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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-05
DEMOCRATS OF MARYLAND
ADOPT A WET PLATFORM

Governor Albert c. Richie was re-
nominated to succeed himself by the
Democratic state convention of Mary
land September 20. A platform was
adopted containing plank protest
ing against enforcement of the Eight
zenith Amendment through the Vol
stead act rather than through legis-
lation adopted by the various states.
But so long, however, as there is a
federal law enforcing the Eighteenth
Amendment, the plank advocates its
modification so as to permit wines
and beers in communities where there
is no local legislation to the contrary.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-05
EMPIRE STATE LIQUOR MEN
DIVIDED into TWO CAMPS
NModerationists" Favor Modify
ing Volstead Act and Ignor-
ing 18th Amendment
OTHERS AFTER 18TH ART.
N. Y. Vets Could Not Hang To-
gether So Wisely Decided to
Hang Separately

According to story in the Chicago
Daily Tribune by Arthur Sears Hen
ming, writing under New York date
line of September %, the notification
lists of the Empire State have become
divided into two camps. Those nulli-
ficationists who believe that the Eight
zenith Amendment can not possibly be
repealed but insist that the way to re-
store the liquor traffic is to modify the
i, Volstead law and ignore the Eight
zenith Article of the Constitution, have
organized what is known as the Mod
Grafton League. They are in reality
split from the New York division of
the Association Against the Prohibi-
ton Amendment whose members are
just now working for identically the
same thing, viz, modification of the
Volstead act, but who according to
the Moderation League aggregation,
are acting under false colors. In other
words, they say the name is a
misnomer. Mr.. Henning says:
While working Immediately for
modification of the Volstead act,
the Association includes in its
ultimate aims the repeal of the
Eighteenth Amendment. The
latter object proved liability in
stead of an asset, according to the
organizers of the new league.
The New York vets went
through the campaign of 1922 as
/. division of the Association
Against the Prohibition Amend
ment and wound up with deficit.
They complained that they had
been unable to raise sufficient
y funds or to enlist widespread sup
pot so long as one of the pro-
claimed aims of the Association
was the repeal of :he prohibition
amendment. Many prominent
men who have leaned to the dry
side promised to join if the pur-
pose were confined to liberaliza-
ton Of the Vols+ead act.
The only honest method whereby
the liquor traffic can be restored is
that of repeating the Eighteenth,
Amendment. Modifying the enforce
ment law in a way to permit the
manufacture and sale of Intoxicating
liquor while the prohibition amend
mcnt is part of the Constitution is
notification and is dishonest ind de-
spite the statement credited by Mr..
Henning to the Moderation League,
it is not true that people who have
leaned to the dry side would join in
the effort to deliberately nuiify an
article of the Constitution. There is
only one course open to law-abidng,
patriotic citizens who believe that the
liquor traffic should be restored to
take toward bringing about the
restoration of the traffic, and that is
by working for the repeal of the
Eighteenth Amendment. 1t is unwise
but il is at least honest.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-05
POSTAL SAVINGS ARE
GROWING

The largest increase since De-
cember, 1920, was recorded in
postal savings accounts in the
month of August, over July,
1928, according to an announce
ment made September 10 by
Postmaster General New. The
entire increase during August
was 100000. There was on
deposit in postal savings ac-
counts at the beginning of AL
gust $l31,65e,soo. The blight
ing effects of prohibition pro-
claimed by the nullificationists
apparently have not made them
selves felt among the people
who patronize the postal saw
ings banks.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-05
,(The Outlook, September II, 1929
THE EFFECT OF ALCOHOL
UPON LONGEVITY
Editorial

After a two-column review of DR..
Oscar H. Rogers report on the COM
parative mortality of abstainers and
non-abstainers on the books of the life
insurance companies, the editor makes
the following sensible application:
"A person who is an undesirable risk
from the point Of view of an insurance
company is hardly desirable risk
from business point of view. En-
ployers want employees upon whom
they can depend-not men who are
going to be laid up every little bit and
who are going to die untimely deaths.
The stand that railways and other
corporations have taken against liquor
drinking seems, therefore, to be en-
tircly justified.
I'm some British companies IT has
long been the custom to insure appli
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-05
DESPERATE PLAN TO PROVE
PROHIBITION A FAILURE

