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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-07-25
VETS WANT TO KNOW WHERE CANDIDATES STAND
Sympaties
Republicans Will be Supported No Choice Between Presidential
Candidates Yet, But Will be Asked Their Position

The Association Against the Prohibi-
ton Amendment in statement given out
by its assistant manager, John T. Flood,
at New York headquarters on July 10
announced that it v ould ask both the
Democratic and Republican presidential
candidates to state their attitude on the
prohibition question before next Noyem-
Der.
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The statement says in part:
I'VE realize that the relief from the
present condition rests upon Congress.
We are free to support either a liberal
Democrat or Republican. Our objective
will be placed before them. There will
be no hedging. As for the presidential
candidates, we have no choice for the
present. We will before election publicly
request them TO state their position"
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ship, from the pilot to the man in the
shop who makes the final examination of
minute adjustments before the ship takes
the air, can be considered as interested in
the repeal of prohibition?
Alcoholism an 1rnpossibility in the
New Age
The liquor traffic may have been pos
sible in the agricultural world in the age
of the horse-drawn plow and the mule
teamstcr; it is not possible in the age of
the tractor, the great wheat-header and
the auto truck. The liquor traffic may
have been possible in the days when the
woodchoppers ak was the only means of
telling trees; it is not possible in the age
when electrical operations are SO essential
to the rapidly increasing lumber industry.
The liquor traffic may have been possible
in the age of the drunken sailor and the
drunken engineer and the age when man
ufacturing concerns were not responsible
for the health and safety of employees; 1t
is not possible in the age of the industrial
development which has revolutionized
railroad operations, the mining industry,
the manufacturing interests, international
commerce and trade activities, and other
great industries and enterprises which
figure III economic progress. The liquor
traffic may have been possible in the age
of the ox-cart, but it is not possible in the
age of the automobile. The liquor traf-
fic may have been possible in the age of
the stage coach, but ii is not possible in
the age of the airship. The liquor traffic
may have been possible in the age of the
water MILL but it is not possible in the age
of the electric dynamo.
These significant facts suggest some
thing of the economic cost inevitable to
pro-1iquor nations which insist upon con
tinuing to harbor the liquor traffic and
upon attempting to harmonic its opera
tons with the new age of skilled work
men and the application of brain power
and nerve energy to even the simplest
processes of industrial activities. If these
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facts are evident in America, where is the
nation, large or small, located anywhere
on the face of the earth, which in this age
of rapid economic progress and economic
competition can afford to bubble about
the problem of alcoholism?
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can not be entrusted to habitual users of
alcoholic liquors. The same rule applies
with even greater force to the vast cleo
trical equipment now operating the iron
and steel mills of the nation. When the
iron and steel industry OF America advo-
Gates the letting down of prohibition bars
Congress may heed the suggestion.
During the last ten years modern cleo
trical inventions have revolutionized the
American coal mining industry. Electro
cal mining machines with two operators
today do the work which a decade ago
required twenty miners. Seven hundred
and fifty thousand American miners who
already are producing more than 40 per
cent of all the coal used in all the coun-
tries OF the world, can not begin to meet
the demands even with the installation of
modern equipment. Under the old sys-
tenn a miner with a brain fairly we'll
soaked with alcohol could produce a few
tons of coal a day. but the man who oper-
ates modern electric mining machine
must be sober.
The Passing of the Drunken Sailor"
During the past nine years the tonnage
of American ships clearing American
ports increased from 4,795,52 net tons to
so, 100 800 net tons-dn increase OF more
than 500 per cent The modern system
of electric devices for the handling of
ship cargoes installed on ships and at
docks during the last few years has not
only eliminated the proverbial drunken
sailor" but has created an imperative re-
quirement for skilled men with clear
brains. The old drunken sailor can not
meet the new test Americas part in the
international commerce of the future can
not be jeopardized by compromise with
the old system under which alcohol played
leading role.
