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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-17
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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-17

TOXIC, May 1s.-Japan today 10 pass
lng through ministerial crisis. Leaders
III the powerful Seiykuai party are trying
70 stave off the climax. however. until
after the treaties and agreements entered
into during the Washington conference
are approved by parliament.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-17

MENiCO CITY. May. l6.-The Yucatan
legislature notified President Obregon to-
day that a request has been made to the
United States to free Flores Magon and
Librsdo Rivers. political prisoners at
LeAvenworth.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-17

OAKLAND, Cal. May 1s.-Harry ". Will
sms. widely known asa composer and
motion picture director. is dead at the
home Of his mother here after a brief III
ness.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-17

ATHENS. May i6,-The new Greek cab
inet Of Premier Stratos was sworn In to-
day II succeeds the Gounaris ministry.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-17

WHEN MRS. o. f. PLUMMER,
who was arrested Saturday by po-
lice officers In n raid on the Osage
rooms, entered a plea OF not guilty
yesterday to a federal charge =
violating the prohibition act. ". s.
Commissioner william J. Melton II
her preliminary hearing for May 1S
and placed her under a $1,000 bond
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-17

,WAsHlNGToN. May Is.--The sdminis-
mower ia taking steps to prevent soaring
Sa,ves OF coal at the mines, IL was an.
,hi.nsea ,hia @ officially at the White House
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-17

DubLlN May f6--The cary optimism
between the Irish free staters and the re-
!, rupesns dwindled this Afternoon when
ton,,usn usn elreann peace committee ad-
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-17

DISTINCTION. May 1e.--The prohibi-
,n MN bureau today embarked upon a clean.
~ uanpaign IN the state OF Illinois similar
Ia nN recently completed along the Flor
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-17

WASHINGTON, May 1s.--Negotlatlons
between the shipping board and the Lloyd
royal line OF Belgium over the price Of
~ lake type vessels sold by the board 20
Guided. it was announced today.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-17

BELFAST May 15.-British reinforce
nenls are on their way to Ulster from
queenstown. II was learned this after
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-17

BAYONNE. N. ". May 1e.-Ton tanks
Of petroleum had been destroyed today by
fire In the Tidewater on companys
yards here. The fire started last night
when n flash of lightning struck a tank.
The loss was estimated at $3.50. 900.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-17

WASHINGTON. May I6.--Scrapping of a
large part OF the American navy in ac-
eordance with the 5-5-3 naval ration of
ne Washington conference Is authorized
bill placed upon Its passage In the
house today.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-17

TOXIC, May l6.-Millions OF handbills
bearing propaganda seeking public SYM
psthy for Chang Tso-Lin, defeated Chi
nese war lord, who has issued a declara-
Won ot the independence OF Manchuria.
today
New-York tribune., 1922-01-01
Movies Can't Lure
TIE Bootlegger

III TACT, so bad some Of the mixtures
such liquid carcatures Of the drinks they are
supposed to represent-and so amateurish arc
the fake labels with which they are decorated.
that 1t would seem as if human creduitv could
not possibly accept it all. But the crudities
have their sale, apparently, and the author-
ties say the fakes will get worse as the diff
Guilty of getting real liquor increases
SO far has limitations glorious art pro
gressed that it is now possible to buy non-alco-
hoc fiavorlng extracts, which are guaranteed
to give the rye or bourbon taste to alcohol.
lhoEe havoring extracts are sold openlv in
some stores in New York. They are sold open
ly because, being non-acoholic there can be no
legal objection to their sale. But they assist
IN complicating things for the enforcement off
Ger and making things easy for the bootleg
ger.
Of course the individual who buys liquor
which has been favored with one of these store
concoctions does not have the secret of the
favoring advertised by his bootlegger In
stead of saying: "Od man. the game is getting
little tough, and I've had to bring you grain
alcohol diluted three times and favored with
non-acoholic extract which | bought in
Vesey Street store" the bootlegger probably
whispers: "Just slip me a twenty for this
bottle of the finest little drink you ever tossed
past your tonsils. | got this from a feller'-
and then proceeds detailed statement of ex-
citing incident, relating to the corraling of
something choice.
According to the prohibition officers, their
chief wonder is that bootleggers as tribe
can keep their faces so stra ght when they
telling such details to their customers
Bootegging, they say, ought to be great train
ing for the motion picture business If you
can tell customer convincing story about
bottle of booze you have made yourself and can
keep a straight face in the telling you are
qualified for Glass A closeup work in Dave
Griffith's first string company. Only the mo-
ton picture business is never going to lure
bootleggers who are selling the sort of stuff
the prohibition enforcement officers are CON
tlscating right along. Douglas Fairbanks may
make few dollars more, but he has to work
lot harder than a successful bootlegger. Be
sides, Douglas Fairbanks's audience is tickle
The bootlegger's audience is faithfuness itself
New-York tribune., 1922-01-01

