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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-02
MIKE De PIKE HEITLER
LOSES IN FINAL FIGHT
Goes to Leavenworth tor Eighteen
Months After Long Delay

Mike de Pike Heit,er has reached
LeaVenworth at last. He was sem
fenced by Federal Judge Evans in Chi
cago on March g 1921. He started for
the federal prison on October 20, 1928,
to serve a sentence Of eighteen months
imposed after lie had been found
guilty by federal jury of conspiracy
to violate the national prohibition laws.
Mandel Grecnburg and Nathaniel
Perlman, defendants in the same case
were sentenced to one year and one
day, and fifteen months respectively.
Both Perlman and Greenburg were
taken to the federal prison together
with Mix de Pike Heitler. The case
in which the above federal prisoners
were tried and sentenced was one of
the first big tests of the national pro-
hibition law
The defendants numbered about a
dozen and an immense fund was raised
to hire defense lawyers. The leading
attorney for Heitler and the others
was Weymouth Kirkland 1t is said
that his fee for defending the accused
liquor conspirators was something like
eighty thousand dollars. Every effort
was made to demonstrate that liquor
law breakers could not be successfully
prosecuted in jury case in the federal
courts.
After the defendants were convicted
their case was carried up to the higher
courts until it at last reached the ST.
preme Court OF the United States.
Their conviction was upheld and
final effor. to keep the convicted law
breakers from the federal penitentiary
was made in the form of an applca-
ton for a writ of certiorari. The writs
we're refused and thus the final effort
to escape punishment for violation of
prohibition laws ended in failure and a
trip to Leavenworth.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-02
BAD CITIZENS

Liquor, like opium, prostitu-
ton, hretrap tenements, infected
milk, garbage heaps and open
sewers, is dangerous to the pub
lie health, inimical to the gen
eral welfare. If the effects OF
liquor were confined to the con-
sumer, like the effects of tea,
nobody would care how many
drunkards there were, so far as
legislation is concerned. But
the effects of liquor affect not
only the consumer, but all citi-
zens everywhere. Poverty, vice,
crime, degradation, horror, the
saloon the brothel, the jail, fol
low in its wake. Hence the law
of prohibition passed against it.
To resist, defy or ignore this
law is to set ones own selfish
whims and appetites over
against the general welfare, and
thus to be the worst of bad citi-
zens!-John Haynes Holmes, in
Unity"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-02
BISHOP JAMES E. FREEMAN
SIZES EN- UP ACCURATELY

Law breakers were branded as
traitors by Rt. Rev. James E. Free
man, Bishop of Washington, in an ad-
dress October IS at Temple Heights
given under auspices of the Grand
Lodge of Masons. The Washington
Star quotes the Bishop as saying:
81 don't want you people to think |
am advocating the Volstead law here.
What l am doing is standing for all
law. The Volstead measure has gone
through the prescribed lines in our
legislative machinery, based on the
will of the people. 1t is law and de-
mands respect as such. 1t should be
enforced and those who refuse to CO.
operate with its enforcement should
be sent out of the country or be put
behind prison bars"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-02
RESULTS OF PROHIBITION

"I wish to make report of the con-
ditions we found at the Roundup at
Pendleton, Oregon, and will say that
from the prohibition point of view it
was one of the cleanest shows that |
have ever attended. There was abso-
lutely no evidence of liquor in that
vast throng of people-37 900 visitors
from all portions of the United States
and | feel rather proud over the re-
suits, and l am glad to report that
conditions in Oregon are improving" !"
Excerpt of letter from Director Lin
Vile, Ore, to Commissioner Haynes.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-02

1t is recognized fact that the most
persistent bootleggers, especially the
Italians, are not deferred by fines or
jail sentences, and that injunctions are
readily violated. But the abatement
paddock is a sure specific for boot
legitis.-The California Liberator.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-02

Crime has been cut. The demands
on charitable organizations have de-
creased. Fathers have more money
for the care of their families. Better
food is being eaten, more milk is being
consumed, and there is less disease.
There are fewer accidents among rail-
road and factory employees. Business
is booming. More homes are being
built. Life insurance companies are
writing more policies. More children
are going to school, Colleges are
crowded.-Forward.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-02
Is Prohibition Worth While?

