The daily times., 1922-01-23
.VOlSTEAD ACT IS
NOT TAKEN WITH
ANY ANY SERIOUSNESS ! R ] s ! IS
SAYS WEST VIRGINIA MAN
State Department of Insurance
is Writing Fire-Fighting De-
partments of North Carolina
to Inspect All Furnaces;
Flying Squadron Meeting
With Success.
SAYS WEST VIRGINIA MAN
(By Max Abernethy.)

Raleigh, Jan. 23.-Solution of the
LIQUOR traffic evil will not come
through a greater force Of revenue
officers and State constabulary in the
opinion of Eugene H. Arnold, lawyer
writer and business man
of Elkin, West Virginia, who was
visitor here for a short time the
end of the past week.
Both of these methods have been
employed in West Virginia in recent
months since the eighteenth amend
ment became operative without the
desired result, Mr.. Arnold states. He
does not think conditions in North
Carolina are dissimilar to those in
his State and is emphatic in the
belief that until there is more gen.
eral respect for the Volstead act, here
and elsewhere over the United States,
prohibition will not prohibit for some
years to come.
The State of West Virginia offers
a striking example of the inability of
prohibition enforcement officers to
stamp out the manufacture of spiritu-
GUS liquors. Recently that State, by
legislative enactment, created
State constabulary of $50 men to
Join hands with. the Federal revenue
forces in putting stop to the liquor
traffic Today it is generally admitted
that more whiskey is being manu-
factured and peddled in West Vir-
| ginia than at any time since the
eighteenth amendment was ratified.
In addition to the State police the
Federal government increased its
force of revenue officers there with
out avail.
| Mr.. Arnold is a great-nephew of
General Thomas j. "Stonewalp' Jack
son and is being urged by some OF
the West Virginia papers to make the
race for Congress in his district from
that State. While in Raleigh he Wis
,ited at the home of DR.. D. H. Hill, his
luncle, stopping here enroute home
from South America where he spent
several weeks on business.
!. While members Of the State Cor
poration Commission who ATTENDED
) the freight rate conference in Atlanta
, last week are optimistic over the ul'
! innate outcome of the adjustment
North Carolina shippers are seeking
lthey do not believe any relief will be
afforded any time in the near future
The commission points out, how
lever. that the conference will ultl
mately bring about relief since Com
: missioner Eastman of the interstate
y Commerce Commission agreed to re
;. lcommend that a general 1nvest1ga
ltion into the Virginia-North Caroln;
freight rates be instituted by tn
Washington rate-fxing body. Thl
; Investigation he will recommen
should exclude intrastate rates, an
that with respect to the new inter
state rates to North Carolina point
|any change in the recently fixed VII
/ einia-Cities-N North Carolina-Cities II
,lationship of rates should be excIue
ed from it, the corporation comm1'
sion announces.
6 Members of the North Carol1n
commission think that if the Wasl
ington body enters into this gener'
Investigation the "broad scope OF
a affecting every shipping point in tt
southeast will necessarily require
long period of time to bring it to
final conclusion"
& The State department of insuran'
is writing the fire-fighting depar
ments of North Carolina to make
careful inspection of all furnac
We used in dwellings and particular
N the pipeless type since Commission
Els Wade finds that the number or mr.
ne reported from this cause has reac
nd ed serious proportions in Nor
he Carolina.
M ..This department" the letter say
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