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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-06-12
COMMISSIONER BILL LOSES
Continued From Page y

This bill had previously been passed by
the Senate, on May 9, by vote of e to
10. 1t was duplicate of the House Bill
that fell one vote short of passage on
April % with four dry representatives abb
sent on roll CAL The defeat of the Pro-
hibition Commissioner Bill followed one
of the most desperate battles against dry
legislation ever waged in the state legis-
1ature. Determined to prevent the pas
sage of all laws designed to make prohi-
bition more effective, the liquor forces OPP
posed all legislation of this nature. AL
though they failed by margin of twelve
votes to secure the repeal of the Illinois
Prohibition Act and the Search and Sci
zure Law in the House, they nevertheless
were able to block the passage of the
Prohibition Commissioner Bill.
Would Have Improved Enforcement
If the Prohibition Commissioner Bill
had become a law it would have been
decided aid to enforcement in this state.
While enforcement conditions are salts
factory in a majority of the counties,
there are others in which conditions of
liquor lawlessness prevail. 1t was the
purpose of the Prohibition Commissioner
Bill to provide state officer with two as
sistants and force of expert investigators
to act in places where outside help was
necessary. This would have assured bet
ter enforcement in lawless localities and
-a1;a,-aI
the federal forces.
Results Would Have Paid Cost
The resulting decreased congestion in
federal courts would have made it posi-
bic to grant speedier trials to liquor law
yiolators in these courts and to concen-
trate the federal forces upon major viola
tons. Fines and penalties collected from
law yiolators through the operations of
the State Prohibition Commissioner
would undoubtedly have paid much more
than all expenses of. this department
This has been the experience of similar
departments without exception.
Local Officials Have Duty
A Prohibition Commissioner law would
not have relieved any local officials of du-
ties imposed upon them by the Illinois
Prohibition Act. The defeat of this bill
still leaves adequate enforcement powers
in the hands of states attorneys sheriffs,
mayors, county and circuit judges, and
other state and local officials. Neverthe-
less, a Prohibition Commissioner would
have greatly increased the effectiveness of
prohibition enforcement in many places
and would have assured more prompt and
thorough enforcement than will be pos
sible without this additional enforcement
machinery.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-06-12

Mr.. F. w. Scripps, publisher of thirty
two newspapers of the United States, de-
clares that prohibition has given this
country ten per cent advantage in the
matter of production over other p1rts of
the world
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-06-12
ANTESALOON LEAGUE AND PRESIDENTS ADDRESS

Delivered by the Hon. w w Bennett State President of the AnSaoon
League the Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees
We today standing the highway Of human
for continuance of leadership His
will take o higher and nobe living.
Let you that not let the element switch issue
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-06-12

NW<A harmful with ourselves as individuals
lglllENH or as a nation. That whisky and beer
l%0\RE has all gone the dam. The ques-
sSUFqS9 ton today is whether a republican
RpT form of government having selected its
M vi representatives and amended the basic
III law of the land after years of educa-
s Esxu ton, prayer, sacrifice and heroic en-
"a E&p deavor, can secure respect for that law
sMW The amendment of Constitu-
ton was not snap judgment The
SM actment of law, both national and
A state, demanding respect for our Con-
80 - stitution, is the deliberate act of our
NM representatives, our servants, so that
are brought today on our highway
to parting of the ways. One road
E+5oNSM leads to notification, to the chaos in
ILo xToM evitable at the end of the road where
rocks the very foundation stones of
- our proud heritage, our God-given gov
- If ~. st,t. eminent, the greatest attempt of
oon League ~ kind to be free
nnett of Rock To our dear friends who are now
president He styling "bigots" and radicals let
dress III wmeh say in words clear direct that
-, -: ~ there can be misunderstanding of
meaning that do not intend to
submit to referendum the question
to have beer and wine That question has been set
hat they understand it, that do not continue to
alter we have caught It. lell them that they do not
ground taken by Constitution as amended, they
endments amend the Constitution as we have DONE
rnal and the government at Springfield and at Wash
the only way by which free people can have their
changed. Tell them that Americans, that we
OK that this is victory and that propose de-
weakened states attorneys and judges that remain
tgating extenuatng circumstances for the hootch
w that fully appreciate the brave words and respect
ed by own Chief Justice Floyd Thompson of the
recent address before the Bankers Convention in Chi
Quit mollycoddling criminals"
ians who would profit by the support, of the under
Of special privilege that they do represent the
TT of true America Tell those who pirate for personal
ion only makes for true liberty. Tell those who now
from the people, that victory has been dearly
advanced ground that through all the years of
brnus and his cohorts opposed every referendum we
n finally triumphed with township option we had
unity and from the county the state from the
ow for self-protection borders, and from rum
frying the war to the world
fanatical bigoted" fighters in this mighty endeavor to
bod spilled in Calvary the crimsoned of Valley
RS fought at Gettysburg and in the welter of human
anders Fields, that here stand that we cannot be
Or swerved hairs breadth from avowed purpose
aw"
back home who declare the victory won that is the
peril that need their support than ever, for
that they shall make possible the of our churches
Al,
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-07-03
s. LIONS BLUFF XII Ek WHALES
Io SAVE BABY SEA- FROM DEATH

