,000,000.
Counted in gallons, the inventory
of spirits in government warehouses
last September 80 was given Congress.
1t follows:
Whisky, 44,5O0643; rum, 405,556;
gin, 900 ,462; high wines, 1905; alco-
hol S76,o08; cologne spirits 559,585,
and brandy, 1897.
Activities in Illinois and the cen
trail district were outlined by Frank
D. Richardson, federal enforcement
agent, as follows:
"In the central department we had
4,4S1 cases of alleged violation of the
Volstead Act In Chicago we pre-
sented about 1000 cases TO the United
States district attorney for prosecu-
ton. We asked injunctions closing
$50 places. Seventeen places have ac-
tually been closed"
Mr.. Richardson said the cost has
been $4,000 a month in the central
department. Taxes and assessments
collected, he asserted, were $9,8l9, IA,
OF which about $5,0O0,000 was in Chi
cago.
$4,000 Gallons of Booze Seized
"About $4,000 gallons of bonded
liquor seized in Chicago, which would
bring about $3,500,O00 at bootleg
prices, are in storage here. During
the year we seized l,400 stills in the
central department. About 400 were
taken in Chicago"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
States Attorneys Discuss Enforce
ment
Editor, The Daily Gazette y

The following letters from various
states attorneys present the views
of men exceptionally well qualified to
pass judgment on the results of Con-
stitutional Prohibition:
I'm response TO your recent letter
in which you ask, first, what l think
of the results of Prohibition so far,
and, if would favor the return of the
licensed saloon, and also, what in my
opinion, the chief benefits or the chief
disadvantages of Constitutional Prohi-
bition are, | am glad to reply. As to
the first question, l feel that the re-
suits are greatly above what the ma
jority hoped for under this new law,
for the working out of such trcmen-
dous movement throughout this whole
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
Mayer Says Never Again Saloons
Sincerely yours.
&C. NJ. McConn,
Assistant to the President"

This is from the mayor OF Cham
paign, Illinois:
In reply to your letter OF January
4, asking me about what ! think of
the result from the Prohibition law,
will say that the city of Champaign
has and is now having good results,
and we arc far better off morally and
financially than we ever have been.
We, like all cities, are still having a
little drinking and drunkenness from
extracts, home brew, etc, but moth
ing to compare with what it was when
saloons were in the city.
"When we had saloons, we received
$4,000 each year from 20 saloons,
and yet, with the loss of the $4,000,
we lost nothing except twenty-six
dives; as our streets are cleaner now
than they were when we had saloons
The men that were down in the gut
ters. many of them now are good,
moral men, and many of them now
own bank account l only hope
that Prohibition continues in the
United States. Never again saloons
for our city.
'Yours truly,
(Signed) IS. c. Tucker,
mayor"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
A MENACE TO ENFORCE
MENT

The indifference OF citizens
and the feeling that the Federal
government must do the work
is a menace to enforcement.
The Eighteenth Amendment
was never intended to relieve
the states OF responsibility.
The states have many times
more officers, and some OF
these spend more than a hun
dre1 times as much for police
protection in the state as the
Federal government.
The Federal government is
responsible for enforcement OF
the law, in cooperation with
the state, and should use its au-
thority in those localities pri-
marily where there is no state
law. or where local officers are
disloyal to the Federal amend
ment.-Wayne B. Wheeler.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
Down-State Editor Writes

From the editor of the Sterling Ga
zettc comes the following clear and
comprehensive discussion OF the dry
law:
considering the fact that it took
hundred years of earnest efforts
and millions of dollars to secure Con-
stitutional Prohibition the results OF
the first year under the operation OF
the Federal Amendment are certainly
most gratifying. Those of us who
have been fighting the liquor traffic
for forty years realize fully the law
less character of the institutions en-
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
NORMAL SCHOOL PRESI-
DENT CALLS PROHIBI-
TION GREATEST HELP

