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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-04-08
RUM TREATY EFFECTIVE

WASHINGTON, ID. c., April 8-The
rum treaty with he Netherlands similar
to that with Great Britain. went into
effect today with the exchange of rati-
flcations at the state department be-
tween Secretary Kellogg and The
Netherlands minister, Dr. De Graess.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-04-08
VETERAN DIES

MILWAUKEE, Wis, April 8.-Briga
der General Arthur r. Curtis, 82. on.
OF the few surviving generals Of the
civil war, died at the National Soldiers
home here today.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-07-10

charges for the day determine how many quench their
thirst unwisely and too we'll
This morning something of a record achievement.
There exactly half hundred DRINKS reported dur
ing the weekend and policemen have been busy all Sat
urday and Sunday night In they = old grey
bearded topers young and thirsty ones, fat and thin.
Some quietly half asleep, hardly knowing where
they being led-'Found lying such and such
street the charge against these. Some OBJ
streperous, they showed fight, and refused to
quietly. Drunk and dsordery' the charge against
these.
This morning all rooped into the dock, one by
their called the whole fifty, and pleaded
guilty to the charge. Some bleary-eyed and
ashamed apologize, defiant of
them old hands used the proceedings to show any
emotion.
five days and shufed again shepherdcd by the
liceman at the door.
"Fty-in one morning.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-07-10
WOULD D1soBEY ANY DRY LAW
(Sterling, ILL.,, Gazette, Friday,
June 5, 1925

The prohibition amendment was car
ried exactlyas every other amendment to
the Constitution was carried. 1t was
submitted by two-thirds majority of each
house of Congress of the United States
to the state legislatures. 1t was ratified
by two-thirds majority in both houses
of the same legislatures in forty-six of the
forty-eight states. 1t has been attacked
from every point before the United States
Supreme Court by the wet interests and
has been upheld as legal on every point.
The prohibition amendment can be abol-
ished only by the same method which
was used to secure lis adoption. If the
people had voted on the prohibition ques-
ton, and had voted on ali the laws that
have been enacted to enforce the prohi-
bitten law, Representative O'Grady and
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-07-10
ALL MooNsHINE IS UNLAWFUL
(Springheld H., Register, Sunday,
Tune Fl. 1929

(Sprlngheld, ILL.,, Register, Sunday,
June II, 1925
Chief of Police Collins of Chicago tells
the Iroquois club that he feels himself in
duty bound ito wage war against poi
son moonshine' and "of course" as an Of
fcer OF the law he is. But why the quail
flying adjective.
Most of us are convinced that all con-
traband liquor in these days falls into the
same classification as to illegality and
that it is all poison. The officer of the
law is not required to draw nice distinc-
tons
1t is not a question as to whether a
bootlegger sells good liquor or bad liquor.
If he sells any liquor at all he is law
breaker and the individual bootlegger is
equally guilty with the big syndicate in
the matter of putting it on the market.
But there is certain wisdom in the pol
icy that goes after the big fellows first
because it is the best way to put the lit
tie fellows out of business.
There may be shades of distinction in
the matter of the deadliness of the poison
contained in different brands of bootleg
liquor and in the methods of the big syn
dicates and the common or garden vari-
ETY. of bootlegger, but there is no differ
ence in their attitude toward the law or
the attitude of the law toward them.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-07-10
BOOZE GAME UNSAFE
Gillespie, ILL.,, News, Wednesday,
June S. 1929

If our chief of police keeps up his pace
and the indications are that he will
he will collect more than enough in fines
to pay his salary. The bunch that has
been filling up on booze and getting
away with it have begun to realize that
it is unsafe to try and get by any more.
They are being forced to pay for their
booze tests. We saw a sample the other
day, taken from one OF our citizens who
had loaded up for good time, and it was
the worst looking stuff we ever came
across and smeled like carbolic acid.
How any one with as much brains as
God gave a guinea would drink that kind
of stuff is a mystery to us. To drink that
stuff is simply to invite death in its worst
form. The person who sells that kind of
stuff is nothing more or less than COM
mon murderer and the one who drinks it
should be confined in an asylum for the
feeble-minded.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-07-10

