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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-12-28
". B. WHEELER REPLIES TO
CONGRESSMAN J. P. HILL
Hill Admitted Making Wine in
Residence Cellar, it is
1T
Reported
GOV'RNM'NT CHALLENGED
The Leagues General Counsel
Answers Maryland Congress
man to Queens Taste

Congressman Hill of Baltimore has
been receiving much publicity because
of his challenge 20 the dry law en-
forcement department to prosecute him
for the manufacture of home made
wine.
Congressman Hill has always been
a bitter opponent OF. prohibition and
because of his record, the general
opinion prevails that the real motive
back of his activities has been prompt
ed by desire to bring back beer and
wine. He recently sent challenge
to Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel
of the Anti Saloon League, relative to
fruit juices and their status under pro-
hibition. The following is Mr.
Wheeler's reply, which throws much
light on this moot question of fruit
Juices and cider.
Reply to Letter From Hon. John
Philip Hill of Baltimore to Wayne
B. Wheeler on Fruit Juices
Under Prohibition
Washington, .. c., Nov. "a, %.
Honorable John Philip Hill, M. C.,
7l2 Keyscr Building,
Baltimore, Maryland.
Dear Mr.. Hill
Your letter suggesting amendments
to the Volstead act on fruit juices, and
your query as to the amount of alcohol
that makes liquor Intoxicating re-
ceived. 1t reminds me of the old say
ing, Beware of Greeks bearing gifts"
The friends of prohibition enforcement
never secured helpful law enforcement
suggestions from the enemies OF prohi-
bition. We are both concerned about
loopholes in the enforcement law. My
concern is to aid in their elimination in
order to bring about better enforce
ment. You seem to seek them in
order that by advertising, retaining
and charging them the enforcement
Of the law may be made more diff
cult.
The disingenuous character of your
suggestion is revealed in the statement
in your letter where you say concern
ing the Tightening up of this so-called
fruit juice loophole in the law, per
sonally, l shall vote against such a
measure" In other words, your eff
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-12-28
PLAYING WITH FIRE
fLos Angeles Times)


will Those who
other
Eighteenth
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whole will the the Cali
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citizen who violates provisions strikes
blowa constt government
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-12-28
LAW NOT SLIPPED OVER"
(Danyille Commercial-News)

population who asserting that the liquor
received the the people
the
much amendment the federal Constitution and
law The
members which the
has been left the books by
The well the
Washington would be that
another amendment repeating Eighteenth
deliberately made their choice and have continued
overwhelmingly dry majority at Washington
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-12-28
HOLIDAY BOOZE SUPPLY
CUT OFF

Dispatches from New York say that
the free flowing stream of rum destined
for New York City holiday market
has been checked, according to reports
by the revenue officials. Despite ideal
rum running weather federal men de-
clare that not one boatload OF contra
band has been able to run their sea
and shore blockade in many days.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-12-28
NEBRASKA JAILS EMPTY
A. S. L. REPORTS SHOW

Superintendent F. A. High of the
Anti Saloon League OF Nebraska re-
ports that according to survey OF
the county jails in Nebraska made
last spring, there were SO counties at
that time in the state that did not have
single prisoner. Reports were re-
ceived from 90 OF the % counties.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-12-28
Not Debatable Question

