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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-02
Good Housekeeping, April 1920
WILL YOU HELP KEEP THE
LAW2
By Mabel Walker Willcbrant

The reason, and the responsibility
of the bootlegger is driven home in
this article, with the logic and direct
ness of which Mrs. AVillebrandt. is
master. The article is particularly ap-
propriate for woman's magazine for
more reasons than one. Women who
arc only just beginning to think about
civic affairs need the breadth of vision
in such passages as these:
Our civilization is grounded in law.
Learning has developed because ma
tons are restrained by law. :.
| believe God is developing on this
continent great experiment in gov
ernment. European nations have sur
rendered or been destroyed by cultural
rot from above, or gross matcrialism
and ignorance from below
The moral force which made the
prohibition law inevitable in this coun-
try is made clear:
The Eighteenth Amendment was not
hastily put over. Desires had been
rising in the hearts of the American
people for fifty years for its declaration.
As unexplanablc and as inevitable
were these forces of thought that
steadily modified to outlaw the liquor
traffic as those which combined to
overthrow the slave traffic.
The hey-day OF Bookkeeping is no
reason for repeating the law; it is a
plain indication of the responsibility
for the lawlessness;
The tremendous fortunes bootleg
gers arc amassing are possible only by
Marketing to their own law
less kind would furnish only lean
pickin's.'
The practical way OF attacking the
enforcement problem is for COM
munities to prosecute the small Offend
ers and leave the national government
less hampered by purely local cases SO
they can pursue the wholesale boot
leggers. The help women can render
in their communities is outlined
You have no right to complain that
the federal government does not punish
offenders quickly enough nor have you
the right to indulge in the complaint
that it can not be enforced. it your
police courts are failing to Jail the Of
tenders in your own community. Be
cause that duty is theirs and there are
enough decent people in every county
and city, il they will get together, to
make officials do their duty.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-02
AUSTRALIAN DRY
VISITING HERE

Miss Grace L. Holder, who addressed
numerous meetings OF the Victorian
Ant-Liquor League, and who spent
some time in the international Save
the Children Campaign" in Australia,
is in America studying the effects of
prohibition. Miss Holders home is in
Perth, West Australia. She arrived in
February in Vancouver and has been
addressing meetings across the coun-
try. She made a short address at the
recent law enforcement conference of
womcn's organizations in Washington.
Miss Holder, during the World War.
was honorary commissioner OF the
Badcn-Powel girl scout movement,
which corresponds somewhat to the
Camp Fire girls movement in America,
She was educated in Chcltcnhan,
England, and had two years training
for the concert platform. She holds
Royal Academy certificate for violin,
and made a successful debut in Sydney
in aid OF the Save the Children Cam
paign.'
Miss Holder declares America to be
the star of hope for the world. Il have
proved says Miss Holder, that the
drink business is a cruel hcnd against
the lives OF helpless little ones. During
my visit in America | want to present
picture OF the suffering little ones,
with their faces turned toward the
people of this country and their little
arms outstretched in an appeal-'come
over and help us If America fails to
enforce its prohibition law it is our
children who will suffer as we'll as the
children of America"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-02

line that divides thent from the rights
of maiortics shifts as public opinion
grows.
1t is only about one hundred and
fifty years ago that men arose in the
British House of Commons TO protest
against any infringement OF the rights
of pirates to raid the high seas, arguing
that pirates had made heavy invest
ments in ships and equipment and that
it was an invasion OF their rights to
interfere with them.
The proper vocation for an aggrieved
minority is III winning over to itself
enough adherents to make majority,
while continuing to obey tic law as
long as it is the law. Play the game.
Keep faith. Obey the rules.
How many men if they stopped to
think would pay a fellow man to break
a law. What man who VIC
latcs the law can escape the conscious
ness that he himself is as guilty as the
man he hires to break the law =.
Men who want to respect themselves
must soon choose between their ap-
pctites and their desire to do right.
While emphasizing the wrong doing
of the man who patronizes the boot
logger, Gov. Pinchot is equally
emphatic in pointing the duty of
Washington" to shut off the bootleg
gers supply, and TO keep politics out of
the appointment of enforcement off
GERS.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-02
FRANK EBERT SPEAKING
IN WORLD LEAGUE CAUSE

