Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-09-20
0n NE of the most tragic epochs in
" American history relative to

0n NE of the most tragic epochs in
" American history relative to
law enforcement is what Attorney
General Daugherty calls the Al months
that have elapsed since the enactment
of the Volstead act, in a report sub
mitted to President Coolidge concern
ing the work of the federal judiciary
in enforcing prohibition. An official
synopsis says the report reveals,
among other things, that the Depart
ment of Justice has been called upon
to prosecute a member of the judiciary,
prominent members of the American
bar, high officials of the federal and
state government, milliOnaires, scions
of the nations aristocracy-a sordid
story of assassination, bribery and cor
ruption that found it's way into the
very sanctums wherein the inviolabil-
ity of the law was presumed to have
been held sacred"
Part of the general lack of respect
for the dry law may well be laid to
the pettiness of many of the enforce
ment officers. For instance: Last
week the British yacht Frontiersman,
commanded by Roger Pocock and
manned by members of the Adventur-
ers' cluI of London, entered San Pedro
harbor California, in the course of her
trip to find a round-the-world path for
British aviators. Federal officers
promptly raided the little vessel and
seized it's private store of liquors and
attached the boat. That sort of thing
only disgusts those who know the
prevalence of bootlegging and moon
shining by our own citizens.
A NTHRACITE operators and min
A ers settled all their differences
and signed a two-year agreement, and
mining is about to be resumed. The
pact gives the men 10 per cent wage
increase, the eight-hour day, collective
bargaining and revision of wage rates
and schedules. The workers gave up
the check-off system of collecting
union dues. AS usual the public will
pay for this, as anthracite coal will
be advanced Is cents or 81 ton. That
is, unless Governor Pinchot's plans to
avert this are successful He believes
the interstate commerce commission
should consider new anthracite
freight rate to help absorb the wage
increase, and wants the federal coal
commission to make public its findings
on profits and costs of mine operations
and in wholesale and retail distribu-
ton. He suggests the other governors
join him in seeking methods to pre-
vent the higher prices President
Coolidge has let it be known that he
and the federal agencies will do all
they can in this line, and when con-
gress assemblies the President will rec
ommend such legislation as the coal
commission sponsors.
N NE Of the most serious disasters
- that ever befell the American
navy was the wrecking of seven de-
stroyers off Arguello light, 70 miles
north of Santa Barbara, Cal. The YES
sells were travelling south in formation,
at 20 knots, in a heavy sea and dense
fog. They crashed on the rocks, and
were a total loss. TWenty-three mem
bers of their crews lost their lives.
The destroyers were of the latest
models and cost, when put into serv-
ice few years ago, 100000 apiece.
THE eclipse of the sun was dismal
failure, so far as the scientists
were concerned. It came off accord
ing to schedule, as eclipses have
habit of doing, but the phenomenon
was so obscured by clouds that all the
photogra shs taken in the path of total
ity, at the southwest corner of the
United States and in Mexico, are prac-
tically useless.