at is perfectly apparent to me that
the question of law enforcement is
not a debatable one. My opinion of
the Volstead act is immaterial.
have never allowed my administration
to become involved in a campaign
either for or against modification OF
the Volstead act Neither do | intend
to allow it. But as long as it is
part of the laws of the United States
| intend to enforce it with the same
vigor and impartiality that enforce
any and all other laws.
During the heat of the recent cam
paign against the so-called soft drink
parlors the representative of certain
great newspaper came to me asking
that urge the council to authorize
referendum on the question of law en-
forcement in Chicago, / refused to
do it. But | told the representative
that if such a measure were properly
introduced and passed by the council,
| would not veto it. And | also told
him that if such measure were put
on the ballot and the people of Chi
cago voted overwhelmingly against
law enforcement, would still enforce
the laws.
An Improper Demand
81 am a pretty good politician. !
keep my ear pretty close to the ground.
And have moderate pride. ] want
the people to think well OF my admin
istration. But there is one thing
that the people have no right to ask
and ] have no right to grant. They
have no right to ask that allow any
law | am sworn to uphold become a
dead letter through lack of enforce
ment."
Paying his respects TO the press and
other agencies which are undermining
respect for law, Mayor Dever said, 81
have more respect for the bootlegger
that goes out with his gun and shoots
you down because you interfere with
his business than | have for the
agency supposed to be working for
the civic good which does even
greater harm through the spread OF
anti-law propaganda"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-12-28
MAYOR DEVER DECLARES
DRY Law ENFORCEMENT
UNBEATABLE QUESTION
Denounces Papers That Encourage
Violations of the Law
Evanston News Index)

ut is surprising and painful fact,
but in SO simple a matter as enforcing
the laws of state and nation accord
ing to my oath of office | have met
with the opposition, not only OF or
ganized crime, but also OF those very
forces which claim to and should OPP
crate for civic welfare
This was the comment of Mayor
William (. Dever OF the city OF Chi
cago on the liquor war OF his admin
istration at the meeting of the Mems
Club OF the First Presbyterian church
in the Orrington Hotel last evening.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-12-28

he churches that 100 per of the among
their registered and voting elections else quit
Drawing Thy Kingdom Come Wayne B. Wheeler.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-12-28

Successful prohibition will be reality when the good people
supporting the people good attempting
while the aWDanyie CommercialNews.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-12-28
WORK FOR THE CHURCH

be expected take advanced positions
than those taken by the pulpit.-Roy A. Haynes.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-12-28

Misunderstanding, without obtain
ing permit or giving bond.
Fruit juice may not law
fully be used for beverage pur-
poses after becoming intoxicat-
ing.
(c) If intended for
immediate beverage use or if in
tended for home use only as vine
gar, such cider and fruit juices
need not be sterilized and sealed,
or otherwise preserved, but after
becoming Intoxicating such cider
or fruit juices should not be used
for beverage purposes.
, 1923-04-04
AN INFECTIOUS
GENEROSITY

The generous example of Amer
lea in returning n considerable part
of the Boxer indemnity fund to
China to be used for educational
purposes is infectious, the New York
Times points out. The British gov
ernment has, even in the midst of
meeting its ~stupendous debts incur
red during the war, decided to remit
to the Chinese what is still due on
account Of indemnity to Great Bri-
tain. The amount is estimated at
five times the sum which America
remitted-between two and three
millions a year for twenty-three
years, a total Of over s5o,o00,0 900.
According to a dispatch in the Phil
adelphia Public Ledger, the Japan
csc have now been infected by the
same generous purpose. At any
rate, a bill providing for the remit
lance of Japan's share has been in
troduced in the Diet and its passage
is VIRTUALLY assured" The con-
templated use to which the RENTED
fund is to be put is also educational.
, 1923-04-04
INTELLIGENCE TEST

Intelligence tests have long
proved many things; chief among
which Is that those who place too
much faith in them have little or
no intelligence. In the army they
proved of some value in determin-
ing the precise degree of moronism
attained by some of our ill-assimi-
lated citizens OF foreign extraction.
They served somewhat to show the
flexibility and quickness of the sub
jects' minds; but that was about all.
Questionaires such as Thomas A.
Edison is wont to make out nre
good principally as food for news
paper humorists and other "squir-
rels."
Now comes the great climax Of
research along the lines of intelli-
gence tests. According to the Har-
yard Alumni Bulletin, II has been
determined that all people are below
the average intelligence! The Har.
ward Alumni Bulletin is not. as ono
would think to examine this erudite
, 1923-04-04

