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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-19
WASHINGTON ANNOUNCES
PROGRAM FOR PKILA. VETS
Philadelphia Vets, Needless of
Pinchot, to be Prosecuted In
Civil and Criminal Courts
STATE-NATIONAL LAW IS
INVOKED
Mrs. Willebrandt, Asst Atty
Gen'l, Will Apply Paddock
Serum to Phila. Joints

According to a Washington dis
patch of October 5, Department of
Justice officials announce that crimi-
nal prosecution as we'll as civil pro-
ceedings will be brought against the
proprietors of Philadelphia's 1900 sa-
looms which have been violating the
law and have refused to heed Gov
ernor Pinchots warning to close.
Charges of violation OF the Volstead
act and also of the Pennsylvania pro-
hibition law are planned in a consid-
cradle number of cases against sa-
loonkeepers and bartenders against
whom evidence of illegal liquor selling
has been obtained.
Criminal action, it is said, would be
feature distinct from the paddock"
civil suits to close the barrooms and
public nusances. Mrs. Mabel w.
Willebrandt, an assistant United
States Attorney General, will be
placed in charge of the campaign to
paddock the doors of these Philadei-
phia joints. Mrs. Willebrandt will
assume supervision over the injunc-
ton proceedings.
According to the Philadelphia North
American of October the evidence
against these law-defying saloons was
gathered by federal agents and state
police under the supervision of Will
liam J. Burns, chief of the bureau of
investigation of the United States De-
partment of Justice. Mr.. Burns said
that he was requested to send federal
men to the city to work with members
of the state constabulary in gathering
evidence against the saloon men.
This was to pave the way for Gov
ernor Pinchot's crusade against the
saloons.
The notices to close saloons were
served upon the proprietors last week
by so federal agents and the same
number of state troopers in uniform.
The majority of the liquor sellers
treated the notices with contempt and
continued to keep their places open
upon advice of their counsel, Francis
J. Manley. Immediately after the no.
tees were served, under the direction
of Major William A. Wright, personal
representative of Governor Pinchot,
the servers began checking up on the
saloons that obeyed the notice and
those that continued to defy the law
and the warning of the chief executive
of the commonwealth. The check-up
was completed October 8.
The next step will be to swear out
warrants against the defiant saloon
men, bring them into court and seek
to convict them of violating the liquor
laws on the evidence obtained by Mr..
Burns men. 1t will be asked that the
paddock law" be enforced against
them. This means that injunctions
will be granted against the saloons
closing them for one year. 1t means
that places thus closed can not be
opened for the conducting of any kind
of business whatsoever.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-19
PINCHOT CHAIRMAN OF
CITIZENSHIP CONFERENCE

Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania
has accepted the honorary chairman
ship of the Citizenship Conference to
. be held in Washington on October IS,
says Washington dispatch of Octo-
Der S. The conference is called in sup
port of the Eighteenth Amendment
and the Volstead act. Governor Sweet
of Colorado and Governor Trinkle of
Virginia will be vice-chairmen. The
meeting was suggested by two sec
tons of the Federal Council of
Churches and will be presided over by
Carl E. Milliken, former Governor OF
Maine. The call for the gathering was
signed by 756 persons from all walks
of life.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-19
RUM RUNNER GETS
HEAVY SENTENCE

One of the heaviest liquor
fines ever assessed in Ohio was
handed Fort Wayne rum run
ner named Demos, by Federal
Judge Killits of Toledo. Demos
maintained booze route be-
tween Monroe, Mich, and Fort
Wayne. The court sentence was
three years and nine months in
the Atlanta penitentiary and a
fine of $13,500. Who says the
government isn't getting the
big fellows in its war on the
booze criminalsl
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-19
SUFFICIENCY OF PROBABLE
CAUSE TO AUTH RIZE
SEARCH WARRANT - EVIL
DENCE BY SMELLING