and their own, and TO steel their hearts
against the cries of neglected little ones.
1t is school wherein sons learn to de-
spise the quiet, pure joys of home, to be-
come vile in word, in act, i'll aspiration,
and to fetter themselves body and soul
with the drink demons chains. 1t is a
school wherein daughters learn the short
est way to break their parents hearts, to
think a blush weakness, to prize drink
more than decency, to become viler than
the mud in the city's streets.
The blind pig, like the saloon, is the
friend of the drunkard, the gambler, the
prostitute, the blasphemer, the profaner
of Sunday, the corrupt politician, the bal
1ot-box suffer, the repeater" the law
breaker of every name. 1t is, in word,
the friend of all that is evil of naught
that is good. 1t dehles all that it touches.
1t makes the good bad and the bad worse.
Like vulture, it thrives on carton;
cholera-like, it feeds and fattens on physi-
cal and moral dirt, disease and degrada-
ton. 1t breaks hearts, wrecks homes, in
fects society, betrays the state, and is the
foremost ally of the devil against the
church of God
1t is the "vestibule of hell" Read over
its door Leave hope behind Farewell,
indeed, to hope of honest wealth, of hon
orable fame, of happy life, of holy death,
of heaven. Once begun, swift the descent
and fearful. Out OF many by-ways go the
graduates of the blind pig. In the cutters
they wallow. In low dens and brothcls
they lead living deaths. In gloomy prison
cells they pine and rot. In madmen's
cages they rage and howl. On grim scat
folds they pay the price of blood. Only
Gods omnipotence can snatch them from
the one ending of the road they have
taken-hell. 1t could, but will it?
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-07-10

his wet clan from Chicago would refuse
to obey any dry law, enacted by popular
vote, just as much as if it had been en-
acted by legislative vote. Everybody but
the wet fanatics" know that the federal
constitutional amendments cannot be sub
mitted to popular vote. The real ques-
ton has ceased to be what the law is, or
how it was secured, but now is whether
men who have sworn to obey the consti
tutions and the laws of the country and
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-07-10

contrary TO the argument up by prohibonsts that
it is act to stimulate inebriety by legalizng kker.
This observer former visits here much impressed
by the sobriety which seemed to accompany Quebec's
experiment in handling the liquor question: and in the
last evidences have been growing strengthen this
conclusion. They will be set forth in later articles
The basic theory of the liquor law encourage
the of light wines and beer and discourage the
of spirits and the data indicate that this tendency sought
by the law is constantly growing, while crime, misde
meanor and drunkenness are decreasing.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-07-10
CHICAGO TOUGH TOWN"
springfield, ILL.,, Register, Thursday,
Tune Is, 1925

Referring to the murder of Policeman
Patrick McGovern in a crowded down
town street of Chicago, the Tribune of
that city calls attention to the fact that
Chicago is a tough town" 1t says New
York has had 123 gun murders this year
while Chicago, half its size, has had 1876.
1t is a problem, but the Tribune comes
close to the cause when it says Organ
lied crime has political connection. The
criminal is used in carrying the precinct"
AS long as bootleggers and gunner are
such power in municipal politics in Chi
cago and other great cities this reign of
crime may be expected to continue. Par
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-07-10
DRY LAWS WILL REMAIN
(Carlinville, ILL.,, Democrat, "Wednesday

(Carlinville, ILL.,, Democrat, Wednesday,
June "a, 1925
The dry laws in Illinois remain just as
they were before the legislature con-
vened. The vets sought to repeal or at
least modify these laws. They failed in
every instance. The much heralded light
wines and beer propaganda seemingly
had little effect. Powerful influences may
demand it and influential newspapers
may recommend it, but the open saloon
will never again be known in the United
States, and neither will the sale of light
wines and beer be authorized.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-07-10

The Catholic Total Abstinence Union
of Illinois in convention assembled calls
upon its members to remember the vows
they took when they joined the organiza-
tion-a vow not only to be total abstain
ers, but also to discountenance the drink
ing customs of society.
Scripture says (Douay edition)
Pay thou vows to the most High
Psalms 49-14.
No man putting his hands to the
plough, and looking back, is fit for
the kingdom of God.-Luke 9-62.
We commend officials of city, county,
state and nation who stand by their oath
of office.
Scripture says:
If any man makes a vow to the
Lord, or bind himself by an oath; he
shall not make his word void, but
shall fulfill all that he promised
Numbers 1913.
For a man swear by one greater
than themselves: and an oath for con-
firmaton is the end of all their con-
troversy-Heb. 6-16.
Let there be no surrender to anarchists
and murderers by men sworn to uphold
the law. Do not let the bootlegger and
blind pig keeper rule this land of ours.
The blind pig, like the saloon, is place
where men, women and children, having
the necessary money, get drink-and get
drunk. 1t is a school wherein husbands
and fathers learn to be at ease about i'll
clad and ill-fed wives and children, and
to fling away those airy notions called
honest pride and laudable ambition, for
the sordid qualification of their appetites
and sensible feeling good all over. 1t
is a school wherein also wives and moth
c,s learn to forget their husbands honor
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-07-10
(From Montreal (Canada) Herald, June IS, 1929
FIFTY FOUND LYING DRUNK