Somebody in New York has COM
piled statistics showing that alcohol
ism is on the increase in the hospitals
in that city and then vets use the
figures to attempt to prove prohibition
failure. They attribute the failure
to the wrong cause, II alcoholism is
increasing in New York City it is not
due to prohibition, but to the nullifica-
ton of the dry law through the repeal
Of the state enforcement act. The blame
should be placed where it rightly be-
longs.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-05

Rex B. Goodcell, collector of in
ternal revenue for the southern Cali
fornia district, announces that on July
1, 1923, approximately 100000 gal
Ions of wine were held in the wineries
throughout California. In the fiscal
year ended on that day, the southern
part of that state produced 2,524,o0o
gallons, while Withdrawals total 1922
744. OF the quantity withdrawn 635,-
889 gallons were shipped to points out
side the state.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-05
ISPROUL BATS VOLSTEAD-
ACT-MODIFICATION HOOK

William C. Sproul, former governor
.of Pennsylvania, on his arrival from
Europe on the Leviathan September
rs, announced that he favors a
modification of the Volstead act and
adds the usual wet statement that he
hopes never to see the return of the
saloon. He is quoted as declaring that
he would like to see a plan worked
out whereby people of social in
stincts" might obtain moderate sup
plies of liquor within the law. Just
how he expects this to be done while
the Eighteenth Article of the Consti-
tuition stands as it is, is not explained.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-05
ROUNDS THEM UP THOUGH
LACKING SUFFICIENT HELP

The Detroit Free Press of Septem-
Der % says that Group Chief Grove Of
the federal prohibition department has
been doing efficient work in rounding
up bootleggers in the upper peninsula
of Michigan. The chief has been ham
dicapped by an insufficient number Of
agents, but Notwithstanding, at each
term of federal court for the last ten
months he has had at least rs defend
ants in court.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-05
WHAT THE CURRENT MAGAZINES ARE SAYING ABOUT
PROHIBITION AND LAW enforcement
(Reviewed by Emma L. Transeau)

cants in two groups, separating the
teetotalers from those who drink.
According to the figures presented by
DR.. Rogers, teetotalcrs in this country
are carrying burden that properly
belongs to non-abstainers. Somebody
had to make up that $2,5OO,OOO lost by
the companies insuring those 10000
beverage makers and dealers. The
teetotalers of course paid that loss.
This is penalizing man for being
careful. The opposite course should
be pursued ind the careless man PEN
allied by being required to pay higher
rates"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-05

The Grand Exalted Ruler of the
Elks of Pennsylvania, in addressing
the State Association, urged the OBJ
servance of the prohibition law and
asked the members to help enforce
these laws.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-05
THREE-FOURTHS OF THEM
FOUND TO BE FOREIGNERS

An examination of the police court
records of the city of Cleveland COW
ering 4,425 convictions for liquor law
violations extending over period OF
three years, shows that of the persons
convicted 1915 were foreign born and
1,130 were native Americans, This
shows that Is per cent OF all those
convicted were foreigners.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-05

In its fight against moonshining thu
federal government seized more than
5000 stills during the last fiscal year,
according to figures made public by
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes.
Less than 800 prohibition agents
participated in the seizures.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-05

The Ohio w. c. T. U. added 5000
members to its rolls last year, as re-
ported at the recent state convention
in Columbus. The entire member
ship in the state is now $4,000, in
round numbers.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-05
NOXIoNS QUALITIES OF LIO-
UoR; FOURTEENTH AMEND
MENT