Major F. B. Gilbert is campaigning
in the interest of the World League
Against Alcoholism and the Anti Sa-
loon League of America in Texas. His
immediate itinerary is as follows Gall
dates mentioned are in TeXas):
April %, Hillsboro, First Methodist
Church, 800 p. m.
April 20, Itaska, Central Baptist
Church, 500 p. m.
April 80, Corsicana First Methodist
Church, Sis p. m.
May 4, Temple, First Methodist
Church, 800 p. III.
May S, Bolton, First Baptist Church.
500 p. m.
May 9, Lampassas, First Baptist
Church, 800 p. M.
May 7, Burnett, Methodist Church.
500 p. M.
May s, Llama, First Baptist Church.
800 p. m.
May 9, Marble Falls, Methodist
Church, 800 p. m.
May II, Grandview, First Methodist
Church, 100 a. m.
Midlothian, First Presbyterian
Church, 800 in the evening of the
same day.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-02
PINCHOT NOT DELEGATE TO
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION

Governor Pinchot was defeated in
his candidacy for legatc-at-large to
the Republican national convention.
He incurred the enmity of Congress
man w. s. Narc OF Philadelphia. who
has strong influence in the Republican
organization OF that city and who with
drew his support on the ground that
Pinohot is opposed TO the national Re-
publican administration. In pre-elce-
ton statement Governor Pinchot dc
clared that this is not the issue, but the
real issue is liquor or law enforcement.
He added: Tho Philadelphia organiza-
ton is regular when liquor is regular !:
otherwise not. ! resent Congressman
Wares effort to drag in and hide be
hind President Coolidge. Nobody ques-
tons that he will be nominated at
Cleveland and nobody questions that
as loyal Republican will support him
in the campaign. President Coolidge
is not the issue. Liquor is. | am glad
NV is9"S hds SoIllc anu mat II mas
come in this way. | expect to win,
but win or lose. expect to 60 on; and
one thing | want to make clear be
yond question is this, the fight to make
Pennsylvania free from liquor will go
on to final victory. This administra-
ton will neither dodge nor quit. It is
right on the liquor question and it will
go through to the end
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-02
(Hearst's International. April. 1920
AN APPEAL TO DECENT
DRINKERS
By Clifford Pinchot

Gov. Pinchot believes that most OF
the men break the Prohibition law for
self-indulgence are not bad men. as
men go. They are blind men who
do not realize what they arc doing. He
puts the matter before them from a
viewpoint that is easily understood by
sport-loving Amcrcans-playing TIC
game according to the rules.
We who live here together in the
United States have pledged each other
that VIC will play the game of life ac-
cording to such rules as VIC have made
or shall make. That is what Rousseau
called the social contract without
which there could be no such thing as
government. Those who founded
this government explicitly made this
agreement among themselves. We
who have inherited what they founded
have accepted the obligation to keep
faith with each othcr-to play the
game of life according to such rales
as VIC ourselves may make.
He thinks anyone who believes that
the American people are not back Of
the Eighteenth Amendment deceiyes
himself
The great cities arc wet, but the rest
OF the country is not. America is dry.
The vets should not forget that more
than half of the states had outlawed
booze before the nation did.
As to the rights of minoritics, the
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-02
MICHIGAN CLEANUP COM
MENDED BY DAUGHERTY

Acknowledgement Daugherty reports
that Detroit is going through with the
cleaning-up process in its warfare on
illicit liquor making and selling. In
junction petitions are being filed in
eastern Michigan in both the state and
federal courts. Officials in that dis
trict are keeping on the job. After the
preliminary order is granted they
watch the place and upon the first evil
dencc OF any violation OF the courts
order the offender is hailed into court.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-02
(The CongrcgationaIist, March 20,
1920
FROM OUR WESTERN EDITOR
L. ". G..