or tie coast 81 California Is San
Maeuel Island. About 4 mile out
from Maeuel Is double island called
Flea Island Here tie big stellar sea
lions make Their home.
A few years go Il was my good
fortune to Be- % Flea Island, taking
pictures Of the lions and their young.
They paid little attention % rs. The
grsatef part q the herd vas out II
the water The mothers q those
cubs who we're ole enough were teach
ing them e swim. (Yess they have
to teach the young ones - swin.l
Three large killer whales came 70
ward the island ct 3 tangent, swim
ming slowly. side b. side, nov above.
now below the surface, but never eos
ing down far enough 70 anbmeree the
dofsal fms.
When the lions saw them they
streaied N for TIE rocks, I'll Of them
clainbeEinR up On TO 4 large shelf
from which point o. safety they pro-
ceeded to tell the killers what they
thought Of them.
But there was one little cub-probs
ably doing his first @soI0n-Bho was
out too Tar to get in with the others
and found himself cut OF. Three
times the killers circled the island be-
fore they seemed to notice the baby
sealion. Then they ali rushed toward
him at once, Owed and came up I'M
der him. One Of them grabbed him
BY the tail and flung him twifline,
high into the AIR When be came
down they ali rushed 1t him again,
and again be went up u the cir spin
ming. This was repeated several
times.
In the meantime the mother was
gaIloping up and down the shelf Of
rock behind the other yea lions. scold-
ing, biting and showing, til she had
forced the entire herd into tie water.
Now she swan behind them, forcing
them on till they had covered about
half the distance to the killers. Then.
utterine 4 high pitched screening
roar, she forced herself 20 the front Of
the herd, when the whole herd charg-
ed, rolling the sea before them in 3
great smother Of spray.
The killers divsd and came up way
out to sea. The mother picked up her
baby by the scruf Of the neck and
shook him. much IA the same manner
that I have seen human mother
shake her offspring when she has just
pulled him out Of the way Of street
car.
Now the herd swsm back to the
rocks, all jabhering and talking il over
among themselves and now and then
turning to bark At the departing kill
Eera. for eli the world like . pack Of
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-07-03
RECENT discoveries
Change Northwest
GEOLOGICAL HISTORY