In the case of KRUSOCZKY v.
THE STATE OF OHIO, being con-
sidercd, the court called attention to
the concurrent power of the state to
enforce the Federal amendment, and
cited CRANE v. CAMPBELL. 245
U. s., 304307, as follows:
"IT MUST NOW BE REGARDED
couNT OF Their E WEHL-
KNOWN NOXIOUS QUALITIES
AND THE EXTRAORDINARY
EVILS SHOWN BY EXPERIENCE
COMMONLY TO BE CON-
SEQUENT UPON THEIR USE,
state has power absolutely to prohibit
manufacture, gift, purchase, sale, or
transportation of Intoxicating liquors
within its borders without violating the
guarantees of the Fourteenth Amend
ment. BARTEMEYER v. IOWA, 1s
Wall. 1923; BEER COMPANY v.
MASSACHUSETTS, 81 U. S. rs, 80;
mueller v. KANSAS, 1873 U. S.
623, Coz; CROWLEY v. CHRISTEN-
SON, 1877 u. S. SO, 81; PURITY EX-
TRACT COMPANY ". LYNCH, 226
U. S. 1872, 201; CLARK DISTILLING
v. WESTERN MARYLAND RY.
CO., 242 u. S. 31l, 800, 321; SEA-
BOARD AIR LINE RY. v. NORTH
CAROLINA, ante, 298."
UNNECESSARY TO ALICE
BEVERAGE USE
In KRUSOCZKY V. THE STATE
OF OHIO, decided June e. 1923, the
Ohio Supreme Court said
"The constitutionality of Section 3
of the Volstead Act, which makes pos
session an offensc without specifying
that it is for beverage purposes is con-
strued in ROSE v. UNITED
STATES, 274 Fed. 245: Congress in
the exercise of its power has deter
mined that it is essential and appro-
pirate to the enforcement of this con-
stistutional amendment to restrict the
possession of Intoxicating liquors to
those having permits to keep and
possess the same and to private homes
when intended for the sole use of the
owner and his family and their bona
fide guests Writ of certiorai was
denied in U. S. Supreme Court, AZ Sup.
Ct. Rep g." / nS# Efs}
In conclusion the court said
we are, therefore, constrained to
the conclusion that the prohibition by
the terms of Sec. GIRLS and Sec.
6212-l6 is not limited to the possession
of Intoxicating liquor for beverage
purposes or to be used as a beverage,
but that the mere possession of intox-
icating liquor except for the purposes
and in the manner enumerated in the
statute is in and of itself unlawful.
ut is, therefore, not incumbent upon
the state to aver that the same was
possessed for beverage purposes and
that the statute is not in contravention
to either the federal or state constitu-
ton"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-05
(The Saturday Evening Post,
Sept. y, 1929
THE BLUE LAWS WEREN'T so
BLUE
BY Floyd w. Parsons

By Floyd w. Parsons
The wet organization that canvassed
this country year or more ago with
a ballot asking people to state whether
they favored or opposed Prohibition
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-05

defense: HIRN v. STATE, 1 o. s.
IS; BILLINGHEIMER v. STATE
81 Q. s., 435; HALE v. STATE. So
Q. s.: 676; BRINKMAN v. DROLES-
BAUGH, 81 o. S., I'LL"
THE KIND OF INTOXICATING
LIQUOR NEED NOT BE
ALLEGED
In the case under consideration, the
court also held that
Thin court has heretofore passed
upon the point that it is not necessary
in a prosecution under Sec. 62l2-15 to
set forth the KIND of intoxicating
liquor and the reasoning of that case
is applicable to the case at bar"
The court here cited with approval
STATE v. MARCINSKI, 1903 o. S..
610
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-05

A COMPLAINT ALLEGING
UNLAWFUL POSSESSION
OF INTOXICATING LIQ-
UOR NEED NOT ALICE
THAT SAME WAS pos
SESSED FOR BEVERAGE
PURPOSES
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-04-27
WAX is PRODUCT OF INSECTS
Important Export Of Chinese Province
Deposited on Trees and Gathered
In lts Season.

White wax, one of the most impor-
tant exports of the province of Szech-
wan, In China, is chiefly found in the
districts Of Kiating. Chiewei and Ipin,
and along the Yangtze river In the
vicinity of these places. 1t is sub
stance deposited on trees by insects
known as wax insects. Once year
in March--they are collected from
the regions on the border of Yunnan
by the waS-worm raisers, and are
placed on pollnrded trees, either ash
or privet, which are mostly grown in
Kiating and neighboring districts.
Speed is essential in the removal
of these insects, or they would hatch
out before they get to the wax dis
tricts, and would thus be wasted.
Therefore, the coolies generally travel
In relays so as to reach the destina-
ton In time for the Matching. When
the moulting period is over, the worms
begin to deposit the wax on the leaves
of the trees. This process continues
up to the end Of August, when the
wax is collected After dissolving in
boiling water, 1t is usually moulded
into cakes of various sizes and shapes.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-04-27
TOO MUCH DELAY
Naval Captains Odd Warning 10
Expert Gunner.
Evidently Fine Workmanship Was Not
Considered Essential in the oayr
OF the Old Navy.

