The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12
BOOZE GALORE ON "AMERICA" PEEVES
 EMIL HOHENTHAL
Connecticut Dry Leaders Trip Abroad Spoield by Seas of
 Liquors on Ship.

Life on the Ocean Wave" was ! anything but pleasing to Emil L. c. | Hohenthal Of Manchester on his trip | across the ocean in an unsuccessful attempt to induce Europe to go dry. 1 The breezes were balmy enough but | they were laden with the bouquets of wines, beers and liquors of all de- scription to such an extent that Mir. Hohenthals entire trip was spoiled and it being an American boat, gov | ernnent owned and "The Amer1ca' | at that that MT. Hohenthal was trav- ! cling on, MT. Hohenthal immediately felt himself called upon to protest and | that he promptly did to Prohibition l Director Haynes.
 MT. Hohenthal sailed from New York February 4th, as a representa- ! tive of the National Division, Sons of Temperance of North America. Before we had hardly gotten out began to flow as if prohibition had ! effect" says a letter published in the current issue of the "Connecticut ! Patriot" official publication of the l Connecticut prohibition committee Do not imagine the supply was ! smuggled aboard at New York. Oh, ! not It was carried all the way from l Germany, and now was being carried back for consumption in violation of the law!
 On my journeys over and back in 1920 and 1921, did not see SO brazen and open sale of liquor, nor so
 much drunkenness, as on this gov ernmcnt owned ship! The waiter came to the dining table with trays alden with foaming beer, and solicit ed custom. The sale of champagne, wine, whiskeys, etc, was not omitted. It was this open and brazen violation of law that occasioned even the con- demnation of drinking people them selves. It was the drunkenness that prevailed as a result of the promiscu- ous use of liquor by men, women and children, that was condemned by these same drinking people. A group of musicians who rendered instru- culated an anti-prohibition song sheet headed The Home of the Brave and the Land of the Free, With Dry Laws and Blue Laws Will Never Agree the chorus being, My Coun- try 'Tis of Thee, etc and, 50 Say ! We All of Us, etc. alternately. That this propaganda work was especially for the America was indicated by ore verse which read thus:
 "'A trip on the America would open l up your eyes,
 How heartily the passengers that
 bone-dry law despise;
 They order wine, and beer and
 schnaps and-leave it to their When they are landed heer they too l become good hypocrites.' l Mine verses composed this so-cal- 1 ed song, the concluding paragraph reading:
 "'Then let the silent pendulum a lit tie longer swing,
 For every day will new additions to our forces bring;
 And if you syrnpathize with us, make up your mind today,
 l That you are for the good old times,
 and join the N. L. A.
 "These three initials represent the
 National Liberal Alliance, Is White hal street, New York city.
 Here we can recognize the cow ardly hand of the brewing and liquor interests combining with their old l wordl colleagues to break down the sovereign law of our great republic and with the tacit permission of our
 own shipping board and our own paid employees, captain and all the
 restl A disgrace to ourselves and a
 most brazen and open affront to every patroitic citizen of our beloved
 land, that calls for drastic actoin,
 which 1 hope has already been taken
 on my complaint lodged with Com
 missioner Haynes"