The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-01-25
DRY and DRIER
is FORECAST FOR
CHICAGO in 1924
RUNS on the Run, City Leaders
Assert

RUNS on the Run, City Leaders
Assert
And the feet OF the gin hound shall
blister ere he finds the drink he seeks. y
u. S. District Attorney Edwin A.
Olson.
Chicago today is entering upon its
dryest era. Law enforcement is the
order OF the times. Woe unto the
bootleggers and the beer runners. The
% per cent will rule; the lawless ? per
cent will be driven from the city.
This was the message sent out yes
terday by Mayor Dcver, Chief of Po-
lice Collins, States Attorney Grove,
and United States District Attorney
Edwin A. Olson at the annual dinner
of the Committee of Fifteen at the
Hotel La Sale.
A Dry Time Coming
1t was message that promised
Chicago a drouth unheard Of in its
history and comparable only TO the
proverbia and poetic burning sands
of the desert. 1t came out OF meet
ing Of which the Democrats and the
Republicans sat down together i'll
peace and accord to the right and left
arm OF Julius Rosenwald.
1--WE have the best mayor that we
have had in the thirty-nine years that
| have been resident here" said Mr..
Rosenwald, POSTMASTER and vice pres
ident of the Committee of Fifteen. Il
know that he will finish the good work
he has started"
you bet he will" was the genesis
OF reply from Corporation Counsel
Francis X. Busch. representing the
mayor. "He has dedicated himself to
the proposition that law is law, that
all laws must be enforced and that
whether law is popular or unpopular
has nothing to do with its enforce
ment.
"The mayors position when this
came up was that the merits of the
law were not involved; simply that ii
was the law and must be enforced
and that there was only one answer
that any conscientious public official
could make"
Others Who Spoke
Then tSate's Attorney Grove, Dis
trict Attorney Olson and Samuel 2,
Thrasiler, superintendent OF the com
mittee, spoke; and Mr. Rosenwald in
troduced Health Commissioner Her
man n. Bundesen, Judge Harry OIL
son and others who occupied seats at
the speakers table.
States Attorney Grove spoke. i4e
"All law enforcement officers he
said. "arc now in complete harmony
and they arc backed up by healthy
public sentiment. This is as it should
be-wrangling among the officers OF
law enforcement gives aid and COM
fort TO the crooks and the beer run
ners.'
Chief Collins gave his theory" OF
the law philosophy which has
brought him up from the ranks to the
head of one department.
Ever since | was a patrolman in
uniform" he said, sit has always been
my idea that all laws and ordinances
must be enforced. and that it is not
a matter OF election which we will en-
force and which we will not enforce.
Winking at one law brings violations
OF many others.
Nothing we have ever had TO deal
with has caused SO much lawlessness
as the prohibition law"
What United States Has Done
1t was District Attorney Olson who
predicted the coming OF the city's dry
est era. He talked OF injunctions,
ripped into the state courts, and wet
masters in chancery,' and referred to
the Entertainers cafe as that black
and tan dive out on the south side"
Before long he said, 1--WE will
have it so dry that the gin hounds will
blister their feet running around look
ing for a drink.
I'VE have just cleaned up 5000 old
cases. he continued, land ! issue
warning that we're now ready to start
and put all OF our time in Oil current
business.
j "We have closed twelve breweries,
we have turned the Fox river amber
from Aurora beer. We have padlocked
$20,000,000 worth of Chicago prop
erty.'
How He Closed Hotel
Then he told Of the closing of the
De Jonghe hotel recently.
"They told ME it couldn't be done.
why, Olson, you're crazy they said,
that property is worth million dol
lars And ] answered them, i don't
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