The one thing II commander Of
vessel engaged in target practice is
more Interested in than anything else
is the record that his men can make
Mt the ranges. But there was time
when the man behind the gun" was
not recognized as the most important
element In the efficiency of lighting
ship.
To Illustrate this an old-timer told
this story in Washington not long ago;
Il was Junior officer on the old
Essex many years ago. In those days
we had target practice once quar-
ter, We were forced by regulations
to eNpend so many rounds of nmmuni.
ton every three months, and--well,
that was about all there was to it.
1t was perfunctory kind of practice,
and every one was glad when it was
over.
zone day we went out for the quar-
terly practice, anchored the target,
and went at it. The targets we used
in those days were planks fastened In
triangle, spar placed in the CEN
ter to hold the canvas, which was the
target proper.
Now, the gun captain of the for
ward pivot rifle was an excellent
marksman, and on his first trial he
sent shell through the spar, which
smashed 1t into finders That, of
course, stopped the practice, and out
went boat to tow the wrecked target
alongside for repairs.
when 1t had been patched up, it
was towed back to its place, and firing
was resumed
again the same gunner had the
first shot. and again his shell brought
down the spar and canvas,
"The boat was sent out again, but
when the repaired target was being
towed back to the range, the captain,
who was much out of humor by the
delay, spoke his mind:
"Tell Gunner Blank he command
ed, that If he hits that target again,
will put him in the brigI"
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-04-27
Betrothed In Infancy.

There is great diversity of manners
of customs and languages among the
North folk. Among many Eskimos
parents betroth their infant children.
The young people have nothing to do
with 1t. The old men make the mar.
rage entirely. After the betrothal the
couple may live together at any time
but the time they do live together is
usually decided by the ability of the
man to support the woman.
In other cases, when young man
thinks well of a young woman, he
proposes to take her for his wife. II
both are agreed and the parents OF
the girl consent, they become one
There is no wedding ceremony at all,
nor are there any rejoicings and fes.
tivities. Bride and groom simply come
together and live in their own tupic
or igloo.
There are other large bodies Of Els.
hmos whose bridal and wedlock Gus.
toms are as simple as, and less ele.
CANT than, those of the polar animals
among whom they dwell and with
whom they wrestle for a living.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-04-27
SIX SLAIN AT MULhElM
Besieged German Police Break Up and
Defeat Mob.

Muelheim. After being terrorized
for three days by the Communist mobs
which held it, Muelheim is again under
control of the constituted German
authorities. The force of 900 police
and city officials which had been be-
sieged in the Rathaus made sortie
from this great fortress.like building,
cut through the lines of the besiegers,
caught them in the rear, arrested
many and again took control of the
city,
Forty leaders OF the besiegers were
arrested. The casualty list, so far as
made up showed six dead and from
sixty to seventy wounded, some OF
whom may die.
The French troops remained through
out the trouble in or near the security
police barracks which they are oc.
cupying, They took no part in the at.
fair, which they regarded as purely
local
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-04-27
CURzON WANTS ARMY
kept ON THE RHINE

London,-"Great Britain's guiding
principle regarding the Ruhr is pres
ervation of the allied entente" Lord
Curzon, British foreign secretary, told
the house of lords this evening, 81
oppose the suggestion that the British
army should be Withdrawn from the
Rhine. Great Britain desires to get
maximum Preparations from Germany
We are willing to impose drastic sane
tons (penalties) as last resort"
Lord Curzon said that Great Britain
did not encourage German evasion.
He declared that he believed that both
sides were now ready for a parley and
that Great Britain would encourage ne.
gotlations.
But the first move must come from
Germany" added the foreign secretary.
Lord Curzon suggested a worldwide
debt conference.
"The suggestion that the League OF
Nations Intervene in an effort to settle
the Ruhr and Preparations problems is
not feasible because the United States
is not member of the league"
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-04-27
BLACK SEA LIGHT RESTORED
Tower on serpents' Island, Raced by
Germans, Was Built by the Rus
SLAMS in 1910.