The Supreme Court of Michigan in
People v. Flaczinski, in a decision
handed down July 10, 1923, decided a
most interesting case, involving rather
unusual circumstances:
Defendant was convicted of a vio-
lation OF the liquor law. Marsh, police
officer, testified that on January ID,
IS, and 10 and while standing in the
highway he smelled the odor of moon
shine whisky on defendants premises.
On the 10th he went to the door of the
defendants house and knocked and nc
one answering he left without making
any search or disturbance. On the 18th
he made an affidavit for search war
rant stating, he was at said premises
and was near to said buildings and
then and there he could smell the odor
of mash and moonshine whisky COM
ing from said building :" Defend
ants counsel claimed that the warrant
was illegal because the evidence and
information upon which the affidavit
for the warrant was based was OBJ
tanned by unlawful trespassing on de-
PENDANTS premises. The court held
that the affidavit did not give rise to
the inference that he was trespasser /;
that the odor of moonshine from de-
PENDANTS premises was detected while
he was on the highway and that such
odor of liquor furnished sufficient
probable cause to authorize the issu-
ance of a search warrant and to justify
an officer, under the circumstances, in
the belief that felony was being COM
mitted, citing 221 Mich, 657; 268 Fed,
408; 284 Fed, 1902"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-19
(The Saturday Evening Post, Octo-
Der E, 1929
WHAT, HO! THE DEMOCRATSl
By Samuel G. Blythe

By Samuel G. Blythe
If Mr.. Blythe is a correct political
diagnostician, the next few months
offer an unprecedented incentive to
active organization, by both vets and
drys. The objective is the next Dem
ocratic presidential candidate. A dry
Republican candidate is, in Mr.
Blythe's opinion, assured. President
Harding settled that But the Demo
Gratis are at sea. The principal trou-
Bile facing their candidates is booze
Not as personal tribute. No, in
deed: +'e ~ zfi
All are temperate men. Their booze
trouble is political trouble, and it all
consists in obtaining the correct an
swer to the question: Is this country
basically and as a voting entity, wet
or dry? Either they must trail
with the Republicans and demand the
enforcement of the law, which in effect
is the endorsement of prohibition, or
they must cut loose, either partially or
wholly. They must straddle along the
epicene lines of light wines and beer,
with a ringing disavowal of the iniqui-
tous saloon and statement that it
shall never return, or they must say
in stilted platform language: I'VE
favor giving the boys their likker."
which, That is the monster
that stalks the Democratic politicians
and candidates increasingly. That is
what startles them from their sleep
and causes them to walk sidewise in
their waking hours. That is the prob
lem to which there is no solution, the
mystery that has no fathoming, the
precipice over which they must all
jump, not knowing whether there is a
feather bed or barbed wire entan-
clement at the bottom.
They go into the great cities {. i.
and they are convinced there is de-
mand for the liberalizing of the law.
They travel up and down the eastern
or western seaboards, and they feel
secure in demanding platform along
lines of repeal or greater privilege
But they go into the country;
they travel over the great agrarian
stretches; they consider the fact that
the women vote IN the United States
and they pause. They know that the
country vote still exceeds the city vote.
And there are the women, the women.
And the great force of the religious
clement.
And SO on, paragraph after para
graph, showing that however much
the politicians may seek to bring for
ward other issues to overshadow this
one, prohibition is and will be the most
vital of them all. Sitting astride the
neck of every one of them (the plat
form makers) will be that horrendous
liquor demon demanding incessantly,
"What are you going to do about me?'
Here is where organization will tell
and the ownership of the country
press.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-19
IMPORTANT COURT DECISIONS
Edited by Boyd P. Doty
Attorney World League Against Alcoholism

defendant was charged with keeping
a place where Intoxicating liquors
were sold, conviction thereon should
be sustained upon proof at the trial of
a single sale at defendants dwelling
house and further showing that by
virtue of a warrant officers found and
seized liquor in said house on the same
day. The court, however, held that
proof of single sale was sufficient to
sustain the charge in the information.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-19
fSECOND ROUND Of LOCAL
VETO VOTES ON IN SCOTIA
Wine and Spirit Gazette, London
Booze Organ, Admits Worsted
in 1920 Vote
$50 PUBS" VOTED OUT
A La American Vets, Britishers
Attack Prohibition Results
in Local Courts

