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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-07-25
OUR SPORTS DEPARTMENT
Expert Comment on Olympic Games
Chicago Herald and Examiner)
(By Universal Service)
WHEELER SAYS PROHIBITION
WON OLYMPIC

Washington, July 14.-Nations, like ath-
letes, triumph only as they avoid alcohol,
Wayne B. Wheeler of the Anti-Saloon
League asserted today in pointing out that
the United States and Finland, leaders in
the Olympic games, are "the driest nations
in the world"
Wheeler listed the performances of
Great Britain and France as rejecting the
prevalence of alcohol on those countries
Bootlegging and home brewing of abb
sinthe, he asserted, rs increasing in
France in spite of all her wines and beer"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-07-25
The Canadian Method

The repeating of Canadian laws against
liquor III various provinces IS result of
recent elections resulted from combina-
ton of lax enforcement and constant prop
aganda in favor of beer and wine. In the
United States the liquor forces are follow
ing the same procedure and hope to attain
the same results. 1t was never more inn
portant for the drys to maintain their or
ganization and keep up their educational
work as we'll as their fight for candidates
in sympathy with enforcement of dry laws.
If the United States gives evidence of
weakening and retreat now it will certainly
delay and possibly defeat world prohibi-
ton for generations.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-07-25
Tipping in beer or wine is the surest
way to defeat" Wheeler said.
ANOTHER DRY VICTORY
Duncan c. Miner in the Chicago Even
ing Post)

ing Post)
Chicago, July 13-To the Editor of The
Post. Sir: The supposed puzzle as to
the athletic superiority of Finland may
find at least partial solution in the fact
that this is the only prohibition nation in
Europe. The people have had long
training against the use of liquor as bev-
erage. Before the downfall of the car,
they enacted prohibition-but it was We
toed by the Russian authorities.
Is it not an interesting coincidence that
the two nations leading in the honors of
the Olympic games are under prohibition?
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-07-25

facture of 275 per cent beer" This same
organ now states that the vets did not ex-
pect to get beer plank in the platform of
either party. This then supports the the
ory that the wet fight in connection with
the national convention was chiefly for
propaganda purposes.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-07-25
Will Seek to Elect Wet Legislatures
and Congress in Coming
Election
CONVENTION FIGHTS WE'RE
WET PROPAGANDA SCHEME
Organized Nullifers Working to
Moisten Farmers and Laborers
Through the Rural Press

part of the program of the wet forces
is set forth in pamphlet supplied to
members of the Association Opposed to
the Prohibition Amendment. This pro-
gram has the backing of joint commit
tee representing the American Federation
of Labor, the Moderation League, and the
Constitutional Liberty League. This CONF
mittee was formed in Washington in Jam
uary of this year and is claimed to repre-
sent an organized voting membership of
more than five million. The following
items on the wet program were planned
by them to supplement their regular
work of supporting wet candidates for
Congress, state legislature and all en-
fcrcemcnt offices,
The Liquor Program
.a) Have articles published in the agri-
cultural papers pointing out to the farmers
increase of their taxes, and the injustice
they are doing to the cities.
(b) Establish bureau to aid in or
ganizing the forcign-born voters who
have been accustomed to their wines and
beers, who feel that they were brought
to this so-called land of liberty under false
pretenses.
(c) One of our representatives re-
Gently visited every county in two big
western states generally counted dry.
If we can afford to keep men working in
these states liberal delegates will be
A.,
Id Through arrangements with social
clubs and other organizations with which
1aboring men are affiliated, we can we be-
heve, have a million men sign cards de-
claring their intention to vote for the as
sociations principles. These men can not
at present pay dues. Many of them will
get the women of their families to sign
similar cards.
Wet Paper Tells Booze Plans
The Champion of Fair Play, official or
gan of the liquor interests of Illinois and
surrounding states is calling on its read
ers to fight hard for wet candidates for
the state legislature and for Congress. 1t
is pointed out by this paper that even if
Al Smith had been nominated and elected
as president he could not have taken the
Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead
Act out of the laws of the nation.
The Champion says in its latest number:
''We all know-and the people that want
their beer must be educated to the fact
that Congress must be appealed to for any
change in the Volstead act for the manu-
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-07-25
Will County Citizens and Officials
are Stirred to Determined
Action
ENFORCEMENT LEAGUE TO
FIGHT LAWLESSIIESS
Joliet Mayor Says City Must Be
Made Dry; Calls for Coopera-
ton by Citizens