HoQUIkM. July l.-DiAeovars q
prehistoric animal remalns IN the He.
quiam River and elsewhere IN Grayi
Harbor County vii neessaitate re-
writing the geological history 81 the
Pacific Northwest. a8d VIII bring IN
Veslieations 81 nationwide 4n1 world
interest "a keoIoeistz END bo|erntol-
oeists, fhe Rev. J. Herbert eeoghe-
gan declared il talk o. recent dis
cogeries here, before the Ho01iam
Chamber Of Commerce yesterday.
Al geological assumptions have
been that this section was under
water before tie arrival e The ice
Or the piIocene a9e| Mr. eeoshsean
said. The skull which was found
about sixty feet below the bed of the
Hoquian river recently was that Of
land mammal Of the saurian group,
though net 3 dinosaur, Mr. Geoghe-
gan asserted. He declared TIE skull
showed the eye sockets eomplete and
the top Of the skull IS far back as
the upper lobes Of the vetebral coll
umn. The brain case, well at the
back, had capacity OF but eight
fluid ounces. Evidences were seen Of
four horns, though two more were
undoubtedly attached TO the front
part Of the head. according TO Mr..
Geogheean. The skull Of well pre-
served bone, was at least 100000
years old. he said.
Arrangements are now being made
with paleontoloeists Of the University
Of Washington to dig out the fossil
lied skeletons Of three marine NAM
mails discovered about $50 feet above
sea level near Saginaw IN railroad
cut. II is hoped the vertebral column
has not been cut away as oil material
taken from the cut was thrown away,
leaving the ends Of the ribs exposed
In elliptical formation about 100 feet
long. These animals died long before
the earth changes which threw up the
Cascade Mountain ranges occurred
and before Mount Rainier, Mount
Hood and other peaks began spout
ing lava, he said.
Hoquiam people have been asked to
watch for any indication Of prehis-
toric relics. Some evidences Of old
fires have been found ct depth Of
seven or eight feet, and Mr.. Geoghe-
gan said he hoped to explore such
neighborhoods in hope ef finding eyi-
dences Of civilization that antedated
that Of the Indians Of thousands Of
years. He exhibited one specimen Of
an instrument which be iestinely re-
fsrred to as = "wife tamer,H q fat
stone club, well fashioned with a
smooth round handle at one end, and
beveled At one end, probably from
years Of use in, pulYerizinE grain.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-07-03
Prison Labor and Private Profit

Although every prison in tie conn-
try has been built BY prison labor,
and ninety-nine percent Of All con-
viets come from the working class,
and al the evils Of our prison system
weigh heaviest on the producers,
there is no other institution ia our
social life Of which the common peo-
pie know 50 little as the prisons.
Prisons are places Of mystery,
Stunned BY the average citizen, WALL
ed about with stone, barred with
steel, and overhung with sinister
mist Of secrecy and shame. Here
are hidden the wrecks Of our economic
system; here we bury alive our mis-
fltA. delinquents and criminals who
offend our sense Of decency and make
rs unsafe and uncomfortable because
of their unwilIingness or inability to
adjust themselves to the written and
unWritten laws society has set up to
govern itself and to secure protection
and peace.
According to the data supplied by
the United States Census Bureau
there are at the present time more
than two hundred thousand persons
imprisoned il the penal institutions
Of this country. Some form Of labor
is absolutely necessary to preserve
TIE life and sanity Of this great army
Of convicts. and wardens and prison.
keepers must hnd employment for
them. With all Of these thousands Of
helpless prisoners, whose labor Is
ripe for exploitation, and with them
shut away from social supervision
and conveniently forgotten by re-
spectacle felix's, greed has found ways
and means q entering our prisons
and making enormous profits on the
labor Of c0nvicts,
Prison labor for Private Profit Is
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-07-03

the live question for Ell taxpayers,
and It cannot be shunted over to the
politicians 70 handle. and the sooner
citizens face the facts in the situa-
ton, the sooner we may solve the
problem. Certainly nothing can be
gained BY hiding our heads in the
sand.
Keeping pace with modern indus
trial progress the utilization Of con-
vict labor has advanced, crude and
wasteful methods of a quarter Of
century ago, to the most modern and
efficient mass production. The old,
slip-shod, ineficiency convict labor
boss Of other days has been replaced
with the efficiency expert up-to-date
factory methods. Twenty five years
ago convict labor contracting was a
chaotic, hit-and-miss dog-eat-deg
scramble between individual poll
ticiah contractors, while prison fac
tories were badly equipped, wretched-
" managed, and they produced only
goods Of the lowest quality and sal
able to the least discriminating trade.
But this condition could not per-
sist in our highly specialized and
scientifically organized industrial
world. The same social forces that
produced the Oil Trust, the Lumber
Trust, the Railroad Trust and the
Banking Trust. have also created the
Prison Labor Trust. and made II one
Of the mighty powers that called the
Invisible Government"
Convict labor has never. been. a
thing Of which we as people were
proud or boastful. There have always
been sensitive souls who opposed It
as il developed. Free labor, par
ticularly organized labor. has always
hated and bitterly opposed all q our
methods Of utilizing convict labor be-
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-07-03

