Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-02-27
LIVE TOPICS
OF COUNTRY
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him at the ktafnt2 Eameiing tables.
according 10 press reports early this
week.
Waod is seriously embarrassed an
faces q charge growing ou, Of bad
check deal, which marked the end of
his romantic career a. a gambler.
Once get the gambling mania and i,
is as hard to cure as any malignant
disease. Usually il stays with It's vic
tim for life, on entil he is utterly
ruined financially.
In America We permit only one kin3
of gambling under protection Of the
law. The buekessShop Is still allowed
10 fleece lis victims. Other forms #
gambling exist, but they are under
the ban Of the law. The idea Is in
America 10 make our Institutions fool
proof. We do no, always succeed.
The Danville Banner Times, which
represented an attempt 70 resurreet
the old Banner Of thiri-par,y pro
hibtion fame. was recently sold feT
debts.
Years ago the Banner flourished a.
an organ OF the Prohibition party
bu. since the organization Of the Anti
Saloon League, anu the diminishing
of the prohibition rarty vote, the Ban
ner has sailed under difficulties.
Its failure is an echo Of lest
cause. II WAS fnFeordained that the
American people would never put the
ban on the licensed saloon through "A
single party movement. The Pro
hiblion party cried the slogan of "no
license for more than thirty years,
and was practically the only political
movement arfayed against the saloon
until the Anti-Saloen League was Or
ganiged in the nineties.
The highest vote recorded by the
party in general election was cast
In 1892. Nearlv $50 600 votes were
polled for mo license In 1896 the
party split on the silver question, AMI
the vote was reduced TO approximately
10000 For several quadfenniums
the party succeeded in polling around
250,000 ballots. but failed to make
anpreeiable gains.
+. +. Mcintyre and Alfred Noolven.
miners who left their Jobs TO aid IN
the attempted rescue OF Floyd Collins
now know the modern definition of
the word gratitude" They also
know how some of the members Of
The American Expeditionary Forces
felt when they returned from abroad
and found their Jobs taken, and mot
a chance
Though they were credited with
"heroic and valuable work In con
neciion with the attempted rescue, the
two miners appeared unable TO inn.
press their fofulEi euinlo- ef who hal
filled their "jobs" with other men IN
their absence. That's Gratitude"
There Is always peril in great
riches. Partisan women who wear
platinum anklets are the latest vic
Tins. A man was arrested last week
because he had trained fox terrier
to nip the anklets when displayed too
conspicuously.
Probably the man lacked courage 10
perform the operation himself, and
coached the innocent dog do his bid.
ding. At any rate he was arrested
when found trying to pawn an ankiet.
That mining is one of the most
hazardous occupations was again
shown In the recent disaster in which
scores Of miners lost their lives.
Fifty-one dead is the reported casual
tv list near Sullivan, Ind.
The cause of the fatal blast which
set fire to the mine is attributed TO
the opening of pas pocket.
Over $4,000 gallons Of alcohol,
moonshine and gin were found on the
forty acre farm of James Reilly, near
Fulton, ILL.,, last week by prohibition
agents. This is said to be the biggest
booze haul ever staged in the state.
The entire cargo was moved to the
Whiteside county Jail. One of the
five stills discovered contained a
capacity of 700 gallons, another 800
and a third $50 gallons.
Reily's connection with the plant
has not been established. He is
probably innocent of wrong doing. IN
view of the fact that he only recently
purchased the farm. Reports do not
indicate that he was placed under
arrest.
Bootlegging in immigrants received
a setback in the sentence Of Johann
Bofnos to eighteen months in jail al
Hamburg.
Bornos had procured seamen's pa
pefs for southeastern Europeans VINO
wished to immigrate to America. The
fake papers lead to his arrest.
Reports persist to the ELECT thai
lines of would-be immigrants are
housed temporarily on the Mexican
border waiting opportunity 10 cross
the line. Many shipped from Euro
mean countries a sseamen, deserving
upon their arrival IN Mexico. Reports
Indicate that the fake passport mein-
cd is commonly used.
The return Of Joseph Caillaux 20
a place of power in France - te
American people an unexpected se9uei
Of the late war.
man of peace. He manifested llttle
symaathy for the war, and this atl-
tude caused him to suffer the sughna
which generally belongs TO a traitor.
He believed that Germany haa
right to certain concessions. 1he re-
suit was his trial. Imprisonment anu
banishment. At one time he facea
the probability Of execution on.
charge Of treason, but owing TO ms
GREAT influence his life was saved.
Now he Is back again in France
with the nation At his feet.
At the close Of the var a romantic
story Of MS fall was heralded IN a
picture production "hiclh
awakened sympathy for him in Amer