The man who goes into Broadway resort
and pays a $3.50 cover charge preliminary to
the high price he must pay for drinks is not
making his family suffer The headache he
may acquire from "stretched' or doctored
booze is the sole damage that is going to be
done--uness the doctoring process has been
carried to point where actual poisoning re-
suits. Incidentally it may be remarked that
just because Broadway liquor is high-priced
it is not beyond suspicion The prohibition au-
thorities, out of their experience. testify that
cost has little to do with genuineness nova
days, so general has become the work of adul-
teraton as result of the scarcity of real
liquor, combined with the greed of the boot
logger.
The Broadway spcnder, then, does not
blanket all else within the enforcer's range of
vision. A Broadway raid is valuable for the
advertising, perhaps-for it's spectacular quail
tiles and it's consequent effect on the popular
mind But the Broadwayite does not repre-
sent the real mark for which the enforcement
officer is shooting. A shining mark he may be
one might also add, an easy mark-but the
prohibition authorities, so one gathers from
a composite talk with several of them, want to
snatch the "stretched" and adulterated bowl
from the lips of the man with small salary
and large family.
For this reason there is more rejoicing in
enforcement circles when lowly corner
"joint" is successfully raded than when
drinkers and drinkees are summoned where
the white lights make it easy to read any sort
of legal document.
On this account right now particular atten
ton is being paid to the little places that ap-
peal to the man who makes from s15 to s25
week salary and who often spends most of his
weekly wage for bootleg at rs cents a drink
New-York tribune., 1922-01-01
Oh, How They Long
For the Drug Business!

The bootegger-taki the information from
these same enforcement authorities---is at his
brainiest in New York City.
"You've got to consider" observed John S.
Parsons, chief state enforcement officer, "that
we are up against the cleverest criminal minds
in the Underworld Also in New York Citys
cosmopolitan population we have something
different to deal with than we have up state.
Therefore it is not strange that the drying
up process is slower in this city than it is
outside"
Of late there has been a suspicious concerted
movement of former liquor manufacturers and
dealers generally toward the wholesale drug
business, according to prohibition authorities.
Men who had reputation as compounders
of chemicals before the prohibition law went
into effect have gone in for wholesale drugs
with an earnestness that would have been most
New-York tribune., 1922-01-01
Discouroging the
NeW Years Caller

The wholesale transfer Of liquor from the
bar to the hip pocket Or the home no doubt
has much to do with the almost complete
eclipse Of the New Years call. Providing
punch other drinks for New Years callers
used to be one of the excitements of an earlier
period. The drinks were comparatively mild
or, if not, they partaken Of sparingly
This enabled the caller 20 complete consider
able social circuit without impairment Of
speech gait. But the liquor obtainable to-
day is not the sort upon which New Year call
ers flourish. Besides, while ones own boot
logger can be depended upon, it viii not do to
place too much dependence in the bootleggers
of others Consequently prohibition may be
said to have taken lot of ancient meanings
out of the social call of the first day of the
calendar year.
The enforcement officials are not concerned
with changes of social aspects. Their compo-
site view Of the entire situation at the begin
ming of the new year may be summed up about
as follows:
Prohibition mas been here long enough to
establish itself as a reality. 1t is no longer
regarded as a est. Lifting heavy burden
from underneath is always wearying bust
ness, and those who are trying to lift the
lid" are becoming steadily less successful by
inches. Big talk stories about the huge amount
of liquor brought into this country from Can
ada are mostly bunk particularly since the
Canadian government has SO regulated the
business in the one wet province Of Quebec
that liquor can be purchased only in small
quantities. Up state in New York the stu
alton is noticeably improved The big fight
against prohibition is being made in New York
City but even here there is a steady gain in
favor of the law.
There you have the situation from the stand
point of state and national prohibition au-
thorties.
What it is from the other standpoint must
be left to ones own bootlegger, provided one
has one.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-01