Perhaps no series of legislative acts
have SO aroused the manufacturing inter
ests in America to the absolute necessity
of prohibition as the Workmen's Compen-
saton Laws passed during recent years in
all but three states of the American
union. As result, millions upon mil
lions have been invested in safety devices
for the protection Of life limb and health
of the 100000 American manufacture
ing employees. Safety to workers and
Insurance to manufacturing interests pre-
clude the possibility Of those interests &C
oepting the hazard which would be inev-
table with the return of the beverage
liquor traffic.
Auto Truck and the Old Teamster
Only few years aeo the vast tonnage
of agricultural products and of industrial
and commercial enterprises in America
was moved on short iauls by wagons
with tesms and transfers. Today the
great proportion of that tonnage is moved
by auto trucks One large truck will
move more tonnage than could be moved
under the old system by ten wagons.
Under the old system, half-drunken driv-
ers might throw the Ines around the dash
board and depend upon the dumb animals
drawing the load to avoid collision and
the ditch. But the intrinsic value OF
more than million automobile trucks
now operating in America, to say moth
ing of the value of the tonnage involved,
not he entrusted ~ aIrobaItzaJ tr,c1-
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taken place in the last decade, during
which same period prohibition by state
legislation was rapidly covering the area
of the nation. The beverage alcohol sys-
tenn in operation in automobilized Amer
lea today is unthinkable What degree of
safety, under alcohol, could be vouchsafed
to any traveller upon any highway or any
pedestrian upon any sidewalk of any
town or any city? If America faces such
a situation now, what will other countries
of the world do in regard to this impor-
tant question, as the use of automobiles
rapidly increases?
Insurance Risks and Prohibition
Inseparable
Perhaps no department OF American
business has developed so rapidly as life
insurance. Insurance estates are rapidly
becoming important ftctors in the fnan-
cal world. In slightly more than thirty
years the amount of life insurance in
America has increased from five billion
dollars to more than fvi ty-two billion
dollars The number OF life insurance
policies i'll existence in the United States
in 1890 was 5,202,475 The number in 1000
was 4,395,347. The number in 1910 was
29,998,28l while the rumber i'll 1920 was
"a, 34l 600 Investigations of actuaries
covering long periods have established
decided difference between the actual
costs of risks on the lives of abstainers as
against those of non-abstainers. With
this remarkable increase i'll the number
and amount of risks carried by the Amer
lean insurance companies, the greater part
of which increase has come during the
period OF state and rational prohibition,
even the suggestion of : return to the days
of alcoholism is startling. What would
happen to millions or insurance risks, to
the insurance companies themselves, and
to the vast financial interests Of America,
in which those insurance companies now
play so significant part, were the bev-
crage 1iquor traffic to be restored, with
its attendant results through the use of
alcohol, upon millions of policy holders,
and its even more far-reaching effect
upon mortality statistics that would inev-
itably result from accident, disease and
crime that would follow like an ava
lanche in the wake of alcoholism.
The airship is in its infancy, yet the de
velopment of the past five years is pro-
phetic OF day not many years ahead
when the airship will be one of the most
important factors in the life of the world
Leaving out of consideration all govern
ment army and navy airship activities,
the fact remains that during the year 1921
more than twelve hundred civilian aero
planes were operated N America, travelling
more than 6,500,000 miles and carrying
more than 275,000 passengers. It is not
rash to prophesy that the airship in five
years time will work revolution in in
dustry, commerce, travel, international re-
lations and international law. What class
of employees in connection with the air
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WAYNE B. WHEELER


most important issue before th.s nation
Nothing else matters" said DR.. Wayne
B. Wheeler General Counsel and Legis-
:. lative Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon
League of America
III we confess that we cannot enforce
our laws, we cease to be nation We
become, instead, a mob. If law-breakers
and not lawmakers control our policy,
anarchy is supreme. Every foe Of law
and order will take new courage If we
announce TO a skeptical world that we
have not the courage to hold to a victor
ious ideal because lawless men oppose it,
then any world court ideals will be dis
counted likewise. Democracy will not
be trusted by these new nations which
have discarded kings. Human progress
will be turned back ard the current now
steadily setting toward a golden age will
lose its force in a backwater. Nothing
else matters SO much as that the will of
the majority, expressed in legal and or
derby fashion, shall prevail.
