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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-05-18
(Fortnightly Review, April, 1923,
A GLIMPSE OF AMERICA
BY Harold Spender

Mr.. Spcnder visited America as a
member OF the Sulgrave Delegation
selected TO present to the people OF
the United States certain statutes of
famous Britons who have espoused
the American cause in the past-Chat-
ham, Burke and Bryce. He gives his
impressions OF various phases OF
American life, and among others
prohibition. as he found it on his tray-
els through the different sections of
the country,
He says. There IS the new sobri-
ETY. at the dinner table, which is a
great gain. Not that Europeans get
drunk at dinner in these days, but
they often get heated with wine.
That brings us to the inevitable qucs-
tion-ls America today Dry or Wet?
"Thc Middle West is really dry.
The East is drinking secretly. The
South is drinking openly.
Everybody agrees that the clos
ing OF the saloons was a tremendous
fact for America; and that the saloons
should never be opened again. Where
many of the people seemed to differ
was over light wine and beer. But all
the social workers arc against any
relaxation or weakening of the law.
They, and the employers, all empha-
size the immense improvement in gen.
eral wcll-being. The spread of the
motor car speaks for itself. There is
also a noticeable improvement in the
food, clothing, and general comfort
of the working classes. Monday is
now a full working day. Salvation
Army workers spoke to me of the
closed prisons and empty poorhouses.
America must decide this great
experiment herself. 1t is not for an
Englishman to pronounce. He looks
at it from the point of view of Lib
erty and Leisure. America looks at
it from the angle Of Equality and
Work. In England Drink always
fights under the banner of Liberty.
In America it is fighting under the
banner OF Equality. Why should the
workman go dry while the rich man
drinks?' is the question going the
rounds of America. By the answer
to that prohibition will stand or fall"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-05-18
The Congregationaist, April 20, %
SMOKING COMPARTMENT
VIEWS OF PROHIBITION
EJ,+0r;,I
Editorial

Since the Volstead Act was passed
prohibition has been the great topic OF
discussion in the Smoking Compart-
ment Forum.
l was impressed last week by the
great change which has taken place
during the last year in the drift of the
discussion. Formerly the men max
ing up the Forum were overwheln-
ingly wet, and expressed a good deal
of contempt for Mr.. Volstead and all
those of like opinion. They were free
to say that liquor could be gotten al
most anywhere in the country, and
that prohibition would have short
life. They made much of the
loss of revenues, etc.
Now the situation has entirely
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-05-18
The Ladies Home Journal, May, '25)
BOOTLEG LIQUOR
BY A. B. Macdonald
AND HOW 1T KILLS
By Hugh S. Cummings
Surgeon General United States Public
Health Service

Surgeon General United States Public
Health Service
To find out to what extent fictitious
and dangerous liquors are being made,
sold and drunk, the editor engaged
the services OF an expert newspaper
reporter 10 visit representative towns
in all parts OF the country, to see il it
is difficult or easy to buy booze, have
samples bought, analysed, and find out
what its effects would be.
The reporter found no trouble in
buying bootleg liquor in the large
cities visited The chemists analysis
showed that nearly all of it was false
ly labeled, claiming to be genuine
Scotch, or Hunters, or other old
brands, when in fact it was raw grain
alcohol containing fusel oil or other
products OF fermentation and lead
from the lead coils used in distilling
or redistilled denaturcd alcohol con-
tanning some of the poisons used in
dcnaturing; or bald synthetic" liq-
uor made by the addition of cooring,
havoring, and pungent substances to
ethyl alcohol. In one place he saw
counterfeit labels being pasted on the
bottles of spurious liquors. The
harm these liquors would cause ranges,
according TO amount taken, from
quick drunkenness to several weeks
in hospital or death.
Surgeon General Cummings who an
alyzcd the samples collected by Mr..
Macdonald, adds his testimony as to
the dangerous character of practically
all of the liquors now offered for sale.
Drinkers are child-likc in their faith
in the bootlcggers' claims that his
goods arc real prc-war stuff" There
is not enough c-prohibition liquor in
the country today to last the bootleg
gers day.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-05-18
(Thc Current History Magazine
May, 1929
WHY BOOTLEGGING
FLOURISHES
D., II Cco;f~
BY H. L. Scaife
Counsel to the Women's Clean Gov
crnment Organization