The weekend thirsty time for Montreal. The
heat although the temperature as high as it has
BEEN have been aggravated by the rain and the
humidity. For the true statistics heat and the
citys thirst looks not to the observatory McG
the sales records of the lemonade BOOTHS but the
Recorders Court, where turns over the list of
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-07-10

of liquors for this particular gunmans customers Of
cals and newspapers discussed deportation in connec-
ton with this While possible under the present
laws there would be tremendous advantage in egsa-
ton making possible to send alien voators of our pro-
hbiton laws back to the country from which thew came
without delay.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-07-10
ILLINOIS EDITORS Give their OPINIONS
Keen Observers and Clear Thinkers State Press Express Ideas
Various Angles of the Liquor Question

ty chieftains who play the game with
these crooks cannot be held blameless as
booze and blood flow in such a steady
stream
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-07-10
By Arthur Evans
Chicago Tribune Press Service

Montreal Que. July 3-(Special) WET Quebec the
province which presents the paradox of being OF the
drippngest and soberest the continent, is
tracing larger hodes of tourists than this season.
Quebecs liquor act is essentially temperance act,
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-07-10
CATHOLIC TOTAL ABSTINENCE UNION ADOPTS
RESOLUTIONS APPEALING FOR LAW SUPPORT
Pigs in Scahing Terms; Called Foremost Ally
of the Devil

abstinence unqualified condemnation OF the aWle
OF Union:
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-07-10

state and help support their enforcement
can stand in public life and continue IN
open rebellion against the government.
MILLIONS OF VIOLATORS
Springfield, Ill, Journal, Tuesday.
June q. 1929
The Chicago Tribune charges that mil
lions are violating the Volstead law. 1t
Continued on Page 81
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-07-10
TRIBUNE WRITER CAN'T SEE DRINKS IN CANADA

But Read What Local Paper Reports About the Effect
of Booze in This Temperance" Territory
Evening star., 1925-10-22
AUTUMN
BY ID. c. PEATTIE.
Beech Drops.

When the last pewee has called in
the woods and is still, and only the
crows harsh "caw.caw' echoes in the
frosty Autumn air, we look for the
beech drops, strangest flowers OF Fall.
Go up along the steep declivities OF
the Potomac-gorgeous now In Au-
tumn dress-and search out the state
ly beeches, with their smooth gray
boles and crisping golden leaves.
Somewhere down there underfoot the
beech drops are growing under the
leaves, in the black, moldy earth.
They would seem like tiny sylphs,
like slender fairies among flowers,
rising so delicately and shyly among
the leaves, but for their ghost-like
unreality. Rather are they like pha
toms of flowers, like the withered
stalks Of last years harvest but thai
in their branches bloom the tiny yel-
low blossoms.
For the beech drops are parasites
upon the roots OF beeches. and their
botanical name, EpifaSus. has a
ghoulish sound, for it means beech
eater. These little wraith-like plants
do, indeed, batten upon the beech for
food but never do 1t serious harm.
The ghost pipes" too, so common
in our moist woods and thickets. are,
like their cousins the beech drops,
parasites on roots of other plants.
Their stems and twisted flowers are
like tiny tobacco pipes. The broom
rape, a close kin, has spread to Wash
ington as a weed from the Old World
and ravages the clover. while, strang
est OF all the family, the rare squaW
root, looking like a yellow pine cone,
saps the lives of trees in Rock Creek
Park.
There is always something creepy
about the aspect of this little family
Of plants, and none of them are more
so than when we come suddenly upon
a clump of beech drops, last Of all to
bloom. lifting their pale heads in the
month OF dying flowers.
Evening star., 1925-10-22
Bed of Procrustes.
BY JEAN NEWTON.