After quoting from the Chicago
Daily News Mr.. William Hards sug-
gestion OF Governor Sweet, of Colo
RADIO, as a candidate for the Demo
cratic party in place OF Mr.. McAdoo,
who, the west thinks, got too much
oil on his salad" and the fact that
Gov. Sweet is also bone dry. was bone
dry when it was unpopular TO be so
and is "joyously and trumphantly dry
now, the editor continues:
In spite of the great amount OF noise
that the anti-prohibitionists are max
ing at the present time, it is an open
secret that no wet has ghost OF a
show to be elected President. The
vets have got a few timid drys
scared, but the sentiment OF the coun-
try is Overwhelmingly for bone dry
prohibition. There are plenty OF indi-
cations that this statement is true; out
OF the House OF Representatives at
Washington, only fifty Congressman
dared line up in favor OF 2.75 per cent.
beer. Nor can any man be elected
who has the least faint OF scandal
upon him as result of the present in
vestigations. So lar Coolidge and
Sweet seem to quality and apparently
they will be able to stand the closest
scrutiny. We trust that Governor
Sweet will become more than a dark
horse i'll this campaign.
This editor has also some obscrva-
tons to record in tho matter OF law
enforcement:
The dry crusade goes merrily on in
the west. The mayors OF number OF
large cities have followed the example
OF Mr.. Devcr and have clamped the
lid on tight. BY court order several
bcer-pouring exhibitions have been
staged lately in this district. in Elgin
and Chicago large quantities OF beer
valued at multiplied thousands OF dol
lars were poured into the sewers, two
OF the large breWeries were disman-
tied and several others have been
closed for one year. This means that
in the former the machinery was de-
stroyed and in the latter the buildings
and machinery can not be used during
the year.
There are plenty OF evidences that
the Bookkeeping industry is we'll or
gained Ill the west, and that the
members OF the organization will go
to any lengths. often even to murder.
On the other hand there is a growing
body of public opinion against it. and
public officials arc growing more con-
scientious in the enforcement OF the
law.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-02
AN OATH TO CONSCIENCE
By J. Herbert Bean, Hinton w. Va.

An oath to conscience have | sworn.
Old Nazarite with head unshorn
Whose holy vow is thereby told
No flrmer stand nor face more bold
Than mine against the woc-red wine,
A foe with venom serpentine.
His lips were barred against its power
Its doom in time and final hour;
But mine are open to declaim
That wine and beer and drunkards shame
Are cause and sure effect; what's more
They would the accursed saloon restore.
I've sworn by all know of truth
To help defend the rights of youth;
By all | know of honor's worth
To save our homes from ancient dearth;
By all | know of freedoms path
To save our land from rum-king's wrath
I've sworn to conscience to be true,
Yes, true to self and true to you.
Then law enforcement must preach;
By precept and example teach
The majesty of law until
All men obey its sovereign will.
An oath to conscience have | sworn!
The oath I've made III not suborn.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-02
IT PAYS
l.. r. Horton

Last night made speech in saw
mill town in Texas. Ninety-six per
cent OF the people make their living
with manual labor.
Thirty years ago you would have OK
pected TO find and would have found
in town like that, squalor, ignorance,
poverty, vice, misery.
But I faced an audience of well-fcd
contented people. Before me was a
sea of little faces. Plump. pink checked
bright-eyed, light-hearted children.
And the reason was: living wage,
the public school, a protestant church,
prohibition. My heart sang within
me: ut pays, pays big, pays now
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-02
DRY BODIES INVITED TO
COMMONWEALTH CONGRESS

The temperance organizations OF
the United Kingdom have extended a
most cordial invitation to their con-
temporaries throughout the British EN-
pire to appoint representatives to at
tend the British Commonwealth Con-
gress which takes place in London
June Is, 1924 The Viscount Astor
will deliver the presidential address in
the council chamber of Caxton Hall,
Westminster, London, and a great
number of meetings and demonstra-
tons have been arranged. Mr. +.
Page CASTOR, F. R. g. S, and Mr..
Mark c. Hayler will represent the
World Prohibition Federation at this
Congress.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-02
WOMEN ASK JAIL TERMS
FOR FIRST OFFENDERS

