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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-01-12
GOVERNOR SPROUL SEES
PROHIBITION LAW FAILURE

Governor Sproul told the members
OF the Pennsylvania legislature on
January that lit is a patent fact that
the Prohibition enforcement laws,
Federal and state, arc not working
we'll in Pennsylvania" The governor
who goes out of Office Ill two weeks
and who delivered his final message
to the legislature i'll person, said that
some people are inInned to blame
this condition upon the states own
enforcement law and yet the fact re-
mains that in other states which have
the kind of laws winch these critics
demand, the results are no better"
Governor Sproul has another guess.
What Pennsylvania needs is an
adequate enforcement law, not
farcial law that licenses saloonkeepers.
Another trouble in Pennsylvania is
that the state has been cursed with
officials sworn to uphold and enforce
the law who have been woefully
derelct in duty.
Better days are ahead in that state
when Governor Pinchot assumes the
responsibilities of the governors Of;
fec and after the legislature gives the
state worthwhile enforcement code.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-01-12
UNIVERSAL APPLICATION
OF paddock PROVISION
Prohibition Commissioner Ex.
presses Satisfaction Over Re-
suits of Last Year.
PROGRESSIVE STRIDES
All Directors Say Progress Made
Will Apply Injunction Method
More Freely in 1928.

On his return from a weeks survey
of Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana, Prohi-
bition Commissioner Haynes gave out
an interview in Washington in which
he expressed great satisfaction with the
work accomplished by his Office during
the past year.
Speaking of the situation in the states
he had just visited the Commissioner
said; "All the directors reported to me
that the past year has been marked
with the most progressive strides in
the history of Prohibition and | was as
sured OF even more progress during
1921
The Commissioner says that appli-
cation OF the paddock provision of the
Solstead law which has proved SO efrec.
tive throughout the country will lie con-
tinued with renewed activity while the
application of various taxes and penal
ties will make moonshining more haz-
ardous than ever.
He expressed the opinion that the re-
cent assassinations of enforcement
agents in Kentucky and ohio, together
with assaults elsewhere, have aroused
good law-abiding people to high pitch
and 1T is safe to predict that the new
year will witness the administering of
stern justice To perpetrators of such
crimes
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-01-12
THE RIGHT or Every
Child TO Be WELL BORN

Mr.. \. |. Root, veteran Prohibition
warrior of Ohio, in the October number
of Glcanings in Bee Culture, makes a
strong plea for the voters of the nation
to cast their ballots in defense of Pro-
hibition policy and its enforcement.
Mr.. Root is conductor of the column APP
pearing under the caption Our Homes"
and his plea in defense OF Prohibition
is most appropriate because in reality
he makes it a plea for the defense of the
home. He presents many phases Of the
Prohibition enforcement question but
particularly emphasizes the necessity of
defending the rights of childhood.
He closes with the following state
ment by Miss Frances L. Willard. This
statement was uttered shortly before
Miss Wizards death. 1t deserves wide
circulation. She said in discussing ahe
right OF every child to be we'll born:
Compared with any other law,
hold in highest dignity and most
awful significance the law of the
descent of inheritance; of prenatal
influences; of the determining OF
destiny before human being has
ever known an independent heart
beat or an intelligent volition.
| believe that all reforms have
their root here, and that wiser,
more thoughtful age, not very far
distant, will stand aghast as it
reads of the madness of the present
dance of delusion and death in re-
spect TO the right of every child; to
be we'll born.
The Prohibition of the traffic in in.
toxicating beverage liquors is doing
more to guarantee this right of the
child to be we'll born than any other
single reform in the last century.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-01-12
GOVERNOR SMITH OF N. Y.
ASKS FOR WINE AND BEER

