The New York herald., 1922-05-25
DRY LEADERS SUED
FOR $25O,OOO LIBEL
Bishop Wilson and Drs.
Burrell, StratOn and Moor
Are Named.
AUTHOR WAS ASSAILED
c. B. Stout Quotes Attack
From The American Is
sue,' the Dry Organ
WROTE PROHIBITION BOOK
Review Denounced Record of
Former Broker, Clubman
and Horse Breeder.

William III. Anderson, who is the
superintendent of the Anti Saloon
League; Bishop Luther Is. Wilson Of
the Methodist Church, Dr.. David
James Burrell of the Marble Collegiate
Church, DR.. George Caleb Moor of the
Madison Avenue Baptist Church, DR..
John Roach Straton Of Calvary Baptist
Church, and others are charged with
libel in suit for s250,000 filed yester-
aay in the United States District Court
by Charles Tabor Stout, former New
York broker and clubman, who now
lives on farm at Portland, Conn,
where he breeds horses and raises
fancy poultry. His wife is the former
Miss Genevieve Hecker, national golf
champion for 1901 and 1902.
The clergymen named by Mr.. Stout
In his suit are connected with the Anti
Saloon League, which, he charges,
libeled him in it's publication, the
American Issue, magazine devoted
to furthering the interests Of prohibi-
tion. The libel consists of remarks
concerning Mr.. Stout, as author Of
book entitled "The Eighteenth. Amend
ment and the Part Played by Organ
lied Medicine."-
All the members of the Administration
Council Of the league are named as per-
sonal defendants In the action on the
ground that the league published and
distributed the American Issue of Sep
temper II, 1921. In this issue Mr.. Stout
reckons that the league did him a quar-
ter Of million dollars worth of mis-
chief by holding him up to public scorn
and ridicule
The complainant. setting forth he is a
resident of Portland, Conn, and a man
OF high social and business standing in
that community and New York, where
he is the manager of large estate, ex-
plains that his book was published in
September. 1921. Subsequently 1 the
league gave him a lengthy review. which
was header: n
Book assailing prohibition and the
American Medical Association, writ
ten by maker OF dog remedies and a
patent medicine, which the American
Medical Association unmasked In
1917.
In the course Of it's wrathful review,
Mr.. Stout alleges, the American Issus
. referred to his book thus:
1t makes a pretense at science, but
was written by Charles Taber Stout,
who. so far as the records show, has
only a common school education, has
neither scientific training ncr rcputa-
tiop, ard adds TO his lack, OF qualih-
cations In general that he is dog
remedy maker and a patent medicine
manufacturer whose remedy was ruled
out of the list of new and non-o official
remedies by the Council of Pharmacy
and Chemistry of the American Medi-
cal Association because of the gross
attempt at fraud upon the public and
upon the medical profession In the adj
vertising put out about It.
Furthermore. the article says, accord
Ing to Mr.. Stout
This man, connected with fraudulent
claims for patent medicines, ISLANDERS
both prohibition and the American
Medical Association.
Mr.. Stout Is a member Of the Calu-
met. Apawamis, Richmond County
Country and Garden City Golf Clubs
II have been trying to get copy of
the complaint in this suit" Mr.. Anderson
said last night. 1--WE will have plenty
to say about 1t after a copy has been
served OH us. Until then we are very
much in the dark about 1t. 1t has taken
Mr.. Stout a long time to discover that he
has been libelled"