commendabe under other circumstances. But
the prohibition skeptcs who occupy official
chairs came to the conclusion that perhaps the
right to handle liquor had something to do with
this sudden desire of former distillers to be-
come listed under the title Of wholesale drug
glsts. The eagerness of these gentlemen to
enter the wholesale end of a business that was
once briefly graced by Keats and Ibsen has
been somewhat dashed owing to the authori-
ties insistence upon compliance with the let
ter of the law. Under the terms of this law
man must carry stock of drugs ten times
greater than his stock of liquor. Also the au-
thorities have scoffingly declared that the man
VIII, rents a twelve by twelve Office and says
he is going to conduct a wholesale drug estab-
lishment therein has another guess coming. If
he is really going into the wholesale drug bust
and has stock of drugs and place Of
business of sufficiently imposing size to insure
the truth of his statement, he has the blessing
of the prohibition enforcement officials. If his
stock Of liquor is out of proportion to his stock
of drugs and if his amount of floor space is too
small by one square foot to attain to the dig
nifty of wholesale drug establishment, the
applicants hope of getting a license is accord
ingly sent gimmering.
This recent urge toward the "drug business
is said to have kept inspectors busy, to the
consequent lessening of inspection along other
channels. But one "wholesale druggist" spe-
cializing in liquor would be worse than dozens
of retail bootleg places, according to the en-
forcement authorities, whose aim is to strike
at the business as near its source possible.
The old-fashioned who used to swear
off liquor drinking at the first Of the year finds
that he must be more specific nowadays, pro-
vlded he has been daring enough to inquire
into the components of most Of the booze now
setting things awash. In those days of simple
forswearing the man who made the New
Years resolution knew the ingredients of the
demon to with he saying farewell. The
business Of distilling brewing was as
open book. He who to the barroom might
read. But to-day man is required to raise his
right hand and swear off drinking such things
as turpentine, which is known to have been
New-York tribune., 1922-01-01
Here's a Jolt fer
Sr0adwoy Self-Esteers

0'rerchlns' alcohol is only minor offeDse
Charged up to the bootlegger accordinq to tho
S''A'oi'ioh officers who have scrapbools large
N'O0sn 10 make prima donna jealous. Among
UneSe clippings one gets heads like the follow.
ing; insanity Due to Prohibition Booze "A
''s0'' OF insane asylum officials at Bingham
sV"'' Illinois Attorney General Denouuces
vile Poison Sold in That State" "Cvanjde in
00wery Whisky Kills Two in Newark" and
wood Alcohol Kills Two in Brooklyn; Twenty
@'@ue H. also there are minor headings with
comedy touch, such as Quart Bottle FIX
p'0oes IN Court and "Brooklyn Man Blown I'm
Oy Booze He Is Carrying Home"
mere Is no comedy in the situation in the
Eyes OF the enforcement officials. Thew look
''a''efs from the viewpoint Of men who are
.4saged IN e long, hard fight which has set
"7u INTO something like a six-day bicycle
grind They say it is question Of endurance
mat the victory is certain to be with them.
NC" aork City, they admit, the drying-up
,'S'0S IS gong on more slowly than else
e's' When one says 'New York. in cor
r'''ion - with prohibition violations picture of
y r''so"ay is conjured Broadway with it's
eS"'s' its restaurants ard it's restless signs
"'ofe restless people But here enters a
.F''S'ag thing. Broadway does not figure
IN the calculations of the enforcement off
here Is the way they look at it:
New-York tribune., 1922-01-01