In personally delivered message to
the New York Legislature January 3,
Governor Alfred E. Smith recommended
passage of resolutions urging that the
legislative machinery at Washington be
set in immediate motion to bring about
modification of the Volstead law to per.
nit light wines and beers.
He also recommended initiation by
New York of a federal. Constitutional
amendment requiring submission to the
people instead of the Legislatures of all
future proposals to amend the Federal
Constitution.
He stated that the Legislature of New
York ratified the Eighteenth Amend,
ment in 1919 by narrow margin after
refusing a proposal by him to submit
the question to the people in a referen-
dunn. He called attention to the fact
that the 2.75 per cent beer bill passed
by substantial majority in the Legls-
lature in 1920 and was subsequently rem
dered imperative by Supreme Court
decision. He declared:
If democratic government means
what we say it means, surely the
history of our own state does not
indicate that a majority of the peo-
pie are in sympathy with the exist
ing Volstead Act. If the people are
to get relief! from this situation,
they must look to the national Con-
gress.
Governor Smiths proposal to bring
back beer and wine by means of modify
ing the volstead law is in reality a pro-
posal to nullify the Eighteenth Article of
the Constitution. His arguments set up
in favor of referring proposed amend
ments to direct vote of the people cit
ing New York's experience, means moth
ing. Assuming that a referendum had
been held in New York and that it had
been a binding referendum and that
the people had refused to ratify, the
Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitu-
tion would have been ratified without
New York's approval and would have
been binding upon New York just the
same.
Connecticut and Rhode Island have
never ratified the Eighteenth Article and
yet it is in full force and effect in those
states.
New York is part of the Union de-
spite protests by. New York grand jur-
les and New York wet politicians, and as
such must conform to and uphold Fed
eral Constitution and Federal laws.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-01-12
WISCONSIN BoOTLEGGERS
ATTACK DRY OFFICERS

Resentment of Prohibition enforce
nent in central Wisconsin broke into
open violence for the second time
within twenty-four hours when on
December % an unidentified assailant
Myed upon an automobile containing
deputy sheriffs and a state dry agent.
The attack on the party which was
returning from a series of liquor raids
is attributed by officials to the same
motive which prompted the bomb out
rage at Marshfeld when James r.
Chapman, chairman OF the board of
supervisors of Wood county, was
mangled and his wife killed by an
internal machine sent through the
mails, viz, revenge by noonshiners.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-01-12
MISSOURI DRUGGISTS WAR
ON BOOZE DkUG-SToRES

Tentative plans to ask the aid OF
the Missouri legislature in war to
eliminate the bootiegging druggis;
were unanimously approved on
December % at a meeting of the Mis-
souri, Retail Druggists Association il
session in Kansas city. The legis-
lature will be asked to amend the
existing regulatory laws affecting
drugstores so that every drugstore
must be operated ny a registered
pharmacist, said {. NJ. Watkins
president of the druggists association
The Kansas City Times quotes Mr.
Watkins as saying:
We are determined TO eliminate
the Bookkeeping druggists who
rapidly are becoming a menace to
our business. The present laws
are entirely inadequate to correct
the condition. There are nearly
100 drugstore in Kansas City that
arc operated without a registered
pharmacist. Many are the result
of Prohibition. They are dis
grace to our business and a
menace to the public. They must
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-01-12
CHICAGO IN PAST YEAR BREAKS ALL
RECORDS IN BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
Building $2200oooOo Nearest Approach Was in 1921
Another Saooness Wonderful Increase in Home Build
in Hotel Construction Continues Ford Factory Announced

ton on Wabash Avenue will involve an
expenditure of around $l6,000,000
Work will start in the spring it is ex-
pected.
"The third great building project is
the proposed Straus building to house
S. w. Straus and Company on the old
Stratford Hotel site. This will cost in
the neighborhood of $s,00O0O0. !.
Some other big Office projects announced
during the year for early construction
arc the $500, 600 insurance exchange
on upper Michigan and Delaware; six
teen stories life. insurance building at
Michigan and Superior; and the annex
to the Peoples Life at Randolph and
Wells. ~
Getting back to our opening para
graph about home owning, the wave of
owning the home which got under way
during high rents continued during the
year at high speed. Thousands of bun
galows, two flats, thousands of homes,
were erected in the outlying sections and
suburbs. .e-
Ford Factory Announced
probably the most significant build
ing announcement in the industrial field
was that Henry Ford actually would
manufacture cars as well as assemble
them at the six million dollar Hedge.
witch plant. He will employ more than
10000 when the first four units are
completed. 1t is believed that at last
Chicago is going to get her share of the
automobile industry for other motor
concerns will follow Ford, it is pre-.
dicted."
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-01-12

