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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-10-17
(The Saturday Review. Sept. 80. 1920
LIQUOR CONTROL
pondence

Correspondence
Interest in the questions raised by pre-
vious letter writer's on the subject of iiq-
nor control still continues to call out opin-
ions from people who have not yet learned
to distinguish between the effects of
food and narcotic drug. Thus one
writer thinks that to be logical Mr.. Adj
kins should advocate restriction on food
as we'll as on liquor, and talks about
freedom TO exercise our individual will
power ignoring the fact that free will
power is not in a condition to be exer-
cised when it is stupefed with drug
The same unfamiliarity with the effects
of alcohol is displayed by another writer
who declares that more harm is likely to
come from excess in eating than from ex-
cess in drinking. Echoes of this surmise
are never lacking, but never accompanied
BY an attempt to match figures in the com
parison.
This writer deals unfairly with the argu-
ments of his opponent. He says, at is to
be disputed that alcoholic beverages Gre
ate an immediate craving in the ordinary
average person. One would hardly make
such charge against opium seven, which
acts much more rapidly than alcohol in
enslaving its users. # the alcohol craving
did advance more rapidly, the danger
would be more generally feared It's slow,
stealthy advance disarms suspicion until
the chains are riveted.
Another all too common misconception
displayed by the same correspondent is
that the dangerous characteristics of alco-
hol operate on only minority of its users
on the abnormal ones who are bound to
fall anyway, by other means if not by al
cohol. To correct this misconception.
more knowledge is needed of the physio-
logical principle involved in drug addic-
tion-the same principle as that made use
of in vaccinating for small pox, or in
establishing immunity to rabies or ty-
phoid fever. This is the natural resist
ance which the healthy body offers to in
vasion by injurious substances. Only in
the case of alcohol the temporary pleasure
which the affront to the body affords
tempts to repeated overstepping of the
limits of the acquired resistance, in order
to experience the sensation produced by
the drug effect.
If some newspaper and inl, now devoted
to discussion of the working of prohibition
laws could be used in extending know
ledge of the nature and effects of alcohol
the world could soon begin to talk about
the alcohol problem in the past tense.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-10-17
WHAT THE CURRENT MAGAZINES ARE SAYING ABOUT
PROHIBITION AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
(Reviewed- by Emma L. Transeau)

striking proportion, let alone all, of the
money formerly spent for beer.
One of his ifs is important If true:
IF liquor consumption is being stimu-
lated among the people of the country
whose mental faculties make them valu-
able, prohibition can not justify itself.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-10-17
(The Outlook, October 8, 1920
BATTING A MARINE

Philadelphians declare that General
Smedley D. Butler has done there just
what he was brought to the city to do.
He has made bootlegg.ng expensive in
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-10-17

More building is going on in New York
City than in all Great Britain and Ire
land. Our share of the worlds total of
foreign trade keeps on increasing.
And then Scrutator says something
that ought forever to silence those ca
1amity howlers who are weeping croc-
odile tears for the poor wage Garner in
the United States because said wage
Garner is deprived of his glass of beer.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-10-17

Scrutator, who writes for the fnancia
,age of the Chicago Daily Tribune, il
n article in the Tribune of Septembe
70 says:
New York will wire 100000 new
homes this year and that common
wealth now has 90 per cent of its
people living in electrified homes,
which means a demand for appli-
ances, metals, textiles, and labor to
meet the new standard. It was a
gain of 10000 homes wired over
1928 But the Department of Com
merce is out with bulletin which
says that the best market for cleo
trical goods is right here around
Chicago, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and
Wisconsin.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-10-17

More gasoline was burned this year
than ever before, some of it on $4,000
miles of new highway.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-10-17

They say the building peak has passed,
that the first part of 1924 topped the first
part of 1923 by 10 Fer cent. The prob
ability is that the peak has not yet been
reached and it will begin to spread out
into the sections now profting from bet
ter farm prices.
Washington telegraph., 1924-06-06

wall Stree men will discover
that Secretary Mellon who had no
trouble In cutting hundreds of mil
lions of the national expenditures
will easily find a way to flnance tho
soldiers bonus. INV
Washington telegraph., 1924-06-06

Claire Gold and Virginia n
gason; Orville White, Mel7
Clark, Foster City, Andr
Chambless, Saxon Velvin, z
gar Springs Marjorie Hlgg
son had as playmates for ne
guests, Martha Ellen Rowla9
of Idabel and Elva Higgason 4
Ozan. Charlean and Bradle
Trimble and Jack and Evely1
Dodd. Mrs. Harvey Rowland
and Mrs. Luther Smith assist
ed Mrs. Higgason in entertain
ing. The following remained
overnight for q bunking party
Misses Dorothy Currie, Alic'
City, Wilma Monroe, Elgl
Lewis and Mabel Claire ant
Maude Gold.
Washington telegraph., 1924-06-06
A CONFIDENTIAL Chat

