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The Washington times., 1923-09-25
Freedom Too Much
For Released
Prisoner

NEW YORK, Sept. 25.-Wil-
liam Schmidt forsook the peace
and quiet of Welfare Island for
the life, light and color of the
Bowery, his "time" being up.
The world was fair. Schmidt
felt fit. Had not his kind
friends on the island fitted him
with a nice new, strong set of
teeth? And a new pair of
glasses? Were not twenty-five
silver simoleons reposing in his
pocket? Yes, yes, and thrice
yes.
Ah," said he, breathing deep
ly of the Bowery ozone. "1t is
good to be free"
Yesterday Patrolman. Grimes
picked Schmidt up somewhere
along the Bowery. Gone were
his glasses, teeth, $25, and ap-
petite.
"Send me back to the island,
your honor" he pleaded in Es-
sex market court. Magistrate
Barrett, a kindly and obliging
soul, smiled and said:
every well; thirty days"
The Washington times., 1923-09-25

day. The revenues make the park
ing stands self-supporting.
According to the Chicago police
the plan works out with entire
satisfaction. Rarely is a machine
stolen from one of the park stands,
although the police have on hand
an average Of 100 stolen cars a
day.
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-21

ferent from those used in most parts
of the country. In Arizona and New
Mexico the pinyon is by the most po-
pular Christmas tree. There are rea-
sons for this preference. 1t grows at
a reasonably low elevation and is.
therefore, accessible in winter. When
found in open stands it has a thick
foliage and is ideal in shape The
nuts from the pinyon are also good
and in some years it is possible to
gather pinyon nuts and a get a Christ
mas tree on the same trip.
White and Douglas frs make excel
lent Christmas trees, as also do the
Engelmann and blue spruces. These
species, however, occur at elevations
of about 5000 feet or higher and
many times are shut off by snow long
before Christmas.
There are not many Christmas trees
sold to commercial operators in the
Southwest Occasionally sales of Dou-
glas and white fir are made but the
expense of getting them out and ship
ping to the cities makes the price to
the consumer excessive. Transports
tion is the chief element in cost.
Sometimes they must be packed long
distances on the backs of burros.
The size of Christmas trees is from
three to five feet in height and there
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-21
D. L. Reid SOlicits in City
For Ariz. Children's Home

D. L. Reid, state superintendent of
the Arizona Children's Home associa-
tion, situated at Tucson, is in the
city this week soliciting for the Chill
dren's home.
According to the annual statement
OF 1922 the home cared for 154 chill
dren during the year; kept over 81
children from 1921; placed IL in per-
manent homes; returned 33 to rela-
tives or guardians; placed in other
institutions and adopted 7. The re-
ceipts for the year amounted to $13,-
807.74 and the disbursements, $13,-
697.19, leaving a balance of $11O55.
The association built a home in
1921 at cost of $36 900, and owes at
TIE present time $4,000 on the struc-
ture.
From these figures it is evident
that the Children's association is
doing a worthwhile work and that it
is in need of funds to take care of
the little ones who cannot take care
of themselves. Unless the people
contribute freely the organization
will be seriously handicapped in it's
work. Every one who can contri-
butte to the home should see Mr.. Reid
who will be here until tomorrow, or
mail check to the home at Tucson
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-21
SOUTHWEST YIELD
OF CHRISTMAS TREES

All OF the fourteen National Forests
in Arizona and New Mexico are being
called upon for Christmas trees and
are generally able to meet the de-
mand, states District Forester F. C.
w. Pooler, and such use of evergreen
trees is not contrary to good forestry.
Most of the trees are for home use
A Christmas tree for each family
within the reach and timbered slopes
| left better for this joy in the home is
the double aim of the Forest Service
in the Southwest, according to the
District Forester. Year by year more
and more people go into the National
Forest in early winter to secure trees
and other decorations for Christmas.
Year by year silviculturists turn this
demand more and more to profitable
account by directing its energy into
the thinning and general improve
ment of thrifty young forests.
The plan for handling this increas-
ing business is to advertise generally
in the local papers the places and
dates where rangers will meet the
public in the woods. Prior to this
the rangers have picked out the stand
on their districts that are in need Of
thinning and have tagged or other
wise designated the individual trees
that should be removed for the silvi-
cultural betterment of the forest. The
Christmas tree seeker then chooses
and cuts the designated tree that best
suits his fancy.
Automobiles and the good roads
into the mountains are bringing about
a wide use of this Christmas tree pri-
vilege. In many communities it has
become an annual outing for the fam
lily to take a picnic lunch and drive
out to National Forest to get a tree
and its yuletide trimmings.
The kinds of trees employed for
this purpose in the Southwest are diff
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-21
Ridgeway-DanielsOn

