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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-11-17
MUCH footed "BEER"LAW
IN FULL FORCE IN NORWAY
Situation in Norway Shows Beer
Does Not Satisfy Alcoholic
Appetite
RUM SMUGGLING ABoUNDS
Beer Not the Moses to Lead the
People Out of Illicit Liquor
Wilderness

A Christiania dispatch of November
4 in the New York Herald reports that
smuggling of liquor rum runners is a
cause of grave concern TO the gov
eminent 1t appears that the activ-
tiles of the smugglers have increased
since the law went into effect which
provides for partial Prohibition This
law permits the traffic in liquors con-
tanning not more than fourteen per
cent alcohol. In other words, il per-
mts the traffic in beer and wine. 1t
is thus seen that Norway's experience
presents convincing argument
against the plan that is being proposed
by the liquor interests in this coun-
try as means to suppress liquor
smuggling and bootlegging.
The advocates for beer and wine in
the United States argue that if the
Prohibition law is amended so as to
permit the manufacture and sale of
beer and wine the smuggling problem
will be solved
The Christiania dispatch calls at
tention to the fact that the Norwegian
law now allows revenue officials to
search and bring in suspicious vessels
as far as ten miles. This extension
of the limit has served only to in
crease the difficult work of the Of
fcials, continues the dispatch. So far
other nations have not accepted Nor
ways extension of the law to ten
miles and opponents OF the law point
out that complications could easily
arise should a foreign vessel be seized
and brought into norwegian port.
Hundreds of thousands of gallons of
alcohol and whisky md their way
into the country and only small per-
centage is being seized, according to
this report.
The smugglers have thoroughly
organized business and use high
powered motor boats to bring the
goods from the storage ships anchored
outside Norwegian waters. Sub
marine chasers obtained from the
German navy are ideal for the
smugglers. These boats are equipped
with radio and smoke screen apparatus.
They are in constant communication
with the shore and are thus able TO
choose the right moment for dash
to the beach. A patrol steamer
equipped with two guns has been put
finto operation by the revenue officials,
bbut the speedy boats of the smugglers
are out OF reach before damage can be
done to them or
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-11-17
NEW FEDERAL RULING
PUTS BEER WITH WHISKY

Beer has been placed upon the same
plane as whisky i'll issuing Federal
search warrants for raiding saloons
in the city of Philadelphia. An
nouncement to this effect was made
October | by George w. Coles,
United States attorney. Heretofore
the practice of the United States at
torney has been to issue search wa.
rants for raids on saloons only in
cases where whisky had been pub
chased as evidence The new ruling
affecting the sale OF beer ccnta' ping
more than one-half of one per cent
alcohol by volume is the first of its
kind instituted by the United States
district attorneys Office since the adj
vent of Prohibition Mr.. Coles N
commenting upon the action said
The sale OF beer is Just IS much
violation as the sale of whisky
& regardless of the alcoholic conf
= tent, provided the beer contains
q more ili1n one-half df one per
cent alcohol. =
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-11-17

The revenue to meet Canadas heavy
annual expenditure following the war
has been coming not from liquor, but
chiefly from income, business profits, and
sales tax.
Despite all that may be said of pros
perity in Canada being greatest in those
provinces where liquor is sold freely, the
facts prove the contrary, according to
Ottawa dispatches, the most populous
portion of the country being Ontario.
Another claim made by the vets is
that since the advent of Prohibition,
there have been increases in Canadian
exports of fermented liquors to other
countries and that from these countries
much of this liquor is Struggled into the
United States.
This is contrary to the facts, During
the fiscal year ending March 81, 1921,
the value Of exports of all beverages was
s3,3sl GOO. During the fiscal year end
ing March 81, 1929, it fell to $2,52d,oo0,
and that in spite of the fact that the
cost of liquor had increased, In fact
the Dominion government revenue from
liquor would not do more than equal
10 per cent of the annual interest on
the national debt
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-11-17