The ingenuity Of tyrants of the Mid.
die Ages and the 1nquisition days Is
not the only source of unique meth
ods of torture. In the phrase Ito lie
in the bed of ProCrustes," which We
use in modern writing or speech OF
rhetorical nature to signify having
ones viewpoint. plans or opinions
changed and reshaped by force. we
find a conception Of cruelty which
goes back to very ancient times.
We have the expression from the
legends OF the ancient Greeks. in
which ProcrusteS was a celebrated
robber who lived near Eleusis, in AT
tica, in ancient Greece. According To
the legend which has come down
through the centuries, he had two
beds-one short and the other long.
When a short traveller fell into his
hands he placed him on the long bed
and stretched or hammered him out
to fit it's proportions. Tail travellers
We're placed on the short bed and cut
down to the right length. In the
end. however, he got his just deserts
being killed by Theseus on the latter's
journey from Attica, just as he had
slain his own victims.
Evening star., 1925-10-22

in this connection is the fact that re-
ligious schools have only $40 pupils
out of 1900. The mayor pointed out
that the religious element is not as
great a factor in the development Of
the Holy Land as the great idealism
that prevails in the effort to maintain
a national home.
And when the mayor came to the
city budget his broad smile betokened
great happiness in the fact that the
entire debt is more than equaled by
the revenue. Therefore, he said. Il
have no troubles like the New York
mayor in going beyond the debt limit.
In 1920 our budget was $50 900; today
il is approximately S375, 900. Our mu-
nicipal bonds must interest even you
Americans" he continued.
Public property now owned by the
municipality is made up into public
parks, a complete and well developed
water supply, three wells with electric
and gasoline engines, two reservoirs,
etc Concrete walls have been built
as we'll as pavements and sidewalks.
There is a municipal library and a
meteorological station.
Force Not Too BUSY.
The police force was inaugurated in
the Summer of 1921. When l was
leaving here the police band had just
given its first concert. There are IS
policemen, and Mr.. DiZengoff wants
YOU to know that the city is most or
derly He challenges the record of
any other city in the world. The
maximum number monthly Of viola
tions of police regulations are "a out
of population of 10000.
In 1922 Tel Aviv obtained its first
Evening star., 1925-10-22
Parsnip Rolls.

Boil several good sized roots until
tender, skin and press through "A
sieve, rejecting all fiber. To one cup
full of the pulp add three tablespoon
fuls of butter. one teaspoonful of salt.
and one quart of hot milk. Stir. and
when lukewarm add one-half a yeast
cake dissolved in little warm water
Stir in sufficient -four to make a thick
batter. beat hard for five minutes, and
set aside In a warm place to rise.
When light. add sifted flour to make
a soft dough, turn out onto a Toured
board and knead for 10 minutes. Re
turn to the bowl, cover. and set aside
again until light. Take off portions
the size of an egg, mold them into
slightly pointed rolls, and place them
half an inch apart on well creased
tins. Brush with milk and when light
bake for about Is minutes in a hot
oven. These are delicious
Evening star., 1925-10-22
GREATEST EXPERIMENT OF THE CENTURY
and Writer Jerusalem Today and Tells the Story of
Modern Are shing n Land.