Harper's Wine and Spirit Gazette,
q London, England, liquor trade jour
nal, in the issue of September % dis
cusses the impending local option
campaigns in Scotland. This liquor
trade journal says:
at is three years since under the
so-called Scottish temperance act the
first poll of the electors was taken,
and as most of Our readers remember,
the result of the 1920 plebiscite was
not exactly pleasing to either the wet
or the dry party, and in view of the
determination of both sections to
make on the next occasion a more
strenuous fight for finality, we think
it will be interesting to give the fig
ures as a guide to our trade friends in
the north.
"Under the act there are 1,214
areas, 301 being rural parishes, in sc
of which there were in 1920 already
no licenses existing, due chiefly to re-
strictive covenants laid down by land
owners. Polls took place in 562 urban
and rural areas and they resulted in
prohibition being imposed in AZ and
limitation in IS, the remainder mo
change" The outcome of the cleo
ton was that about 450 licenses be-
came liable to extinction, but actions
upon legal points in the Scottish
courts reduced this number consider
ably. In Glasgow, for instance, four
, wards went mo license" out of a to-
tai of 81 wards, but legal victories re-
duced the spoil to couple of Ii
cences." Editors note:-This is remi-
niscent of tactics of the liquor inter-
ests in this country in the days of Ii
cense. Every local option victory for
the drys generally meant long fight
in the courts to clinch that victory;
and even now court actions are con-
tinually being brought attacking the
validity of the Eighteenth Amend
ment and the Volstead act, notwith-
StdnulllB Tic oupl SiilC Soull ido w
clared both CONSTITUTIONAL
"a glance at the Scottish newspa-
pers and our own information indicate
that the supporters of the liquor trade
instead of acting merely upon the de-
fensive as upon the last trial OF
strength, are wisely carrying the war
into the enemies lines and endeavor-
ing in many areas to regain the lost
J licenses. The trade itself we believe
is now better organized and possesses
many scores of able speakers. This is
necessary in face of the fact that the
prohibitionists are Boosting of four
hundred orators and intend to have
professions and sermons in hundreds
of places of worship
1.-THE first poll will be at Falkirk on
November S, and Dundee has fixed
the oath of that month. But in the
majority OF the towns the elections
will be held from December l to "a.
The country districts will not poll
until 1925 when the county council
elections are held"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-19
KEEPING A PLACE-PROOF OF
A SINGLE SALE SUFFICIENT

"A oANahG SaL1 oOrr lSlGIN
In People v. Fons, the Michigan SUI
preme Court, in a decision filed July
10, 1923, held that
Proof of single sale of liquor is
sufficient to support the charge of
keeping a place where intoxicating
liquors are possessed, sold or fur
nished, ETC."
Section IS of Act 1888, as amended,
provides that
"'the keeping or having in any place
except a private dwelling occupied az
such of any Intoxicating liquors for
the purpose of selling, giving away or
furnishing to those frequenting such
places, or others, shall be held to be
keeping of a place where Intoxicating
liquors are sold, furnished or given
away"
The court held that the sale to one,
Hyde, of part of stock of liquor
shows that the defendant kept it in the
place in question for the purpose which
the statute declares unlawful and that
a single sale shows both the keeping
or having and the purpose for which
it is kept.
The same conclusion was reached by
the same court. in People w. Wood
house, in a decision handed down on
July 19, 1923.
In People v. Arendsma, the Supreme
Court of Michigan in decision handed
down July 9, 1923, held that where the
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-19

flights with two brothers, boarder,
wife and four children would prob
ably resent any attempt of the health
authorities to enforce regulations in
regard to air space as angrily as he re-
sents interference with his home made
wine trade.
Is the remedy to set the clock of civ
ilization back to their standards or to
undermine their illegal operations by
fastening the extension of convinced,
intelligent total abstinencef
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-19
(The Forum, September, 1929
THE THREE-MILE LIMIT
By Edward Samuel Corwin

An inquiry into the rights and in.
terests of the controversy. The Presi-
dent has no choice but to enforce the
law. Congress alone can relax the law
and its freedom of action in this re-
spect is decidedly limited under the
Eighteenth Amendment.
But opinions held by England and
the United States about the three-mile
limit have played see-saw in the past:
"The doctrine that a three-mile
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-19
A LEGISLATURE OF INDIA
ASKS DRY LAW FOR AMRILI

The Baroda Assembly, says a spe-
cial Bombay cable in the Christian
Science Monitor of October 6, passed
a resolution recommending the total
prohibition of liquor in the Amrili
district. This is stated to be the first
instance in India of a legislature
adopting such a motion.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-19
EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT AS
IT STANDS TODAY
By w. r. BOYD

Written from viewpoint which the
editor says in a PREDATORY note is diff
ferent from that of people in Connect
icut, New York, New Jersey, and east
ern Pennsylvania, but will be found
overwhelmingly prevalent "all the way
from the Alleghanies to the Rocky
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-19
PROHIBITION EFFECTIVE
IN CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT.