Drunkenness has decreased. Con-
slider your own experience. How
many drunken men have passed your
house in the last year? How many
passed it in a pre-prohibition year?
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-02

One main trouble is, the sentences
are not heavy enough. Too many
prosecuting attorneys are more than
content to collect just fine, for a cash
fine shows up better in the public
treasury than a jail sentence.-Eurcka
Journal.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-02

Consider the figures on drunken
ness. In 1918, which was the last wet
year, there were 214,6o8 arrests for
drunkenness in sixty-hve leading cities
of the United States. In 1920, the first
dry year, there were 106,562. This
was decrease of 108,136 in one year.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-02
ILLINOIS CENTRAL WILL BE OFFICIAL
RAILROAD FOR The CONVENTION
Special Fare Half Granted Birmingham Delegates

selected
December of a
selling
This will endl the holder purchase
half the The
following Chicago points
n Ilinois
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-02
A bar 20 Heaven,
A door to He'll,
Whoever named it, named it we'll

Editors note: The above para
graphs from one OF the most popular
and widely quoted temperance poems,
is published at the request of A. Esther
Camfield of Chicago. Authorship OF
this poem is often credited to a life
convict in the state penitentiary, but it
is believed to have been written by a
temperance lecturer whose name is not
now known to the editor of the Issue.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-02

During the first three years of pro-
hibition, The death rate for the entire
United States fell to such an extent
that there was a saving of over two
hundred thousand lives year.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-02

In 1914 the people Of the United
States drank 2,100,0OO,00O gallons of
alcoholic liquor. After two years of
prohibition only five per cent of the
former quantity of liquor was being
consumed. The number of drinkers
has decreased from 100000 to about
2,500,00O
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-02

The entire drink bill of the nation
has decreased $2,00O,0O0,000 a year.
This money formerly spent for drink
has gone into savings banks or has
been spent for necessary commodities.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-02

Saloon and brewing properties are
for sale. Stores, factories, and lodg-
ing houses are being built on the old
sites.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-02

Prisons lack patronage Many jails
are closed, and the few prisoners are
being sent to the state penitentiaries.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-02
THE BAR

The saloon is sometimes called a bar
'Tis true; a bar to Heaven, door to
He'll;
Whoever named it. named it we'll.
A bar to manliness and wealth,
A door to want and broken health;
A bar to honor, pride and fame,
A door to grief, and sin, and
shame;
A bar to home, bar to prayer,
A door to darkness and despair;
A bar to honored useful life,
A door to brawling, senseless
ctr;fa.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-02
Drys Must Defend Law

strictions and regulations to be devised
by local municipal authorities"
Drys Must Defend Law
The most dangerous side of the or
ganized activities of the Retail Liquor
Dealers, the Veterans of Liberty, the
Association Opposed to the Prohibi-
ton Amendment and other wet or
ganizations active in Illinois, is their
united attack against all dry candidates
and all dry legislation. Although
these various organizations profess I'd
be merely for beer and wine, they use
their entire strength and influence
against all prohibition and enforce
ment legislation. In the primary cam
paign there will be no division of wet
forces. All members of all wet or
ganizations and all signers OF wet petit
tions will be urged to oppose every
dry law enforcement candidate. Then
during the sessions of Congress and
the state legislature, candidates elected
through the support Of the vets will
oppose all legislation for the enforce
.ment of the Eighteenth Amendment.
This was proven in the recent session
when every member of the illinois
Legislature who was for beer and wine
or any modification whatsoever of the
enforcement laws, voted to repeal the
Illinois prohibition act.
With the vets better organized and
fighting harder than ever, and with al
most unlimited financial resources, the
drys will need to organize more thor
oughly and fight more effectively than
ever in defense of the law. The pri-
mary election on April 8 will decide
the outcome.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-02

Homes for alcoholic victims are
closing their doors. Cures for the
drink habit are no longer in demand.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-02

A bar to all that's true and brave,
A door to every drunkard's grave;
A bar to joys that home imparts,
A door to tears and aching
hearts;
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-02

be sold in hotels, restaurants and other
places under strict government re-
strictions and regulations to be devised
by local municipal authorities"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-02
WHAT HAS BECOME OF
THE DRUNKARDS?