Last week, just after the
Telegraph was off the press
and went to it's subscribers, a
local citizen came into our Of
flee and said to the manager ::
Say, | want to know if all the
merchants of Washington are
dead?"
Now, honest, this publisher
is proud of our pretty little
city and its enterprises and,
naturally, resented the insinu-
alton which the query carried.
"No, indeed, they are not
dead, Why do you ask" was
the reply.
"Well," said our visitor, look
ing his paper over, 81 don't see
a single advertisement in the
paper from a Washington mer-
chant this week. Now under
such circumstances what 9TH
er conclusion could one reach. .
So far as the statement a.
bout no advertisements is con-
cerned, our visitor was right,
for not an inch of advertising
for local merchants was car
ried in the edition, so, on re-
Election, our resentment gave
way to wonder. To that time
We had been so busy writing
items for the paper, putting
the matter in type, getting the
paper off the press and in the
mails that we had scarcely
noticed he omission, but
with the thing staring us in
the face, it was not encourage
ing.
All pages of the Telegraph
are printed at home and carry
news that costs much more to
collect and assemble than if
Sscissor editing" and the use
of plate matter were resorted
to. We figure that so per cent
of the paper must be devoted
to advertising if we are to op-
Washington telegraph., 1924-06-06
A Splendid feeling

That tired, half-sick, discour-
aged feeling caused by a tro-
pid liver and constipated bow
els can be gotten rid of with
surprising primptness by US
ing Herbine. You feel its bene-
fetal effect with the fist dose
as its purifying and regulating
effect is thorough and COM
plete. 1t not only drives out
bile and impurities but it i'm
pars a splendid feeling of ex-
hilaration. strength, vim, and
bouyancy of spirits. Price 60c.
Sold by Bates Drug Co.
Washington telegraph., 1924-06-06

Miss Virginia Higgason en-
tertained with a lawn party
Tuesday evening in honor OF
Miss Princess Rowland of Ida
bel, Okla. At 10 o'clock ice
cream and cake were served.
Present were: Misses Princess
Rowland, Dorothy Currie of
Beaumont, Texas, Alice City,
Wilma Monroe, Elgie Lewis,
Noelle Levins, Edna Jones,
Georgia Ruth Ellis, Louise
Springs, Maude and Mabel
Washington telegraph., 1924-06-06
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR SHERIFF AND COLLECTOR

We are authorized to announce
j. f. BEARDEN
of Washington as a candidate for
Sheriff and collector of Hampstead
county, subject to the action of the
Democratic Primary Election, Aug
ust 8, 1924.
We are authorized to announce
r. A. CARRIGAN
of Ozan Township as a candidate for
Sheriff and Collector of Hampstead
county, subject to the action of the
1924 Democratic Primary election.
We are authorized to announce
II. w. TIMBERLAKE
of Washington, Route 1, a candidate
for Sheriff and Collector of Hemp
stead County, subject to the Dem
ocratic Primary August IL.
We are authorized to announce
d. B. (DAVE) THOMPSON
of Hope as candidate for Sheriff
and Collector of Hampstead County
subject to the Democratic Primary
election August r.
Washington telegraph., 1924-06-06

crate at a profit, and anything
short of this means a financial
loss. Provision must be made
by us for this advertising, for
when a merchant wants page
or half page advertisement We
must be in position to give it
to him, so it is necessary to
provide this surplus space, or
space not intended for editori-
al matter, at all times. When
not used by the merchant, fur
ther loss is entailed because
the space must be filled with
additional matter.
There is no argument as to
the value of newspaper ad-
vertising, if judiciously done,
and the merchant who fails to
use this method of reaching
the people will find many OF
them going to merchants OF
neighboring towns who do adj
vertise or to the mail order
houses, who distribute their
printed messages to your Gus.
toners and receive in return
business which should go to
our home merchants.
Last weeks issue of the Tel
egraph contained 345 column
inches of local reading matter
composed on the machine at
an expense of $500. The ex-
pense will double in getting
the type matter to the reader
in the shape of a newspaper,
and as the subscription revenue
alone pays only 20 per cent of
the expense of publishing, the
publisher of a country paper
has a real financial problem
on his hands where the mer-
chants are "asleep at the
switch"
If we did not know that
newspaper advertising pays the
ones who take advantage of it,
we'd say to our merchants,
"continue to withhold advertis-
ing from the columns of your
paper and let it die, but know
ing that it does pay, and that
it is revenue that any good
paper published in any good
town must have or be forced
out of business, we appeal to
you, Mr.. Washington Mer-
chant, to put on such a news
paper advertising campaign as
will create much new business
for the firms sufficiently wide
awake to launch out on such
a campaign, and will cause our
visitor, when he again calls, to
exclaim: well, we've sure
got live bunch of merchants
in Washington, for I notice
from the paper that they are
going after the business, and
they are getting it, too"
Washington telegraph., 1924-06-06
MARS WILL TEACH US.
HOPE FOR THE HOPELESS
ONE GOOD DEED.
THE GREATlDERBY.

