The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27
By ROONEY 2. BUTCHER

I NEW 1OItk- Jan. 26.--N llllom II. Anderson superintendent of the New York state Anti-Saloon league. in the one week of his trial on a charge of forgery, has made belated butlavish amends to New York. city for all the grief that be occasioned in the metrop- Olis when he assisted in procuring the passage of prohibition. :.'s >. Candidly, New York city does not cherish Mir. Anderson. He has been anything but demure public figure since he moved from Baltimore to New York a few years ago. He has been iii print almost all the time and it seemed that every time he did invade the hostile columns of the metropolitan press. he brought little comfort to. his enemies. 's ! But last week. Anderson evened things up He caused laugh that began to rumble at the Battery and broke with the volume of thunderous mirth at Yonkers on the north, the. wettest of the suburbs. where he has his home. i Anderson took the witness stand in his trial and within a very short time al- lowed Ferdinand Pecora, the prosecutor. to maneuver him into a sultry posi- tion. Although the prohibition cam paisner is a lawyer. he had not been on the stand many minutes before he found himself in a situation where he had to reveal the source of q mysterious windfall of $25,000 or place himself in contempt of court. s.'E...
 Disbelieyed By Populace
 William H.. Anderson, the stalwart crusader for the right, the man who proclaimed thousand times year rom q hundred pulpits that he was the representative of New Iorks law abiding Christianity. disbelieving by<the alwless rabble of the Goddess metropolis. 1t was shocking, nevertheless. it was true. ./. tz- fs
 but he went on to describe mys. terious man to whom he hal paid S24, ,i00 for publicity work on behalf of prohibition. His liame was Henry Mann. He didn't know anything fur. ther about Mir. Mann. He had taken no receipts. vouchers or expense state statements. He had trusted the e,semp- lary Mir. Mann so implicitly that he never even troubled to learn his ante. cedents or. maintain an acquaintance assistants. Mir. Johnson and NIr. Green. men that Mir. Anderson did not concern
 
 them. {,
 Gets s11.ooo Raise ' !,
 Of course, being e toiler for the moral welfare of his fellowmen. Mir An derson was poorly paid. In the few years that he has spent in New York his salary has remained almost station. ary. That is to say, it has only ad- vanced from $4,000 to $1J.000 a year, plus some few thousands of dollars in commissions which he is alleged to have eAtortei from D. berstall Phillips, d fund solicitor. These meagre earnings and commissions and the S25 090 gift from the ever-so-generous Mr. King are practically all that Mir. Anderson has derived as the wages of virtue.
 Having expended the $25,000 gift oIi publicity, Mir. Andfeson asked that the Anti-Saloon league of New York to re- imburse him. He. made, affidavit that he had spent the money from his own funds. He even told them the names of the men who spents ik tfof him Messrs. Mann, Johnston and E Green. What more ploof could they require? None. whatever, The heafls of the league had us great confidence in Mir. Anderson as MT. Aplerson had had in MesSrs. Mann, Johnston and Green. They assumed the obligation to creim- purse Mr. Anderson for the money which he had so generously and inn pulsively Gisbursed from his own meagre purse. s
 Pcora Has No Such Faith
 But the Histric; attorne S .io be no such faith us that. Mir. Pecora wonll like to be kind md trusting, but he has taken an oath tJ perform certain dtf- ties for the public and he must insist on proof, So he asked some particulars about Messrs. Mann, Johnston. and Green. Ilc wanted to know some more about MT. King. Was Mir. King little