(By ]. Stanley Brown, President
Northern Illinois State Nor
NAL, Dekalb)
No single bit of legislation
since the abolition of slavery by
civil war has done so much to
help the family, the home, and
the business life of the United
States as Constitutional Prohi-
bition. There is every good
reason to believe that if this
subject were submitted to a vote
of all the men and women in
the United States having right
to vote, the Prohibition Amend
ment would be overwhelmingly
supported.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
Crime in Chicago
Greatly Decreased
During Dry 1920
Murders Cut Down to Less Than
One-Half of 1919 Figures, Says
Chicago Commission

Murders decreased 81 per cent, bur-
glaries 10 per cent, and robberies 6
per cent in Chicago during 1920 as
compared with 1919. These figures
were presented to the Chicago crime
commission at its second annual
meeting on January Is. This great
decrease came in spite of the world
wide crime increase following the
war, and the fact the Prohibition en-
forcement was imperfect during the
past year in Chicago.
The number of disorderly conduct
cases disposed of in the Chicago mu-
nicipal courts in 1920 was only 32,305
as compared with 3S,633 such cases
in 1919.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28

| gagged IN perpetuating the license sys-
ten. Every law was violated with
impnnity The liquor power dictated
the politics OF the county, town. state
and nation. 1t elected and appointed
its friends to Office. 1t was the ono
great protected law-violating, crime
producing home-destroying institu-
tion i'll the land, IT had built ZIP
system buttressed by immense profits
and political favors that can not be
overthrow in 4 day or year. \ good
start has been made. Everybody adj
mits that whisky is done for. The
distillers are turning their attention
TO other lines and developing new
kinds of business. The dissolution of
the big three million dollar Pabst
corporation in Milwaukee as a beer
brewing institution indicates that the
big men in the brewing game realize
they must turn their plants into other
lines OF useful production.
Not even the former ultra-wets of
+ this community would be in favor OF
/ the return OF the licensed liquor sa-
loon. \ few would think the time
may come when light wines and beer
may be manufactured and distributed
in the homes for private consumption
bit that sentiment is very slim com.
pared 10 the opposition in this COM
munity. There is no question about
i that
sf7:Se Eh's 'b1nufts f,ont7 es,:tsiiesi..
tional Prohibition have been the iu-
creased wages, that have been paid
TO labor for producing an increased
quantity OF articles useful for the
home, the demand having been cre-
j ated because the former money ex-
pended Tor drink has gone into inn
proving and supplying thousands Of
| homes with many articles that were
never before considered within reach.
! The chief obstacle to enforcing Pro-
/ hibition is the education of the liquor
/ traffic for fifty years that it should be
the recipient OF special privileges, that
it should not be intcrfered with, that
disobeying a liquor law was not
proper subject for attention by law
enforcing officials, that liquor either
licensed or of the boot-legging variety
| should be let alone. The slackness of
D,,lf;c of3,c; Ia le x,,bo Lo,-a hoo,, -, e,,,,,
pathy with the traffic and have always
voted against Prohibition and there's
fore are not and have not been favor
able to the enforcement of the law,
| has been one handicap. A most seri-
ous one. The leniency OF the courts.
small fines imposed on violators
have been an encouragement to con-
tinued violations. There is, however,
growing sentiment in favor of the
enforcement of the Prohibition laws
and while it took one hundred years
to enact the Prohibition Amendment,
it certainly is not to be expected that
any organization entrenched as the
liquor traffic has been in the laws and
politics OF the country can be entirely
eliminated in period OF one year.
"a good start has been made and
ii it takes twenty-five years to finish
the job, we who have been long at
the work will feel that we have ac-
complished wonders indeed and that
our efforts have been devoted TO the
upbuilding of the country.
Every truly yours,
"D. w. Grandon,
Editor, The Daily Gazette"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
Liquor Organ Officially Revived