Sending photographs by wire, is
at last perfectly successA.f'-~Shis
will mean more to the education OF
this earth than we can realize now.
Merely gratifying curiosity or CAP
turing criminals by telephotography
on this little planet isn't the impor-
tant thing.
Washington telegraph., 1924-06-06


The Senate Committee OF Agri-
culture rejected the Ford bid for
Muscle Shoals by vote Of 10 to 9.
That isn't flna'. but II shows how
difficult II is 10 get anything
through In Washington sometimes.
1t isn't quite so difficult IL there
Is little black bag" with the right
kind of lining in the offing.
Tens OF thousands gather AZ
Louisville, Kentucky, all excited,
eager, speculating, betting on "the
great American Derby" The win
ming horse will get $4,000. For
half the money that a good jockey
earns in a week you can buy an
automobile that will MN any ten
race horses to death every day and
never get tired. Speed In horses
no longer means anything useful.
Racing, betting, horse excitement
will continue, for II takes men a
long time to get over anything they
have haen doing for thousand
!ear>
Washington telegraph., 1924-06-06
FOR CIRCUIT CLERK

We are authorized to announce
w. P. AGEE
OF Hope candidate for Circuit Clerk
Of Hampstead County, subject to the
1924 Democratic Primary election.
We are authorized to announce
FRANK NTRIMBLE
of Washington a candidate for Circuit
Clerk of Hampstead County in the
1924 Democratic Primary Election.
Washington telegraph., 1924-06-06

What can be done on wires can
he done through the ether that sepa-
rates this earth from other planets
I'm our family.
We shall get from these planets
radio portraits showing faces OF
their strange inhabitants and radio
blue prints" from Mars showing
us how to dig canals to store the
waters OF the oceans when frost,
rain and attrition make this earth
perfectly round, leaving no natural
cavities to hold the water.
If the earth were absolutely
round. as 1t will he In a few million
years, the ocean would cover 1t
about mile deep everywhere. We
must know how to prevent that.
Mars. tens OF millions of years older
than Earth. will reach us by radio.
II that sounds preposterOus re-
member what you would have said
twenty years ago IL you had been
told that preacher in Chicago
some day would be heard In Los
Angeles and Newfoundland I'm the
same second.
Republican gentlemen that tried
to frame up" Senator Wheeler, as
corrupt detectives once in a while
frame" victim when they need o
scapegoat, are In trouble. Men I'm
Montana who thought that copper
should control the State, ard the
men In Washington who thought oil
should control the Nation, both dis
liked Wheeler and decided to put
him in jail. They will wish before
the thing is over that the,
made that attempt. II wasn't a
good txk for IL. although it has
doun.let often been done before.
Here: hope for the hopeless. the
victims OF hay fever. Mr.. Coolidge,
who bss a rose cold" sits for
forty-1ye minutes In an alright
room, breathing in air mixed with
chlorine Jas. he leaves saying "the
trouble IS gone"
Chlorine gas cures colds In men
and eHzootic In horses. Why
should II not cure. or at least re-
lieve. hsy fever that tortures thou
sands for weeks every yearl
When European nations decided
to take what money they could get
from China after the Boxer upris-
ing, the United States got some OF
the indemnity cash, and then real
lied that IL was international black
mail. The money was sent back to
China TO be used for education.
China now thanks the United States
Minister, saying that other nations
have followed our example.
80 shires a good deed In
naughty world
wall Stree men will discover
that Secretary Mellon who had mo
trouble In cutting hundreds of mil.
lions of the national expenditures
will easily find a way to finapce tho
soldiers bonus.
Washington telegraph., 1924-06-06
TOWNSHIP ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR ROAD OvERSEER
OZAN TOWNSHIP

OZAN TOWNSHIP
We are authorized to announce
GEO. M. GREEN
Of Ozan as a candidate for Road
Overseer of Oaan Township in the
Democratic Primary Aug. IL.
We are authorized to announce
r. w. PATTERSON
a candidate for Road Overseer of
Ozan Township, subject to the Demo-
cratic Primary Election.
Washington telegraph., 1924-06-06
FOR COUNTY TREASURER

