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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-05
BURY EN- DEEP, NOWADAYS
Brewery Down Under Ground is Raided;
Is Cleverly Concealed but Agents
Find 1t

Deep under the ground near Frankfort,
Ill, Prohibition Chief Al Johnson and his
beer squad discovered equipment capable
OF turning out 200 barrels of beer day.
Old-timcrs recall that it was built fifty
years ago as wine cellar. 1t was found
on sharp bank of Hickory Creek hall
mile north of the Lincoln Highway and
a mile north of Frankfort. A gravel road
passes near by and there is little white
cottage in which the lookout was posted.
Back of the cottage is white barn. In
der the stable was found the four sub
tcrranean floors of the brewery. The
barn itself was the loading room. The
floors below were devoted to the manu-
facture of beer.
The equipment was modern and in the
caves under the earth were found eight
watts, each containing 100 barrels of beer.
Information obtained by the government
indicates that the quarters were fixed up
in February or March and that during re-
cent weeks the owners have been clearing
SIS COO week. Agents seized truck
which had just been loaded and identified
a fleet of conveys that dashed away from
the cottage as they arrived.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-05
CEYLON'S FORCES UNITED
About Temperance Reforms;
Program Adopted

At a conference of the Christian forces
OF Ceylon, meeting as the Christian Coun-
Gil to consider how to suppress the evils
of liquor, a number of recommendations
were adopted and statement set forth.
Need of education OF individuals as to
the effects of alcohol is one of the things
emphasized. Members of churches are
asked to practice and encourage total abb
stinence. Legislative action to reduce
the consumption of liquor is third object
which the council wishes realized, and to
this end local option efforts are recon-
mended.
Among specific recommendations are
the following:
That the sale of liquors in rest houses
should be limited to bona fde travellers;
that bar licenses to hotels should not be
granted or renewed without careful in
quiry; that licenses should not be granted
to athletic clubs except after careful in
quiry and under proper restrictions; that
hours of sale shall be reduced minors be
refused liquors, conditions under which
liquor stores are kept investigated, and the
establishment of substitutes for tayerns.
The conference recommendations are
signed by representatives of the Church
of England in Ceylon, the Wesleyan
Methodist Church, the Presbyterian
Church, the Baptist Missionary Society,
the South India United Church, the Cey-
Ion and India General Mission, the Sal
vation Army, the Y. NJ c. A. and the
7. w. c. A
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-05
MAKE RECORD DAYS WORK
Officials Seize Much Beer and Visit
Breweries; Trucks are Found
Conveying Intoxicants

Federal authorities md police coopsrat-
ing in number of seizures affecting two
breweries in Philadelphia and two auto
mobile trucks of nigh power beer in
Avalon n. :, Carlisle and near Sunbury,
Ia, made record days work when they
seized truck containing six barrels of
beer that was being shipped out of the
John Roehm brewery of Philadelphia.
According to analysis the barrels contain
ed near beer, but Divisional Prohibition
Chief Reuben B. Sans says the truck and
near beer will be conhscated because the
brewery company hal no permit To man
uiacture cereal beverages. The Roehm
brewery has been seized twice accord
ing to prohibition officials, the last time
being released under ten thousand dol
lar bond after it was hbeled to the United
States marshal.
AT the same time United States Mar
shall w. Frank Mathues announced the
taking over of the New Philadelphia
Brewing Company which was libeed by
the United States court several days ago.
This brewery was caught by members
of the United States beer squad shipping
cargo OF beer a month ago.
Seize 20 Barrels
At Avalon members OF the squad dis
covered % barrels of beer in the plant of
the Avalon Ice and Cold Storage Com
pany. The owner of the plant teld them
that he had taken possession of the plant
only week previously and did not know
OF the existence of the beer.
In Carlisle, Agent Hopewell seized
truck which contained three barrels and
So cases of beer which proved to contain
more than one-half of one per cent beer.
Truck and beer were con6scated. A SIM
liar seizure of beer was made by another
agent on road near Sunbury
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-05

upon information that her alleged regis
try at Havana as British vessel was of
doubtful legality. The question will be
investigated by customs authorities. If
the vessel is found to be protected by duly
authorized British registry it will be
turned back to the high seas.
1t is claimed, however, that the
schooner is unit of the Bahama whisky
smugglers' feet, and it is said to have
been under observation of the federal Off
GERS for some time.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-05
LEAGUE FIGHTING COUZENS
Endorses Judge Tuttle as Senatorial Can
didate to Defeat Wet Incumbent
from Michigan