came operative in the United States,
is apparently at Spain's mercy. Her
main exports arc wood pulp and paper
She also exports some iron and steel
1t is high time that the civilized ma
lions of the earth protest against
SPANS action with reference to these
three small countries.
1t is especially fitting that the
United States should make represent
tation to the Spanish government to
desist. More is involved than the Pro-
hibition policy. What Spain is actu-
ally doing is attacking the fundamental
principle OF democracy.
AS already has been pointed out,
one effective means of bringing Spain
to a sense OF guilt would be to refuse
to grant her loan which she is de-
sirous of obtaining from the United
States, indicating that this country
can not consistently render financial
aid to any nation that so plainly
shows herself TO be an enemy of de-
mocracy.
The drys OF the United States es-
pecially ought to become more thor
oughly aroused over the situation be-
cause as mentioned before, Spain's
action is clearly case of attacking the
Prohibition policy for none OF these
Scandinavian countries have ever been
large buyers of Spain's wines. She
has little to gain in actual increase in
her wine exports by defeating Prohi-
bition in these Scandinavian countries.
The suspicion is strong that her &C
ton is part of an international cam
paign against Prohibition and that
she has been chosen as the particular
assassin in this case.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-01-12

though Mr.. Appleby did not disclose JUS
what the governments plans are in this
respect. In discussing the situation h,
said:
A ten thousand dollar plane could
only bring in Is cases trip in the
best of weather, cargo less valu-
able than the machine which would
be confiscated if unprecedented by
government agents. In bad weather
when the danger of detection would
be so much less and when the planes
would probably do most of their
work, they could only carry % cases
or SO, quantity which would hard
ly be worth the risk. The airplane
method of transportation is the plan
of last resort.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-01-12
RUSSIA MENACED BY
GREEN PERIL" DRINK

A Berlin dispatch of December %
in the Cincinnati Enquirer says that
Russia is menaced by so-oalled
Green Peril This green peril is a
deadly alcoholic drink ccalled Same
gonnka". BY far, the larger part of
this drink according to the. dispatch,
is consumed in country districts. In
the larger oenters drastic measures
are taken both by the military and
judiciary authorities to prevent the
distilling of ALPHABETICALLY perni-
cious species of brandy.
1t is said that many government Of
hcials are in seni-state OF intoXica-
ton continually.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-01-12

Prohibition did not destroy real es-
tate values in Chicago nor hinder build
ing construction. The fact is, according
to AL Chase, real estate editor of the
Chicago Tribune, wet newspaper, 1922
was record breaking year in Chicago
for construction work of every sort
This construction includes home build
ing and everything from the tiny bunga-
law to the palatial Gold Coast hostelry,
says Mr.. Chase, who continues:
Although exact figures are not OBJ
tainable at the time this is written, it
was estimated at the building commits
sioner's office that building permits for
1922 will total $220,OOO,0O0. The next
best year was 1921, when they were
SI25,O00, 900. The third best year in
the city's history was Sll2,000,000 in
1915. Placed end to end in a single
line all the buildings for which permits
were taken out in 1922, would lead from
Madison street to South Milwaukee.
'"The most significant and striking
building project of the year was the
Tribune tower on upper Michigan ave-
nue.. This magnificent structure as well
as its rivals i'll the hundred million
dollar building contest, will have an i'm
portant influence upon middle west
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-01-12
BEER CONSUMPTION IN
ENGLAND SUT IN HALF

Fifty per cent less beer was con-
sumed in Great Britain in 1922 as COM
pared with the pre-war consumption,
according to the brewers Society
which attributes the decline to ex-
cessive taxation, low wages and un-
employment, says London dispatch
of January g. The amount of beer
consumed in 1922 was 100000 barrels
against 100000 barrels in 1921 and
100000 barrels in 1920.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-01-12
CINCINNATI'S MARKET
VOID OF BONDED BOOZE

