Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-12-05
FEDERAL DRY Law
ENFORCEMENT WILL
TROUBLE Congress
Digging Deeper Into Taxpay-
ers' Bank Book Necessary
To Make Law Effective
BY HARRY B. HUNT
NEA Service Writer

! NEA Service Wgiter
| WASHINGTON, DecM 1.-The
only way to make prohibition pro.
bibit, aGungress viii be tcld VIXEN i,
meets to consider appropriations for
the next fiscal YER, viii be to dig
q lot deeper into the national peck
| ethook.
Even here in the capital it must
be admitted intoxicants are more
readily obtainable than two OF
three years ago, and the quality
Is much more dependable.
Producers of "moorShine" are
no longer amateurs. The product
they turn out today, in large part.
lacks only proper aging to make
it compare favorably with many
of the cheaper brands of pre-.
prohibition liquor.
A large distilling layout, located
directly across ire street from the
House office building, where cen
gressmen have their offices, was
raided few days after election.
1t was equipped to turn out a
product which even congressional
palates might have pronounced
good, had not its presence been
disclosed by sheer accident.
In addition to added appropria.
tions to finance the ferreting out
| of internally manufactured illici:
beverages, more extensive and eX.
pensive guard will nave to be main
tanned against struggled liquors be.
fore prohibition will prohibit.
Just what the coast guard aut
revenue cutter services arc VI
against in trying t. outwit The
well-financed, carefully organized
Smuggling rings will be told House
and Senate appropriations com
mittees by Rear Admiral Fred G
/ Billiard and his said, lieut., Com
Stephen Yeandle.
4 In order to get his facts straight
/ Yeandle recently went abroad il
the guise of man eager to lear
the rum-running business, to bu,
boat and get in on the "cas,
spoils."
| He visited lonely points alon'
the coast where bootleggers hay
set up warehouses and establishe,
underground transportation an
communication systems more weir
and devious than anything eve
| thought Of in the old days 0
| slavery's underground railroad. "
/ He will have some real thriller
to recount that may stir Congress
to recognition of thefect that tn
men it employs to enforce prohibi
ton are pitted against . band Q
buccaneers as determined and re
sourceful as any of the band tia
sailed with Captain Kidd in tn
old days when piracy was the cas-
road to adventure and easy money
| Peppery "Cole" Blease of Soutl
/ Carolina, elected to the Unite'
| States Senate, has served notice OF
| his constituents that, as a senator
he is to be known henceforth a.
| Coleman Livingston Blease, no less
Down in Carolina, where "Cole
las been hot coal in politics fol
the past decade, they have Of late
| given him the diminutive title Of
"Colie." Of course it has beer
meant as a term of endearment
But as senator, Coleman doesrN
want endearments. He wants dig
nifty. "Cole" was bad enough, but
"Colie" couldn't possibly be
endured. 1t gave him pain. Toe
much like "colic, perhaps.
Anyway, hereafter, remember, j
is not "Cole" Blease, nor Collie
Blease, but the Honorable ColeTat
Livingston Blease, United States
senator!
l. = =
Quietly, but inexorably, General
John ]. Pershing, retired command
er-in-chief of the A. E. F. and gen
cral Of all the American armies, is
being fitted into a niche as the Of
fetal representor of the United
States at all formal celebrations by
other nations.
Pershing sailed the other day as
Especial ambassador" of the
United States, 10 atteni Peru's
celebration of the battle of Ava
cucho. from which the South
American rspublicqdst4s her tinde-
pendenees sW 51t
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