Counsel to the Women's Clean Gov
crnmcnt Organization
An outspoken presentation of the
extent of violations of the prohibition
law and the causes responsible.
"Thc prohibitionists have not won
their battle in the enactment of laws,
no matter how full Of teeth the laws
may be, but the fight will be won when
such laws are enforced and respected
However, to say that law should be
modified or repealed because it is vio-
lated would wipe out every moral and
civil law established for the regula-
ton of human conduct.
Taking the country as whole and
leaving out those areas where the law
has completely failed, it would appear
that a large majority is still i'll favor
of prohibition. If the present
prohibition laws should be eventually
modified or repealed, it will be on the
BlOuIu tIldt tuOsC VIII die HUI dill y
responsible for their enactment failed
to look after their enforcement. 1t is
quite different matter to work up
public sentiment to the point of en-
acting laws, on controversial subjects
and to bring about healthy public
sentiment that will demand enforce
ment. While prohibitionists
should be truthfully proclaiming from
the housetops the wholesale and no.
torious violations of the law with
which they have been unable to cope
and be laying the foundation for the
valid defense that present laws should
not be modified or repealed until they
have had an efficient test and fair trial
the unwarranted claims of enforce
ment have aided the situation in bad
areas to get beyond control :"
Nor docs the indictment fail to in
dicatc the responsibility higher up
for some of the most fragrant abuses
connected with enforcement of the law.
During a period from April II,
1918, to Sept. II, 1920 a large guam
tity of liquors seized by agents OF
the government and stored i'll ware
house in Washington was appropri-
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-05-18
MRS. PINCHOT STANDING
FIRM FOR enforcement
Wife of Pennsylvania Governor
Takes Attitude No Less Srong
Than Husbands
is EFFECTIVE KER
Tells Women of Menace to This
Country Existing in Disregard
Of Constitution

Not less effective than her husband
as a public speaker, is Mrs. Clifford
Pnchot, wife of the governor of Penn
sylyania. Addressing the League OF
Women Voters in Des Moines, Iowa,
recently Mrs. Pinchot pointed the way
for members of her sex to play far
greater part in politics than they arc
now playing. She asked that they
stand for the direct primary and in
sisted that the operations of the
primary must be extended so that
even presidential nominees shall be
chosen in that way. She declared that
women must demand the absolute en-
forcement of the prohibition amend
ment not in the role of drys but as
upholdefs OF the Constitution.
Remember she said, ''it is not a
question now of the wisdom or futility
of prohibition. We are not concerned
with the issue whether liquor is a
necessity or a curse TO mankind,
whether light wines or beers might
make our lot harder or easier. These
points have all been settled by the
Eighteenth Amendment and the only
question before us now is whether we
as nation are going to abide by the
law or whether we are going to allow
noisy and arrogant minority to set
themselves above it. And this is an
issue far deeper and more significant
than that of prohibition itself.
Is Real Menace
81 don't want to be in the class of
those who view with alarm, but in all
seriousness | do feel that the shame
less and open violation of the law to-
day is very real menace to our in
stitutions and should be a matter Of
deep concern to all OF us. If individuals
are going to arrogate to themselves
the right to decide which of our
laws they will observe and which they
will violate. then the whole fabric Of
our institutions as law abiding and
respecting nation is destroyed. 1t is
time to call halt to make the COM
munity understand that the question
of law enforcement in its last analysis
is moral issue and must be faced as
SUCH"
Mrs. Pinchot called attention to the
fact that her husband has gone twice
before the people in the primary and
in the general election with law en-
forcement as his cardinal issue and
has won, and that he has put his en-
forcement law through the legislature
despite the opposition of the various
wet clements.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-05-18

changed. 1t one OF tho "sittng-in
sessions | attended last week a man
called attention to tho prosperity OF
the country at the present time, and
accounted for its coming so soon after
a financial crisis by the fact OF prohi-
bition. He remarked on the amount
of building going on in the country,
the number of new automobiles sold,
and the good prices which second
hand cars brought He was OF the
opinion that the money that formerly
went into the liquor business now goes
into homes and cars.
He told OF one of the wettest cities
in the country, where all the build
ings formerly occupied by saloons arc
now rented for legitimate enterprises,
and more are being erected.
The vets who were taking part in
the conversation practically admitted
that it is getting more and more diff
cult to purchase liquor and that the
man who drinks what he does pur-
chase these days takes his life in his
hands. The old spirit of contempt for
Volstcad has disappeared Evidently
enforcement is getting into action.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-05-18
WILL PATROL THE BORDER
TO WATCH BOOTLEGGERS