The new lantern Installed on the
lighthouse on Serpents' island, In the
Black sea, which is in the course Of
reconstruction, started functioning reg
ularly from December /, according to
the Bucharest correspondent OF the
London Times
The tower OF the old lighthouse was
built by the Russians In 1910, but no
light was installed on 1t till 1856, when
by the Treaty of Paris the island
passed into the possession Of Turkey.
The lighthouse was under the admin
istratiOn of the Ottoman government
till 1879, and since then the European
commission o fthe Danube has been
responsible for It's maintenance and
working.
The tower and buildings were bonn
barded and destroyed by the German
cruiser Breslau on June %, 1917, since
when there has been only small tenn
porary light on the island. The re-
construction of the lighthouse was be-
gun this year by the European COM
mission of the Danube The tower has
now been erected. and the new lantern
and apparatus installed. The charac-
teristic of the new light consists In a
group of three rapid flashes repeated
every Is minutes and its visibility is
20 miles.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-04-27
Some Facts About parwinl

There are persons who believe
Charles Darwin and all his works
should be forgotten, since the effect
of them would be bad on the un-
educated mind" In Detroit an In
quiry was made lelsurely among the
unlearned over a considerable period
Of time. and II was found that Oar
win originated that good old sporting
slogan common to the American col
lege grldiron: Let the best team
win; discovered that a chain Is no
stronger than Its missing link; laid
the political groundwork of democracy
BY sponsoring natural selection -
drew pro-British csstoons of our Puri-
tan forefathers. picturing them climb
ing trees with tails; and wrote 1.-THE
Hairy Ape
How. then. Is Darwin going to be
forgotten Y-Detroit News.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-04-27
CARRY MAIL DESPITE PERILS
Storms In the Arctic Often Endanosr
the Lives OF United States
Postal Workers.

Throughout the United States and its
possessions the government has estab-
llshed one of the most efficient and
greatest postal services In the world.
Promptness In delivery Of the mails
has always been Its motto, as records
OF the post Office department show. In
the far north the mailman" expert
ences the severest hardships, as evil
denced by the history OF the Alaskan
postal stations.
In the Arctic the mailman" Is usu.
ally not called upon to make extensive
overland trips more than once or
twice In the long winter night. These
trips, however, are fraught with i'm.
mense hardship and danger.
Working from the seacoast postal
station at Tananu, Alaska, from which
stations In the bleak interior OF north
em Alaska are served, the dog sledges
which carry the mail must travel 900
weary, perilous miles overland to the
'farthest north" office, at Point Bar.
row. One trip winter to this Office
is n seasons work for the mailman
on that route,
The trip means weeks upon weeks
of the most arduous travelling, In utter
loneliness, with only the savage, half.
wild dogs Of the team as companions,
all the time under the pail of the long
Arctic night, only relieved by the shift
ing, terrible glory OF the northern
lights.
Many cases are on record where
mail carriers, travelling behind their
dog teams, have been caught in dead.
ly billiards. and lost In almost every
case the mail has been rescued by
searching parties and taken through
to Its destinahon.-Joseph Edgerton
In the Washington Times Herald.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-04-27
Embraced by Monkc.

A horrible experience befell letter
carriers wife Of Babylon, n. Y, when
monkey dropped on her shoulders
from tree and embraced her. She
was riding in her surrey through q
lonely stretch of road, between Baby.
Ion and Lindenhurst when something
dropped as II from the sky and land
ed on the seat beside her. When hairy
arms encircied her neck she screamed
and an unidentified rabbit hunter ap-
peared on the scene and shot the
monkey. The dead monkey was
brought back to Babylon, where the
woman will have it stuffed as a me-
mento of her unusual experience. The
monkey is believed to have escaped
from ship off the coast near Babylon.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-04-27
sun.LovIna Star oazsr.

She was II sun-lovlng Smith college
freshman from the South, and al.
though greatly Interested in studying
the stars, she found MS the weather
grew colder that She could hardly en-.
dure the night observing that her aB.
tronomy course required. SO she took
the advice OF her friends and tried
hats, fur coats, wooden stockings and
warm gloves galore, but her hands and
feet still froze and she was miserable,
one night she appeared at the observ.
ntory with beaming face and hands
that were to stay warm. She had
solved her perplexing problem. In
either bullying pocket was u metal hot.
water bottle filed with the hottest
water that her house could provide
and, although for the first night of her
experiment her hands sought her
pockets more often than her books,
she now does her observing almost Will.
lngly.-Chicago Journal.