used in some cases in making synthetic gin;
creosote, which has been found in Scotch, fol-
lowing inquest the remains of the
drinker; ether commonly used for its qualities
of "kick"; formadehyde, which cannot be de-
tected, and which is frequently drunk, but
which is not highly poisonous; brown sugar,
known as "caramel,' which is used to give
color to alcohol Frequently too much is used,
giving the bootleg dark appearance); wood
alcohol, which affects the optic nerves; partly
denatured alcohol, which is frequently used
with the formaldehyde addition mentioned;
pyridine coloress liquid of pungent odor,
derived from coal tar and heretofore used for
allaying asthmatic spasms, but now utilized to
assist in the creation of the numerous ills
that follow in the wake Of the bootlegger;
completely denatured alcohol, which usually
goes with the pyridine favoring; home brew,
which suffers from partial decomposition Of
acids, making the drinker suffer sooner or later
from gastritis
New-York tribune., 1922-01-01
Nothing too Crude
To Be Marketed

These are not all the things in the boot
leggers' catalogue from which the drinker must
swear to abstain when he takes his New Years
VOW. They represent only the high spots.
One must be deeply versed in chemistry if he
would 90 to the bottom of the subject. But if
any one is desirous of doing so he will find
plenty of material on which to work in the
governments chemistry division in the Fed
eral Building. Here are shelves lined with
exhibits of booze, good, bad and Indifferent
which has come in for analysis According to
Robert A. Edison, in charge Of the work, not
one sample in fifty proves to be genuine. 1t
is to be said that most of the samples are
harmless to certain degree. That is, the ex
tremely deadly concoctions, such those in
which wood alcohol figures, comparatively
few The booze that is doped with ether, for
instance, will give one only temporary sick
ness, though it may be severe while it lasts.
But ignorant hands mixing these fearful
and wonderful approximations to the booze of
our fathers. That is evidence1 by the simple
New-York tribune., 1922-01-01
Diogenes Looking for an Honest Boofleggey

before he gets home. In such places now it Is
customary to rent seat" One of those seats
is in the headquarters of the state prohibit
tion enforcement officers in West Twenty sew
enth Street. 1t is a common enough looking
chair, of the sort one generally finds in res
taurants Of the cheaper class But a false
bottom is discernible under the seat, if one
looks closely. If raid is made the renter Of
the chair is instructed to thrust his bottle into
the false bottom OF the chair, so no "evidence"
will be in sight. Raids are sudden things,
and there is not always time to collect bottles
and stow them away. Chair renters soon be-
came adept at hiding bottles in those falsc-bot-
toned chairs. In fact "cvidence" disappeared
with such amazing celerjty that the raiding
officials thought legerdeman was being used
against them. But some chair renter, slower
than he should have BEEN was seen thrusting
a bottle under the seat Of his chair and the
secret was out. Nowadays the bottoms of the
most innocent looking chairs are closely in
spected in the places where it is suspected that
such means of rest rented at prices which
outdo the rentals for grand opera seats.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-01
Fake Lobei Industry
Not To Be Sneered At

1t must be admitted that in Their general de-
traction Of bootleg, bootleggers and hootleggins
the officials have some formidable evidence to
present. They say that as real whisky be
comes more difficult to get the bootlegger be
comes more reckless in his ways and means Of
providing substitutes At first he was content
with mild diluton Of alcohol but now it is
diluted three or even four times. Here is the
content Of most of the stuff that is seized:
Grain alcohol, wonderfully diluted
Prune juice
Rain water.
little ether to provide the "kick.'
Glycerine for smoothness.
Dressed up in fake labels. provided with fake
c0fks and garnisned with fake revenue stamps
such mixture has been bringing $40 a pint
along Broadway and in many streets that are
lar from Broadway. The bottle. label and
cork business has grown to be part and narcol
Of the bootlegger's game Experts say thew
can distinguish such fakes every time. hut such
men would qualify in art circles as detectors
OF mutations of old masters. The averao 90 nor
son who is in the bootleg market is not ant to
notice that labels printing is little off rep
'S'er or the paper is not Of the right oua1itv
re takes the Label, just as he takes the con-
len's Of the bottle, on his faith in his individual
bootlegger.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-01
Drinking Is Now Il
Question of Faith in
Ones Boottegger, Say
authorities, Who See
Real Drought Coming