Herbert Kindred of Temple, Texas.
has been appointed flying deputy
sheriff of the county by Sheriff Albert
Bonds. 1t will be Deputy Kindred's
duty to patrol the rural districts by
arplanc 10 prevent rum running air
planes from Mexico from landing. It
is said the aerial bootleggers and
smugglcrs have been making practice
of landing in the county to take on
gasoline before continuing their
voyage north.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-05-18
FEW ACCIDENTS THESE
DAYS

In an interview in the New
York Tribune of Sunday, April
%, John H. Bennington, secre-
tary of the Brooklyn Transit
Company, says:
We rarely have fatal acct
dent any more. The automobiles
do all the killing these days.
Though l am not a prohibition
list, l am free to say that I think
prohibition has greatly improv-
ed the morale of the men. Ten
years ago railroad man with
SIS in his clothes on Saturday
night would roll into the friend
ly corner saloon and fill his skin
with beer. He would be groggy
for a day or SO afterward, and
not at his best.
Drunkenness has disappeared.
The bootlegger gets very little
of the railroad mans money
these days. Everything runs
more smoothly on account of
the general sobriety. I don't
mean to say that all of the men
abstain, for that would be say
ing that a railroad man is diff
ferent from other manual labor
ers. | merely mean that drunk
cnness is no longer an economic
problem, as it used to be.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-05-18
WOULD CUT PROHIBITION

From Warsaw. Poland, comes an
Associated Press dispatch which says
that the finance minister is contem
plating the withdrawal Of all regula
tons ordering partial prohibition on
alcoholic drinks, such as prohibition of
permission to sell or consume liquors
on the eve of holidays or ON holidays
and on Saturdays and Sundays. The
finance minister says that tho measures
arc causing a deficit and that their real
effect is null
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-05-18
BEERS DOWN ONE PENNY;
PUBLIC HOUSES CROWDED

The British liquor dealers hav can
nounced the reduction of penny a
pint in the price of beer made possible
by the announcement of the Chan
cellor Of the Exchequer removing
part of the beer tax. The immediate
result of the announcement was to
crowd all the public houses
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-05-18
HARDING IS RIGHT

Thomas Van Buskirk, known as tho
king of Sault Ste. Marie bootleggers
and alleged operator of big gambling
house, sawed his way through the
bars of the county Jail at Sault Ste.
Marie and made his escape. He was
awaiting trial, having failed to furnish
bond. He is believed to have crossed
the border into Canada.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-05-18
APRIL IN OHIO

Prohibition enforcement officers
who arc too handy with their fire.
arms will not be tolerated by Conn
missioner Haynes. Because of shots
fred at an automobile carrying two
Y. w. c. A. workers in South Caro-
lima recently Commissioner Haynes
has suspended two prohibition agents
including the acting state director.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-05-18
WARNING

The management respectfully requests cooperation while
you guest violation of the
NATIONAL PROHIBITION ACT enforce the EIGHTEENTH
AMENDMENT to the Constitution
The penalties for the violation of this being
OF $500 TO ST 900 OR IMPRISONMENT FOR THIRTY
DAYS TO ONE YEAR, OR BOTH.
The law further provides that the PREMISES WHERE THE
LAW IS VIOLATED be abated nuisance and CLOSED
for period Of ONE YEAR.
to this mperled, and there
fore ask your kind cooperation
All employees specifically instructed with regard
the law have the
cooperate both and Federal enforcement
officers prevent liquor violations these premises
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-05-18
HOTELS ISSUE WARNING

of hotels throughout find notices
placed by the asking these
OF the
this because those
permit liable locked
a
the hotels similar under the the
cling public in nunbe o tn
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-05-18
VETS new YORK VICTORY
INSPIRES ATTACK IN OHIO
Enemies of Law Enforcement
Announce Immediate Launch
ing of New Drive in Ohio
DEFEATED LAST FALL
Declare Issue Was Clouded and
10000, Is Not True Expression
of Public Sentiment

Jubilant and hopeful over their sue
cess in the New York Legislature in
their fight against law enforcement, the
booze interests are now planning a cam
paign to recapture Ohio, according TO a
Washington dispatch of May 8 in the
Cincinnati Enquirer.
A little thing like defeat at the polls
by $4,000 majority last fall in the
Buckeye state does not dampen their
ardor, They refuse to accept as final
this majority of $4,000 mos" to their
request to reopen the breweries and sa-
looms in Ohio, and explain the verdict
in way by SAYING that other issues en-
tered into the campaign last fall which
prevented the recording of the true senti-
ment of the people of the state on the
beer and wine question.
They are particularly anxious to re-
capture Ohio because it is the head.quar-
tiers OF the Anti-Saloon League of Amer
lea and the World League Against Al
coholism. 1t is great industrial state
and was formerly a wet strong hold.
They believe if they can win victory
in Ohio, it will break the morale OF the
dry organizations throughout the com-
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-05-18
Association Against Prohibition
Amendment to Lead Fight