While the CHIEF objective OF the wet
propagandists is to reach 'the church
people and the general public, plans
have been apparently effected by the
liquor forces to supply their own peo-
Pile with publicity and arguments.
The Champion OF Fair Play was
changed to the National Beverages
Review shortly after National Prohi-
bition became effective The Janu-
airy Is, 1921. number OF this periodical
resumed the old name and came out
enlarged to the extent OF 81 pages
The entire first page is taken up with
the announcement: Devoted to the
Interests Of the Veterans Of Liberty
of the [. 5. A. A society that favors
the return OF Beer and Light Wines,
and opposed to all Sunday Blue Laws.
Are You With Us?"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
EVEN IN MILWAUKEE,

Federal Judge Geigcr, of Milwau-
kee, evidently is of the opinion that
the Prohibition law should be en-
forced in that city made famous by
beer. as we'll as in communities III
which dry sentiment is more pro-
nounced. In one day the judge fined
soloonkeeper $500 and sent him to
jail for five and half months, and
seven other saloonkeepers were as
sessed fines ranging from $500 to
81 600 each.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
PAID DEARLY FOR THEIR FUN

During the year 1920 liquor law
violators in Toledo paid into the fed
eral treasury fines aggregating $27,-
o85. These fines were assessed by
Judge Killits of the Federal court.
Other officials believe that fines for
1921 will double that amount. One
reason given for the prediction of re-
ceipts for the present year is the fact
that in the first Ia days, fines totaling
more than $1,000 were assessed by
Judge Killits.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
CONGRESS, ATTENTION.

What are you going to do
with American citizens who go
into British, Mexican or Cuban
territory to find a base of oper-
atioas against the Prohibition
laws OF the United States
They should at least lose their
citizenship. Punish them and
then we shall be in position to
protest against such use of for
eign territory by foreigners.
The Commoner.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28

popular protest against Prohibition
that it pretended to represent.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
University Presidents Mayors Editors and States Attorneys
Give Their Opinions on First Year
LICENSED SALOONS WILL NEVER COME BACK
Is UNANIMOUS OPINION OF CORRESPONDENTS
Calm Judgment Of Substantial Thinkers Makes Wet Propaganda Look
Ridiculous
NEED FOR FUTURE WORK RECOGNIZED BY STUDENTS OF PROBLEM

In the last number of the Issue a
great number OF answers to a letter
OF inquiry relative to the results OF
the first year OF Prohibition were
printed. Additional letters are given
in this number of the Issue. 1t
should be noted that the writers are.
men with unusual opportunities for
the study OF Prohibition results as
well as men trained To draw correct
conclusions from their observations.
1t is an encouraging indication OF
public support of Prohibition that not
one person oi all those addressed in
various fields OF activity has replied
IN favor OF returning saloons. The
few disadvantages referred to are i'll
reality enforcement difficulties which
do not detract from the value OF Pro-
hfbtion. In other words Prohibition
has brought nothing worse in charac-
ter or degree than the evils that eX-
sted under the saloon system.
School Heads Endorse Law
Letters from the president OF
Northwestern University and the
president OF the Northern Illinois
Normal School appear elsewhere in
this number
The following is from the Office OF
the president OF the University OF Hi
nois.
your letter OF January 4 reached
1Fs-ffasfdeht Kinney jast-ss fitsvsss -les14.-si
ing on business trip, so that it was
impossible for him to respond to your
request for discussion OF Constituf
tional Prohibition which should reach
yon in advance OF January II.
"Ele desired me, however, to write
you that he is. of course, not in favor
of a return OF the licensed saloon, that
so far as he has been able to observe,
the people of the country are, in gen.
eral, we'll satisfied with the results OF
Prohibition; and that the advantages
of the abolition of the liquor traffic
are SO obvious to pretty nearly every
body that it seems to him there is no
danger OF any retreat from the posi-
ton the nation has taken in this
matter,
Sincerely yours.
&C. NJ. McConn,
Assistant to the President
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Legal Notices
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF
VIRGINIA.
Richmond. Va. November 0. 1871.


