South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-09-05
JOHNSTOWN MAYOR
GOT DRY" FORCES
'RILED' IN FLOOD"
Tell City's Executive
Hundreds of Letters Daily
How He Rates"

DOAA-NoA " - - Ad-s ScRl. -
When Mayor Joseph Cauniel. OF
this city. recently issued his now
nationally famous ediot to the saloon
keepers and hotel men of the city
TO go ahead and sell good beer" he
not only aroused the enthusiasm Of
the thirsty individuals OF the Cone
msugh Valley TO a shouting pitch
put he also stirred up a nation as
well From for and near. in the
last few days, there has been a de-
LUCE OF letters from good people and
crsnks. some highly praising the
Mayors action while others vehs-
mently denounced IL. The Mayor in
his edict 10 sell good beer gave as
an excuse thai the city water was full
of bugs and worms and was most
dangerous 10 drink.
Many Letters Received.
Extracts from letters 70 the Mayor
upon his stand follow One man in
New York who signed himself a
"Scotchman" wrote:
I'm the history Of the United
States we counted three big men
Washington, Wilson and LIN
coin. In the future We will add
one mOre-Hon. Joseph Cauffiel,
Of Johnstown."
4 man in Williamsport, Pa,
wrote:
Seeing you are in a serious pre-
dicament and in need Of guards and
All le-bodied men for police work TO
assist you in clearing out your To-
cality of bootleggers and undesira-
bles, I now offer my services in the
capacity OF a private investigator.
am thoroughly acquainted with
the various phases of underworld
life, gambling, bawdy houses, booze
joints, all games of chance"
This one from a Belgian who had
heard how awful dry America was,
and just a couple day after his
arrival:
Landing in New York Saturday
from Antwerp, l was delighted TO
learn that there is at least one Amer
lean citizen who is not a coward and
has the courage as an official TO au-
thorize his fellow citizens to disobey
the Yolstead imposition"
Dry Agent Wants Beer.
A Federal prohibition agent in
another part OF the country wrote
/ to a friend here that he would like
] TO be in YOUNGSTOWN TO quench his
| thirst with a glass OF honest=to-
! goodness beverage such as the Mayor
told the saloon men to sell.
Z. @ Burnet, a rich Tennessee
lumberman, wrote:
please send by parcel post one
l1eg Of JOhnstown's best drinking
water"
An enthusiastic New Yorker
praised the Mayors act and ther
told what the Volstead Act ha.
done for humanity. He wrote:
Hats off to the Mayor of Johns
town He has the backbone to 20
TO the Bat. Prohibition has pro-
duced crooks, criminals. confid-
ence men and camouffagers.
1T has placed on pedestals
parasites. -bahs. preachers.
1T has made gentlemen buns
and buns gentlemen.
at has filed our jails, courts
insane asylums and has caused
strikes.
Go 10 IT, Mayor"
a stock broker of national repu-
tation thinks Cauffiel should be q
Communist The broker ayow ed
he was a radical and threatened Il
move to JOhnstown. LAS a New
Yorker 1 am ashamed TO admit
am an American citizen-that !.
why I am going to move to Johns
town. he wrote.
Bert Keene. manager Of a pub
iishing company. publishers Of a
new song. Light Wine and Beer.
offered to sell the mayor som,
copies at ten cents each Keent
was so enthusiastic about the Mayo,
and YOUNGSTOWN beer that ne wrote
"Hurrah for Mayor Cauffiel. B.
! c.. you've got the real spunk
the real American spirit"
From a Philadelphia Mother
came an appeal 20 stop the flow o
beer in Johnstown.
A Plattsburg y Y man endors
es the action of the Johnstown MAY
or and says;
More power TO you. What th.t
country needs is more mayors @
your calibre II il is true you vii
have good beer | will move 70 Johns
town right away.
Up in Johnstown, y Y. the citi
zens also get excited about Johns
towns good beer. A man there
wired the Mayor here: "Resery'
room with bath for me. Also save
some OF that beer till I get there"
Letters bv the hundreds are pour