The law-abiding majority of the ma
ton accepts the challenge of a wet minor
ity that the Constitution cannot be and
ought not be enforced Recent victories
for law and order inspire new confidence.
Both of the dominant political parties in
their conventions at Cleveland and New
York turned down the insistent demand
for wet p1anks and for the first time
adopted law enforcement planks, indicat-
ing their determination to defeat the vets
program of law defiance. The Indepen-
dent platform ignored the plea for beer.
The last Congress defeated every effort
to weaken the national enforcement code
and enacted seven measures to strengthen
law enforcement.
Both the Democratic and Republican
conventions endorsed the bill to put pro-
hibition agents under civil service which
passed the house by an overwhelming
majority
Wet Foes Will Fail
The wet forces are starting their at
tacks on state enforcement codes They
will fail if the dry forces are awake.
THE Congressional and state legis1a-
tive districts are the forums for deter
mining whether effective enforcement
laws shall stand or fall.
Every friend of law enforcement must
register and vote. Failure at this point
means uncomfortable laws and in
creased lawlessness. We are fighting the
greatest known evil of modern times and
winning the greatest moral victory ever
achieved by a self-governing people.
The best manic ID of the world is
watching us. We are ~encompassed with
cloud of witnesses. If we fail, then the
world will abandon hope for prohibition.
We are equipped for this fight as is no
other nation. We have every strategic
advantage. Our foe is waging only a
guerilla warfare. We hold every en-
trenched post There is no failure except
by surrender. Stimulated by our exam
pie, other peoples are tentatively opening
the fight against the liquor forces of
their nations. Where we lead, they fol-
low. We can lead the world to an age
where drunkenness is as strange IS hui
man slavery if we only have faith and
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no zeSt will be apparent in that bot
tie when once more it is uncorked
AS the late Tom Shelyin remark ed
after the Yale 1915 team had de-
feated Princeton and then had been
showed under by Harvard you can
not make two glasses Of lemonade
out of one lemon" 50 with Prince
ton. Her men tried hard and played
well, but the lethargy of the PLAY
and the trouping of regulars off the
field as the game went on told of
the absence of the Vital spark
The Yale team impressed the writer
as approaching the form Of the 1929
eleven-better, in fact, in the de
partment of overhead play 1t has
but to defeat Harvard by a larger
score than Dartmouth made against
the Crimson to stand out as the lead
ing team of the East
Notre Dame crushed Nebraska and
upheld her reputation as the greatest
foot ball outfit this side Of the Sierra
NeEadas. and since it is understood
the South Blenders Will go to the
Pacific slope this Winter, the Indiana
eleven has such opportunity as no
eleven has HAD 70 stand out as the
nations greatest
Dartmouth showed her versatility
by accepting type of Cornell game
which had defeated the Green three
years running and demonstrating
that when the forward pass is we'll
worked it Will score more frequently
than the best brand of running at
tacks.
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combinations quickly neared Trafford.
AS they did SO Fullback Brewer hurled
himself forward between them. At
| exactly the right moment the Crimson
quarterback touched the ball with his
toe and put it in play. Without chang
ing its course the fiVe-man combination
ran past him. The four-man combina-
ton wheeled to the left, running paraI-
lei Brewer received the ball from Traf-
ford and the Flying wedge" thrillingly
dramatic, Numbered down upon the
right end of the Yale line
The threat of that attack was limit
less. The Harvard machine was pitched
into full speed before Yale could even
get into motion. Harvard and Yale adj
herents alike foresaw a long advance
and even the probability of a TOUGH
down. In the Blue stands a stunned
silence ensued. Followers of the Grim
son were bursting with delight and be-
gan to shout a chorus of victory.