Mr.. Ross R. Ridgeway, who is en-
p1oyed at the local telegraph relay
station, and Miss Segred Danielson of
McKees Port, Penn, were married on
Monday afternoon at the Methodist
parsonage by Rev. o. L. Enyeart. A
reception, at which only few intim-
ate friends were invited, was given
at the Harvey House in the evening.
: The bride arrived in Winslow last
Saturday for the wedding. She was
formerly head stenographer of the
Ingersoll-Rand company of Pittsburg,
Penn Mr.. Danielson has resided in
Winslow for about year coming
here from Pittsburg, Penn, where he
was train dispatcher for the Balti-
more and Ohio Railway company.
Mr. and Mrs Danielson are at home
to their friends at 701 Apache avenue.
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-21

seem to be a preference for the small
ones. Trees of this size are from IL
ITO 20 years old AS christmas trees
from the National Forests are taken
from over crowded stands or from
pasture clearings. the frolic of chill
dren about an evergreen in the parlor
is not incompatible with approved
forestry practice.
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-21
Leave for Kansas City

Mr.. and Mrs. c. B. Henderson and
Daughters, Misses Ruthella and Doris,
left yesterday on train No. % for
Kansas City, Mo-, where they will
spend the Christmas holidays with re-
latives
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-21
Here on Business

Judge ]. E. Crosby of the Superior
court at Holbrook was in Winslow
Tuesday on business. Judge Crosby
motored over, returning home that
evening.
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-21
Back from Roosevelt Dam

DR.. w. T. Hubbard returned We'd
nesday morning from the Roosevelt
Dam after three-months' stay there
Dressmaking and ladies tailoring
will be done at 81 Apache Avenue
Satisfaction and fit guaranteed. prices
reasonable. Also all kinds of fancy
work.
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-21
Married at HnIhr0nk

Mr.. Frank Blumlein and Mrs. Diana
Malich were married on Monday at
Holbrook Both Mr.. Blumlein and
Mrs. Malich have lived in Winslow a
number Of years, and will make their
home here
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-21
Go to Texas for Holidays

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. W Holt left We'd
nesday for their old home in Texas
to spend the holidays.
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-21
Leave for Frisco

Mr. and Mrs W. B. Darling and
family left Sunday morning for San
Francisco, where they will spend the
Christmas holidays with relatives and
friends.
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-21
Down from Hay Lake

ranch at Hay Lake a couple of days
this week purchasing supplies. Mr..
Jones said that the storm of last week
was the worst that he had seen in the
Hay Lake section in about thirty
years.
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-21

Mr.. and Mrs. B. R. Smith and fam
lily were called to Snowflake Monday
on account of the serious illness OF
Mrs. Smiths father, c. H. Ballard
one of the oldest residents of Snow
fake.
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-21
Called to Snowflake

