, 1925-06-03

grating of his cell door while the Yuma Indian band was serenadng
him on the outside. We mention the latter as a hint to our local
s sfgansz'''0n IN the event that such "A contingency should arise i" our
Two more preachers sons gone bad.
Winfield Jones and N. T. Jones, sons of Rev. Charles Jones,
superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of Georgia, were indicted
by a Federal Grand Jury at Baltimore, Md, April "a, charged with
conspiracy to violate the National Prohibition law in illegal with
drawas of alcohol The Jones brothers have been prominent in
Prohibition enforcement, one OF them having been Assistant Fed
eral Prohibition Director for Georgia three years ago. The same
dietment against Thomas A Noland. Federal Prohibition agent Of
pany for Withdrawal of alcohol illegally.
Shorty" Thompson, a deputy sheriff, has invented a divining rod
which loo tsu whi lIs ,.a When en- it gasm close to a cache it begins in Ito to
vicinity of contraband liquor: Shorty" proved the merit OF his
gallons which he had dug up on a farm near okemah, and the div
evidence was being inspected aSe0rding to a veracious reporter.
Deputy U. s. Marshall Bernard I. Torcy must have sampled too
much of the evidence against ~bootleggers as he got into a row with
the conductor on the Burlington on his way from Denver to Casper
marsha was taken q off Il" the e' train a at III Douglas Do gi.u and 10 locked dup up until mt + the
next day when he was allowed to proceed to Denver to give testi-
mony' in some law enforcement Sa IS
International troubles are proving handcaps to coast guards
men blocksding New York's rum row. Six members OF the coast
have been court martialed for smuggling liquor and three for
mtOxieation; a far greater handicap is the prospect Of a shortage
when their service terminates.
In Nebraska the Attorney General has ruled that giving "a
condition of the new@pint of liquor law, which provides a penalty
VI ioh w " " Jay AIN i~ - ~ 80 S'N"N fNNv
of two years in Jail and a fine Of 5000 for the second offense'
When federal court opened in Omaha sometime ago, 600 boot
leggers were lined up for pleading. Since practically all OF them
demanded a jury trial it was estimated that it would take at least
three months to hear the cases. In the meantime other litigation
had to wait.
Thirty-eight Cincinnati, O., policemen and twenty-one village
April Fl, in spe trains after having been sentenced to long terms
in the penitentary for grating IN Prohibition enforcement
The controller general in Washington refused to approve a gov
erment stool-pigeon's expense account which included losses OF $50
at roulette, poker and faro. The prohibition department will find it
difficult to get high class men if it keeps that up.
Officers dropped in for an evening call on Rev. John Trout at
his home in Mount Vernon, ILL.,, and found thirty-two pints of lqu-
or concealed on the premises. The Rev. Mr. Trout must have drank
like a fish.
Justice of the Peace Monahan, of the Blonde district near
Pueblo, Colo, whose long suit was giving bootleggers the limit, was
recently arrested in a raid on a rooming house and arraigned on the
charge of possessing Intoxicating liquor.
They were obliged to postpone an electrocuton in Little Rock
Ark, last week because the licensed electrician who attended to such
matters in the state was SENTENCED ito three months for bootleggng
y Twelve Denver policemen, members OF the bootleg enforce
ment squad. were found guilty of bribery and graft last month, and
were discharged from the department.
The above examples of the wonders of prohibition is only an
infinitessimal part of those which might be cited to show its
workings.
The prohibitionists and reformers deny with heat that they are.
fanatics. The word is like the proverbial red rag to an Infatuated
toro, yet it is plain that we would shortly be back to the dark days
of thumb-screws and the rack il many Of them had their way
Here we read that a Chief of Police in Iowa has announced that he
ate placards, there that an official has recommended a public fog-
ging at whipping post. even capital punishment has been suggested
for the presistant vioator-and all for an act which has been consd-
cred legitimate since the world began until five years ago. Small
wonder that we sometimes ask ourselves il this sis America and we
the descendants OF the people who came across the water in
search OF personal and religious libertyi