"a boomerang instead Of bomb is
the way the Rev. Irving L. Putnam of
Joliet described the thing that partly
wrecked the Ottawa ST. NJ. L. church
building and parsonage in that city Rev.
Putnam who is pastor of the Richards
St. M. Z. church in Joliet writes that
strong law enforcement organization
has been formed to stamp out liquor law
lessness in Will county. This organiza-
ton was launched about month before
the bootlegger's bomb was exploded in an
attempt to wreck one of the leading
churches of the city. Sentiment in sup
port of the organization rose by leaps and
bounds after the outrage directed against
the church of which the Rev. Henry Z.
Rompel is pastor. The Will County En-
forcement League which was started by
the Ministerial Association, has the back
ing of several of the strongest business
men of the city and it is planned to put
on real enforcement program that will
reduce liquor lawlessness to a minimum
in Will county.
The boomerang bomb which aroused
greater interest in the Enforcement
League also awoke other agencies to
more intensive action against Volstead
violations. The Association of Com
merce offered a reward of one thousand
dollars for the arrest and conviction of
the person or persons responsible for the
explosion. The local Kiwans Club
adopted resolutions containing the fol-
lowing: Resolved, further, That we join
with all other civic organizations and law
abiding people in aiding the proper au-
thorities in their efforts to drive crime and
criminals out of Joliet and make it a city
in which lawabidng people will find it
joy to reside"
The Mayors Statement
In statement issued soon after the
bomb explosion Mayor Sehring of Joliet
said: 81 have instructed Deputy Com
mission Corcoran to detail special
squad for the sole purpose of bringing
the culprits to justice. This crime must
be solved and the guilty must be pun
ished
Joliet must be made absolutely dry.
An everlasting warfare is declared on the
liquor interests and the vicious elements
which they represent must be driven from
the city; if they elect to remain we will
flt-the jails and prisons with them Law
enforcement must be had at ;sly cost
From the city's standpoint there will
be no let-up until every bootlegger, rum
Concluded on Page g
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-07-25
A Great Propaganda Scheme

In the Republican ranks Nicholas Mur-
ray Butler was used to create beer and
wine copy for the newspapers while in the
Democratic party Al Smith was the head
liner for booze propaganda. The real wet
fight this time is being made in support of
wet congressional and Legislative candi-
dates The leaders of the wet forces are
anxious to make a good showing in their
attack against enforcement legislation in
the hope of gradually breaking down en-
forcement
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-07-25

Gasoline stations are now as thick as
were saloons in the old days.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-14
WOMEN KIN Of
n. !. SLAYERS
QUIT HOME
Attitude of Neighbors Force
Diamond Family to Leave
Brooklyn.

NEW YORK, March 1A.-Bowed
down with sorrow because Of the
attitude Of neighbors and former
friends, the mother and four sisters
Of Morris and Joseph Diamond,
doomed to death as the Brooklyn
bank messenger murderers and
bandits, have fled from their Brook
Ign home.
The mother, Mrs. Dora Diamond,
removed the entire contents of the
home, and the house. a three-story
dwelling for three families, has been
sold to Algernon Nova, lawyer for
the Diamond brothers. The five
women. accompanied by David. the
little son of Morris Diamond, slipped
quietly away to Ossining, N. Y, to
be near the brothers while they
await the final penalty In the Sing
Sing death house.
AS from time immemorial, the
women OF the family stigmatized by
disgrace. though personally inno-
cent, must pay. Broken in spirit by
the strain Of the trials and since
by the side glances, whispered COM
ments and innuendos Of a cynical
world, the mother and sisters sc.
cretly fled last week and on Thurs
day last visited the condemned
brothers at Sing Sing prison.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-14
MODERN RELIGION TOO
"SPONCY;" SAYS BISHOP