Mr.. and Mrs. B. R. Smith and fam
lily were called to Snowflake Monday
on account Of the serious illness of
Mrs. Smiths father, c. H. Ballard
one of the oldest residents of Snow
fake.
Go to Texas for Holidays
Mr., and Mrs. ]. w. Holt left We'd
nesday for their old home in Texas
to spend the holidays.
Leave for Frisco
Mr. and Mrs w. B. Darling and
family left Sunday morning for San
Francisco, where they will spend the
Christmas holidays with relatives and
friends.
Married at HOlbrOOk
Mr.. Frank Blumlein and Mrs. Diana
Malich were married on Monday at
Holbrook Both Mr. Blumlein and
Mrs. Malich have lived in Winslow a
number Of years, and will make their
home, here.
Married at Gallup
Mr. Joseph Walker and Miss Fran
ces Hayes were married on Saturday
dI GALLUP. MI. walker IS 6npIOy6U
at the Phillips blacksmith shop. The
bride is a Winslow girl, having at
tended the public schools here.
En- Route to Los Angeles
Mr.. w. K. Etter, general manager
of the Santa Fe coast lines, was in
Winslow between trains Tuesday en-
route to Los Angeles. Mr. Etter was
returning to the coast from an in
spection trip and was travelling in
special car No 22 He was accom-
panied by General Engineer R. D.
Ball.
Married at HOlbrOok
Mr.. Steven E. Hayes and Miss Ana
Mullen were married at Holbrook on
Saturday. The bride has lived here
for some time coming to Winslow
from Linden, Arizona, where her par
ents reside. Mr.. Hayes is an en-
ployee of the Carduff Transfer COM
pany and has spent much of his life
in this city.
Employed at Drum Shop
Pete Castanos is now employed at
Drumm's barber Shop.
Up and Around Again
w. A. Hartman, electrician, is up
and around again after being confined
to his bed for several days with ton
sOlitis,
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-21
Back from Extended Visit

Mr.. G. E. Rowe, fireman on th'
Santa Fe, returned Sunday from al
extended visit with relatives at Rich
mond, Indiana
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-21
General Yard Master Here

General Yard Master Charles Nc
Cormick with headquarters at Los
Angeles was in the city Monday look
ing over the Santa Fe yard conditions.
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-21
Married at Gallup

Mr.. Joseph Walker and Miss Fran
ces Hayes were married on Saturday
at Gallup. Mr.. Walker is employed
at the Phillips blacksmith shop. The
bride is a Winslow girl, having at
tended the public schools here.
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-21
Married at HolhrOok

Employed at Drum Shop
Pete Castanos is now employed at
Drumms barber Shop.
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-21
Leave for Denver

Mrs. George Kingrea and little
daughter, Dolores. will leave today
for Denver to visit her two sisters
Mrs. D. B. Wilmot and Mrs C. H
Alexander, over the Holidays.
Pictures which will make ideal
Christmas presents at the WinslOw
Furniture company. See the beauti-
full selections including Dallan's mas.
terpiece, "Appeal to the Great Spirit,
and Frazer's greatest work, END of
the Trail"
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-21
Up and Around Again

". A. Hartman, eIectrlcian, is up
and around again after being confined
to his bed for several days with ton
solitis.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-16
(The Literary Digest, Oct. 20, 1923
PINCHOT'S BAR-HUNT

Newspaper criticism, commendatory
and otherwise, of Governor Pinchot's
efforts to clean out the saloons in
Pennsylvania is quoted at length. The
Springfield Republican looks upon the
"brazen attitude of the saloonkeepers"
as conspiracy:
"They belong to the Retail Liquor
Dealers Protective Association, which
employs counsel to advise them on le-
gal questions, and his advice in this
case is to ignore the authorities while
the issue is contested in the courts.
The incident would not in itself be
indicative necessarily of an organized
campaign of obstruction to law en-
forcement among interests notorious
ly hostile to it from selfish motives;
yet SO widespread is the open cam
paign by specially organized bodies
like the Association Against the Pro-
hibition Amendment and by the news
papers that consistently discredit by
every available means all efforts at
enforcement, that conspiracy seems
word wholly without exaggeration in
its moral implications"
The editor commends Governor Pin
chot's attack upon "the intrenched but
lawless rum-trade" as does the editor
of the New York Evening Post, who
says:
Governor Pinchot is showing what
can be done by the energy of one man
when backed by the best moral senti-
ment OF the community. He himself
put the drastic enforcement law
through at Harrisburg. The appro-
priation for enforcement which he
asked, and which he wished to use in
ferreting out the 'higher-ups' in state
bootlegging was refused, but he
promptly obtained a citizens fund.
First the anthracite region and now
the metropolis are cleaned up. 1t is
a showing that will encourage believ-
ers in law enforcement the country
over. Other states in which the VETS
are as strong and as lawless as in
Pennsylvania could be purgcd by the
same methods"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-16
(The American Review of Reviews,
November, 1929
POLITICS AND PROHIBITION