The Yale plyaers, rallying as quickly
as they could, threw themselves against
the flying wedge" desperately. They
hinGered it, but they did not stop it,
But what they were unable to do, fate
attended to. Brewer. carrying the ball,
tripped over his own interference on
the Bulldogs 35-yard line. fell to the
ground and was pinned down promptly
by Yale man.
Makes Notable Gain.
The flying wedge" had accomplish
ed notable gain of 20 yards and
although we did not Immediately
suspect it, had opened new vista
for foot ball. But l must confess to
a deep disappointment, which has
| persisted for 80 years, that Deland's
really splendid device did not ac-
| complisn an Immediately c0mmensu-
rate result 1t should have been fol-
olwed q by touchdown, and that
touchdown should have meant d
| Crimson victory.
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South Atlantic Title Race Scrambled Foot Ball Prophets No,u
Supreme Strategies in Foot Ball
tPecyH a NeverH
Pntin the idronP atime.

and the rivals came out to renew
their efforts, murmur of surprise
ran through the throng of spectators.
Yale lined up in the usual forma-
ton, but Harvard was not forming
the time -honored V-shaped wedge,
Her players were maneuvering into
unheard-o positions. Delands triumph
was near.
Here was the Harvard formation:
Quarterback Trafford, with the ball.
took his customary position at the
kickoff point on the 55-yard line;
Fullback Brewer stood directly be-
hind him on Harvard's 50-yard line
at the extreme right of the field, In
the angle formed by the intersection
Of the side line and Harvards 35-
yard line, five men-Center Lewis,
Left Guard Waters. Right Tackle
Newell. Right End Hallowell and Left
Halfbaclk Gray-deployed in In
diam file in an oblique line which
pointed toward Quarter Trafford; on
the extreme left, in the angle formed
by the side line and Harvard's 35-
yard line, four men Right Guard
Mackie. Left Tackle Upton, Left End
Emmons and Right Halfback Lake
were similarly arranged. their line
also pointed toward Trafford.
Proves Big Sensation.
What did it all mean? This was the
question in the mind of every person
save the few who were in on the secret
of the Deland strategy. But the mystery
soon was dispelled. Without putting the
ball in play-this prevented the Yale
men from getting into action-Trafford
waved both his arms. Instantly, like
two battalions of cavalry, the five-man
combination on the right and the four
man combination on the left charged
toward him.
Running in lock-step, and gathering
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Unfortunately, having stopped this
play, Yale stopped others. Having
prevented a Harvard score, it pro-
ceeded to make one for itself An in
jury which took Emmons, the Grim
son mainstay at left end, out of the
lineup counted materially. Brewer
lifted on long punt to Butterworth,
who ran it back yards to Yale's
10-yard line. Laurie" Bliss, the Blue
left halfback, made a brilliant 40
yard run to Yale's 5O-yard line. Then
came a series of irresistible smashes
for short distances that eventually
put G. Bliss, Blue right halfba ck
over the line for a touchdown. But
terworth kicked goal, and the score
was to in Yale's favor. That was
the final result.
But, though Harvard had lost. De-
lands strategy had been d sensation
which continued to thrill for years.
Before the game practical foot ball
men had been inclined to scott at his
many devices. "Deland's checker
board plays" they were called, and
he was jokingly accused of sitting
up nights to play foot ball solitaire"
on a chessboard. Afterward, how
ever, he was taken more seriously
He became, in fact. director Of Har-
wards foot ball strategy and in the
next few years is said to have per-
fected more than $50 strategic vari-
ations.
Next Sunday-JGhn W. Wilce.
This is the concluding portion of
the tenth Of series of articles de-
scribing great foot ball strategies.
told by the leading coaches of the
country in interviews with J. p. Glass
and George Byrnes. Other numbers
will follow.
Copyright. 1924 in L. S. and Canada by
North American Newspaper Alliance. AL
rights resePved)
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No. 10-(Second PART.