NEW YORK, March 14.-Too
much Of the religion practiced to-
day is Of the 'perambulator type"
asserted the Rt. Rev. Herbert Ship.
man, Suffragan Bishop of New
York, in the first of the union
Lenten services now being held by
five Protestant Episcopal churches
in Brooklyn. Speaking in the
Church of the Messiah, he said:
There is too much Of this hav-
ing to be held up to be good, like a
baby, and thinking that the people
we hire to do the work of the
church are the ones supposed to
do it.
"There ia too much OF the ten.
dency to softness in religion, the
spongy quality that soaks UP every
thing and gives out as little as
possible.
"The mental state Of the children
of today is due to the breaking up
OF the Christian home"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-14

unresponsive. Perhaps they were
too astonished to sing. Baroness
Sophia moved from the glass court
into the adjoining room. In an
Immense central cage with many
different specie Of birds stood q
small skylark before a little fountain
of splashing water. She leaned
over and caroled to it. 1t raised
Its head, moved toward the bars,
and. opening its throat, poured
forth a responding air.
Doctor Hornaday was pleased and
the baroness was encouraged; 30, re-
turning to the glass court, she sang
agatn-the Song Of the Nightin-
gale" by Aliabieff. Her top note
was high g. It reverberated. then
broke into a trill, cadenzsed and re.
turned to the regrain, when sud.
denly the birds broke their silence
and in chorus answered the visitor,
until the air rang with melody.
Visits Reptiles.
Then she and her husband, who
followed at her side on his
dali, curator Of birds, and proceeded
W S4bC ESPItAO huu0CO WhGIO kklcy
were greeted by Raymond l.. Dit.
mars.
The pythons. boa constructors,
cobras and anacondas were Stun.
hering. Perhaps they resented Chis
interruption on the afternoon 81
eSta, or perhaps Baroness Sophia's
gentle notes lulled them into deeper
repose. At any rate, they paid
no attention to her efforts.
There was an ancient turtle in a
corner, however, that felt different
ly about the charms of music.
Grandpa, the Zoo keepers call
him. He 10 hoary, indeed, having
been born more than three CEN
turtles ago in some far off islands
that nobody knows anything about.
Grandpa's bald pate eYnanated from
its immense shell and. enchanted,
he approached the bars, placing his
elongated neck through them with
an invitation to be stroked.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-14
8O,185 WOMEN
ON PAYROLL
Of j. 5.
Of These 26,772 Are in D. C..
Uncle Sans Employees Now
Number 544,671.

There were 80,185 women working
for the United States Government
on December 81, 1923, according to
a report Of the United States Civil
Service Commission. Outside Of the
District of Columbia there were
'6S,413 women workers, and 26,772
within the District of COLUMBIA.
The report of the Commission
gives the total number Of men and
women employed by the Government
on December 81, 1923, as 544,67l,
which compares with approximate
ly 917,76O who were in the Gov
eminent service on Armistice Day,
November II, 1918.
The postal business Of the country
required the services Of 1907 PEG.
pie, as Of December 81, 1923. This
number includes S6,63S clerks in
fourth class postoffices not paid by
the Government and 1890 mail
messengers not included in previous
computations, H@
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-14
WIFE OF JOHN D., JR.,
HONoRS HER MOTHER

NEW YORK, March 1.-THE Be.
Inefficient Congregational Church, Of
Providence, r. l., has been pre-.
scented with a memorial pipe organ
by Mrs. John d. Rockefeller, jr., in
memory of her mother, Mrs. Abby
Green Aldrich, who died in 1915.
Mrs. Rockefeller worshipped in that
church before her marriage in 1901.
Finished in white. the organ is
set off by beautiful hand carvings
on the case. Four columns extend.
ing several inches out from the
face Of the organ contain the major
pipes. The organ itself is placed
in wide niche in the side wall
Three sets OF smaller pipes can
be seen through the open work be.
tween the columns, and near the
top center is a has relief Of Mary
and the Child. The Rev. ]. D.
Krom is pastor Of the church,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-14

who wish to complete such courses
with the view Of entering the higher
educational schools are provided in
night classes in the public schools
of the District.
These educational advantages are
being pointed out by the Civil
Service Commission where many in.
quiries are received from persons ex-
pecting appointment to Government
continuing educational courses. The
position Of the Civil Service Com
mission is that few other cities in
the work offer as great advantages
to employed persons as are found
in the national capital.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-14
j. S. MAY CHECK
CIVIL SERVICE
SCHOOLS
Trade Commission Considers
Restraining Use off Mis-
leading Name.