remain sober. These same advocates of
wine and beer insist that they do not
want to bring back the saloon. How
ever, there are some facts which they
do not give us and which the American
people ought to know. France has nearly
a half million bars, or about one for
each eighty of her inhabitants. 1t is es-
timated that not less than four millions
of her people are, in an economic way,
involved in the liquor business.
Again the enemies of the Eighteenth
Amendment tell us that the way to do
away with the home still menace is to
bring back wine and beer Now Mr..
Hunt informs us that in France "there
were in 1920 exactly l,7ss,o29 home stills
in operation. That's one for every twenty
three people" After reading this article
one can better understand the significant
title given to il which is as follows;
'ENPLODING THE MYTH OF
FRANCE AS A COUNTRY OF MOD
ERATE DRINKING"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-11-17
WINDLE IN OHIO
One Cause of the Dry Landslide is
Explained

One factor which contributed to
dry success in Ohio has probably been
overlooked. That apostle of booze,
{. A. Windle, came into the state and
made a few speeches IN behalf of the
brewers proposal. =
In the early campo gins leading up
to the adoption of Prohibition in
Ohio, Mr.. Windle was a leading
champion of the wet cause. The
more speeches he made, the greater
was the number of dry votes. Drys
were always sorry when Windle
failed to make his appearance in a
campaign.
Now that it is generally known he
participated in the recent contest,
there is little surprise that the dry
victory was so overwhelming.
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HOW beer DOES HARM

where beer finds the mo adnlittanee'
sign.
sionally one nnds an old seuse
whose stomach will stand beer better
than water, but such don't live long
It's dollars to doughnuts that the
honorable secretarys sousy old pal
has been ON the under side of tomb
stone long time.
A man handling molten iron in any
sort of foudry labors in hot at
mosphere and sweats lot Now, let
us see what the physiology is. He
pours out sweat because the heat of
the air dilates the small blood vessels
Of his skin. The evaporation OF the
sweat holds his body temperature
near 90, in spite of the heat of the
air.
To supply the sweat, he needs water
and a little salt, Since he is in air
that is hotter than he is, he needs
no fuel to keep up body heat. Further
more, his comfort demands that his
heat registering apparatus in his skin
and in his central nervous system be
shielded as much as possible. Since
he must pass large quantity OF fluid
through his stomach, the fluid must
not irritate the stomach by being hot
or cold, or otherwise irritating. e-
Water that is neither hot nor very
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-11-17
BAHAMAS RUM RUNNING
BOOMING, REPORTS SAY
Clearance for u. S. Points Out
side of the Three-Mile Limit
Reach Record Volume
LAW-LoosENING, IS CAUSE
Struggled Liquor Ultimately
Finds It's Way Into Hands
of Bootleggers

The rum-rmning ring working out of
Nassau, the Bahamas, set new record
for liquor exported during the week
ended October 81, according to cable ad-
vices received by the customs depart
ment, says the New York Herald of No
vebmer 4.
Six British schooners left that port
with cargoes of whisky. Four of the
vessels cleared for st. Pierre ct Mique-
Ion, and two for Tampico, Mexico.
Due to State Department Ruling
The increasing exports of liquors from
the Bahamas are attributed to the State
Department Interpretation of marine
laws that liquor laden vessels may
not be seized outside of the three
mile limit unless they communicate
with shore. Dozens of the rum-running
vessels purportedly clearing for st.
d Pierre and Tampieo anchor in the At
lantic waters four miles off the New
York and New Jersey coast and trans
fer their cargo to motor launches which
bring the illicit liquor into port. More
than a million dollars worth OF whisky
is known to be on vessels standing out
side the threermile limit.
The bootleg ring" responsible for the
clandestine shipments is made up, say
customs officials, of wealthy men who,
through their smuggling operations, are
making millions upon millions of dol
lars"
Cooperation of the New York harbor
police and the sheriifs of coastal waters
In New York and New Jersey has been
vasked by the customs department in an
effort to prevent the landing of the FREE
quent illicit cargoes. The six liquor
laden schooners that cleared from Nassau
last week are anchored five miles off the
New Jersey coast, according to a state
ment by John d. Appleby, director of the
prohibition navy. They have been
sighted by rum chasers OF the dry navy
but can not be molested 50 long as they
remain outside the three-mile limit.
It Is evident that the government will
have to change it's policy in dealing with
these foreign rum boats if the prehi-
bition Law is to be successfully defended
against their assaults. England has re-
fused to aecede ITO the request for reeip-
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-11-17
WINDY CITY DISTILLEP
CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY

A. l.. Levine, general manager of
the Bowling Brothers and Company
distillery, Chicago, who was arrested
in connection with the. attempted
theft of $4,000 wort. of booze, was
formally charged with conspiracy in
Federal warrant issued October ,
on orders OF the chief field agent of
the Chicago Prohib;,ion Office, says a
dispatch in the Chicago Daily News.
Out of 500 cases which the Prohibit
ton Offices learned figured in the deal,
24j cases have been recovered. OF
these, rs were taken from the Dow
ling Brothers warehouse.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-11-17

Federal Judge Martin 7. Manton,
New York City, ordered Reisen-
webers's restaurant, known as
Paradise" padlocked for one year
under the common nuisance provision
OF the Prohibition law. This is the
first enforcement of the nuisance
clause in New York City but Col.
William Hayward, United States dis
trict attorney, said other places would
be closed as fast as the Federal courts
could Issue orders. Assistant District
Attorney Victor House who pros
ecuted the 5Sth Street Restaurant
Company. owners of the Paradise,
said the closing of the premises would
do much toward enforcement of Pro-
hibition as he believed restaurateurs
and cafe keepers will prefer to sell
one-half of one per cent beverages
rather than go out of business for
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-11-17
REPORT CANADIAN REVENUE INCREASED BY
U. S. PROHIBITION SAID TO Be ERRONEOUS
Comes From Liquor Taxes Than Before the
Exports Have Decreased; Greatest Prosperity Not Found
Where Liquor is Sold Freely

Reports from Washington to the eff,
feet that Canada has gained. great deal
of revenue as a result of Prohibition in
the United States comes as a surprise
to those acquainted with the facts, ac-
cording to dispatch from Ottawa. One
statement in a recent report from Wash
ington says, Canada, which collected in
excise and similar revenue $S,783,872 in
1919, collected in 1921 over $23,00O,000
According to the Ottawa Dispatch,
these figures fail utterly to establish
that Canada is now drawing a greater
portion of her revenue from liquor than
she did before the Introduction of Pro-
hibition in the United States, and the
truth is, she is drawing far less propor-
tionately from that source than ever be-
fore,
During the fiscal year ending March
81, 1914, Canada's total revenue was
approximately $lea,0oo,Ooo, of which exr
else taxes on liquor produced about $lls
100000, or about IL per cent During
the year ending March 81, 1922, the
total revenue was 1881 100000, of which
liquor brought in not moro than s per
cent.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-11-17

Department it is said the regulations
are in preparation, bur that they will
not be issued until the Supreme Court
has acted on the quesuon. Should the
Supreme Court uphold the Volstead
act as did Judge Hand in New York
and decide for the government ant
against the foreign ship companies
the regulations will ne held up until
Congress has had an opportunity to
amend the Volstead act,
The Herald dispatch concludes:
If no other escape is found
from the embarrassment Pre-
sident Harding in his message to
Congress probably will recon-
mend an amendment to the Vol
stead act specifically exempting.
foreign ships,
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-11-17
DRUG AND ALCOHOL ADDIcTS Different
MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY, Says DR.. D0ANE
Men Do Not Turn Drugs When Deprived Of Alcohol
Hospital, Philadelphia Deaths From Alcoholism
"# Drop to One-seventh

Dir. Joseph c. Doane, director of the
department of the Philadelphia
General Hospital, is quoted in the
Philadelphia North American of No
vember 2 as positively declaring that
absence OF liquor does not drive people
with an alcoholic thirst to the use of
habit-forming drugs. He said:
IT / were trying to produce an ar
gument against Prohibition | would
never say if they don't have alcohol
they will get dope, because an addict
to dope and an addict to alcohol are
entirely different mentally and physi-
cally."
AS proof that the removal of alcohol
would not increase the number of adj
diets to drugs, DIR. Doane said that be-
tween 400 and 500 drug users were
questioned as to whether they had
used liquor before they had become
addicted to dope, and that in this large
group, there was not one specific case
of taking drugs when they could no
longer obtain alcohol. Turning to an
analysis of the effects of Prohibition,
DR.. Dosne insisted that the period in
which Prohibition has been the law is
too short time to provide basis for
any scientific statement as to the effects
of insanity and other diseases. On this
point he said
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-11-17

