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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-03-21
(The Living Age, February 10, 1920
PROHIBITION IN FINLAND
By DIR. Arnold Holitscher

An Introductory note refers to the
conflicting reports that are current CON
corning prohibition in Finland, and to
the committee OF investigation ap-
pointed by the Copenhagen Congress
against alcoholism last summer to visit
Finland and make direct study on the
ground, of which committee DIR.
Holitscher, member of the Czechoslo-
vakian parliament, was a member.
DR.. Holitscher names the parties that
are for and against prohibition, de-
scribes the attitude of some Of the Off
Gals whose duty il is to enforce the
law, also that of city and country pop
ulations and the difficulties presented
by smuggling. OF the future of pro-
hibition in Finland. DIR. Holitscher has
no doubts. lie says.
That the prohibition law will be re-
pealed, or will be modified so as to adj
NIT beer and wine, | absolutely do not
believe. An overwhelming majority of
the people favors the suppression of
alcohol. The political parties certainly
would not have passed the law had
they not known how popular the pro-
hibition idea was. There is not the
slightest basis for the assumption that
there has been a change of popular
opinion in this respect since 1922. Con-
sequently prohibition is certain to re-
main, and gradually people will become
accustomed to it In the course of time
methods will be found to reduce the
violations to an endurable limit
Among the secret means by which
devotees of alcohol obtain their favor
lite poison is-as in all prohibition
countries-that of medical prescription.
The physician can order alcohol when
in his opinion his patient needs it. FIRE.
quent use is made of this method.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-03-21
LABOR FOR IMPROVEMENTS,
is WHAT SURVEY SHOWS

A survey shows that the great ma
jority of the rank and file of Duluth,
Mimi, labor organizations are in favor
of strict enforcement of the Volstead
act, says a special Duluth dispatch to
the Christian Science Monitor. The
survey includes unions making up the
Duluth Trades and Labor Council. Its
officials are convinced that prohibition
sentiment is steadily growing among
the 5000 members.
Erik T. Hobberstadt, a member OF
the general council, says fully 90 per
cent of the membership of the carpen-
ters' union is dry, and that ubstan-
tial majority of the bricklayers' and
masons' union also hold strong dry
views.
What Mr.. Hobberstadt regards as
especially significant is that Duluth
workmen are beginning to own their
own homes to greater extent. The
ST. Louis County Building and Loan
Association, of which he is vice-presi-
dent was promoted by the Duluth
Trades and Labor Council, and steady
progress has been recorded since it be-
gan business two years ago. In Mr..
Hobberstadt's opinion temperance
sentiment is unquestionably making
Roadway in Duluth federated labor
circles
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-03-21
PROHIBITION IN KANSAS
TO BE TRULY PRESENTED

As a result of prohibition rally
held in Wichita, Kansas, at which
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes was
present and one of the principal speak
ers, fact-fnding commission was APP
pointed with a view to ascertaining
how we'll the dry law is enforced in
the pioneer dry state of Kansas. On
the commission are the following
widely-known Kansans: Henry ]. Al
len, chairman; Governor J. M. Davis;
c. B. Griffith, Attorney General; Vic
tor Murdoch; w. c. Coleman; Fl. H,
Motter, Internal Revenue Collector;
William Allen White; Mrs. c. H..
Brooke, vice-president Of the Kansas
League of Women Voters; and Miss
Mary Dobbs, state corresponding Sec
rotary of the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union. The report of the
committee will be given to the prohi-
bition forces OF the nation and prob
ably will be broadcasted over the
world, Kansas having for forty years
been the focal point of the prohibition
issue in the United States.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-03-21
WILLIS GIVES EDWARDS
A TASTE OF REAL TRUTH

Replying to Senator Edwards speech
i'll which the New Jersey Senator dc
clared that the accidental shooting of
Senator Greene, who was wounded i'll
a pistol duel between enforcement Of
ficers and bootleggers, was typical of
the methods pursued by the national
prohibition. department, Senator Willis
of Ohio said,
Nothing is said about the men whs
have been killed by bcoteggers, in
GLIDING the IS government agents.
The liquor element is murderous. The
men who bring liquor in this country
and transport it as far as it is being
transported are desperate thugs, armed
to the teeth. Shall it be said that Of
ficers OF the law shall be placed in
such a position that they will be IN
able to defend themselves from such
men"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-03-21
HERE'S A LOT OF BOOZE
THAT HAS NO CLAIMANTS