Enforcement of the prohibition law
began October in Constantinople, the
bars and liquor stores of the city being
sealed on orders from Angora. The
date of going into effect of the en-
forcement of the prohibition law had
been deferred for one month on orders
pf the government.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-19
ACCESSIBILITY OF EVIDENCE
OBTAINED WITHOUT SEARCH
WARRANT

The Michigan Supreme Court in a
decision filed July 70, 1923, in People
v. Dressler, held that liquor seized
without a search warrant was admis-
sible in evidence on the charge of un-
lawfully transporting and possessing
Intoxicating liquors. The particular
facts of this case must be considered
in connection with the courts decision.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-19
HE'S Seen LIGHT; NOW
He IS FOR PROHIBITION
Baird, Formerly Wet, Declares
Party in New Jersey is Dry;
Wet Plank Impossible
THUS GETS EDGE ON EDGE
Former Senator Explains Why
He Cast the Deciding Vote in
Republican State Convention

Wet Republican party leaders Of
New Jersey on September Il met and
decided upon wet plank which was
to be inserted in the party's platform
at the convention to be held October 2.
1t is interesting to note that no women
members of the party were included
in this conference.
When it became known that these
leaders were intent upon delivering the
party to the brewers a protest went
up from the rank and file and also
from some outstanding leaders, in
Guiding ex-senator Frelinghuysen.
The result was that when the conven-
ton convened in Trenton on October
2, in spite of precedent, the state chair
man, Ex-Governor Stokes, ardent and
persistent champion of beer, was de-
posed as temporary chairman of the
meeting and was replaced by staunch
dry This prevented the appointment
of a resolutions committee that had
been previously committed to the beer
plank. Consequently the Republican
party of New Jersey did not write a
beer plank into their platform. In
stead the party is committed to law
enforcement.
Much credit is given to the women
for saving the party from the disgrace
of lining up with the outlawed
brewers.
Casts Deciding Vote
1t now develops according to news
story in the Philadelphia North Amer
lean of October that David Baird
former United States Senator and Re-
publican organization leader in the
state, cast the deciding vote in the
Republican state convention which
committed the party to dry plat
form. This is especially interesting in
view of the fact that Mr.. Baird was
for time member of the Camden
Prohibition League, in fact, was
one of the organizers. He is quoted
as saying:
/ resigned from the Anti-Prohi-
bition League last June, so that
is the best answer to those who
say l favored dry plank in the
platform at the state convention
as a means of gaining the upper
hand of Senator Edge. You can't
carry water on both shoulders.
No one knows it any better than
some of the Republicans who have
tried to straddle this prohibition
issue.
The Republican party in New
Jersey is dry. It is true that last
November a wet governor and
a wet United States Senator were
elected but there were reasons
for this outside of the question
of prohibition. An overwhelming
dry legislature was elected and
the state prohibition law remains
on the books.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-10-19

The American Review of Reviews,
October, 1929
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-04-10
CUTHBERT READY TO
ENTERTAIN VISITORS

CUTHBERT, April 10. - The
Third District High School Meet will
be held in Cuthbert April IL, 10 and
IA, and will be the occasion of
large gathering from various parts
Of the Third District. Four hum
bred delegates are expected to be
present. The second, day, Friday,
will be the big day All the white
schools of Randolph county will be
given a holiday A basket dinner
will be served. The Cuthbert High
School will have contestants in every
event. They are as follows: Dec
lamation, Edward Branch; Recita-
ton, Elizabeth King; Boys Essay,
Paul Grail; Girls Essay, Armenia
Spence; Piano, Catherine Virgins.
The whole three days promise to be
brimful of fun and frolic. The visi-
tors will be entertained in Cuthbert
homes.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-04-10
NEW NEW HUPM0BILES
REAL BEAUTIES.
Carload of New Models Receiv-
ed Today Attract Attention
Among Americas Motorists

