The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-05-02


you ask me what influence legali-
cation of 2.75 per cent beer would
have on general prohibition enforce
ment. / answer in one sentence: 1t
would transform the people of the
United States from a whisky drink
ing to beer drinking nation"
"The dissatisfied man is the one
who becomes the drunkard. The salts
fed man becomes the good citizen.
And l say that this prohibition Of
today has caused the utmost in dis
satisfaction"
will be foolish enough to try to re-
peal the eighteenth amendment. What
we who plead for 2.75 per cent beer
want to do is to get the good that lies
in temperance and rid ourselves of the
evils of the present prohibition"
Several eminent psychiatrists told
the committee of the great increase
in insanity from alcoholism since pro-
hibition, and at least one minister of
the gospel stepped forward to de-
clare that the Volstead act is unen-
forceable, unpopular and wrong
officially, morally and socially. A
large number of samples of the poison
Gus stuff sold in Chicago for "hootch"
comprised one of the exhibits.
OFFERS for Muscle Shoals were up
~ before the senate agricultural
committee and a delegation of Ten
nessee manufacturers appeared to
argue against the Ford bid. Their
statements may be thus summarized:
/. Expenditure of thousands of dol
lars made the South look on Ford as
it's savior if given Muscle Shoals.
2. Some $4,000 for this propaganda
came from Ford friends in Nashville,
Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Memphis
alone. How much more, and it's source
is unknown.
8. But the South now is waking
up to the fact that Ford in Muscle
Shoals means ruin and not salvation.
THE house committee on banking
4 and currency, perfecting the Nc
Fadden bill revising the national bank
act, approved city-wide branch bank
ing proposals. The committees de-
cision in this is approved by Con-
troller of the Currency Dawes.
TESTIMONY before the Teapot
L Dome committee lost its ex-parte
character for few minutes when
James o. Lewis, a consulting pc
troleum engineer, upheld Former Sec
rotary Denby's policy of getting the
naval reserve oil out of Teapot Dome
and into storage as expeditiously as
possible. He said:
IF Teapot were rapidly developed
today, the recoverable oil could be got
out in two years. Otherwise, with the
gas pressure exhausted, it would take
twenty to fifty years and be very ex-
pensive. The loss Of gas pressure
would, in short, unfit Teapot for an
emergency"
Mr.. Lewis said the amount of oil
In Teapot had proved very disap-
pointing"-12,OO 100000 to 24,OOO,OOO of
barrels instead of the bureau Of mines
estimate of 135,OOO,OOO.
WHILE the Borah committee was
w hearing stories of the alleged
plot to bring about the Indictment of
Senator Wheeler in Montana, the same
topic was brought up before the
Brookhart committee. John S. Glenn
of Nashville, Tenn, told the latter
committee the first move to get"
Wheeler was engineered by w. j.
Burns and Nal Daugherty. Speaker
Gillett of the house appeared volun-
tarily before the committee and ex-
ploded the sensational testimony of
Capt. ii. L. Scaife concerning trunk
full of whisky" which Seattle had more
than intimated was sent to Mr.. Gill
let's Office.
Harry Daugherty, being now free to
talk, made red hot speech in Column
bus in which he denied fatty much OF
the testimony heard by the Wheeler
committee. His most significant state
ment was that he had given up his
cabinet post rather than contribute
to reasonable cause" Files of the
Department of Justice, he said, con-
tanned abundant proof of the plans,
purposes and hellish designs of the
communist internatiOnale."
Bear in mind" he added, "that the
files which refused to deliver to the
Wheeler investigating committee at
the time my resignation was request
ed were demanded by Brookhart and
Wheeler, two United States senators
who, spent last summer in Russia with
their soviet friends-those same soviet