A hundred thousand dollars worth
of liquor now stored in. the Atlantic
City, n. J., Jail is the subject of con-
troversy between Atlantic City Chief
of Police and Philadelphia prohibition
agents, says North American dis
patch OF February "a.
In a statement issued last week
Chief of Police Miller OF Atlantic City
declared that five of his choice cells in
the lookup have been "cloggcd" with
expensive beer and liquor since last
September and that he wants the gov
eminent authorities to remove the
liquor. According to the chief, the
liquor was stored in the jail after raids
made by the agents acting under the
direction of Supervising Agent Nc
Clure of Philadelphia. They asked
that the liquor might be stored for but
a few days, according to the chief.
Supervising agent Mcclure is quoted
as saying that all liquor seized by
agents operating from his office is i'm
mediately brought to the prohibition
departments seizure rooms in the fed
eral building in Philadelphia and that
this Atlantic City booze does not con-
Germ him.
A hundred thousand dollars worth
of booze and no one to claim it. 1t is
incidents like this that make the thirsty
nullihcationists rage like the we'll
known 'heathen."
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-03-21
WHAT THE CURRENT MAGAZINES ARE SAYING ABOUT
PROHIBITION and LAW enforcement
(Reviewed by Emma L. Transeau)
Reviewed by Emma L. Transeau)

through with drink, but still | drank.
So conflict and shame tore me apart.
Then one day | walked up free, know
ing that the door of drink was shut.
Somehow or other | knew | should live
through the days of torment before me.
Each separate nerve jumped i'll tor
turc and the torture was the more that
| knew that from one moment to an
other high tranquility might be mine.
A few drinks and | would be once
more sane; yet the anodinc of drink
was for me only a tempting mirage,
for knew that one drink calls for two
and two call four. so there was moth
ing for it but endure that longing for
tranquility and peace which we call a
raging thirst"
After a course IN which she thought
she was drinking lin seemly fashion" y
she drank through one afternoon of
serene fellowship" when life came to
us only from far eff like the distant
humming of bees" The next morning
she awakened to % nervous system in
manaical disorder" and she realized
that she was further within the pen
etralia OF drunkenness than ever be-
fore"
But she looked back upon that gol-
den yesterday" as an explanation of
the why of drunkenness, and from
there OH in her story the golden haze
floats back and forth across her lucid
reasons for preferring sobriety to
drunkenness.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-03-21
VETS BRING OUT A NEW
WORD, "SPIGOT-BIGOT''

The Harvard Advocate, the monthly
college publication, offered a prize of
SIS for word of reproach for the man
or woman who advocates the enforce
ment of the prohibition law. The
prize-winning word, "spigot-bigot,"
was coined by New York City spins
ter who contributed the prize money
to the Association Against the Prohi-
bition Amendment. The "spigot- big
OTIS" have the advantage over the
scofflaws at any rate in one respect, in
that they have the law and the Consti-
tuition on their side
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-03-21
DENVER WET LIE NAILED

Jim Goodhcart, director of public
welfare OF the city OF Denver and SUI
perintendcnt and trustee of the Sun
shine Mission in that city, was quoted
IN the Colorado newspapers as deelar-
ing in Colorado Springs address that
prohibition is complete failure. lie
is quoted as saying that the old soaks
and the wise old soaks of saloon days
are the oply ones who have stopped
drinking, that it is the young folks, the
kids, who have taken it up. According
TO this newspaper account, Mr.. Good
heart said:
The fact is, the American people
never did want prohibition They
wanted to do away with the sa-
looms, but they arc nothing If not
impulsive, and when the thing was
taken over by a bunch of poll
ticians down in Washington they
let it be lifted right out OF their
hands.
American Issue made inquiry of Su-
perintendent Finch OF the Anti Saloon
League of Colorado to ascertain the
truth or falsity Of the statements
credited to Dcnvcr's public welfare
director as set forth in the article
above quoted. The reply from Mr..
Finch's Office is as follows:
This story came out in all the
state papers and the Ministerial
Alliance Immediately landed on
Jim. Jim was in the Springs at
the time. Seven preachers called
on him the next morning after the
alleged statement before he was
out of bed. He was crazy mad
He denied the statement en-
phatically and hustled to Denver
and came out with an article in
the Rocky Mountain News and
Times carrying the statements
credited to him. Mr.. Goodheart
is at the head Of Our Sunshine
Mission here in Denver and is
also the city chaplain of Denver.
Thus another wet lie is exposed. Not
long ago Judge Ben Lindsay of Den
yer was misquoted by the newspapers.
and made to appear as an enemy of
prohibition and its enforcement.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-03-21
R. I. WoRKHOUSE CLOSED
The Rhode Island state work