"Esen if there had been no liquor
sold IT all in this period it would not
be possible to draw any definite con-
illusions, but while it still is so easy to
obtain alcohol ] think that it is strill-
ing fact that the number OF alcoholic
cases admitted to this hospital has
dropped from 1880 in 1916 to 400 thus
far in 1922"
He also stated that in the same pc
Rod the number OF deaths from excess
siye use of alcohol at the hospital has
dropped from SO to 8. In 1920 but
four persons died from this cause.
Further evidence of decrease of dis
ease and death from alcohol was given
by DIR. Doane in the following Incl
dent: What he termed as a beautiful
case of alcoholic deliriurn" at the Belle
vie Hospital in New York was not
recognized by one of the medical stu
dents. 1T will soon be impossible"
sc said, for us to find specimens of
alcoholic delirium i'll the training of
medical students. And once certain
hospitals were almost entirely filled
with them"
DR. Doane was unwilling to say that
alcohol has no place as medicine but
he did say that it has been abused by
doctors and by hospitals, and added
that in his opinion its use would be
very much cut in the future
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-11-17
What does beer do?

What does beer do!
1t increases thirst. The fellow who
drinks growler full will want
another GROWER full in a short while
The alcohol sends blood to the skin
and heat centers, and increases the
feeling of heat. Beer contains a
moderate food content, and the food
elements are there Is products not OF
the most wholesome kind. These
products make for obesity.
When a man working in a hot place
drinks beer to assuage a beer induced
thirst, he will drink it by the bucket.
When beer is drunk by the bucket,
the drinker takes big dose of alcohol
and, incidentally, he fills himself up
with fermentable food which he does
not need, and which definitely harms
him.
Mr.. Secretary, learn this: Most of
the old time sunstrokes were beer
strokes. This was true in your old
craft. Don't wish heat stroke and
sun stroke back on your old com
rades.
II you don't believe me. go TO Secre-
tary Hoover and ask him what the
statistics in his department have to
say on the subject.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-11-17

American people. But they would do
well to study the question rather care
fully before they make many rash
moves.
I'VE have noticed that the average
wet joke does not create so much of a
laugh today as it once did. We have
noted that audiences do not respond
so heartily to stage suggestions that
their personal liberty has been taken
away from them by an autocratic and
unjust government
1.-THE theatrical profession will do
well to make an immediate about-faee
on the Prohibition question. Such
move will elevate the stage greatly in
the public esteem. No better way
could be suggested to blow away COM
pletely the lingering bits of unsavery
atmosphere which float about the 1e-
gitimate theater. Besides it will be
profitable" ttE
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-11-17
REGULATION FOR ENFORCEMENT DAUGHERTY
RULING oNF0RElGN LIQUOR SHIPS, HELD up
Treasury Department Said Preparing Regulations
Expressed to Their Ultimate Issuance--Not
Until After Court Acts


A Washington dispatch of Novem-
Der 4 in the New York Herald says
the Treasury regulations to sustain
the Volstead act and the Daugherty
ruling holding that foreign ships can
not bring liquor into the three-mile
limit are to be held up indefinitely.
According to the Herald's informa-
ton, officials admit that the regula-
tions never will be issued and no eff
fort is to be made to stop foreign
passenger ships from bringing in bar
liquors under seal Foreign freight
and passenger ships will not be
molested by customs or Prohibition
enforcement officers for having liq-
uors in their ships stores or for serv-
ing it to their crews. At the Treasury
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-11-17
SPIRIT OF THRIFT
Stimulated by Prohibition, Say
Chicago Bankers

According to prominent Chicago
bankers, Prohibition has stimulated a
spirit of thrift They say that savings
accounts have been steadily increasing
in size and nunlbe, ever since the
Eighteenth Amendment became
effective, and they attribute the in
crease in large measure TO the dry
law.
James B. Forgan, chairman OF the
board of the First National Bank of
Chicago, and John ]. Abbott, of the
Continental and Commercial Bank,
are among those saying that the dry
act has been productive of thrift.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-11-17