The following is the record of
the number of inebriates in the
state hospitals of California on
June 80 of each year from 1915
to 1923:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-18
DENIES F R A j D
IN LUMBER
CASES
Frank T. Sullivan Files His
Answer to Suit Brought by
U. S. on Army Contract.
TINES STAFF PHOTO

Declaring that he knew nothing
of the alleged conference between
the other defendants. and represen-
tatives of the Government. which
led to an indictment in-charges of
conspiracy to defraud the United
States Frank T. Sullivan. lumber
leader. of Buffalo, N. Y. today
filed his answer in the District
Supreme Court to the suit of the
Government to recover 81 100000
he is said to have made from the
sale Of surplus lumber from army
cantonments.
Sullivan is under indictment with
John L. Phillips, former Repub-
lican national committeeman. and
others on the conspiracy charge.
He denies that he ever entered into
any conspiracy to mulct the Gov.
eminent in connection with the pur-
chase of The lumber, and never in
duced anyone else to do so. He
admits buying lumber from Phillips
& Stephens, but claims he did so
on open contracts and at fair
market prices.
Sullivan further declares that
Phillips & Stephens represented
that they were the owners Of the
lumber and had a right to dispose
of it.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-18
POLICE TRY TO REFRESH
ACCUSED MANS MEMORY

Detective Sergeants Cox and King
are today doing their best to re.
fresh the mind of Harry Smith
colored, nineteen, of 1881 Seventh
street northwest. whom they ar.
rested yesterday in a second hand
clothing store. Among other things
Smith is said to have told the de-
tectives that he had robbed so
many homes he could not remeIn-
Der the times nor the places that
he looted.
Smith is alleged to have recal lied
one time when he broke into the
home of Carl F. Joss. of 2756 Nc
Comb street northwest. This was
early in this month and he is said
to have taken articles valued at
$500.
The detectives are taking Smith
on a tour of the city in an effort
to have his mind so refreshed that
he VIII point out some of the places
he alleges. they saw. he burglarized.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-18
NURSES HOME PROJECT
DROPPED BY HOSPITAL

Because but $342 900 of a solicited
100000 has been contributed to-
ward the project of a new nurses
home at Garfield Hospital, plans
for the immediate erection of the
structure have been dropped, Judge
Stanton ]. Peelle. chairman Of the
board of directors of the institu
ton. announced last night following
a meeting of his organiza ton.
Monies collected will be expended
on improvements in the hospital it.
self. Nurses will be provided better
quarters in the administration build
ing
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-18
YEARNING FOR THE COLUMN.

SANTA FEE, N. NJ, July IL.
Dear Bill: We sure miss your
great old column doVn here.
Once in a UhiIe Ue manage to
get an old copy of The Times
and eagerly deUour the column.
We are motoring through the
country. Santa Fe is one of the
oldest TOWNS IN America.
RALPH TRUPP,
JACK AARON,
JIMMIE WATZMAN,
HARRY HYMAN.
The first three are Wdshing-
tonians. "Country" Hyntdn is
from Arlington, Va.
Many other fans of the column,
scattered IN all parts of the
country, send regards to the
editor and the fans.
THAT KISSING PREACHER.
There was a preacher who fell from
grace,
All on account Of q brides sweet face.
He INDUCED In unbidden OSCILLATION,
And received Il merited castigati0n,
Which brought him pain and much
disgrace.
H. SMITH
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-18
PAYNE REVEALS
MORSE DOING
HIS BEST:
Former Chairman of Shipping
Board Testifies Firm Acted
In Good Faith.