The Rhode Island state work
house has been closed. The
closing is testimony to the eff
cacy of prohibition. The news
is of peculiar interest, too, in
that Rhode Island is one of the
two states which have not rati-
fed the Eighteenth Amendment.
Since national prohibition has
been in effect commitments to
the Rhode Island workhouse
have decreased IT'S per cent.
For the ten years prior to pro-
mbition the average occupancy
was 2ll.4. In the four years of
prohibition the average was 58.2.
In the So years of its existence
the Rhode Island workhouse
has received 1885 prisoners.
In 1918 the years total for the
first time dropped to less than
200.
Under prohibition the great
est number of commitments in
any one year was n, which is a
total less than two-thirds of the
smallest pre-prohibition year.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-03-21
CHURCH Membership INCREASES
Census Reveals Growth in Leading
Christian Denominations During the
Past Year

The census OF religion i'll the United
States for 1928 compiled by the Chris
tan Herald, shows there are 45,457,
500 commandments, representing a gain
of o90,l50 during the year as COM
pared with a gain OF 797,565 in 1922.
There are 206845 ministers, gain
of 2,l73; and 57,404 houses of wor-
ship, a gain of 1854 The largest
Christian denomination, the Roman
Catholic, has 15,655, 200 communicates.
a gain of 133,6l6. Jewish congrega-
tons have 357,155. Thirty-four Budd-
hist Japanese temples have 5000 wor-
shippers.
Fourteen bodies OF Baptists gained
1922 COMMITMENTS, raising the to-
tails to an aggregate of S,237,02l; while
Is bodies of Methodists have S,622,836
communicates, a gain of 87,153. There
are 2,465,S3l Lutherans, 22,825 more
than last year; 2,462,557 Presbyter-
ians, a gain of 1920; 1,140,076 Epis-
copalians, a gain of 10,463; l,621, 205
communicates of the Disciples of
Christ, a gain of $500; and 647, $50
Eastern Catholics.
Among the larger of the other
Protestant denominations which show
gains are Reformed, United Brethren,
Latter Day Saints, Evangelical Synod
and Congregational
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-03-21
Cosmopolitan, March, 1920
DRINK
By airy Heaton Worse

The writer leaves her readers very
much as kipling LETT his at the end of
THE Lady or the Tiger" She has, &C
cording to her confession, been a
drinker, a hard drinker, and no longer
wishes to drink. But her convictions
about sobriety are badly mixed with
vague fances about the lure of far
off visions" that man gets in drunken
ness. Her experiences point to iogica!
deductions, but she is content to record
only impressions.
My sobriety has been come by
through pathway OF anguish and
shame The desire for drink did not
leave me gracefully as this passion left
a friend of mine. =. He is the only
one | have known who eluded the
bridge of torment which joins the wild
free country OF drink to the lovely
shining country of sobriety.
My sobriety was achieved by no
such easy road but at the cost of an
guisll and humiliation. Humiliation be-
cause OF promises broken by my inner
self. Days spent in saying, No
more" and then painful, unwilling
yielding to the drink ego No
one but myself knew or guessed how
far from normal I was, or how strange
or intricate the workings of my mind.
Finally moment came when what
was happening in my mind made me
afraid. | wanted to stop, but my
drink ego didn't. Spiritually was
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-03-21
WILL DO FULL DUTY
Gov. Sweet Threatens officials Who
Do Not Enforce Law; Won't Shirk
Responsibility.

Governor Sweet of Colorado, IN ar
address before law enforcement con.
vention in Denver attended by more
than 100 sheriffs. deputies and chiefs Of
police, in the following language hintec
at the political oblivion which threatens
officials who fail to heed the warning
of the people that the dry law must be
obeyed
As Governor | am frequently
appealed to by communities in the
state where officials are unmindful
of their oaths. None of our po-
litical parties should dare to NOM
mate for Office man TO enforce
the prohibition laws who is known
to use intoxicating liquor under
any circumstances. Where our
communities adopt this standard
as qualification for holding pub
lie office, they will find the prohi-
bition laws much more generally
observed. As chief executive of
this state | propose to leave no
stone nnturned to the end that our
state laws and the laws Of the
United States shall be rigidly en-
forged, | am not disposed to shrk
my. responsibility in this regard. |
confidently count upon the cooper
alton OF all right-minded, law
abiding citizens.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-03-21
LANGLEY. kELSER DRAMATIC DEBATE
SCHEDULED FOR NORTH CAROLINA CITIES