The Herald says:
"A news dispatch from New York
states that number of actors and ac-
tresses will donate their services for
a performance at one of the principal
theaters of the metropolis to raise
funds to fight Prohibition. We have
never heard of SO plain a case of kill
ing the goose which lays golden eggs
Since Prohibition the aver
age man has more money with which
to buy theater tickets. He needs some
recreation to replace that which he
got from guzzling beer and whisky
and he finds it, we learn from excel
lent authority, in the theater. E.
Perhaps the actors and actresses
think Prohibition unpopular. Perhaps
they think they themselves will gain
greater public esteem if they step in
the vanguard of the forces that are
striving to overthrow the will of the
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-11-17
year. Col Hayward said by way o
comment

year. Col. Hayward said by way OF
comment
| am gratihed and pleased at
the courageous action of Judge
Manton. All corporations and
individuals who are landlords OF
properties occupied by cafes,
hotels, restaurants or cabarets,
may take warning that it is my
intention to secure as rapidly as
possible unimpeachable evidence
ard close those places violating
the law. They have had ample
warning and the tremendous
financial loss they will suffer will
not be my fault, but theirs.
The closing of Paradise came after
stay of the order for six months
during which the company was
placed under bond not to violate the
law. The bond is automatically for
feited with the issuance of the order
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-11-17
Copyright: 1922: By Dir. w. A.
Evans)

Copyright: 1922; By Dir. w. A.
Evans)
Secretary Davis oil the department
of labor is quoted as follows: Water
does not agree with the stomach as
we'll as does beer. Some Of the men
Chose who handle white hot iron in
mild feel that they can't drink
water at that time. My pal tells me
that his stomach rejects this throat
seems to collapse as he gulps it.
But beer he can drink, and it eases
him. The alcohol in the beer is a
blessing at this time. 1t seothes his
laboring stomach until the water can
get into his system and quench the
mans thirst
! have no doubt the secretary is a
very fine gentleman, and a great sec
rotary of labor, and perhaps, at one
time, was something of puddler, but
what he does not know about
physiology and hygiene is enough,
and then some.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-11-17

cold just exactly fills these indica-
tons. Ice water ieels cold N the
mouth, but III the stomach it tirst con-
tracts and then dilates the blood YES
sells. Dilated blood vessels mean in
creased thirst Hot water sends blood
to the skin and increases the sensa-
ton of heat.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-11-17

4 vote was recently taken on the wet
and dry question among the inmates of
the prisons in the United States. More
than $4,000 voted dry and only 900
voted wet, which shows that even the
lawbreaker is capable of right thinking
and breads the results of drink.-The
Dearborn Independent.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-11-17

God made water for man to drink
and man was built on the basis of
water as his beverage, and not even
a member of the PRESIDENTS cabinet
can improve OH God and Gods works.
Water can get into stomachs and stay
there with satisfaction to all concerned
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-11-17
the THEATRICAL PROFESSION AND the GOLDEN GOOSE

The Washington Herald of October the
aca profession in editorial under the killing
The Herald says:
Evening journal., 1922-06-27
Endorse Congress
and administration

people OF their districts In primaries
this year and asked for an indorse-
ment of their record and the record
OF the Republican Congress 93.5 per
cent have received that Endorsement.
The following is a detailed statement
OF the results in each state where
a Republican primary has been held
TO date:
South Dakota: The entire Re
publican delegation in the present
House, three in number. asked for
denomination and all secured re-
nomination.
Illinois: 21 Republican members
OF the present House asked for re-
nomination and 10 received renom-
ination.
Indiana: 70 Republicans of the
present House asked for renomina-
ton and all received denomination.
Pennsylvania: 20 Republicans OF
the present House asked for renom-
ination and 25 received renomina-
tion.
oregon: The solid Republican
delegation OF the present House. three
in number, asked for denomination
and all received denomination.
Iowa; 10 Republican members of
the present House asked for renom-