In harmony with rulings by the
Federal Trade Commission against
the use Of misleading names by
trading companies implying a Gov
ernment connection, q similar rul-
ing may be issued by the commits.
sion against the use Of the term
civil service" In school names.
This action. it is said. may be taken
on the ground that the use Of the
term is both misleading in the i'm
preston 1t creates, while II Is also
an unfair business method. The
latter contention is based on the e.
feet produced on prospective stu.
dents planning to take special
courses preparing them for civil
service examinations who are led
to enter a school so named as to
create the impression it has some
Government connection instead Of
an institution which is honestly
designated.
At the Federal Trade Commission
1t was admitted the question of
issuing such an order was under
consideration. Final action has not
been taken, however. nor would
representatives Of the commission
indicate its probable character.
Many communications are con.
tinually being received at the head
quarters of the Civil Service Com
mission from persons in correspond.
ence with schools supposed by them
to have some connection with the
Civil Service Commission. These
schools are scattered all over the
country and while it is not con-
tended that there are attempts on
the part of the promoters to obtain
money by false pretense. those who
have investigated the situation de-
clare fairness to the public necessi-
tates the elimination in the names
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-14
AUDIPHONE IS USED
IN ADDRESS TO DEAF

The audiphone, a. new electric
device, was recently tested on deaf
graduates Of a lip-reading school
at a banquet at the Hotel Waldorf
Astoria, New York city.
1t was used to enable the audi
ence of deaf mutes to hear the ad-
dress delivered from the speakers
table, a distance Of twenty-five feet.
]. H. Wood, head of the research
division Of the Western Electric
Company, conducted the experiment.
He also demonstrated the use of
the audiometer, an instrument used
to measure hearing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-14
WOMAN SINGS
IN LANGUAGE
Of BIRDS
iFeathered Folk at N. Y. Zoo
Reply to Song Of Titled
Russian.

! NEW YORK, March IA. Love
taught Baroness Sophia Novossilt-
Geff Garrett to mimic the golden
cadenzas of the Neutrality-suspicious.
and privation, JOY and sorrow and
the omnipotence of faith: devotion
I to her husband in bitter times as
well az sanguine, and constancy, 1t
ts said, such constancy as Evange.
line bore with fortitude for her
Acadian sweetheart.
DIR. William T. Hornaday, presi-
dent Of the New York Geological
Society and director OF Bronx Park,
heard Of the baroness exploits in
! Russia; how she had tanned vicious
cobras with her beauty Of tone and
caused them to sway in unison as
she softly chanted an aria Of be.
heard of how she sang to a nightin-
gale that burst into responding
song, and Of how Baroness Sophia
had incorporated some Of natures
: cadenZas, as impaired to her by the
nightingale, into a song written by
Aliabieff, former director of the Tn.
! perlal Russian Conservatory, and
: called the "Song of the Nightin-
gale"
Held at u. s. Gates.
/; Doctor Hornaday had also heard
:Of how the baroness was detained at
Ellis Island with her crippled hus.
band. whose side she would not
quit. Though money they had not.
they possessed love and devotion
anlenfv and an arIsfOcro tic Nnoo GA
But the gates were opened to them.
And the harpness stood in the bird
house at the Bronx Geological Park
and sang the song that charmed the
nightingale. At first the birds were
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-14
JERSEY UTILITIES PLAN
TO RAISE $4,000, 900

NEW YORK, March 1.-THE
New Jersey Public Utility Board at
Newark announces that the Public
Service Corporation has filed a re-
organization plan to remove mort
gage restrictions on some of its
property.
The corporation needs $4,000, 900
for various purposes during the
coming year and proposes to issue
bonds according to the plan.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-14
OFFER
CHANCES FOR
WORKERS
Four D. c. Universities Have
Glasses Open Outside of
Business Hours.

