The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-02-18
EVIL EFFECTS OF
DRINK ON TWO HOMES
Argument Against Tf You Let It
Alone It VIII Let You Alone"
Read and Ponder.

The following narrowing incidents
are copied from the Times-Picayune of
Feb. IA.
We may add that liquor has lost none
of it's power to make demons and cri-
minals of men who drink. while their
Nomen and children, the aged and help
less in their care must suffer through
their delinquency.
But read for YOURSELF
AS a result of quarrel over rs cents
with which to buy bread. Arthur H.
Pichon, SO years old, a sign painter.
killed his wife, Leta Pichon, SO years
old, Tuesday evening in their home. 901
Royal Street.
AS his children, Hilda, IL years old,
and Arthur W., IA ran to their moth
er's side, Pichon fed.
With her hands and clothing covered
with blood from holding her stepmoth-
er's head, into which her father had
plunged the five-inch blade of a dirk,
little Hilda tearfully told of alleged E.
vents leading up to the stabbing.
Her father, said Hilda, had been
drinking heavily during the last week
and come home Tuesday afternoon un-
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according to Hilda, was his uncle, Ra-
mon Pichon, 712 Spain street, who, she
said, urged her Gather to leave the
house. When the father refused to
leave, the uncle departed, the child
said.
Mrs. Pichon said Hilda, had put a
25 cent piece on the dresser to buy
bread. Her father, Hilda continued,
maintained that he could not find the
quarter and few into a rage, ordering
Hilda and her brother, Arthur, out of
the house.
While she and her brother were on
the sidewalk. Hilda said. she heard her
mother scream and run to the rear Of
the house. The children ran into the
| alley way in time to see their mother
fall with the dirk sticking in her head
Neighbors summoned an ambulance and
notified the police.
Two drinks Of corn whiskey which
he told the court had been given him
by a friend. proved to be the undoing
of c. G. Lott. of Alexandria. who was
arraigned in the city court today on
charges Of reckless driving and drunk
enness. According to the testimony OF
a witness as well as Lofts own state
ment. he was driving a car down the
street and ran into another car coming
fiom the opposite direction. Lott ad-
mitted that he was under the influence
Of liquor and misjudged the distance
He appealed to the court not to give
4 him Jail sentence. He said that he
was a poor man. and had father 7e
years old and sister to support. and
thattif he was sent to Jail he would
lose his position. Judge Hundley told
him that he felt sympathy for a man
in his position. but that he should have
considered those things before he drank
the stuff which is making criminals out
Of innocent men.
The Judge also told him that If he
was to make an exception In his
case the next man who was brought
before him On the same charge would
want him to do that for him, and that
1t was his policy to treat everybody
alike. He sentenced him to pay a flne
of $50 and to serve ten days In Jail, in
default Of payment to serve twenty days
additional Lott appealed the case.
And yet there is q strong effort being
made to make the public believe prohi-
bition is a failure and because It is q
failure and can never be enforced, q
Congress must be elected pledged to re-
peal and modify the volstead law and
permit the return OF the traffic In light
wines and beer, which would mean !
nullifcation Of the laws.
Prohibitionists must hold fast tc
the laws they have won BY contendinr
for the faith as in the days or the
'opan saloon,