Evening star., 1924-11-05
STUDENTS CHANGE
/ VOLSTEAD VIEWS
Hail Him as Jolly Good Fel-
; low, But Sober Thought
Gives Different Decision.
BY Consolida ted Press

BY Consolidated Press
SAN FRANCISCO, November s.
More than 500 students of the Univer-
sity of California, including SO per
cent proportion of pretty co-edS, who
arose and sang, For He's jolly
Good Fellow to one Mr..
Nolstead-when dry agents raided a
big San Francisco beach resort, have
changed their minds somewhat to-
day. In the cold, dispassionate, sover
judgment of few mornings after,
they are not quite SO willing to con-
Cede that the author of Americas
well known .one-tenth- OIL per cent
mandate is such a regular guy after
all
This changed opinion regarding Mr..
NolStead is all because a band of in
Quisitive prohibition agents, with no
sense of appreciation for a glorious
foot ball victory for ones alma mater,
handed out some zoo citations and all
the students, including the fair CO.
eds who attended the foot ball cele-
bration, are in grave danger of per-
nanently terminating their university
connections.
The students and goods were JOY
ousiy celebrating CALIFORNIA; s blood
flngling foot ball victory of Saturday
over the University of Southern Cal
tfornia during the wee sma' hours of
Sunday morning when the dry en-
ASA~NiiiNill agents lIONt UNEXPECTEDLY
into view.
Depart From Custom.
Ordinarily, it is the custom Of liquor
FleuthS to take into custody all per-
sons whom they find imbibing for
bldden beverages in public places. To
nave done such a thing in the early
SUNDAY morning raid, however, would
have been an impossible feat. There
were SO many tables filled with liquor
and SO many prospective prisoners
that it would have taken score of
patrol wagons to carry the law vio-
jatorS to the nearest hooSegoW. So
the dry Sleuths handed out citations
instead.
BY actual count there were 2OS ci-
tatlons, each requiring the recipient
to call at the office of the California
prohibition commissioner without
fail Some who received them called
on Commissioner Samuel Rutter as
Per orderS-Some didn't The major
1ty who didn't was far in ascendancy
An incident of the raid was the vo-
cal number inducting Mr.. Volstead
into the good fellows" club. 1t
was rendered with gusto. The assem-
bled students and co-edS also gave
Rhree rousing cheers and a tiger for
the national enforcement measure and
another for the dry sleuths who were
enforcing it. One bibulouS alumnus
even went So far as to mako a speech
declaring on the part of all present
that they were glad the prohis drop
ped in
AIS changed today, however. The
college authorities have asked Com
missioner Rutter for a list of the
names of those to whom citations
were issued, and have prefaced the
request with an announce ment that
all members of Californias student
body who received such citations
Will be asked to quit college.
According to the prohibition Off
GERS, no citations were rendered any
of the campus queens present. At the
beach resort, where the raid took
, place, however, it is the custom to
take the names OF all persons for
whom table reservations are made,
and it is barely possible that the uni
SerSity authorities may do a little
checking up on this score. If they
should, the 200 coed guests of the
200 students receiving citations are
not out of the woods yet.
There's one development of the raid
that is causing the inconSiderate pro-
hibition officers to do a lot of think
ing. They are wondering where mere
college students got all the good liq-
uor that was found. Not only did 80
per cent of all the tables in the place
have law-violating beverages on
them, assert the agents, but virtually
all of it, according to gustatory and
other tests, was almost as goed as
pre-war stock.
These rah rah boys are no pikers"
commented the raiding dry agents.
-They run to good liquor and lots of
it"