Government employees In Wash
ington do not have to abandon
educational courses after coming
to the capital to live. Through
special arrangements, which in.
clude the cooperation Of many of
the educational institutions Of the
city, special classes are held at
hours of the day or evening when
1t Is possible for the Government
employe to attend.
Included in the group of institu-
tons arranging schedules of this
Kind are four universities where
classes are conducted before 8
O'Clock In the morning and after
$3.50 O'Clock in the afternoon in
which part-time students may take
tul courses in arts, sciences, and
law leading to masters, doctors
and bachelors, degrees.
Engineering Courses.
Graduate and undergraduate work
in several branches Of engineering
and chemistry and in other
technical lines is also provided
These classes are open to Govern
ment employees.
In one Of the universities a special
course in foreign service is open
to Government workers. The CLASSES
are held between the hours OF
and 9:45 p. m.
In addition, educational courses
are given at the Bureau of Stand
ards and the Agricultural Depart
ment. They are arranged at hours
so Government employees may at
tend them. Graduate work in these
courses is accepted at a number
Of the leading universities al
credits toward higher degrees.
intermediate Glasses.
Courses for those who failed t.
graduate from high schools mac
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-14
GIRL KILLS HER FATHER
AS RELIGIOUS OFFERING

TAMPA. Fla. March 14.-Eva
winchester. eighteen, told Sheriff
Spencer she had stamped to death"
with her feet her father. ]. G.
winchester. sixty-five, as a re.
ligious offering.
She implicated her mother, and
both were held on charges of muir.
der.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-14
First Electric Oven.

The forerunner of the electric
oven Of today was a quaint con
trivance known as the canine turn
spit, consisting of a hollow wheel
in which small dogs were placed
turning the wheel in treadmill style
and thus causing the spit in front
Of the fire to revolve.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-14
ELECTRICITY TAKES PLACE
OF OIL FIELD STEAM

Steam has again bowed to cleo
tricity, this time in the California
oil fields. Two wells were started
on the same day, one being drilled
by steam and the other by electric
motor.
Both were completed on the same
day. but the cost of power for the
steam. drilled well was 500 per day
while the power cost of the electric
ally-driven well was not quite SIG
per day.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-14
Warrants Issued For
Flower of Herrin
KlansInen

HERRIN, ILL.,, March IA
Warrants for the arrest of the
flower Of Williamson county's
klanhood were being prepared
here today with the docketing
of the last Of the ninety-nine
indictments returned by the
grand jury charged with in
vestigating recent lawless condi-
tions in Herrin.
No trouble was expected in
making the arrests.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-14

Of words creating the impression
that they have Government endorse.
ment or connection, such as "CiviI
Service" Federal" or United
States"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-02-29

Notice is hereby given that l,
Eieazar Altamirano, who on or
about July 18th, 1921, in the Dis
trict Court of the Eleventh Judicial
District of the State or Idaho, in
and for the County of Cassia, plead
ed guilty to the charge of burglary
in the first degree, and was sem
fenced, by said court, to be con-
fined in the Idaho State Penitentia-
ry for a term of not less than one, i,
nor more than fifteen years, will ap-
ply to the Honorable State Board
of Pardons, on April End, 1924, for
a full and complete pardon.
(Signed) ELEAZAR ALTAMIRANO.
First publication February Is, 1924
Final publication March Z, 1924
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-02-29

bove named defendants for the Of
sl77.2z. which decree entered in tie
hove entitled Court the Sd day of Janu
ry. 1924 and which order OF sale duly
.stesfed on the Gath day of january. 1924,
m commanded to sell all that certain iot
iece. parcel OF land situated in the Count,
# Cassia. State OF Idaho. particularly dc
.frihed rs follows:
Tie NWi4 Of the SEA of Section 80. Town
'I.ip IL South. Range % East. Boise Meridian
ogether with that certain water right eyi-
fenced by contract No 1863 with the Twin
ails Oakley Land and Water Company dated
;epternker 20. 1903. and by 40 shares OF stock
n the Oakley Canal Company, and tovethcr
With all buildings. improvements, bitches
water rights. rights TO the use OF wafer end
ny and sli other appurtenances thereunto be-
onging usually had enjoyed in connect
ion herewith.
Notice is hereby given that on the 8th day
4 March. 924. at 2 :55 O'Clock y. M. of that
day at the front door of the Court House l..
he City OF Burley. County of Cassia- State OF
Idaho. / will. in obedience to said decree o.
foreclosure and order OF sale. sell the above
described pro- erty. much thereof may
e necessary 70 satisfy the plaintiffs decree.
Nth interest thereon and accrling costs to the
highest bidder for cash. subject TO redemption
40 provided by law.
Dated this oath day Of January, 1924
STEVE MAHONEY.
Sheriff
Jan. % Mar.