We are authorized to announce
]. S. MONROE
of Washington candidate for Treas
urer Of Hampstead County, subject
to the 1924 Democratic Primary
Election.
Washington telegraph., 1924-06-06

READ THE TELEGRAPH.
Evening star., 1924-02-22
LOUIS HILL QUITS
C., B. 90. RAILROAD
Son of Late Railroad King Gives
Up Chairmanship Of
Mergers Revived.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK.. February 22.-I.ouis
W. Hill. chairman Of the Great
Northern railway, has retired as a
member of the board of directors and
executive committee of the Chicago,
! Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Company and has been succeeded by
Vice President Charles o. jerks of
the Great Northern.
The cause OF Mr.. Hills resignation
was not announced at the meeting
Of the directors yesterday. but 1t was
said by those who are close to the
Great Northern railroad magnate
that his health was not such as to
Justify the continued shouldering of
all his railroad responsibilities. Di-
rectorS of the Great Northern said,
however, that MIR. Hill will continue
To be interested in the activities Of
the Burlington railroad, and that he
would continue as chairman of the
board of directors and executive COM
mittee of the Great Northern.
The resignation of Mr.. Hill caused
of Il consolidation of the Great
Northern. the Northern Pacific and
the Burlington railroads. The con-
troll of the Burlington is jointly held
by the Northern Pacific and the Great
Northern through the ownership Of
yS per cent of the outstanding stock.
This is the first time that the son
of the late James j. Hill has given
up an active interest in the manage
ment of any OF the railroad properties
developed by his father.
Evening star., 1924-02-22
CORN BEATS Wheat
AS MARYLAND CROP
Now Most Important Yield in
State-Better Prices Cause
of Change.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
BALTIMORE, February 22.-Corn
has taken the place of wheat in
Maryland and is now the most i'm
portant crop grown in the state, ac-
cording to John S. Dennee, statisti-
clan, in Baltimore, of the United
States Department of Agriculture.
Production in 1923 totaled 25,23l, 900
bushels. and about so per cent of the
crop was Of merchantable quality.
Ihe value Of the crop at the farm
gate was s2O,6S9,0O or s3.227'ooo
above the total for l922 The in
crease in value was due to the sub
stantialiy better prices prevailing
in 1928, compared with 1929.
The 1928 harvest averaged sa.s
bushels per acre, exceeding that of
hre-siXth of the states, but relatively
low yiNldS occur from time to time
Between 1870 and 1895 only once
ala the average go above thirty bu
she!s, according to Mr.. Dennee, and
during most OF the period il was
below Twenty-Five. The trend OF acre
yields in the staate is definitely up-
ward. NP
Evening star., 1924-02-22
COMMODITY NEWS
WIRED STAR FROM
ENTIRE COUNTRY

RICHMOND, February 22.-Local
tobacco warehouses report good busi-
ness for the last several days. The
TOBACCO mas not been of the best, but
some farmers have received good
prices. The average at some houses
has been around Is cents Il pound.
HOUSTON, February 2o.-Tba daily.
average oil production of the salt
dome heavy oil fields of the gulf
coast has declined $500 barrels in
the last week to 73.445 barrels.
south Texas production gained
slightly.
ATLANTA, February 22.-Trav,.!-
ing statesmen will be sent into the
| middle west this year by owners of
ldle cotton lands to sell to farmers
the idea of migrating to- the south
east and taking up cotton cultiva-
ton. According to Gov. Walker the
Georgia Industrial promotion bureau
will spend sl,000,O00 in exploiting the
state.
ST. LOUIS, February 22-Dry goods
merchants are featuring bright silks
and dress goods. Conservative buying
for the last six months has reduce d
quent heavy buying by both whole
Salers and retailers is forecast
STATE COLLEGE. Pa. February 80.
The movement to compete in the
raising of ton Htters" of hogs is
spreading through Pennsylvania.
Prizes VIII be awarded those who
, raise al ton of pork from one litter of
pigs i'll $50 days.
MINNEAPOLIS, February 3a-Ma-
terials for the $500. 900 Improvement
program of the Minneapolis street
railway have been ordered. and track
| work will start April l. The Twin
cities lines, through remodeling of
old cars, will have 500 double-eNil
cars in operation by the end of the
year.
HE1sR1N ILL.,, February 22-Most of
the mines in Williamson county arr.
working parttime, but operators are
planning for capacity operations in !,
few weeks.
Evening star., 1924-02-22
Extent OF Depression Studied.
COTTON SALES DROP.
Farmers Holding Supplies Since
Break in Prices.