Headed by Mrs. Ella A. Boole, pres
ident OF the New York State w. c. T.
L., delegation OF New York women
recently called upon members of the
New York congressional delegation
and set forth their views on the COM
ing election. The women demanded
immediate legislation for mandatory
Jail sentences for all FIRST offenders"
OF the dry laws as required by the bill
of Representative Stalker of New
York Mrs Boole declared that the
women voters OF New York would
never vote Tor Smith for President.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-02
ONE WAY TO MAIN
TAIN 1T

We cannot maintain this Con-
stitution without insisting upon
its being followed. We cannot
maintain it by laughing at those
who try to make joke of it.
We cannot maintain it by being
tolerant and liberal and indiffer-
ent towards those who attack it.
We must stand for it when it is
challenged. And it is being
challenged today, here and there
in a hundred directions. This
Constitution provides for free,
popular government. Under it
we have a democracy in which
all the people have their part in
government. Every officer, leg
islative, executive, judicial, mill
tary, is the servant of all the
people-not of any class, not of
any group, not of any calling,
not of any race, not of any re-
ligion; but all. And this is fun
damental to our democracy
Elihu Root at recent convention
to celebrate anniversary of sign
ing the Constitution.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-02

man. To that VIC might add that no
minority is good enough 10 be trusted
with the government of a majority.
And still further, VIC shall be wise il
We maintain also that no majority can
be trusted to be wise enough, and good
enough, at all times, to exercise un-
limited control over a minority. We
need the restraints OF written con
stitution
To prevent the possibility of such
things happening, we must require
all citizens who are entitled TO do so.
to take their full part in public al
fairs. We must be sure that they are
educated, trained and equipped to do
their part we'll We must not permit
the mechansms of government, the
multiplicity of constitutional and
statutory provisions to become so
complex as to get beyond control by
an aroused and informed electorate.
We must provide ample facilities Of
education, and this will require con-
slant expansion and liberalization.
We must aim to impress upon each
citizen the individual duty TO be a
sincere student OF public problems, in
order that they may rightly render
the service which their citizenship
exacts But after all, good citizenship
is neither intricate nor involved. 1t
is simple and direct. 1t is everyday
common sense and Justice.
Points To Nations Founders
The determination OF national policy
that will be made i'll next November
will turn quite as much upon the at
titudc OF the women, as upon the
judgments of the n:en. So | come TO
you women, who | know will pardon
men if | prefer to address you as rep
resentatives OF the daughters of all
the revolutions, rather than as merely
the Daughters OF the American Revo-
luton, to say that your country wants
not only your votes. but your infiu
CllGC, III ali IOllllliS CICNllOlIo. DJ llllS
| do not mean to appeal in behalf Of
any party. appeal ~ behalf of our
common country. II is not enough to
say that you did not GEEK the ballot
Your heroic sires did not seek the
revolution, but it came, and they met
it by heroic action. Surely the W.
manhood OF the nation, who go down
into the valley OF tic shadow of death
for their sons and daughters cannot
long neglect to participate in cleo
tons, that they and their children may
continue to have tie advantages OF a
government that is clean and wise
and sound.
As it was the initiation of America
which made manhood suffrage mod
crn ideal for the world. so VIC want
now the initiation of America to
make citizen suffrage a demonstrated
success for the world. | have abso-
lutte confidence that il American
womanhood will exercise the right OF
franchise, after far, considerate, and
mature dcliberation, voting TOR wnat
is right as their best judgment shows
them the right, that the right will
nightly prevail. Surely the woman
hood OF our country, who have Law
ishcd upon the sons and daughters OF
the land such wealth OF affection,
who watch over them in every crisis
from the cradle to the grave, with
immeasurable devotion, will not hest
tate to make sufficient sacrifice to pre-
serve for themselves and those they
love tho last best hope of the world"
American institutions.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-02