Kelser debate will
covering period April 10 inclusive The following
itinerary towns thus far announced:
April Spencer; statesvle; April TO- Tayovl April
apos April 49, Concord and Abemarc; April H. China April
Salisbury April 49, Troy April 2 Lowell May Charlotte; May H. Mock
vile; May Is, Winston-Saem.
debate discusses Can
Of Ohio taking the John W. Langley OF Chicago
affirmative 1t is the debate that Chstgau Langley have with
Illinois
highly
of enforcement of law and in addition unusually
tnings
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-03-21
STEAM ROLLER USED ON
PENNA. WHISKY STILLS

The people ran a steam roller over
the liquor traffic when they adopted
the Eighteenth Amendment and a
sheriff in Pennsylvania town actually
ran steam roller over 400 confscated
stills the other day The stills were
carried to paved street at the rear
of the county Jail and the heavy roller
went into action. The same week the
same sheriff destroyed conhscated liq-
uor valued at 100000.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-03-21

Representative Blanton of Texas
last week proposed to Congress that
the resolution of Congressman Hill of
Maryland calling for an investigation
of the prohibition bureau, be broad
ened to include investigation of the
Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-03-21
CHINESE TABOO CIGARETTES
AND WINE DRINKING

A Reform Society was organized in
Chefoo, China, the past year to stop
cigarette smoking and drinking.
Twenty of the gentry, including the
Military General, the County Magis-
trate and the Postmaster, signed
contract filed with the chief official.
1t provides for fine of twenty dol
lars for the breaking of the pledge.
the money to go toward the purchase
of lantern and slides with which the
Society would illustrate the evil cf-
fects of cigarette smoking and drink
ing.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-03-21

In one day last week three men con-
victed of illegally manufacturing liquor
were received at the Ohio penitentiary
and another one sentenced by the court
TO serve from one to FIVE years on the
same charge
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-03-21

This is why, perhaps, the Cincinnati
Enquirer, doughty champion of beer
and enemy of prohibition, says:
The radio vote on the liquor
question appears to be favorable
to the vets, but we incline to the
belief that 1t suggests nothing
more than the dew on hopes
which might easily turn to frost.
The Enquirer knows what it is talk
ing about. 1t has had experience with
beer referendums. 1t took one in Ohio
two years ago. Day after day it re-
ported bone-dry counties going wet.
And then the election was held and
the beer amendment was defeated by
majority of 10000. Is it any won
der that the esteemed Enquirer is sus-
picious Of beer referendums, and that
J i warns the vets not to be everconh-
dentf
Smyrna times., 1924-04-09
sHERIFFs SALES DOWN STATE
Three Were Held During the Past
Week Below Dover in Kent County

Three Were Held During the Past
Week Below Dover in Kent County
Three Sheriff's sales were conducted
during the past week by Sheriff John
H. Bullock. Two of the sales were
held on Saturday, March %, and the
other on Tuesday of last week. The
shirt factory of Joseph L. Mann and
Jacob H. Moore, located at Camden,
was sold on Saturday afternoon, March
%, in front of the Court House to
Arley B. Magee for his bid of 81 ,425
which was the only bid received for
the place. Five properties of James
H. Whitaker at FELTON, were sold in
front of the FELTON, Bank, Saturday,
March %, in the afternoon, for to-
tai of $12,680. The property was dis
posed of to several purchasers. The
fruit farm of Francis M. Soper To-
Gated below Magnolia was sold at the
Court House, Dover, on Tuesday af
ternoon Of last week for $30,000 The
purchaser was Conrad Kellar.
Smyrna times., 1924-04-09

Miss Eva Carter, daughter of Doc
tor and Mrs. C. H. Carter, Seaford,
won the defamation contest of Sea-
ford High School held in the Ladies'
Acorn Clubroom Friday night, before
a large assemblage. Miss Frances
Martin, daughter of Chief of Police,
and Mrs. John E. Martin, captured
second prize with "The Raven" and
Theodore Fleetwood was awarded
third prize having for his subject,
"Orient Yourself" The prizes were
$12, SO and SIS, given by Charles Van
Leer. The Seaford High School Or
chestra made a hit with its initial ap-
pearance, with Prof. c. Russell Sny-
der, as leader.
Smyrna times., 1924-04-09
LEVY COURT RECEIVE REPORTS
The Fees Paid County During March
Amounted to $1,777.65