Following paragraph on Pin
chot's Challenge to Law Breakers,
the editor absolves Governor Pinchot
OF any intention to criticize or reflect
upon either President Coolidge or the
late President Harding, lone of whose
most impressive speeches on the west
ern tour was devoted to the enforce
ment of prohibition
The closing comment on the issue
raised by Governor Pinchot is:
"The thing that Mr.. Pinchot has
succeeded i'll doing is to sharpen the
issue, and to compel the Republican
party to take a sincere stand and to
free its skirts from the charge of COM
promise with grafters and crooks. The
tone of the West regarding prohibit
ton was we'll expressed in our pages
last month by Mr.. w. r. Boyd of
Iowa. In our opinion, great major
ity of the Republicans of the state of
New York would vote for strict law
enforcement if the question were sub
mitted TO them. The time may come
when the people of the United States
will wish to deal again with the Eight
zenith Amendment, either for modifi-
cation or for repeal; but at present
law enforcement is the one and only
issue so far as the drink question is
concerned"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-16
public Affairs, November, 1929
SHALL WE ABANDON PRO-
HIBITION?

Some of the facts which the writer
regards as essential on both sides of
the question are here presented seria-
tum. The points listed in favor of
abandonment number and are:
Prohibition is not being enforced.
The attempt to enforce it creates
disrespect for law.
The attempt to enforce it has led to
widespread corruption.
Prohibition enactment has created a
new class of lawbreakers.
Enforcement has created a new class
of jobholders and costs the nation
vast sums of money.
Bootlegging has reached a point
where it threatens civil strife.
Prohibition enforcement has threat
ened international complications.
Prohibition means one law for the
rich and another for the poor.
Prohibition is making America a ma
ton of hypocrites.
The arguments listed in favor of re-
tanning prohibition are:
Prohibition is the law of the land.
Prohibition is favored by the major
ity.
Present difficulties of enforcement
will pass.
We must start now to build for the
future.
The benefits of prohibition are un-
disputed.
Much less liquor is being consumed
now than in the past.
Prohibition is revealing the fact
that there are lawbreakers in high
places.
The welfare of our children de-
mands that prohibition be strictly en-
forced.
The cost of prohibition enforcement
is probably more than made up by the
saving in the cost OF upkeep of jals,
etc, no longer required.
There is indisputably moral factor
involved.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-16
TO CLOSE SALOONS NEAR
MILWAUKEE, SOLDIERS HOME

AS result of fight to end saloons in
the vicinity of the soldiers home in
Milwaukee, rs or more saloons in Mil
waukee county, Wis, may be perma-
nently closed as result OF a decision
given November 7 by Judge Walter
Schintz in overruling the demurrer OF
Sophia Thekan to the states petition
declaring her saloon situated near the
entrance of the soldiers home a public
nuisance.
An appeal to the Supreme Court is
to be taken at once with the request
that the case be given preference on
the calendar The suit before Judge
Schintz is called the 'key case" for all
similar actions now pending. All are
interlocked and will fall or stand upon
the Thekan decision. The Wisconsin
law provides for a permanent injunc-
ton against convicted saloons as
against the federal law which provides
for an injunction holding for one year.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-16
(The Nation, October "a, 1929
WHITE, PROTESTANT,
AND DRY
By William Hard

This title is applied to the recent
Citizenship Conference" in Washing
ton, which the writer thinks should
have given some attention to the nom
enforcement of other amendments to
the Constitution, and should even have
taken them in the order of their en-
actment. Speaking ironically, he says:
"The situation is that we have a
congestion of law-enforcement traffic
and movement. The enforcement of
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amend
ments regarding the civil and political
rights of negroes, is stalled in the
passes of the Alleghenies. The en-
forcement of the basic rights of man,
in SO far as they are possessed by
Catholics, Jews and negroes and citi-
zens charged with crime but uncon-
victed of it, against the XII Klux Khan
and other mobs, is stalled on hills and
plains throughout the country.
Meanwhile the 'bottleneck' yards
which cannot be widened except by new
enormous expenditures of public mon
ey, are jammed and clogged by the
busy engineers and conductors of
statutes regarding maternity welfare
motion picture inspection, sedition
eradication, boll-weevil determination,
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-16
PERJURY, FORGERY, BRIBERY
BOOTLEG HANDMAIDENS
--WjIiidS,, Hayward,
u. S. Dist. Attorney