Try Tribune Classified for Results.
, 1923-04-04
A FINE FOEMAN

There is not much Of the late war
that it is pleasant to remember,
save its outcome. The stories of
German atrocities and of ruthless,
INSCRIPTIONS German military lead
ers are getting less interesting than
they once we're. But there is a GER
tain pleasure in remembering the
daring feats of a fine-cut foeman
who must have been imbued with
the spirit which we like to charac-
terize as American sportsmanship-
for Captain Karl Won Muller died
recently in Germany.
The spectacular career of the
German cruiser Emden, under Won
Muller's command, will be easily
recalled to mind. For four months
she swept the South Seas, brilliantly
GLIDING n squadron of pursuing
British m~en-of-wnr. She sank mil
lions OF dollars worth of shipping,
but there is no record anywhere
that Won Muller ever took a single
life or acted in any but the most
humanitarian manner toward his
enemy. English papers continually
praised him as a generous foeman,
and 1t Is even recorded that he re-
FUSED to sink a British merchant
ship because the wife and children
OF her commander were on board.
c. E. Montague, a British jour
nalist who fought in the war, says
in his essay "Disenchantment" that
British aviators resented the sug-
g%estiou that German fliers deliber-
ately hit field hospitals when such
places were first bombed. Later,
of course, they were to learn diff
~ferently; but some such broad
minded feeling as that first British
defense of the German airmen must
have animated the relations between
Won Muller and the British seamen
who finally sank the Emden and
captured her commander and crew.
, 1923-04-04
DARK AGES AND
IMMO

King Tutankhamen's tomb con
tinues to debouch priceless relics,
which contribute much. to the erudi-
ton of scientists, Psychologists, an
thropologists, and others. They
prove to the layman that many of
the things which we prize as com
p~aratively modern thoughts of n
Christian era existed in an Egypt
that was old when the pyramids at
Luxor were young.
Immortality-the existence of a
life beyond the grave-is consid-
cred by many as a heritage of re-
cent centuries. Yet the indisput-
able evidence of King Tut's tomb is
that the Egyptians of thousands of
years ago believed in Immortality.
Not, of course, just as we do. But
the differences are largely super
ficial, considered in the steady light
of unfathomable time.
Voltaire once said that If there
were no God, it would behoove man
to create one In some such way,
perhaps, the ancients created an i'm
mortality.
The Moslem, centuries after the
Egyptian, believed in a life here
after. The American Indian, long
before Christianity was brought to
this country, cherished the thought
of a Happy Hunting Ground.
Who knows but in the dim, past
at a time when the ape-like owner
of the Piltdown Skull and the part
brute figure of the Neanderthal
Man roamed the unfinished world,
the first dawning consciousness of
instructive Immortality did not ami
mate the human animal in his pro-
gression toward a higher plane?
And who knows but what, CEN
turtles hence, some new race will
not open the crypts, or translate the
languages Of today, and smile toler-
antly back from a higher plane of
knowledge upon our beliefs and in
stitutions? But may it be, as we
look upon the Egyptians, with a
wonder and admiration at their
progress in such Ozark Ages"
, 1923-04-04

conclusion, the humorous publica-
ton of that institution of learning.
And the statement that all people
are below the average intelligence
is not, we take it, Intended to be
amusing. Which, naturally, makes
it screamingly funny.
If all people are below the aver
age In gray matter, whence was tie
average" he deductions must be
animation of the brain power Of the
people on Mars, or from some chem
ical formula discovered IN the labor
atory? Whatever the source of the
average" the deductions hust be
extremely painful to those sensi-
tive persons who have grown weary
of hearing 95 per cent of all loose
, 1923-04-04
ONE SOLUTION OF THE