WASHINGTON, d. c., July e.
In forming Judgment Of the trend Of
business in industry, observers watch
certain key lines. Recessions or adj
vances in any one line may not mean
business retreat Of advance. but when
al move uniformly. it does Indicate 3
definite trend in the direction Of the
movement
The condition Of business IS COM
pared with last year at this time IS
indicated By the position Of q group Of
six key indicss.
Mail orders IRE salen IS an index
Of general distfibutipe trade. During
the month Of May the total mail or
ders Of two large houses stood 7.6
per cent above the figures Of Nay
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-07-03

last year.
The level Of car ioadings depends
on the movement Of goods and the
movement Of goods, IN turn, Is de-
pendent on buying. Car loadings
during May were &c per cent above
May last year, exactly equaling the
percentage increase ia mail orders.
The steel business often IS called
the barometer Of industry The May
production Of pig iron was lit per
cent above 1924 and unified steel
orders lib per cent shove 1924 Thus
tive induces Of the steel business tell
the same story.
Check payments, another barometer
Of buying and selling, stood 159
above May last year.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-07-03
RENEW AGREEMENT

SAN ANTONIO. Texas. June 27.-
Organized street ear men have re-
newed their agreement with the pub
lie service company.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-07-03
PUBLIC DEF ENbS kbnok

YUMA. Ariz., JUS eFi<te eIti-
se1z have arranged = continue the
publication oE the Yuma Hsfeld Il
George p Lynn. publisher Is sent to
taif o. eiiniHeE libel charges The
charges grew out q en- editorial writ
ten 81 Lynn II which be aaId formal
dehyde was used e. E preservative ia
q local dairy.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-07-03

fox terriers who have chased 4 bulI-
deg down the street and are daring
him to come hack but ars afFaid that
be win Henry A. Van Donosle, II
Adventure Magazine
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-07-03

Foreman and guard Of North Caro-
lina prison camp each sentenced to
20 years Is prison for beating Negro
convict to death.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-07-03

Supreme Court uDkoIds refusal Of
railway union men to apneaf before
u. s. Railroad Labor Board.
international officers address big
meetings Of union soft coal miners II
Hooking Valley fields.
Evening star., 1925-09-16

belief that the meeting was sympto-
matte OF general move of certain big
American banking houses to discuss
ways and means Of extending credits
to italian industrial enterprises SO
soon as the auspicious time arrives.
It is emphasized, however, by those
in q position to know that no Ameri-
can financial enterprises of this sort
will be sponsored or even encouraged
by the Government until the debt
question is definitely settled.
Rumania to Meet Debts.
BY the Associated Press
BUCHAREST, Rumania, September
16.-Premier Bratiano, who has just
returned from Geneva, announces that
Rumania, before sending her debt mis-
sion to Washington. will get in touch
with other states to which she owes
money-Great Britain, France and
Italy. He hopes for an important re.
duction in the country's principal
debt to France and Great Britain, and
says he expects that payment to the
United States will be made easy be-
cause Of the small amount of the
debt-$45 10000
He also said Rumania would put in
her future budgets the sums neces-
sary to make her debt payments to
her allies.
Evening star., 1925-09-16
FALL CAUSES DEATH
OF 81. CROMWELL
Former Head of New York
Stock Exchange Was
Thrown From Horse.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 16.-Sey-
mour l.. Cromwell, former president
of the New York Stock Exchange and
widely known banker and broker. died
today at his home at Bernardsville,
N. j., of injuries suffered when he fell
from a horse more than a week ago.
Death was due to concussion of the
brain.
Mr.. Cromwell retired from the presi-
dency of the Stock Exchange in May
of last year. He had held the preSi-
dency for three years, AS a member of
the firm of Carlisle, Mellick & Co, he
continued actively in the brokerage
business.
Fought Lockwood Body.
Mr.. Cromwell was leader three years
ago of the opposition to the enactment
OF legislation to compel the New York
Stock Exchange TO be incorporated.
When the Lockwood joint legislative
committee on housing, in it's final re-
port to the State Senate in 1923, sug-
gested regulation of the Stock Ex-
change by legislation. Mr.. Cromwell
strongly opposed the suggestion,
maintaining that the committee was
concerned only with housing condi-
tons
During the agitation for legislation
TO control the exchange he asserted
that the exchange never has been in
politics and never will" Following his
charge later that three public officials
had threatened legislation adverse to
the change unless they We're paid
money, District Attorney Banton
started grand jury investigation Mr..
Cromwell appeared before the grand
jury and gave the names of these
three persons, two of whom were said
to be State legislators. The grand
jury failed to return an indictment
and the names of the men accused
never were made public.
Just before his retirement last year
Mr.. Cromwell, in a speech before the
Association of Stock Exchange Firms,
declared the exchange had meted out
TO dishonest members punishment
far swffter than could have been meted
out In any court of Justice" Later,
in an address before 200 members of
the Associated Press. who were guests
of the stock exchange, he defended
short selling of stocks. claiming II TO
be proper ethically, legally and eco
nomtcally.'
Mr.. CromWells last address before
the stock exchange members was
made in July OF last year.
Mr.. Cromwell was honored with
election TO the presidency of the
stock exchange for three terms.
Evening star., 1925-09-16
POLISH MINISTER
RESIGNS j. S. POST
Dr.. Wrob,eWski to Return to
WarsaW-Record Here
Is Praised.