AS Told by the Late
PERCY d. HAUGHTON,
Head Coach, Columbia University;
Former Coach at Harvard.

Head Coach, Columbia University;
Former, Coach at Harvard.
IN 1892, as at present, the kick off
ushered in the battle. However,
= the rules did not stipulate that
the ball must be booted for a GER
tain distance. Out of this omission
grew the V-shaped wedge which was
to form the basis of Prof. Deland's
invention.
Princeton originated it and it be-
came standard, making a joke of the
kick The quarterback stood over
the ball in the center of the field.
The rest of the team, starting at a
point slightly in his rear. was ar
ranged in oblique lines, like the
wings of a V, with five men in each
wing.
A Trick kfckOT.
The quarterback put the ball in
play by taking hold of it and touch
ing it with his foot. Then he tucked
it against his body, his team mates
closed in tight against him and the
merit of the play lay in the circum-
stances that while technically it was
a kickoff the opposition did not get
possession of the ball.
This was the formation with which
Yale opened the first half and it was
the one which everybody expected
Harvard to employ when the second
half began But when the intermis-
sion which succeeded the first half
ended-despite the bitterest sort of
struggle neither side had scored
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Minnesota answered the question
who can stop Granger and in an
swering it affirmatively not only won
over the Illini, but justified the splen-
did material, which rallied to the
Crimson and Gold standard this Fall
as well as the untiring effort ex-
pended in developing it to the heights
of its possibilities. Bill Spaulding,
the coach. has needed just such d
game as this to place him where he
belongs.
For the Gophers met Illinois in
structed in the various problems they
would encounter and versed superbly
in methods designed to take advan-
tage of the shortcomings of the Ur-
bana combination.
Scouts Helped Yale.
So with the Yale team at Prince
ton. Here was a triumph of skilled
coaching based upon the shrewdest
sort of scouting. Yale's line had the
strength and ability to stop Prince
tons rushes, just as the Tiger for
wards were able to hold the Eli line
sufficiently in check to prevent scores
being made.
Yale won because she had learned
how to check Princetons overhead
~ Sltili anu p6CduSC IjHCtiOH Ildu
not learned how to stop Yale's over
head game. Princeton had not
learned this because in preceding
games Yale had not shown her hand
In forward passing. What problems
Yale submitted to the Tigers in this
respect had to be solved out on the
field in the course of the game. And
this is always a terrific handicap to
a team.
Again, Yale had the advantage of a
vast punting superiority. When you
have to face high. booming punts
deep in your territory and in turn
can answer this artillery assault
only with guns of smaller cali
Der and less power the handicap
is very material.
Yet Princeton played good foot ball.
1t was a team that had given its all
against Harvard. and the effects of
that contest were seen in the com
paratively slow down-field play of
Princeton against Yale and the slug
gish manner in which the attack was
started. A complete contrast. After
bottle of champagne has been
opened and the cork again inserted
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Trinity may be arranged by calling
the manager at West 2122.
Lotus Athletic Club had an easy
time with the ModocS, winning, "a
to 0. Byrd and the Andrea brothers
were the outstanding performers.
1ast-minute rally gave the
Apaches 7-to-0 victory over the
Aberdeen team. Sweeney took the
ball over.
Another spirited tuSSle was played
between the STATIONS and the Win
tons, the former nosing out, to O.
keegan of the STATIONS recovered a
blocked punt in the first period to
give his team its lone score.
When Hill tackled Van Horn be-
hind Park Athletic Clubs goal he
paved the way to an S-to-6 victory
for Trinity Athletic Club. Joe Tee
han, former Tech High star, who is
coaching the TrinityS, is seeking
games with teams in the 130-pound
class. He may be telephoned at
West 500.
LangdOn MardfeIdts claim a 12-to-
victory over the Brookland eleven
The latter is reported to have left
the field in the last period with only
two more minutes to play. Matthias
played well for Brookland together
with Dun of the Mardfeldts.