In letter sent to Prosecuting At
torney Paul w. Voorhees, last week,
Police Commissioner Frank Z. Crowl
of Detroit asks grand jury nvestiga-
ton OF the charges that policemen and
certain lawyers are in a ring to black
mail users of LIQUOR
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-02
PROHIBITION AND AUTOMOBILES

The dry United States has FIVE times automobiles all
the the world spends much each
automobile repairs used spend for booze Who
people getting far pleasure 000000000 spent
automobiles formerly that sum was
for liquor? Then the drinkers buying
saooneeper buying
they and families enjoying
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-02

The plea of modification so far as
drink is concerned, does not justify
itself because it is the starting point
of every excessive drinker.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-02

Remember it is industry and not
drink which pays taxes and dividends.
Let the vets howl for liquor revenue
as they may.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-02
System Guarantees Freedom

We shall succeed, if we keep always
before us the high purpose which pre-
sided at the beginning of our Govern
ment We shall need at all times, and
we need particularly in this current
troubled period, to keep clearly in our
thought the conception of our system
as the most nearly perfect mode of
guaranteeing the essentials of free
donn. Under it we have enjoyed lib
erty without license. Under it we
have been saved from the excess OF
partisanship or of sectionalism. Under
il we have grown in strength and
wealth and moral authority. But we
kaye never seen, and it is unlikely
we ever shall see the time when
kan safely relax our vigilance and
k our institutions to run themselves
der the hand OF an active, even
bugh wel-intentioned minority.
Abraham Lincoln said that no man
4 Igood enough to govern any other
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-02
WHAT THE CURRENT MAGAZINES ARE SAYING ABOUT
PROHIBITION AND LAW ENFORCEMENT

(Reviewed by Emma L. Transeau)
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-02

establishment Our Government has
been an example to other peoples,
wherever they might be, seeking the
way OF enlightened freedom. 1t
is for us so to direct the processes of
our public life that Our institutions
shall continue worthy of the admira-
ton and imitation of other commu-
mites and the sure defense of our own
liberties. In this we shall render our
Greatest service to humanity.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-04-09
1000 Young Trees
Left for Highways

Four thousand green ash trees, four
to five feet high, remain of the 1924
supply for planting in state parks
and along state highways, according
to an announcement from the office of
G. M. Conzett, state forester, St. Paul.
The paintings are undertaken locally,
as rule, and by civic organizations.
C. M. Babcock, state highway COM
missioner, promised reasonable as
sistance from state highway patrol
men toward caring for any young
trees, but correspondence should be
addressed to Mr.. Conzett, if was an
nounced.
The forestry department was un-
successful this year in an attempt to
secure large number of elm trees
but the ash are said to be desirable
and suitable for roadside paintings.
Because of the loss of quite percent
age of the small black walnut trees
distributed last year, paintings of
that variety on the roads has been
abandoned, at least until such time
as larger specimens can be pro-
cured.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-04-09
Cars Collide

What may be called lucky" ac-
cident occurred last Friday afternoon
when two automobiles crashed togeth-
er on the corner of Washington and
Chestnut Streets. Both cars were
badly damaged but none of the occup-
ants were injured except for shock
and minor scratches.
One car, driven by VIM. Maxson,
was driving east on Chestnut and the
other car, driven by Harry Price, was
going North on Washington. At the
corner they came together with such
force as to completely demolish the
front end of the Price car, and the
Matson car was thrown against the
water hydrant with sufficient force
to break the hydrant off. This car
was also badly damaged having one
wheel broken off and being otherwise
badly smashed. In the Matson car
were Mr.. Matson, his four children
and four of the children of the neigh
borhood. The Price car was occupied
by Mrs. Bert Kleaver of Redwood
Falls, Mrs. Robt. Price of Lamberton,
Harry Price of Canada and one child.
The fact that SO many persons could
be mixed up in such wrecks as the two
cars presented and still escape injury
is matter to marvel over.