The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-11-16
DRY SEA RULING
AND SH|PSUBS|DY
MANY THINK THE ATTORNEY
GENERALS ORDER WILL HELP
PASS THE MEASURE.
CONGRESS TO DECIDE IT SOON
Chairman taskers Appeal to Save the
Merchant Marine Leads to Wonder
That Americans Cannot Do Without
Liquor q Few Days.
BY EDWARD q. CLARK

oy eOWAHO b. ClAHN
Observation-Disclosures by a court
decision. the lids are on the pewter
pot and the wine glass on American
vessels. and on foreign vessels sailing
this side of the three-mile limit. so II
Is that now fact, a condition and a
theory, all In one. are here either to
plngue or to please the public, II the
ultimate conclusion Of actual prohibi-
ton on the part Of the high seas Is
reached.
There have been charges In Wash.
ington. as elsewhere. that certain
things which have been said and Ger.
tain printed references which have
been made TO financial disaster In case
Of prohibition on the high seas are
part Of a plan 10 help the cause Of
ship subsidy In the halls Of congress.
II csc charges. Of course, come from
men who do not like the ship subsidy
aud they are combated by friends Of
subsidy Just as strongly as they have
been made by It's enemies.
One thing today seems to he def
nitely settled and that Is that con
gress will vote on the question of q
ship subsidy within a few months.
What the result will be of course no
one but a prophet with the highest
kind Of honor can tell. II Is said today
that the men mentally opposed" In
congress to subsidy outnumber those
who are at heart friendly to II. but
argument may prevail to win a ma
JOrity for subsidy. and the arguments
that have been and will be advanced,
the friends Of subsidy say, are SUM-
GENTLY strong to win the case.
II Is not the intention here to dis
cuss the virtue or the lack of virtue OF
ship subsidy legislation. There are
some elements In what may be called
the Accomplishments Of ship subsidy
legislation which are not perhaps with
out their human interest and one OF
them is the matter Of the American
travellers appetites for whisky, beer
ind light wine on the high seas
Chairman lasker's Views.
Il was only the other night that
there was little crossfire Of speech In
the city of Chicago between Attorney
General Daugherty and the shipping
board chairman, Mr.. Lasker. 1t is held
possible In Washington that this inter
change. in connection with some other
things. m;y have its influence one
way or the other on the administra-
tons ship subsidy plans.
Chairman Lasker said In his speech
that with the subsidy loss Of $4,000.
600 year could be ended within two
and half years. Mr.. Lasker has
said at other times that the American
merchant marine, so fur as Its pas
senger service Is concerned, cannot en-.
ter into competition with foreign YES
sells II they are allowed to sell cock
tails. highballs. straight stuff and wine.
while the American vessels are pro-
hibited from so doing.
As things are today. no American
vessel can sell liquor on the high seas
to its passengers and foreign vessels
cannot enter our ports unless they get
rid of the stuff outside of the three
l.
foreign vessels on par, so far as the
liGuor business Is concerned, with the
American vessels, but II is stating only
the truth to say that few legal authori-
ties believe the inhibition will be main
tanned against the foreign vessels by
the highest court of the land
Why Not Be "0ry" Few Days?
So II seems likely that eventually
the foreign vessels will be allowed to
continue to sell drinks while the Amer
lean vessels will have to stop selling
them. and this leads up To II natter
which il has been minated might be-
the point Of the thing. Without amy
idea of discussing the rights and the
WRONGS of prohibition. without ANY
thought of intmating that n man
ought not to drink or that he ought
10 drink, Il might be said that IL is
extremely curious from one point Of
view that even Americans who wan
to drink and who are going To travel
abroad cannot curb their appetitles for
the seductive thing during the six or
eight days lhAt II lhheS IN cross the
ocean to place where they can get
all they want To drink, either fh the
benefit or the "unb Nnetit" of their
souls and bodies.
Even drinking men here say that II
Americans would use American ships
when they travel the passenger traffic
of our marine would pay for itself
and the same drinking men or good
many of them NJ least. intimate thai
nm American who is not willing To go
dry for the six additional days that Il
takes him Ia cross the ocean Is not a
very good American
Drink waits on the other side Of
the water and passengers on any dry
ship can have their six or eight DAYS
anticipation. which some people think
Is more pleasurable than realization
aud IN the ease of drink good many
men will say they ARE right
PAIRING Down the Army.
Queer things happen II, govern.
ment. The secretary of war and
the general of the army today are
earnestly urging that the personnel of
rho cnmmissinna1 farce, nf rho ANN,