Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-11-17
MANY THINK THE ATTORNEY
GENERALS ORDER WILL HELP
PASS THE MEASURE.
CONGRESS TO DECIDE IT SOON
Chairman Lasker's Appeal to Save tbs
Merchant Marine Leads to Wonder
That Americans Cannot Do Without
Liquor Few Days.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK

pot and the wine glass on American
vessels, ard on foreign vessels sailing
this side of the three-mile limit. So 1t
is that now fact, condition and a
theory, all in one. are here either to
plague or to please the public, If the
ultimate conclusion of actual prohibi-
ton on the part of the high seas Is
reached.
There have been charges in Wash
fngton, 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 plan to help the cause of
ship subsidy In the halls of congress.
These charges, of course, come from
men who Dc not like the ship subsidy
and they are comDated by friends Of
subsidy just as strongly as they have
been made by its enemies.
One thing today seems to be defi-
nitely settled and that is that con-
gress will vote on the question of a
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. 1t Is said today
that the men mentally opposed In
congress to subsidy outnumber those
who are at heart friendly to it, but
argument. may prevail to win a ma
tority for subsidy, and the arguments
that have been and will be advanced,
the friends of subsidy say, ere sufii-
GENTLY strong to win the case.
1t 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
and light wine on the high seas.
Chairman Lasker's Views.
1t 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, may have its influence one
way or the other on the administra-
tion's ship subsidy plans.
Chairman Lasker said in his speech
That with the subsidy loss of $50.O0O,-
900 a year could be ended within two
and half years. Mr.. Lasker has
said at other times that the American
merchant marine, so far as its pas
senger service is concerned, cannot en-
ter into competition with foreign yes
sells IL 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
mile limit. This in a way puts the
foreign vessels on a par, so far as the
Iiuuor business is concerned, with the
American vessels, but 1t Is stating only
the truth to say that few legal authori-
Ties believe the inhibition will be main
famed against the foreign vessels by
the highest court of the land.
Why Not Be "Dry" Few Days7
So it 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 a matter
which it has been intimated might DC
the point of the thing. Without any
idea of discussing the rights and the
wrongs of prohibition. without any
thought of intimating that a mar
ought not to drink or that he ought
TO drink, it might be said that 1t Ii
extremely curious from one point OF
view that even Americans who wan
to drink and who are going to trave
abroad cannot curb their appetities fol
the seductive thing during the six oil
eight days that It takes to cross the
ocean to q place where they can gel
ALI they want to drink, either for the
benefit or the "unbcneft" Of theiI
souls and bodies.
Even drinking men here say that Il
Americans would use American ships
when they travel the passenger train,
OF our marine would pay for itself
and the same drinking men, or gooc
many of them at least. intimate thai
an American who is not willing to Il
dry for the six additional days that /,
takes him to cross the ocean Is not 9
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 thinl
e more pleasurable than realization
and In the case Of drink good man,
men will say they are right.
PAIRING Down the Army.
! Queer things happen In govern
ment. The secretary of war an