A carload of new model Hupmo-
biles, some sports in the consignment
were unloaded today by the Hodges
Motor company and attracted at
tention among motorists who saw
them. The Rup is being introduced
in Americas by the Hodges concern,
and owners are all pleased with
them, Hodges says. The new mod
els received today are equipped with
every modern convenience, includ-
ing some features heretofore en-
bodied in only the highest priced
cars. You can never get 40 miles
from a gas station" Hodges says,
with a Hup." The reason is a new
reserve tank which puts 2 gallons of
gas at the drivers command after
the main tank is exhausted. There
are other attractive features as well.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-04-10
ANERICUS TEAMS
TO ATTEND MEET
Full Delegation of Students Ex-
pected to Accompany Con-
testants to Cuthbert
Thursday
By JOHN WEST SHEFFIELD

Thursday night at 7 80 the Third
District High School meet will begin
at Cutbbert. This is an annual event,
which is staged to keep up the spirit
throughout the various district in
Georgia. Every school at some time
or other has the meet in their town.
Our school, Americas High, is the
largest and most prominent in this
district and for this reason, if no
other, we expect great things of it.
For the last month and especially for
the last two weeks our representa-
tives have been doing some hard
work.
We have already staged the pre-
liminary contests both in the athletic
and other events, and the ones that
have won out are sure to do credit
to the cold Home Town"
Students chosen to represent A. H.
S. in various literary events are as
follows:
Declamation-Lionel Stukes.
MISUNDERSTANDING Harris.
Boys Essay. T. Atkins.
Girls Essay-Catherine Goodman.
Music-Ann Heys.
Debate-Albert Cutler and Elinos
Ross.
Rome ACCOMPLISHMENTS Da-
Wis.
A. H. S. will be represented in the
Athletic events by the following stu
dents:
Broad jump-Theo Barton.
Shot put-Robert Bell.
Pole vault-Robert Buchanan.
Hurdle-Gilbert Purvis.
440-yard dash-Robert Bell.
100-yard dash-Robert Hooks
Relay race-Theo Barton, Gilbert
Purvis, Robert Hooks and Robert
Buchanan.
All Of these representatives are
excellent in their line of work. They
have everyone worked hard and con-
tinuously For the last few years
Americas hasn't done so well in ath-
letics, but this year our track team
is under the direction of Mr.. Otto
johnson, who seems to know his stuff
and from the looks of things is go
ing to put out an excellent, winning
team
Cur school has always come out
pretty good n all of the other events.
Up until last year A. H. S. always
had exhibits at the meets, but year
after year, Americas came home with
tie pennant, 50 they decided to rule
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-04-10
BULLET is REMOVED

VALDOSTA, April 1O.-The bull.
let which was lodged in Miss Ora
Lee Gordon's spinal column when
she was accidentally shot several
months ago was removed this week
by an operation performed at the
hospital, Her condition was so seri-
GUS that the operation was regarded
as the last hope of saving her life
She appeared improved for a day or
so but it was reported today that
she IS not doing so we'll and her re-
covery is in doubt.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-04-10
REMOVE OLD LANDMARK

VALDOSTA, April 1O-The old
Peoples home on Troupe street,
occupied by the late Judge R. Pee
pies family when our present mayor
was growing up, is being torn down
to make room for more modern struc-
lures. In its day the old residence
was one of Valdosta's most preten-
tious, as well hospitable homes, but
like many Of the old relics of former
days of glory, it must get out of
the way and let more up-to-date
buildings take its place.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-04-10
FARMER STILL HOLDS
PURCHASING POWER

ATLANTA, April 1O.-Although
the prices of commodities other than
food that the farmers buy jumped
two points during the month of Feb
ruary, the prices Of crops went up
four points and those of live stock
advanced one point, leaving the pur-
chasing power Of the farmer one
point higher than in January, accord
ing to information received here
from the United States Department
Of Agriculture.
The average farm price Of ten
leading crops is now four points high
er than in January, it is stated, this
being the highest price level reach
ed since December, 1920, when the
prices were one point higher than at
present.
Higher prices for cotton, corn
wheat and oats are mainly response
Bile for this advance, it is stated.