According to Frank A. Hight,
agent in charge of the Federal Prohi-
bition enforcement department at Gin
cinnati, the activities OF his force
during the past year have been so pro-
ductive of results that 1928 is ushered
in with virtually no bottled-in- bond
liquor on the bootleg market.
There is also according to his re-
port, great decrease i'll the amount
of moonshine and "doctored whisky.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-01-12
INTOXICATED AUTO DRIVER
BADLY DAMAGES NEW ROAD

Drunken autoists prove to be not only
a menace to the safety of those who
have TO use the public highways but
sometimes impose direct expense upon
the taxpayers which is wholly needless.
a drunken driver last week drove his
ear hub deep over considerable stretch
OF soft concrete in newly constructed
road in New Jersey. The county en-
gineer says that the damaged section of
concrete will have to be removed and
replaced at a considerable cost.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-01-12
GRANGE SUGGESTS CHAIN
GANG FOR BOOTLEGGERS

At the closing session of the Ohio
Grange held in Columbus last week, a
resolution was adopted urging that con
victed bootleggers who do not pay then
fines be compelled to work ON the public
highways at seYenty-fve cents a day.
1t is now in order for the wet Cincin
natl Enquirer to rush to the defense OF
the poor, downtrodden, prosecuted boot
logger at least to the extent OF condemn
ing the action of the Grange.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-01-12

During the severe ga.es'which ragged
off the coast of New Jersey and Long
Island during the last week of the old
year, "a number OF booze-laden craft
were driven ashore
Among such craft reported are the
Annie Belle of Baltimore carrying a
cargo of whisky, Washed ashore on
the Jersey coast; the schooner
Madonna V out of Halifax, grounded
off Long Island with cargo of
liquor.
According to the captain of this
vessel the boat was carrying liquor
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-01-12
GALES drive PIRATE RUM BOATS ASHORE

from the Bahamas to Canadian
port.
Another boat, the K-120o0 register
ed with the customs license Office as
the property of Michael Laurie of
Brooklyn, was believed by the enforce
ment department to be in the liquor
running trade although no evidence of
liquor was found aboard it.
Some rum runners shippers, it is
reported, refrained from trying to
make shore with their craft and
dumped their liquor cargoes into the
sea.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-01-12
PITTSBURG POLICE MAKE
BIG LIQUOR SEIZURE

Six fifty gallon stills and about 500
gallons of moonshine and other spirit
Gus liquors were seized by Pittsburgh
police December 2l, when they raided
two story building on the south
side of the city. Three men found in
the building we're arrested and all the
distilling parapherna,;a together with
the liquor was conhscated. AT the
police station the prisoners gave
their names as Isaac Marshall,
Reuben Lwetski and Joseph Weeks.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-01-12
CHICAGO LANDMARK GOES
WHEN STILLoUN'S CLOSES

Stillson's, last OF Chicago's famous
old-time bars, was scheduled to close
forever on the night OF December 30
Stillson's, located in the heart of the
loop district, was known from coast
to coast as the center of the city
night life. 1t has opel ated as a coffee
shop since the Eighteenth Amend
ment became operative.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-01-12

In continuation of policy of naming
subordinates in his department who are
"a hundred per centers on Prohibition"
Attorney General-elect G. c. Crabbe has
named Judge Don V. Parker, State Pro-
hibition Commissioner for Ohio, to DO
special counsel in his office.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-01-12
5000 Room Hotel

$50 far as actual size is concerned the
new Hotel Stevens farther south on
Boul. Mich. looms up as the biggest
building project of the year. This three
thousand room hnstelry and big add.
New Britain herald., 1923-03-30
HARTFORD FISTIC BOUT IS FIzzLE
Referee Stops Main Go--PrelimS
 Are Satisfactory