CHARLOTTE, y. c.. February 81
Since tie slump in the price farmers
have almost quit selling cotton. Only
a few, Of the interior markets made
report the last week. These listed
the following prices actually paid:
Charlotte-February II. strict mid
ding. $3.50: February 13. strict low
mfddling. 30.75; February IA, low
middling 29.O0; February 1J, strict
good ordinary. 27.50; February 16
good ordinary. $3.50. Kelford paid
$3.50 for middling the first Of the
week. dropping to 30.25 Friday. Wake
Forest raid $3.50 for strict middlins
February L. and 13. Marshville paid
$3.50 for strict middling February |.
and IL. Rocky Mount paid $500 for
middling February Is.
Evening star., 1924-02-22
CURB STOCK JUMPS
40 POINTS AT ONCE
Melon on Chesbrough Common
Considered at Directors
Meeting.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK. February 22-Declari-
ton of 4 stock dividend of between 30
and 100 per cent on the common stock
OF the Chesebrough Manufacturing Com
pany. former Standard Oil of New Jer-
scy subsidiary, was. under consideration
by the board Of directors Yesterday. \
proposal to increase the common stock
for this purpose and at the same time
to split uD outstanding shares by reduc-
ing their par value from 500 to S25
will be laid before stockholders at an
early date.
Chcsebrough stock was the feature
of trading on the New York Curb Mar
ket Yesterday. scoring a sharp jump Of
40 points at one time and closing III
40. il net gain for the day Of so points
Tn" company. which is IL large manu-
facturer of ''vaselinC,' has Il capital of
51.500,o6o common and 81 1000 ,uoV pre-
felred stock. al of which is outstand-
ing. Its hiStcry has been one of gem
trous dividend disbursements, which
reached 80 ne" cent one year and also in
Guided Il 200 per cent stock dividend in
1916.
Evening star., 1924-02-22
LNERM0RE MAY Be
CALLED IN OIL QUIZ
Wall Street Operator Knows
Much About Teapot Dome
Situation.
By ROBERT r. SMALL,

Special Dispatch to The star.
NEW YORK, February 22.-Jesse
1.ivermore of Palm Beach and Wall
street. who recently 'unloaded' on
the New York Stock Exchange and
sent prices tumbling in the most SEN
Sttional decline of the year, let it
he known that he thought the Oil
disclosures at Washington might
have the effect of undermining con-
fldence i'll the government.
1t now develops that Livermore was
the Wall street operator who ham
dlcG the Mammoth oil stock for Harry
+. Sinclair when Mammoth oil was
organized to take over the opera
lton of the lease granted to Sin
clair on the Teapot Dome naval re-
serves.
May Furnish Details.
Mr.. Livermore knows more per-
hapS about the tiotation of this stock
and the arrangements back of it than
any other person In the world eX-
"ept MIR. Sinclair himself. 1t may
be, therefore. that tlr. Livermore will
he SUNNI s,led from Palm Beach to
Washington to give the details OF
the various transactions, unless Mr..
Sinclair is able to supply the oil in
v"stigatin@ committee with all the
information it requires.
Mammoth Oil was put over and on
the market with little or no excite
nent Some persons are credited with
having made millions Of dollars out
of the attending rise in Sinclair Oils,
hut the money was made quietly out
of newly created values and there
was no 'holler' in the street, because
there was no squeeze and no one was
hurt.
Far more spectacular and interest
ing from t he public point of view was
I-ivermores handling of Piggly Wig
Sly stock for Clarence Saunders Of
Memphis. Tenn. head of the company
"perating the chain stores through
saunders. but this was not the fault
OF i4ivermore. 1t is said in Wall
street that if Saunders had followed
the advice of his broker he would
today.
ON the famous Wilson peace note
leak during the war Livermore is
credited with having gone $4,000
SnareS short on certain war bride"
stocks and to have cleaned up more
than 81 100000
The brokers say it is because Liver
more has been right" on so many
big stock market deals lately that
ne has obtained such a following in
the street--a following which appar-
entity can crash the market one way
or the other at will.
Started as once Boy.
An Office boy at S3 a week net 50
many years ago. Livermora today is
credited with vast riches. His home
Is modest quarter of "A million dol
lar affair out at Great Nccii, l.. /.
The young broker owns an cmcral Id
for which he paid almost as much as
for the house. Speed boats are his
hobby. He will pay almost any sum
for u spe"dier one. Most Of tho Wall
street men of Livermore's class get
their speed from race horses. The
racing bug has not yet hittea the
boy wonder" but it MAJ set him
any day.