Through its state superintendent, r. N.
Holsaple, and its president, r. H. Scott,
the Anti-Saloon League of Michigan has
endorsed Judge Arthur futile as candi-
date for United States Senator against
Senator James Couzens. The League
statement is that by his repeated state
nents that the prohibition law can not be
enforced and that he is in favor. of five
per cent beer, Senator Couzens has for
feitcd all claims to the support of those
who believe in prohibition.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-05
ONTARIO TO VOTE SOON

Ontario province will hold p1ebiscite
on prohibition on October g. according to
an announcement by Premier G. Howard
Ferguson. Ontario has provincial pro-
hibition law which, however, permits the
manufacture of beer and native wines for
expectation. 1t is one of the Canadian
provinces that is regarded as dry.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-05
VESSEL IS SEIZED; ITS REGISTRY IS DOUBTFUL
Made That Schooner Belongs Bahama Whisky Smuggrs
Fleet Investigation is Being Made by Customs Officials
to Real Facts in Case

Loaded with 1000 bags of fine liquor
each containing six quarts, the schooner
Charles H. Hyde was towed up Savannah
river by the Yanlacraw and anchored at
municipal wharf. In addition to the liq-
uor in the bags there were absinthe and
German beer.
The schooner was overhauled off the
coast of San Fernandina just outside the
international limit. Captain Lauriat of
the Yamacraw said the vessel was seized
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-05
DRY AGENT MURDERED

While assisting in liquor raid in the
foreign quarters of Steubenville, Ohio,
P H. Martin, prohibition agent attached
to Jefferson county court, was shot four
times and was dead when found. Martin
is the fifth dry agent to be killed in the
foreign section of that city within a year.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-05

Women of Los Angeles county, Calf,
are among the hackers of Caryl NJ. Shell
don, candidate for district attorney, who
as police judge was credited within the
last year of assessing upward of million
dollars in hning prohibition violators.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-05
OUR WATCH TOWER
THAT BIG LIQUOR LIE
By Sam w. Small

AS some of us sensed when we read it.
that lurid story OF the 17,000-ton float
ing cabaret" off New York shore turns
out to have been the pure fiction invented
by liquor minded reporter of the New
York Herald Tribune. He has confessed
the lie and the paper has shamefacedlv
apoogized to the public for giving il ma
tional currency.
That shows how easily pro-liouor edi-
tors can be duped by stories that cater to
their own t-prohibition sentiments. IN
cidentally, it may be remarked that gov
ernment authorities are almost constantly
probing similar, if less sensational. propa-
ganda by the liquor presses and finding
them as wholly fictitious. Really, you
can't believe all you see in the papers. 1
have edited some Of them myself.
SOME DRY FACTS
Peter Doelger, one of the notorious
brewers of New Y rll, has taken the beer
vacuum under his waistband off TO Italy.
He confcsseS his fear of bootleg stuff in
this country and longs for something to
guzzle that does not foreshadow embaln1-
ing fluid and a graveyard spade five fee
above his face. On his departure he stated
to the reporters that what this country
needs IS not protective tariff, par money,
world peace and agricultural prosperity,
but-just plain high-power beerl What
pity that Pete doesn't run for the presi-
dency instead of running for the Italian
beergardensi
1t IS noteworthy that the German
American societies, the survivors in cam
outage of that reasonable beer -bund that
Congress disbanded during the World
War, are now heartily endorsing La Fol
lette for President. Sure Mike; birds of
feather flock together!
Japan is becoming alarmed by the enor-
nous drink bill that is burdening the do
mestic and industrial life of the empire.
1t now amounts to a half billion dollars
and is three-fourths Of the total cash of
the imperial government. The American
brand of prohibition is the only relief the
Japanese statesman can see ahead of the
nation.
The poor old dry South, that was to de-.
cay and die out because of its prohibition
drouth, is now enjoying the expenditure
of $20,000000 for the building of new no.
tels-did you get that-hotels?
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-05
A JUDICIAL JUGWUMP