The fight is to be conducted under the
leadership of the Association Against
the Prohibition Amendment. c. G. Hinck-
ley, National Secretary of this wet or
ganization, announces that headquarters
are to be opened at once in the state,
probably in Columbus, and that a large
force of organizers and speakers will be
concentrated in the state preparatory
to grand offensive.
The immediate objective, according to
Mr.. Hinckley, will be to recruit in the
state, an army of volunteers numbering
at least half million pledged to the
Brewers cause. He says there are now
about $4,000 members of the Association
in Ohio and expresses the hope that $780,,
900 will be enlisted before the drive is
over He also declares that in this cam
paign, particular attention will be paid
to the laboring man. He says, that the
rank and file of labor are strong for the
brewer.
All of this is interesting revealing as
it does the wonderful staying qualities
of the outlawed booze interests. 1t pre-
sents an object lesson to those drys who
have argued and believed that the fight
against the liquor traffic is over because
the prohibition policy is written into the
Constitution. If majority vote of
10000 against the beer and wine pro-
posal does not convince the brewers that
they are not wanted, it is evident that
the struggle will have to be continued
for some time to come
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-05-18
WHAT THE CURRENT MAGAZINES ARE SAYING ABOUT
PROHIBITION AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
(Rcvewed by Emma L. Transeau)

(Rcviewed by Emma L. Transcan)
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1923-12-29
Un Baurizo

Ell Dia de Pascuas recibio las aguas
bautismales en- la Santa Iglesia Cato
lica de Bayamon la monfsma nina Ma
ria Mercedes que hace tres meses ale
gra ell hogar de los jovenes esposos
Jose Eugenio Geigel y Mercedes We
la, quienes eligieron para compadres
sus hermanos, Don Raoul G.. Gel
gel y a la encantadora seforita Mary
Vela.
Aunque los esposos Geigel-Vela tie
nen su residencia fila en- San Juan,
la celebration del bautizo efectuose
en- casa de su padre, Don Ricardo We
la, en- Bayamon, donde Sc encontraban
de temporada, y ell acto resulto muy
lucido por todos conceptos. Los con-
currentes fueron splendidamente OBJ
sequiados y ademas, los padrinos 81
guiendo la inveterada tradicion repair
tieron artisticas galas y una elegan-
tie tarjeta en- recuerdo del bautizo.
La musica tipica contribuyo la
mayor animation de la simpatica fies-
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1923-12-29
AvisO de COrreOs

Ell MARTES, ENERO 1, 1924, Ola
DE ANO NUEVO, pOr ser de fiesta le-
gal la Administrator de Correos de
San Juan sus Estaciones observaran
las siguientes horas de servicio:
Los carteros haran una distribution
por In maflana Y una recogida general
por la tarde.
Las ventanas de certiticados, paque-
tes entrega general Sc abriran de
10 a. m., u p. m.
Los sellos Sc venderan por Ia ven
tana de paquetes.
La correspondence de los apartados
Y la que va para la isla sera aten-
dida como de costumbre.
Fernando HOntitld,
Acting Postmaster.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1923-12-29
DOMINGO

Teatro-C Cine Tres Banderas.
EN- la matinee: "La'Virgen de STAN
boul", en- 7 actos, por Priscilla Dean
y una c6mica. Por la noche: LA her
mana Payasita", en- Z actos, por Me
ry Miles Minter y una c6mica.
Teatro Rialto.
En- la matinal: "Alrededor del Mum
do en- IS dias". Por la noche: "Te
Cargado".
Cine Popular.
"La Esposa Abandonada" y una Co
media por Lucas.
Teatro Beliograph, (Cataho).
"iKiss Me!", en- parties. IL estre-
Has. Matinee las 2.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1923-12-29
INFORME BANCARIO

Diciembre 28, 1928.
Informe concise recibido por cable
del National City Bank, Nueva York,
relative a la situacion actual de los
negocios en- los Estados Unidos.
Dinero a la vista: por ciento.
Acciones: Mercado active pero en-
descenso. Precio promedio de accio-
mes de veinte companies industriales,
1851. Precio promedio de acciones
de veinte companies ferroviarias,
8012. La semana pasada: 1888 y
1914 respectivamente.
Az1car: SIG; futuros para mayo,
4.70.
Algodon: Mercado cerr6 frme aver.
Futuros para enero 35.70.
Arroz: Mercado animado con ten
dencia a alza.
Negocios en- general: Contindan
buenos.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1923-12-29
BALE DE CAPA