The late unlamented German En-
pire had compulsory military train
ing. A few other countries have It
today, IN m form or another. But
st remained for Switzerland to in
Augurate compulsory training in
housewifery.
The f~ar-sighted Swiss, long OBJ
jects Of wonder in good government
and wise taxation, In going about
the business Of solving the servant
girl issue in the right way. Every
country Is experiencing difficulty
with domestic help. Even England,
once a land where good and effi-
Client servants were the rule rather
than the exception, Is now reporting
a shortage. This is all, of course,
m aftermath Of the war.
Swiss refomers have introduced
n bill making training of all girls in
h~ousewifery universal and compul-
sorry. This will become a law in
some cantons in the near future.
II u reformers were to enact such
n law, how much would 1t raise the
value Of the marriage state in the
eyes Of the poor and the man Of
moderate means?
With u American aptitude for
taking things easy and learning as
little as possible save about bust
ness, most Of US know very little
about the Swiss, and care less. All
We know is that Switzerland is the
habitat Of Swiss bellringers, Swiss
cheese, Swiss yodlers, and gentle
men who rush about equipped with
ice picks and climbing irons, engag-
ing in the pleasant task Of falling
off high, slippery mountains.
But they are worth watching
the Swiss.
, 1923-04-04
THE AUTOMOBILE AGAIN

Once more the automobile comes
to the fore In the solution Of the
worlds transport problems. Hav-
ing virtually driven the horse into
the museums and glue factories, 1t
now bids fair to do the same thing
for that picturesque ship OF the
desert" the camel.
The French expedition which re-
Gently crossed the Sahara in Citroen
automobiles equipped with tractor
wheels, proved the ever increasing
value of the motor car in moving
the world and its goods. The
French government bulletin says
that the motor caravan averaged
112 miles a day over the endless
waste of sand and mountains, carry
ing enough water and food for a
thousand miles at q stretch.
This tractor Is Of eco
nomic Importance; the more so be-
cause attempts to bridge the Sahara
with railroads have been several
times considered. only TO offer diff
eulties too great. What the rail-
road can not do at all, and the
camel can not do as well, the auto
mobile does with comparative ease.
Motor will bring the vast
interior Of the Sahara many weeks
nearer to civilization. They will
supply an opportunity for the
scholars who would invade these
solitary regions, and eventually en-
able the business man to tap them
to some extent.
, 1923-04-04

conversationalists declare that 90
per cent of all people are high
grade morons
But an unsupported virtue of
these tests is that the use of them
in Massachusetts, has exploded an
old and dangerous fallacy. More
than three thousand high school
students in that state were put to
the tests; the psychological ratings
of the boys examined were consist
emily higher than those of he girls.
So that if girls continue to be vale
dictorians or salutatorians, it is not
because of innate mental mental SUI
~periority, but because they take a
mean advantage rel the boys by
STUDYING.
, 1923-04-04
MURDER MYSTERY SOLUTION IS
HELD POSSIBLE AT cheyenne

CHEYENNE. Wyo.. April Con.
vicion late Monday OF Nose Reeder
OF burglary Of the home OF Leroy
Grant, March 2, 1922. may lead. It is
believed to clearing up the mystery
of the murder of Jesse Sitton. Union
Pacific Waterman. who was shot to
death near the scene of the burglary.
Reeder denied any knowledge OF the
homicide. 1t is believed. however.
that the two alleged negroes sur.
prised while committing the robbery.
killed Sitton while fleeing ron the
scene. John battles. Identified dur
, 1923-04-04
THE CASPER TRIBUNE'S


Irrigation project west OF Casper
to be authorized and completed at
once.
A complete and scientific zoning
system for the city OF Casper.
A comprehensive municipal and
school recreation park system, In
GLIDING swimming pools for Ii
children of Casper.
Completion OF the established
Scenic Route boulevard as planned
by the county commissioners to
Garden Creek Falls and return.
Better roads for Natrona county
and mora highways for Wyoming.
More equitable freight rates for
shippers of the Rocky Mountain
region and more frequent train
service for Casper.
, 1923-04-04

ing the Reeder trial as Reeder's com
panion in the burglary. is sought on
a charge of murder. Reeder will be
sentenced later.
Reeder was arrested IN Denver on
information supplied by the omaha
police to whom Virginia Thomas. a
white woman. who had beer living
with Reeder, delivered q quantity Of
goods stolen at the Grant home here
and stated that they had been stolen
by Reeder and Battles
, 1923-04-04

No typhoid fever. no stomach all.
ments, no poor health II you drink
Hill Crest water. Intrinsic cost
Astounding health. Phone 1851.
The Glenwood post., 1923-01-25
RARE SMILE MOST BEGUILING
Constant smirk by No Means as At
tractive as Some Of the Fair
Sex Seem to Think.