how to medicate his patients without
handy flask of liquor in his satchel, this
jurist has summoned Commissioners Blair
and Haynes into court to show why they
should not issue on demand to the alleged
doctor all the liquor prescriptions he may
want over and above the legal limit.
Such action raises the query as to when
the medical profession in this country be-
came sacrosanct and immune to the re-
quirements of the national Constitution
and laws?
Just now we are being soIenenIy told
by party platform makers and by the cam
didates for President and Vice President
that the Constitution is really "the ST.
preme law" equally binding on persons
and states and that no one, no class, no
creed, no sex or race can be allowed to
choose whether to obey it or defy it. How
comes it, then, that any doctor may raise
the red flag of revolt and demand that the
law shall be suspended or annulled for his
special sort of so-called medical soyer-
eighty?
Our doctors are educated under state
legislative sanctions, their medical degrees
are given to them by state authority, and
they are licensed to practice their profess
sion under state licenses subject to regr1-
lation and revocation at the will Of the
state. They have no higher rights than
men of other licensed professions, such as
ministers, lawyers. teachers, BARRIERS
butchers, or near-beer dealers.
If they plead that they are charged
with preserving health, the sanitary of
fcer can plead the same If they say
their ministration is to save life, the po-
iceman and the bathing beach life guard
can say the same. So why should any
doctor be held immune from the law that
also has been made to conserve health
and save life? AS Togo says: "We ask
to know"
CHARGE, STATION, CHARGED
1t is now up to our solemn and funny
old friend, Cap. Stayton of the Busch
Blues Commonly known as the Associa-
ton Against the Prohibition Amend
ment) to grab his bung-starter and fall
afoul of DR.. Walter r. Miles, the eminent
authority on psychology and physiology
at the Carnegie Institution here in Wash
ington.
Today, after exhaustive experiments,
personally made with selected living sub
jects, begun in 1915 and lasting up to
date, DIR. Miles publishes, as the demon
strated result, that us per cent beer is
unquestionably detrimental to the efficient
functioning of the human body, both men
tally and physically"
The Evening Star newspaper, report
ing the particular facts of the experiments
regarding the potential possibilities of
IFS per cent beer" as an Intoxicating bev-
erage. says: "The results he obtained are
accepted as forever settling that much
mooted question"
Now, how can you expect Cap. Stayton
to silently stand for that sort of scientific
slam? He just won't do it! He will rear
himself up on back bench and bawl
right out in meetin' that doc Miles has
been hoodooed by Wayne Wheeler and
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-11-14

the smugglers have resorted to the use
of hydroplanes. So the Swedish system
the licensed dispensers sharing their
profit with the state-is failure.
You talk of undermining individual
consciences." The law does not make
people hypocrites, though it may reveal
their hypocrisy. What about the "un-
dermining of conscience" under the Ii
cense system, with people sneaking in
side entrances (hypocritically called Ia
dies entrance) at forbidden hours. with
children rushing the growler," with
Sunday the biggest day for lawless deal
ers? The trouble is that certain con-
sciences have been undermined and hard
ened through familiarity with the liquor
traffic and its graft and debauchery. AS
Roosevelt said, "The liquor business
tends to produce criminalty in the pop
ulation at large and law breaking among
the saloonkeeper themselves. 1t de-
bauches not only the body social, but
the body polite as we'll"
No. Mr.. Editor, your admissions re-
garding the benefits of prohibition make
a strong exhibit: your attempt to argue
against it are a dismal failure.
Collins, N. Y.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-11-14
The INDEPENDENT AND PROHIBITION
III. H. Culvcr)

censed dealers themselves. And why2
To protect themselves against the COM
petition of unlicensed trafickers! The
definition was their own, and was all
right, for their protection. But they now
think it all wrong for the protection of
the publicl There were thousands of IL
1icit liquor dealers right in New York
City in license days. When Chicago had
1000 licensed saloons, it had more than
that many blind pigs" Ex-Governor
McCorkle of West Virginia, in COM
menting on the many blessings accruing
to that state through the dry law, recalled
that at one time, thirty-fve years ago.
o22 indictments against moonshners and
bootleggers in West Virginia were made
at one term of court
Bootlegging In Wet Countries
And bootlegging and smuggling are
prevalent in booze-rdden countries. A
news item describes the serious problem
confronting the police of Glasgow from
the increasing use of methylated spirits.
1t says: Although accurate figures are
difficult to obtain, it may be safe to say
that more than half of the cases Of
drunkenness in the city are attributable
to methylated spirits. Is legalized booze
unavailable in Scotland? Not SOS you'd
notice it.
According to an Associated Press dis
patch from Dublin, the manufacture of
poteen or illicit whisky has there reached
alarming proportions. Many crimes are
attributed to this fiery spirit, and the
bishops of the church are denouncing the
traffic. Is Ireland under prohibition?
Not to any alarming extent.
A cable to the Chicago News dated
Aug. 9TH, 1924, says Sweden's campaign
against contraband liquor is ineffective;
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-11-14
SPEED BOATS READY SOON
Forty Being Built in Gloucester and
Camden to Be in Coast Guard
Service by End Of Year