A specia. meeting OF the stockhoide3
OF tho Lilo Insurance Company OF WI
sinia will 10 held at the Home Ofice 4
the Company. corner OF Capitol and Tent
Strrets. Richmond. Virginia. on WEI
NESDAY. THE BARD DAY OF SOvEA
BIER. 1921, at O'Clock T.. M. TOR III
consideration and action OF the Stool,
holders upon the auest.on of Authorixif
tbs Board of Directors OF the Compai.
10 increase the Capital Stock OF the Com
pany In such amount and upon suc,
terms and conditions az may be prescribe
by the Stockholders, an increase In stocs
having been recommended to the Stock
holders hJ said Board by resoiutic'
adopted on the sth day OF November. 1871
and for the transaction of such 9th.
business rs may properly come tefor
said meeting The books for transfer
stock OF tho Company VIII be closed q
the 10Th DAY OF November, 1921, and I'd
opened on the l9th day Of December. 1921
A CARLTON MCKINNEY.
Secretary. 4
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-11-14

Real Estate Auconeers
TRUSTEES SALE
Farm in Goochland County

Of n of dated of
Va made in the
Of certain notes Therein
TUESDAY.
the
of land all i'm
Coochand. and
meRcng tho Three-Chop
f..
the
H9cketss R9ad to the land nsw msry Weldon
white oak thence 6SA dnowo
NJ. hence
~ poles along r. Henleys line TO the cedar
tho herein described
$3.50 -
70 pay this
$1,000
from MAY 1921 to August 1921 balance
for $as5 with and the
in
= - 800 '' a'"ui'' anu secured
JNo s. SHRisTxT Trustee 81
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-11-14

l0i FOURTH AVESUE--Must be sold NJ
once: ownar has moved from State
Stucco. rooms. bath. modern heat
large corner .ot. Immediate posse ssioI
Prize reduced. small cash payment. bai
anco $50 per month. Mr. Smith. Nor
ton q. Thaihincr. First National Dam
building.
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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-09-08

growth shown last year, with 3
probable entering, class OF 125. Al
MIddlebury college, q waiting list
has been opened for rooms. The
freshman class there Will exceed
that Of last year by nearly 80 pei
cent.
Boston university reports that
with some departments yet to open
registration 1900 students have
signed UP for entering classes. Its
College Of Liberal Ares expects a
20 per cent. increase. The School
OF Theology has stopped enroll
ment with 115 men, the largest en-
tering class on record.
President c. D. Gray. of Bate5
college. reports that. the entering
class will be the largest in the his
tory OF the college. "a~n1reciabi'
larger than the last which was In
its turn the largest class that eve
entered Bates"
University OF Maine. a month
before its opening, had $50 appli-
cations for admission, Is more than
annlied last wear. New FaTr7sh'~e
colleges entering class will be tho
largest Of record according to reg
istrations and applications now In
hand. At Rhode Island State col
lege the outlook is said to be 70.
approximately the samo sized c!ag'
as East wear.
At Clark college, where the tut.
ton was doubled, admissions have
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-09-08

equalled those Of other years. Al.
Mount Holyoke, q freshman class
Of $50 as compared with 207 young
women last year, is reported
Smith college, which had about 500
Young women as freshmen last year
will have a class at least as large
It was stated, with many examina
tions still to-be taken.
Simmons college reports that
only a limited number of the stu,
dents who applied could be admit
ted because OF lack OF room in
classes and college houses. This
year $50 freshmen will be admitted
Tuition was increased SO per cent.
without reducing the number of ap
plicants.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-09-08
'RAR RAN DISTRICT
SIS CONVENTION
IIt vii Be Held Sept. 18.
In Marvin Chapel,
RiyesViIe

Paw Paw District Sunday School
Convention will be held on Sun.
day, September IS, at the Marvin
chapel at Rivesv1lle with District
President, George Hamerick,
presiding.
An excellent program has been
prepared for this convention
which will hold two sessions, one
on Sunday morning and another
in the afternoon Mrs. Knutt Of