Judge John Barton Payne, for
merly Secretary of the Interior and
later chairman of the Shipping
Board and president of the Elmer
gncy Fleet Corporation, who is now
in Mexico as member of the com.
mission appointed by President
Harding to establish diplomatic re.
lations with Mexico, testified in the
dispositions read today in the Morse
conspiracy trial in Criminal Court
No. /, Justice Stafford presiding,
that every effort was made at the
Alexandria plant of the Virginia
Shipbuilding Corporation to rush the
shipbuilding program of the Govern
ment.
The dispositions, which were taken
prior to Judge Payne's departure for
Mexico, in the latter part of April,
were read in turn by Attorneys Viii.
ton J. Lambert and Nash Rockwoo1
Of counsel for the defense, and by
Attorneys Allison and Nottingham
Of Government counsel. The depo.
sitions were taken at the request
of the defense, and after William
G. McAdoo, former Secretary of the
Treasury and later Of counsel for
the Virginia Shipbuilding Corpora
yesterday afternoon, the reading Of
the dispositions was begun.
Accounts Were Muddled.
Asked by counsel for the defense
II it were not fact that the books
of the Shipping Board and Emer-
gency Fleet Corporation were in a
state Of confusion as tar as the &C.
counts relate to the Virginia con
Germ, Judge Payne replied that it
was never made clear to his salts
faction just how the account be.
tween the Morse company and the
fleet corporation stood
Counsel for the Government OBJ
jected to this line of questioning as
being inmaterial.
Attorney Allison for the Govern
ment also objected when Attorney
Nash lockwood. of counsel for the
defense, asked Payne n II were true
that at no time was it called to his
attention that there was an intent
on The part Of Charles w. Morse
and his associates, or any Of the
companies represented by him. To
cheat or defraud the Government
or to hinder or delay the Govern.
ment's shipping program.
WAS it your opinion" asked At
torney lockwood, land Is it your
opinion now that that contract (the
so-called adjustment contracO was
entered into by Charles w. Morse
and his associates, with the Shin
ping Board, or with the Fleet Cor.
poration. in good faith?"
yes" replied witness.
This question was objected to by
the Government.
Replying to a question Of Attor.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-18
PASSENGER AGENTS
READY FOR OUTING

The Washington Passenger Asso-
citation. an organization composed Of
agents and ticket statesmen of the
various railroads leading into the
city, will hold it's annual outing
to Atlantic City the coming week
end. A special train will leave
Union Station Saturday. returning
early next week Practically the
entire membership. together with
their families. will take the trip.
Officers of the association are II.
A. Heustis, Pennsylvania railroad,
president; T. D. Tuft, Consolidated
ticket office, vice president; T. w
Luckett. Seaboard Air Line. Sec
and J. A. Hurney, Seaboard
and c. and o. lines, entertainment
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-18
POSITIONS FOR UNSKILLED
OPEN IN CIVIL SERVICE

Positions for a number of un-
skilled laborers were offered today
by the Civil Service Commission
for the various departments and
Independent offices in Washington
and vicinity.
Application forms will be DIS
tributed at 1924 F street north
west up to August 81. The receipt
of applications will stop before
then if sufficient eligibles are OBJ
tanned.
The available positions are for
men only. No blanks will be dis
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-18

ney Allison, Of counsel for the Gov.
eminent, Judge Payne said: 80 far
as the facts were brought to my
knowledge, the Virginia Shipbuild-
ing Company was progressing as
fast as it could under all conditions;
that there was a controversy about
money a good deal, and that the
Morse people seemed to De doing tire
best they could and were acting, as
l saw it, in good faith"
What 1 am trying to make plain
is that in making my answer"
added Judge Payne, II mean to in
clude what 1 personally know, or
what anybody brought to my at
tention which put me on inquiry,
or made me know the fact as people
know facts"
Feared For Safety.
Government counsel had marked
for Identification for introduction
in evidence a memorandum signed
Payne, chairman" addressed to
Mr.. Tweedale, general auditor. The
memorandum, dated March 5, 1920,
follows: This board passed a reso-
luton yesterday refinancing a plan
for the Virginia Shipbuilding Cor.
poration. and referred the matter
to you"
1T is said that the Virginia COM
pany expects to get new contracts.
We are anxious to be helpful, but
we do not want to unduly extend
the Morse interests. I have an i'm
preston that he is skating on rather
thin ice"
will you please look the situa,
ton over carefully, both with refer.
ence to the Virginia yard and the
Groton and let me know what the
situation is as we proceed"
Attorney lockwood asked Payne,
if, when he mentioned skating on
thin. ice," he had in mind anything
that would indicate a lack of good
faith in Mr.. Morse and his asso-
ciates.
No" replied witness. that he
was simply trying to do too much
without adequate capital"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-18
D.C.SCH.OOE
BUDGET IS
SCANNED
Board of Education in Confer
ence With Commissioners to
Prepare Estimates.