How much should woman smile
to be attractive to me? To judge
from picture postcards and some mag
azine covers, 1t appears to be the
thing to keep up chronic ear-to-ear
grin like u Cheshire cat.
AS a matter of fact. believe the
majority of men are more likely to
succumb to the charm of rare smile,
one which occasionally, quickly and
responsively illuminates n gravity ap
parently undisturbed by others.
There Is class of smiles which
has no connection with the sense of
amusement. This expresses a vague
contentment and good humor. serving
very much the same purpose as the
wagging Of dogs tail.
Some overcautious and vain women
dread smiling because they know II
induces the disfgurng wrinkle from
nose to mouth known as the "blood
hound line" They ration themselves
to so many smiles day and, to be
consistent. should shun the society of
the amusing. Such evidence of the
lack of spOntaneity could never be
attractive to men. Better a thousand
wrinkles than calculated self-control |
Without doubt, the quality of a
woman's smiles may be valuable evi
dence in mans study of her nature
AS to their quantity? Be assured that
where the heart is in the right place
any woman of adequate intelligence
whatsoever her circumstances, will
find enough and not too many occa.
sions for smiles. Yes, her smile will
redeem innumerable situations while
as surely, it will never jar in any
"A Thoughtful Woman" IN the Con
tinental Edition of the London Mail.
The Glenwood post., 1923-01-25
FAKE ADVERTISING

It's pretty hard to convince mer'
chant that he had better drop ms
money down in well than pass IL
over to fly-by-night advertising 60
getter, the smooth guy who drops IN
with a publicity scheme that ism u
worth a minute of time or cent OF
money. 1t takes some people good
while to learn that the same money
spent in newspaper would bring in
finitely better returns.
This country is filled to the brim
with smooth young men who do moth
mig but think up publicity schemes.
Once they have framed catchy one
they beat it to the smaller towns to
"unload" on the merchant who be-
l;eves that any kind of advertising is
good advertising and who thinks that
The Glenwood post., 1923-01-25

novelties and time cards, and stock
booklets with his name upon them are
actually business getters. These young
men don't ply their trade SO much in
the large cities, because there is usually
commercial club or board of trade
ruling against just the sort of things
they seek to dispose Of. But in towns
where every merchant has to think out
his own plan of advertising, and
where he hasn't tried to understand
the inside workings of these fly-by-
night schemes, the waste of good
money goes right on. And the fun
niest part of it is that the merchant
who bites actually pays cash in ad-
vance and takes the smooth young
stranger word for it that he is going
to get more than his moneys worth.
We are strong for every kind of ad-
vertising that will pay the man who
advertises, but we detest fakes That
is why we spend good deal of time
regretting that some merchants can't
see that which successful merchants
long ago learned-that of all forms of
advertising known to nothing
has yet been found as good as space
in the home paper.-Minden (Neb.)
Courier.
The Glenwood post., 1923-01-25
Time-Resistlna Cedar.

Cedar wood is famous among farm
ers for its lasting qualities when used
for fence posts. An interesting proof
of the power of this wood to resist
the effects of time is furnished by the
Egyptian boats made Of cedar which
were found buried near the banks Of
the Nile, and which, ACCORDING to re-
cent estimates Of their age, were
probably in use forty-nve hundred
years ago! The fact must not be over
looked, however, that these boata
were covered by the dry sand of the
desert.