Jaffa do you see any trace Of former
generations.
The commercial center OF the city Is
termed Merkaz Micchary. A consid-
cradle distance away are some 80 FAC
tories busy turning out building ma
terials, furniture, mineral waters,
chocolatee and confectionery, Jam,
cloth, shoes and the products OF an ex-
tensive tannery and a large silk mill.
Last year there We're some 5000 en-
ployed in public utilities alone. paw
ing roads, constructing water works.
etc.
Electricity as an Aid.
Perhaps one Of the biggest develop
ments in Palestine is of electric pow
er. The Jaffa Electric Company
Gutenberg concession) operates at Tel
Aviv and also at Haifa. 1t was estaD-
lished only two years ago. 1t has
supplied the cities with electric light
and power and has proved an ex-
tremelv valuable aid to manufacture
ing. A unique idea is the building by
this electric company OF special
Workshop in Tel AViV. where small
manufacturers will be able to secure
power and so avoid the investment OF
special capital in buildings and mo-
tors. This will increase the industrial
DEVELOPMENT Of Tel Aviv and will mark
a pioneer effort in giving the small
manufacturer the opportunity or a
large operation.
SeashOre Casino.
Then there is the casino on the sea
shore at the end of Allenby road, and
YOU truly think you are somewhere IN
Florida This casino Is the only one
OF its kind in Palestine. A special bus
service brings parties from the ulllef-
ent towns To the SeaShore. 1t ls de
yelopiug into u resort place, because
Of the climate and the sea. Progress
SiVe facilities for pleasure seekers are
being especially devised.
The mayor Is extremely proud OF
the fact that 80 telephones have been
installed in private residences pri'
vate telephone being most unusual in
Palestine.
One OF the remarkable things about
this community is the fact that the
population is made up of Jews from
every section in the world, and al
though many. many languages are
spoken. the one so-Called legal ian
cuace' is pure Hebrew. This was in
stituted by one man. who insisted that
the dead Hebrew language be revived
He ii was who created the Hebrew
dictionary. His name was Haleziei
Ben Yehuda-but that Is another
story.
The tourist of the future will come
to Tel Aviv and be amazed at TINS
New World city in a very Old "orlc
section.
In the words OF Elwood Mead. pro
| fessor of rural institution OF the m
versity OF California. who went Over
the same territory, The contrast be
| tween the old Arab city of Jana, witt
| its narrow. crooked streets and lacF
| OF sanitation. and the city Of Tel AViv
| with its broad. paved electric-lghte'
| streets, Is the contrast between tht
tenth and the twentieth centuries.
| Copyright. 1920
Continued i'm tOmOrOw's starr
Evening star., 1925-10-22
My Neighbor Says:

An old straw hat makes a
useful basket for clothespins.
Sew two tape handles on either
side of the brim and the pins
can be carried about quite
easily.
When cooking chop place
it In colander and pour over 1t
a little boiling water. This will
prevent any of the nutritious
juices from being wasted. Then
cook on gridiron in the usual
way.
Shrimps are greatly improved
by pouring boiling water over
them half an hour before they
are served.
Velvet can be cleaned by rub
bing with magnesia. Shake well
occasionally. and, when entirely
gone over, brush with a clean
brush.
Save time in cooking by soak
ing beans, rice and all dried
fruits over night.
Irons with separate wooden
handles are much better than
the old-fashioned kind that need
a holder that is always slipping
off at the wrong time and burn
ing ones hands.
Leather picture frames, port
folios, etc, can be cleaned with
benzine. Apply with a soft cloth
and If the benZine removes the
polish apply the well-beaten
white OF an egg.
Evening star., 1925-10-22

TEL ANIN-all over Palestine
this place is on the tip of every
tonGue-the seeming wonder
L of the Eastern world. Its
Evening star., 1925-10-22
Nut Loaf.

one and one half cupfuls chopped
nut meats. one cupful evaporated milk.
one egg, One-fourth teaspoonful pep
per. one and one half teaspoonfuls salt
two cupfuls dried bread crumbs. one
half Cupful water, one teaspoonful sa-
worry seasoning. one tablespoonful
minced onion. Mix the nuts and bread
crumbs. then stir in the beaten egg
and add the seasonings and evapo-
rated milk and water. Mix well and
set away for Is minutes. Pack In
we'll oiled bread pan and bake in
moderate oven. Serve with tomato
sauce.
Evening star., 1925-10-22

when anybody asked me the popuIa-
tion of the city. / would answer: This
morning the population of Tel Aviv
is so many thousand because in the
afternoon or the next morning there
would be hundred or two more
S1S,OO0.OO0 in Realty.
In 1920 there were 200 houses in
Tel Aviv with ! 563 rooms. Today
there are ZOO houses with $4,000
rooms. The value of these houses is
estimated at approximately $4,000,
600. and the vacant property is esti
mated ut $500 600. There is no
place in Palestine that has developed
such sanitary conditions in private
houses as obtains here.
In this progressive municipality the
mayor makes it has business not only
to ascertain the number of people,
hut also the productive population.
SO he told me that at the last record
made, when there We're 80, 900 inhabi-
tants, 1l,2S0. or $40 per cent. were
breadwinners. which is deemed TO be
a very high average.
His record is most complete in as
certaining the kinds Of enterprises in
which the population is engaged.
They are as follows:
Per Cent
Those who earn their living by
renting houses ................ 1 D
People engaged in hotel and res
taurant business .........-.... IL
Those engaged in industry. y........ 30
Teachers Observation-Disclosures. 81
Transportation operators. such as
drivers, chauffeurs. etc.... 81
What are temned liberal profess
Evening star., 1925-10-22
HOW 1T STARTED

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