fact that. according to the government chem
lists, 80 per cent of alcohol viii sometimes be
used where 40 per cent would do iust - i -
and sometimes light co,or is scared through
the use of too little brown sugar as coloring
material and sometimes the booze will be very
dark, owing to the use of too much sugar But
apparently there is 4 sale for manufactured
stuff Of any color substance Bottles are
sold which viii produce absolutely no bead
when shaken and which are so "stretched' or
doctored that they have little Of the taste Of
the liquor they supposed to represent, and
yet they sell, for the bootleggiug fraternity
evidently does not care to have anything left
DID It's hands.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-01
WHAT Vol STEAD HAS DONF m NEW YEAp,
Once Glad Holiday Is
Tinged With Suspi-
cion, a s Imitation
Booze Develops More
Chemical Subtleties

-HE prohibition situation in New York
at the beginning Of this year 1922 may
l. he described as complicated
It would be simple enough if prohi-
stion had been able to prohibit right from the
.s,rt. but even the enforcement officers admit
that such did net come to pass. In fact, the
most they claim now is that things are drying
up"
While the drying up process is under way
all sorts of queer things are happening Some
of the queer things are being dropped into the
stuff that is sold as liquor Then queer things
are done by the persons who drink the material
that has been experimental with
The enforcement agents say that the queer
things in the liquor are Increasing as the real
thing becomes more scarce. This tends to
make drrking-unless one has an ante -prohi-
htion cellar Of ones ovr-morc and more q
matter Of faith. This faith is reposed in some
individual bootleegcr Ones own bootlegger,
Of course, is never suspected. He is different
"a reliable chap OF particularly ingenious
cast Of countenance. But in the cynical eyes
Of the prohibition enforcement officers ones
own bootlegger is classed with all other boot
leggers. They will all "stretch' whisky to
svell their profits according to these officers,
in whose opinion the hunt for an honest boot
logger is about as CLANCY as The hunt that
was talked OF by some scientists year or two
ago when they proposed TO seek out an anted-
luvian monster said to be alive in the recesses
Of an African Jungle
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-09-01
STORE WILL BE CLOSED MONDAY, LABOR DAY
PLEASE GOVERN YOUR PURCHASES
ACCORDINGLY


and probably would not know wha
to DO with them IL they did. Tho
peasants go barefoot in summer, use
homemade straw sandals in the au.
tumn, and felt boots of village man.
ifacture in the winter.
1t Is similar with most articles OF
wear and household use which AM
erican civilization considers essential
to comfort. If the Russian peasant
has plenty TO eat-and above all
other things he prefers black bread
---and If he has few rags to cover
him and a hut to shelter him, he
is as well OFF as he was before the
war.
II was only in late years under
the monarchy that the growth OF
manufacture within Russia was seri-
onsly encouraged. The Soviet re-
sime, whose supporters were mostly
among the factory workers in the
cities, has desired to increse indus
try probably even more than the
old regime, but due to civil war and
destruction. industry is now in
worse state than ever before II
foreign capital comes in to any great
extent the government expects TO
recreate industry. but lacking this.
It considers that Russia can get
along as an agricultural country un-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-09-01
RUSSIANS BELIEVE THEY
CAN GET ALONG AFTER
THIS YEARS HARVEST

MOSCOW. Sept. Ia. P)-
/ Soviet Russian leaders are advancing
reasons, easily understandable with
in Russia but probably difficult of
comprehension abroad, as to why
they believe Russia, after the COM
ing harvest, can get along and show
economic Improvement without the
aid OF foreign governments.
They make no secret that indus
hially the country can show very
little life without huge foreign cred
its, but they say that Russia is pri-
marily an agricultural country, and
that the requirements of the Russian
peasant are probably smaller than
those of any other people except the
Chinese or Hindus. The peasants
comprise at least 20 percent of the
country's population.
An American, accustomed 10 the
standard of living i'm the United
States, might consider Il terrible
condition were someone to tell him
that 5O,000,000 Russian people had
no shoes. The Russian. familiar
with his own country, would shrug
ms shoulders and say: What of it."
lie would remark that at least So
o'9'ooO Russians never had shoes