Col. William Hayward United
States Attorney for the southern dis
trict of New York, in an address in
the First Presbyterian Church, AL
bany, on November 4, declared that
violations of the prohibition law are
"a challenge to every friend of the
Constitution" He is quoted in the
New York Times as saying:
Il believe the American people want
to be law-abiding but in spite of that
in certain sections of the country a
startling and shocking condition ex-
lists with regard to the Eighteenth
Amendment.
81 am not an alarmist, but the con-
ditions are certainly alarming Many
people otherwise law-abiding and de-
cent and who have the largest stake
in the unfolding of the law, are daily
buying bootleg liquor and are break
ing the law by possessing that liquor
not only in their homes but elsewhere,
and by transporting it from place to
place.
81 feel sure that they have not re-
allied that the three hand-maidens of
bootlegging are perjury, forgery and
bribery-three heinous, detestable and
dangerous crimes, the preparation of
which may deprive a man or woman
of life, liberty or good name--and yet
everyone who buys from the bootleg
ger must necessarily have induced
some person to become a felon and to
commit one or all of these crimes"
Col. Hayward is conscientious and
fearless federal officer and is doing his
full part to suppress bootlegging in
the Empire State. The legislature
and the governor by repeating the
state enforcement law undoubtedly
have encouraged those who would
commit perjury, forgery and bribery,
and by SO doing has made the work of
the federal government doubly hard
in that section.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-16
RUM RUNNING Big
PROBLEM OF DRY LAW

Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt. as
sistant attorney general in charge of
Dry law enforcement prosecutions, is)
quoted in a Washington dispatch of
last week as declaring that rum-run-
ming now presents the greatest prob
lem in enforcement OF the prohibition
law. She made this statement in her
annual report to Attorney General
Daugherty. The report also COM
mented on the light sentences given
violators in some federal courts as
compared with those imposed in other
courts. Mrs. Wilebrandt says in the
report:
The liquor smuggling business 10
the greatest criminal problem the
United States has ever faced on the
high seas. The coast guard is our po-
lice force within our territorial waters
and is assisted by the customs officers
and the United States marshals and
their deputies of the Department OF
Justice in the coastal states. The
coast guard is the only force having
equipment to deal with smuggling on
the high seas and observation is con-
vincing that its equipment is not sufi-
Gent to suppress it along our long At
lantic and Pacific coast lines"
While no precise estimate of the
amount of liquor smuggled in could be
obtained, the report said an indication
of the amount could be obtained in
imports to and exports from nearby
British possessions. Official data, it
was said, showed that liquor shipments
from Nassau alone were valued at
%,05S,2o4 during the last fiscal year.
1t was implied that most of this was
destined for the United States. The
importations to Nassau totalled $4,-
100000, the difference in these amounts
representing the bootleggers' profits.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-16
STIFF SENTENCE GIVEN
BRIBER

A fine of $1,000 and a SEN
tence of twenty years in the fed
eral penitentiary were imposed
upon Morris Orsatti, convicted
of attempting to bride federal
prohibition agent i'll the United
States district court, Los An
geles, November 5, says a Chris
tian Science Monitor dispatch.
Orsatti said to be prominent
business man and member of the
Italian colony of Los Angeles,
was found guilty on Fl counts.
A number of his sentences were
made concurrently so that the
total time of his Imprisonment
will be twenty years. His fine
was a thousand dollars on each
of the 81 counts.
The judge lectured Orsatti Sc
verely while sentencing him,
saying that he could scarcely
express the courts contempt for
a successful business man who
would seek to bribe an under
paid prohibition officer in an at
tempt to pervert the law.