Members of the Board of Edu-
cation today went into conference
with the Board of Commissioners
on what to thousands of citizens
represents the most important
section of the Forthcoming budget
for the fiscal year 1925-namely,
the school estimates.
New Buildings Urged.
With a mass of figures before
them, submitted by the board, the
conferees plunged into a task of pre-
liminary findings on which will con.
sumo at least a whole working day.
The estimates must be in the hands
Of General Lord, director of tho
budget, Ey August /.
While, in accordance with law,
nothing has been definitely disclosed
as to the total of the school items,
or the projects anticipated, it ID
known that in the neighborhood of
$11 ,000, 900 will be requested. This
in large part would be applied to
building of new schools and acquisi.
ton of land therefor. The Washing
ton public schools are so over.
crowded as to have been branded by
legislators and educators "a dis.
grace
viii Insist on Cut.
1t is to be supposed that the
budget commission will insist that
any such figure as $11 900 900 be re.
duced. It would represent more
than 40 per cent Of the total appro.
priations for the current fiscal yeal
and many other projects are of such
crying importance that great sums
must be allotted to them. However,
there Is practical assurance that q
substantially greater total than ever
before will be granted the schools.
Salary increases for an undergrad
teaching staff are not included in
the present estimates. A separate
bill probably will be introduced at
the next session of Congress in this
connection.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-18
BONUS IS
SH|F TED
BY NEW
PLAN
Will Be Absorbed as Fixed Pay.
Board Still Buried IN
Routine.

The revision Of salaries of Fed
eral employees, in connection with
the current Redistribution, will be
postponed for a year at least.
The ALLEGATION of positions now
being made by the Personnel
Classification Board does not in
volve any revision of salaries ex-s
cept that the $24O bonus now
being paid out of a special Con-
gressional appropriation will be
absorbed in the fixed pay of the
workers now receiving the bonus.
Seven Weeks to Go.
The instructions of the Budget
Bureau sent out to the various de-
partments provide for the elirnina-ss
ton of the bonus from the Congress
sional appropriations for the next
fiscal year. There is, however, a
possibility that the pressure OF time
upon the Personnel Classification
Board and the Budget Bureau NAV
yet lead it to abandon their plan
for abolishing the bonus for the
next year. Only seven weeks re-
main in which the personnel esti-
mates affecting all District of Co
luInbia positions must be in the
hands of the Budget Bureau.
There has been much discussion
of the possibility that, under the
economy and retrenchment policy
of General Lord, director Of the
budget, there will be nat reduc-
ton of salaries in the lowe: cIassifi-
cations Of Federal workers through
the withdrawal of the bonus and
its redistribution on a basis IN
tended to increase the salaries Of
the executive, administrative, and
scientific positions in the depart
ments. Inquiry among classified
ton authorities, however, reveals
the fact that this plan, which origi-
mated with the Bureau of Eff
cheney, has never been considered
by the Personnel Classification
Board and is not likely to become
an issue for another eight month";
at least.
Busy With Routine.
The fact of the matter is THAI
the Personnel Board is now So
busy with the preliminary and
routine problems of classification
that the salary issue still remains
in the background. Until the board
is ready to tackle the problem of
a District classification on the basis
provided for in the Sterling Lehl-,
bach law 1t is not probable there
will be any revision or equalization
Of the salaries of Government
workers.
The missionaries from all Of the
are now virtually COM
pleted, with the exception of the
Treasury Department, which has a
large and unwieldy force of en-
ployes to handle. The Personnel
Board expects to be able to finish
It's review of the ALLEGATIONS ap-
proved by the departmental board
in time for the presentation to the
Budget Bureau on September Is.