The dry feet of 40 rum chasers now
under construction in Camden and
Gloucester are expected to be ready for
coast guard service Of the government
by the end of the year, according to
Gloucester, N. J., dispatch of October Fl.
Twenty-Five are being built in Camden
and already several of them have been
launched. Fifteen are being built at the
Rodgers plant in Gloucester and the gov
eminent will receive the first one shortly.
1t is the intention of the government to
put them into use as soon as they are fin
ished. The boats are not very long but
they are speedy, capable of making from
20 to Is miles an hour.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-11-14
ARREST ALL INTOXICATED
Philadelphia Total Increases When
Butler Orders Arrest of All
Who Appear Drunk

Arrests in Philadelphia for drunlIen<
ness from January when General But
Ter assumed charge of the department OF
public safety until October 80 reached tho
total of 44,003, says the Philadelphia
North American of November , The
total number of arrests made by police
all over the city for the same period for
every known offense amounted 10 1867
o2o.
The record breaking number of arrests
for drunkenness is attributed to the un-
usual activity of the police in following
out the orders of General Butler in ar
resting all persons who appear intoxicated
on the highways. The great weekend
raids on speakeasies and so-called social
clubs have also piled up the number Of
such arrests.
Under former regimes hundreds Of
men with just a Gag" were permitted to
stagger their way homeward without the
least thought of landing in the station
house. Things are different now as Gem
eral Butler believes the citizens will not
be so inclined to violate the law when
they know they will be arrested for APP
pearing on the highways drunk. Tho
safety director believes that large drop
in the number Of arrests for intoxication
will occur within the next six months
when the people realize the police ara
going to keep on arresting them for get
ting drunk.
No doubt the liquor interests will at
tempt TO make capital out of this largo
number of arrests for drunkenness by
declaring that prohibition has incrased
drinking in the city of Philadelphia.
This is not the case. In the old saloon
days police did not as rule arrest a
drunk unless the drunk was creating a
disturbance. 1t should be remembered
also that the prohibition policy does not
have fair chance in Philadelphia be-
cause of the inadequate state law. Sa-
looms are licensed, presumably to sell
Notwithstanding liquor, but in reality
most of them use the license as a screen
behind which intoxicants arc sold. An
effort is being made. to enact an ade-
quate enforcement code in the state of
Pennsylvania and when that is done
there will be fewer speakeasies in Phila-
delphia and in all parts of the state.
General Butler has made life a burden
to the bootleggers and to the boozers
and the large number of arrests for
drunkenness shows that police are in
earnest about enforcing the law With
the right kind of dry enforcement law
General Butler will make Philadelphia q
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-11-14

Deputy sheriffs searching for three
Minneapolis men on November found
their bodies along the shore of Twin
Lakes, near Minneapolis, says a Mime
apolis dispatch. The county coroner ex-
pressed the opinion that death was Prob
ably caused by "moonshine and expos
ure"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-11-14

Some months ago she sent her Rugby
football team to South Africa.
1t was a championship aggregation.
Great things were expected of the boys.
Sporting England looked forward to
succession of victories.
Up to the present they have won three
games, lost two and drawn one.
"If Britain wants to maintain the ex-
cellent standard set hitherto, certain of
her players must cut out the jollihcaton
part of the business"
The above sentence is not mine.
1t is a quotation from the Cape Times,
a South African English newspaper.
1t was polite way of saying that the
team was drinking too much.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-11-14

Federal authorities are making another
attempt to clamp the lid tight in Allan
tic City, says an October 4 dispatch.
United States district attorney at Trcn-
ton is making application for paddock in
junction against more than score of
cafes and saloons.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-11-14
But that was not ALL

But that was not all
"It is only the ghost of football side
that landed a month ago" the newspaper
says.
"The team deserves to be beaten"
Compare with this the rigorous disci-
pine of the Washington and Jefferson
College football team that travelled 5000
miles to meet its California opponents
couple of years ago.
Of the other American teams that win
championships on the gridron field and
travel hundreds of miles every season.
Efficiency cans be gained or main
tanned on an alcoholic regime.
And that fact applies to sports as well
70 industry
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-11-14

"In twenty years and less, if you sue
coed in making the United States dry, or
approximately so, you will lead England
in everything. Your efficiency will do
it."
A Philadelphia whom met in Lon
don last year quoted those words to me.
They were uttered by an English man
ufacturer with whom my friend was &C
quanted.
Commenting on this, the Philadelphia
said
English manufacturers, find, are
waking to a realization that efficiency is
wholly a matter of active body and brain
and that both are handicapped by the
drink habit"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-11-14

The fact, it would seem, is as applica-
bic in the way of sports as it is in indus
try.
England isn't up to par in her sports.
She is dropping behind other nations.
And yet she is the greatest sporting
race in the world.
She made very poor showing in the
Olympic games this year.
Worse than she did four years ago.
Is it possible that her convivial habits
IL the way OF intoxicants are responsible
for this?
In certain cases it would seem SO.