That two is a company and three is a crowd is not always true. At
 least it wasn't at the Hartford audi torium last night when Referee Joe Flanagan stood as the third man. in the ring with Jack Lawlor, the Oma- ha Wildcat, and Benney Valger, the French Flash. Lawlor showed little of the fighting qualities of the well known feline whose name he has talk en, and the Frenchman didn't flash with anything like lightning activity. Neither boys worked up much of a sweat and in the fifth round, with many leaving the hall, the referee stopped the bout
 Tipping the beam at 129h pounds, a half pound less than Valger, the Omaha scrapper started aggressively and whipped several left hooks to Valger's head in the first round. He carried the session. Again in the second Lawler took the offensive and about the halfway mark he crashed a right hand to the jaw that jared Valger to his heels. Right there Ben ny possibly decided it wasn't going to be a slugfest as far as he was con cerned. He availed himself of hls vast ring experience to keep from be- ing hit and refused to lead at any time.
 Referee Flanagan called halt in the third round and cautioned Valger to start fighting and at the end of the round the referee made visit to both corners with added warnings which he put into effect at the close of the fifth.
 In the prelims Eddie Corbett Of Hartford, put sleep producer under the jaw of Johnny Romaine Of New York in the second stanza.
 Eddie Connors of Hartford lost de cision after rounds of tough mill ing to his fellow townsman, Al Festa.
 Izzy Tanner lost decision In ten of the hardest kind of scrap ping to Frankie Quill. This was the best bout of the evening.
New Britain herald., 1923-03-30
Templeton Will Not Sign
 Sunday Sports Measure

Hartford. March Ex-Governor Templeton, who has twice spoken publicly as to his attitude toward legalizing professional baseball and football on Sunday yesterday made if clear to legislators his intention to veto the Sunday sports bill. In an address to the farmers organization he said in part:
 T don't believe Connecticut wants to legalize Sunday sports. We are not ready. There is a great differ- ence between allowing Sunday base Lall, as we do in Waterbury, and legalizing Sunday baseball. Anyone can stop the game in Waterbury, but no one desires to do so. If baseball were legalized no one could stop the game, and it would be opening the door to legalize everything else. If that bill comes to me I shall exercise my veto power"
New Britain herald., 1923-03-30
EASTERN LEAGUE IS
 READY FOR SEASON
Only Six Clubs Represented at
 Preliminary Session

Eastern league magnates, in a three hour session at Cooley hotel yesterday settled final business details prepara- tory to the opening of the 1923 play ing season and according to announce ment by President Dan O'Neil the merger moguls will not meet again until. next fall.
 No Schedule Protests
 Discussion of program advertising, tickets, methods of handling tickets, and business relating to the conduct of the league occupied the whole three hours, according to announcement. It was definitely stated that the mag mates did not talk over the baseball situation in Connecticut, where the Sunday baseball bill is now tabled in the state legislature, nor were any protests registered regarding the play ing schedule.
 Only six clubs were represented at the session, Owner Jim Clarkin of the Hartford Senators, who is in Florida failed to0 have his secretary, Jim pyne, attend the meeting and neither Owner A. H. Powell of Worcester, on his secretary, Daggett Lee, was pres- ent.
 President D. J. Haylon of Pittsfield, represented the Hillies; President M J. Hawkins of Albany, handled the in terests of his club; George M Weiss head of the New Haven champions, was on hand early and so was Presi- dent Herman Weissman of the Brass cos. Clark P. Lane, Jr., league treas urer represented Bridgeport and Owner Shean was on hand for Spring field.
 Meeting Was Dead
 The meeting was as dead as the proverbial doornail, there being little of the usual corridor color of players, would be managers, would be players and baseball scribbiers on hand.
 Three of the eight managers were on hand. They were: Patsy Donovan, of Springfield; Paddy O'Connor Of Hartford and Herman Bronkic of
New Britain herald., 1923-03-30
.DONAHUE IS HAILED
 AS ANOTHER 'MATTY'
Joe Tinker Praises Ability of
 Cincinnati'S College Star

Orlando, Fla, March 30.-"The greatest pitcher that has broken into the National League since the days of Mathewson.
 ''The nearest replica to Big Six I ever expect to see. He reminds me of Matty every time see him wind up. here is ease and grace to every motion.
 ''The remarkable thing about that fellow is that he stepped right from the college diamond to the big league, a finished pitcher"
 There you have the opinion of Joe Tinker, relative of Pete Donahue. star pitcher of the Cincinnati Reds. It was an unsolicited testimonial as Donahue was busy pitching in batting practice.
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