DR.. Wladyslaw Wroblewski. Polish
Minister to the United States since De
cember z, 1922, has resigned to accept
other important service for his gov
ernment at Warsaw. His successor to
Washington has been appointed. but
will not be announced formally until
the Washington Government has had
time to pass on the acceptability of
the appointee. There Is no doubt of
the appointee's acceptability.
DR.. Wroblewsk made an especially
fine record in diplomacy during his
stay in this city. Notable among his
achievements was the arrangement for
the settlement of Poland's debt TO the
United States. securing the recognition
by the United States of the eastern
boundaries of Poland and the flotation
of bond issue of S35, 900, 900 in the
United States through private bank
ers. Having finished these important
matters, he went to Poland with Nine
Wroblewska last June for a vacation
and while there made plans which
precluded his return to the United
States.
Since his departure from this city
Mr. Hipolit Gliwic, counselor, has been
in charge of the affairs of the local
Polish legation.
Evening star., 1925-09-16
AUTO INJURIES WOMAN.
Mrs. Fannie Fur, 73, in Hospital
for Treatment.

While walking across 2 street south
east at the intersection of Eighth
street Mrs. Fannie Furr, 73 years old.
OF 207 Third street southeast, was
knocked down and seriously hurt by
an automobile operated by Howard
Scott of 1928 Hope avenue southeast.
Mrs. Furr was taken to Providence
Hospital in Scott's machine and treat
ed by DIR. Edwin S. woodward for in
juries to the head and right leg. An
X-ray photograph is being examined
today to learn the extent of the head
injuries. She is suffering acutely from
shock, il was said at the hospital
Scott was placed under arrest at the
fifth precinct pending the outcome Of
Mrs. Furr's injuries.
Evening star., 1925-09-16

plants, they all bid on practically
every piece of road work on which
bids are asked, and they all bid low
as compared with contracts in other
cities. The contracts they get are
for new pavement or resurfacing,
where they both furnish the asphalt
and other material up to required
standard, and do the work Of laying II.
The contracts run to about three-quar-
ters of million dollars for asphalt
work this year. One job of 100000
has just been finished around Eastern
High School. There is another $780,.
900 job to widen E street, the same
type as Thirteenth street.
1t is recognized as good economy
and good administration by the Dis
trict officials to have all of these con-
tractors working at once when they
meet requirements and when Suffi-
cient funds are available.
The patch work, when cracks and
holes appear in the streets, is done by
the municipal plant, which last year
turned out 206, ,060 cubic feet of ma
terial. When it is found that the
asphaltic material required to fill these
holes is greater than the capacity of
the municipal plant the highway engi-
neer's office gets bids from local con
tractors for the excess delivered at the
contractors plant and OF the same
process as that which comes from the
municipal plant. That hurries the re-
pair work and happens rather con-
stantly in the Spring intensive-repair
period.
The charge that the contractors are
allowed to dump into repair work any
kind Of material seems to be abso-
lutely unfounded in fact.
Tests, chemical and physical, are
made of all materials used in street
and road improvements. Last year
there were 971 tests Of asphaltic ma
terials, 115 Of sand, 142 of gravel and
$3.50 of cements Ia very considerable
quantity of which went into build
ings and sewer construction. Sam
pies of asphalt tested represented
f,625 tons, of which 961 tons were
used by the contractors for laying
roadways and 664 tons used at the
municipal asphalt plant in producing
patching material.