Para un gran bale de capa que Sc
.elebrard Ell los salones del centro So
.ial Casino de Humacao" en- la no
.he de maiiana domingo, las nueve,
aemos recibido atenta invitaci6n de
III grupo de caballeros, quienes acep-
taron gustosos la distinction con que
les honraran las bellas damas que pu
sieron sobre su solapa In campana dc
Ia algeria.
Agradecidos por Ia fina cortesfa.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1923-12-29

ia Y sus acordes notas la juventud
bulliciosa rindio culto Terpsicore.
Larga vida, LENA de ensuenos ale
grias, deseamos la temprana flor,
cuyo perfume es ell balsamo de vida
de sus dichosos papas.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1923-12-29
sE CREYO QUE ERA AsPINA

FL dfa 2G, las p. M. Ell su resi-
dencia en- barriO POrtugueZ, No. 1S4,
en- Puerta dc TERRA, Eulogio DOnes,
accidentalmente Sc intoxic6 ingeriGn-
dose una pastilla de suhlimadO CO.
rrosvo, siendo asistido MIA sala de
socorros, pasando al hospital munich
pal. Dones tom0 sublimadO en- In
creencia que era Aspirina.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1923-12-29
LOS SRES. DE MEsTRE

De Estados Jmidos ha regrcsado
esta manana en- el vapor san Juan
On compa1fa De su bella esposa. doia
ISabelita Blanes, nucstro estimado AMI
20 q Lcdo. Salvador Nestrc, elemen-
tGs que disfrutan en- nuestros circulos
socialcs de mtltiples afcctos.
Ell IMPARCIAL, saluda muy cor
dialmcnte a tam distigudos viajeroS.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1923-12-29
DENEGADAs LAS soLIcITUDEs

FL GObernador ha denegadO las so
vor, de Hos vOnfmados Zoilo Torres, F6-
Iix Santiago Rodriguez. Pascual Mar
tfneZ. Francisco Guzman. Jose Mora
les. Andres Ferrer EvaristO San
chez Matos la de libertad bajo pala-
bra en- favor de Manuela de Jesus To-
ledo. las de restitution de derechos
civiles polfticos en- favor de Asripfn
LugO y Rafael Barbosa.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1923-12-29
MODESTO MILAN

Con motive de In gravcdad que aquc-
ia al detective InovenciO DIaZ, su com
pailero de la ciudad de Ponce. Modesto
Milan. 'ha llegadn esta manana a San
Juan. con 81 flu de paSar algunoS mo
mcntOS junto Ill lech0 del cnferno, por
cuyo restahlccimicnlo nos ihtereSamos
vivamcntc.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1923-12-29
SPECTACULOS
Teatro-Cine Tres Banderas.

Teatro-Cine Tres Banderas.
LA Novia del Desierto", por Juar
Centeilas, en- 6 actos y una c6mica.
Teatro Rialto.
Tarde y noche:a 'Naufragio de AL
mas, por Milton sills, Anna Nilsson.
Cine Popular.
"Papyrus VS.. Zev".
Teatro Beliogfaph, (Catano).
Los episodios l5iy 16 de la monu-
mental serie por William Duncan y
ell Chivato "Rompiendo Barreras" y
una jocosa comedia.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1923-12-29
Ell VAPOR "REINA MARIA
CRISTINA"

Segun cable recibido por la casa de
los senores Sobrinos de Ezquiaga, ell
magnifico vapor "Reina Maria Girls
tina" sali6 aver de Cadiz Y llegara a
San Juan el del proximo enero.
Trae carga, correo Y pasajeros. De
este puerto seguira viaje a Nueva
York. 8
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1923-12-29
DON SANTIAGO LLovERAs

q Esta va convaleciente el sefior San
tiago Lloveras, quien estuvo bastante
delicado, en- su residencia de Santur-
ce. Ell es padre de nuestro buen ami
go el senior Ramon Lloveras.
Deseamos ell restablceimiento COM
pleto de don Santiago.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1923-12-29
DEREcHos c1vILEs Y roL1TIcos

FL Gobernador ha rehabilitado ell
sus derechos civiles Y pOlfticOs a los
seflores Juan veldzquez, Jose Garcia
Padilla. Francisco B. Roman, Isidoro
Rodriguez Torres Aguedo Rivera.