Amounted to Sl,fIl.60
The monthly reports for March Of
the various officials of Kent County
were received by the Levy Court at
their regular weekly session on Tues
day. A total of s1,777.65 was re-
ceived in fees by the officers during
the month.
Recorder Of Deeds, Edgar H. At
kinson, headed the list with a report
of s959.5O. William H. Willis, Re
gister of Wills, reported $4O7.28 in
county fees and $296.69 in State fees,
Prothonotary, Daniel M. Ridgely, re-
ported $169.81, Edgar E. Clements,
Clerk of the Peace, reported $24l.O6
in county fees and $126.66 in State
fees.
David Metz appeared before the
Levy Court and requested that the
road near Postles' Corner in st. Jones
Neck be repaired. After a conference
with County Engineer T.Marvel Good.
en-, it was decided to have the roaC
repaired as soon as the weather opens
up.
Ellis Danner, who resides along th'
bay road, appeared before the Lev!
Court and entered a complaint abou
a tree trunk lying across a road ad
Joining his property causing an over
flow on his land. The Levy Court in
structed Engineer Gooden to have tn
trunk removed and the road filled in.
Prof. H. V. Holloway, State Super
intendent Of Public instruction, cam
before the Levy Court regarding sex
eral bad places in roads near school
in the county. The Levy Court aC
vised Prof. Holloway that they wOul
! do all they could to remedy the situ'
j tion.
Smyrna times., 1924-04-09
STATE SUNDAY SCHOOLS TO
MEET IN CONVENTION At DOVER
SPEAKERS OF PROMINENCE TO
DELIVER ADDRESSES APRIL 1924
Smyrna and All Towns in the State
to Send a Observation-Disclosures of
Importance to be Discussed


Importance to be Discussed
The thirty-seventh annual conven-
tion of the Delaware Sunday School
Association will be held in Wesley
Methodist Episcopal Church at
Georgetown, April 1924.
There are three hundred and one
white Sunday Schools in the state,
each of which is entitled to send one
elected delegate to the convention. In
addition to the school delegates, there
are more than hundred state, county
and hundred association officers who
are ex-officio delegates and very many
of them will be in attendance.
While a school may have but one
official representative, there is no limit
to the number of visitors that may at
tend and many visitors are expected.
The general secretary, Mr.. Abner B.
Brown, has secured speakers of a
very high order, a number of them
having a nationwide reputation. They
are specialists, we'll versed in the
lines of work that they will present.
The convention will be both educa-
tional and inspiTational and delegates
and visitors will be enabled to carry
back to their respective schools much
valuable help.
The separate conferences on Cradle
Roll, Beginners, Primary, Junior,
Young Peoples and Adult work will
be of greatest value, the leader of
each of these conferences being an ex-
pert on that department of Sunday
school work. The conference on
Cradle Roll work will be led by Miss
Grace Baird, president of the Graded
Union of Sunday school workers of
Wilmington. Miss Minnie L. Davis,
a member of the faculty of the Mary
land State Normal School at Towson,
and a noted Sunday school worker of
Baltimore, will conduct the conference
on work with Beginners. Miss Lillian
E. Mccormick, a graduate of the Re
ligious Education Department of Bos-
ton University and Children's Division
superintendent for Maryland and Del
aware, will have charge of the con-
ference on Primary work. Miss Meme
Brockway, superintendent of Chill
dren's work for the American Baptist
| Association, a worker of national rep
utation, will direct the conference on
Junior work Col. Joseph H. CudGpp
of Baltimore, superintendent of Young
| Peoples work for Maryland and Del
aware, will be the leader of the con
ference on Young Peoples work. Rev
Maurice R. Hamm, also of Baltimore
and superintendent of Adult work fol
both Maryland and Delaware, is K
conduct the conference on Adult work
Many local workers will assist n
these conferences.
The general program includes sucl
speakers as Mr.. A. NJ. Locker, O
Chicago, a representative of the In
ternational Sunday School Council o
Religious Education; Mrs. A. w. Kar
nell, of Philadelphia, a member of tn
Pennsylvania staff of Sunday Schoo
specialists; Rev. f. Leroy Dakin, pas
tor Of the Baptist Temple of Brook
lyn, New York; Rev. r. P. Nichols
former Director of Religious Educa
ton for the Wilmington Conferenc
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
and Miss Ellen Samworth, a teache
in the public schools of Wilmingto
and a worker in the Daily Vacatio
Bible schools Of that city.