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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-06-12

sons; but it would be just as reasonable
to attribute all the decrease to lessened
use of alcoholic liquors as to attribute
the rise of diabetes mortality again after
the war entirely to prohibition.
The truth about diabetes probably lies
IN other directions. Dr. Emerson, in the
symposium mentioned, thought it was a
matter of over-luxurious habit of life. a
combination OF injudicious feeding with
inadequate exercise. A San Francisco
physician, DIR. Z. S. Kilgore, believed
that a chart Showing the amount of au
tomobile distribution in the last decade
would correspond closely with the geo
graphic distribution of diabetes" on the
theory that inadequate exercise" is fac
tor. DIR. Elliott p Jos1n, a Boston spe-
c1allst on diabetes, pointed out that with
the reduction of the death rate from in
tectious diseases, there is save a class of
children and young adults who are candi-
dates for diabetes; also that there has been
a marked gain i'll longevity and with in
creasing longevity diabetes is more COM
mon." Owing to certain changes in types
of foods consumed, Dr. Jos1in did mot
believe we are getting much more sugar
than formerly"
Diabetes is receiving earnest attention
from hygienists who seriously give due
weight to all its factors. S1apstick state
ments that prohibition is responsible be-
cause former drinkers use sugar to satisfy
alcoholic craving are easy to make, but
the wise reader will use his intelligence.
1t IS not certain that there has been a
permanent INCREASE i'll diabetes mortality
since prohibition. What increase showed
itself was smaller i'll proportion than that
in preceding pre-prohibition years, and, to
quote DR.. Emerson, increase in deaths
does not mean increase in the incidence
OF the disease"
II prohibition has anything to do with
diabetes, its most probable effect would
run through raising the standard of living
as result of the money released from the
old drink bill This might result in some
cases in injudicious choices in diet and
less exercise. But so might an increase
in wages or any one of half dozen other
circumstances which would give the in
dividual or the family more money to
spend on food and enjoyment.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-06-12
DRY PROGRESS IN FRANCE

Things are stirring over in France ac-
cording to Edmond Boucly of the indie
pendent Order of Good Templars He
writes to the World League Against AL
coholism that at Saint Quentin there re-
Gently was held a big meeting TO which
the vets came to insult the dry workers.
He feels that some progress has been
made and that there is justifabIc hope for
bigger victories in the future.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-06-12
SMUGGLING BOARD PROPOSED

According to a Washington dispatch,
creation of permanent intelligence board
in Washington to help combat smuggling
across the Mexican and Canadian borders
and the American coast line, has been
proposed by immigration officials and
probably will be considered at the confer
ence on smuggling to be held between
the United States and Mexico May IS at
FL Paso, Texas.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-06-12
PLAN POLITICAL ACTIVITY
Japanese Dry Convention Considers
Proposals for Advance Reform
Legislation by Diet
(By Mark r. Shaw, Special Correspond
emf American Issue, Japan

emf American Issue, JAPAN
Over 200 official delegates registered
for the sixth annual national convention
of the Nihon Kokumin Kinshu Domei
National Temperance League of Japan
which met in the Red Cross headquarters
at Niigata on Saturday and Sunday, April
IS and 20. The larger enrolment this
year was almost a surprise to the leaders
themselves, for it came, it is said, not so
much as a result of greater publicity from
headquarters but rather as an expression
of a growing interest in the prohibition
cause throughout the country.
The temperance organizations in Japan
enter upon new era with the adoption
of universal manhood suffrage which, it
is expected, will be a material advantage
to the already rapidly growing anti-alco-
hol movement. While in some countries
prohibition or partial prohibition regula-
tons have been decreed by arbitrary rul-
ers, as in the case of the prohibition of
vodka in Russia at the beginning of the
war, or passed by more or less response
BILE governments in advance Of general
popular demand, more often, especially
during recent years, the attitude of the
people has been in advance of the govern
ment on the matter The action of the
legislative bodies, indeed, as in the case
of the United States Congress and most of
the individual state Legislatures, has come
onl yin resopnose to the expressed de-
sire and determined demand of a majority
of the people themselves.
The program of the convention listed
over thirty propositions to be considered
by the delegates, chief of which were the
following:
Cd The adoption of prohibition as a
political issue
, ~ The possible formation of a dry
party and the election of dry members to
the Diet under universal suffrage
90 The election of dry candidates in
local assemblies as first step in political
reform.
(D Means for the crystallization and
more effective organization of the grow
ing temperance and prohibition sentiment
throughout the country.
50 Cooperation with and development
of the student prohibition movement
90 A more adequate program for
scientific temperance education.
% More effective enforcement of the
Juvenile prohibition law
(S) Proposals for advance legislation IN
the next session of the Diet
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-06-12
SOME FACTS ABOUT THAT DIABETES MORTALITY
Cora Frances Stoddard

Once more the claim is made that pro-
hibition is responsible for an increase in
diabetes cases, on the assumption that
drinkers now deprived of alcohol become
food drunkards" and try to appease their
craving for alcohol by foods containing
large amounts of sugar. No data are
given in support of the theory.
One is moved to ask why former drink
ers should be compelled to resort to rich
foods if there is just as much drinking
a sever" and if there is no trouble in
getting all the liquor you want" under
prohibition, as the wet protagonists claim.
DIR. Haven Emerson, former health
commissioner of New York City in a dis
cussion of this question year ago said:
1T has been claimed that prohibition has
directly caused a rise in diabetes owing
to increased sugar consumption, but
there was rise in the diabetic deaths be-
fore prohibition" Oour. Amer Med.
Assn, June 7, 1924 Confirmation of
this statement is found in both United
States Registration Area mortality re-
ports an din the statistics of the Metro
politan Life Insurance Company concern
ing their more than 100000 industrial
policy holders.
In the United States between 1911 and
the year 1915 when the diabetes death rate
reached the highest point of the immediate
pre-prohibition years, the diabetes NOR
tality increased by 20 per 100000 Gour
years. In seven years, 1915-1922, the
rate increased by only 90 per 100000.
In the Metropolitan experience, the rate
increased % per 100000 between 1912
and 1916, four years, reaching in 1916
the highest point of the immediate pre-
prohibition period. Between 1910 and
1922 (six years. the rate increased only
Is per 100000.
In 1923 and 1924, there was a decrease
in the rate in the Metropolitan expert
ence, possibly due to the increasing use
of insulin during this period
If diabetes is to be reckoned in terms of
prohibition, why should not mention be
made of the fact that there was a de-
crease in its mortality rates in 1913 and
1910, during the period of war restrictions
on liquor and the first six months of pro-
hbition? The fact is, of course, that dur
ing this period there was also more care
full choice and use OF food for war rea-
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-06-12
(The Literary Digest, May. 1929
A BRITISH BOOZE BARON
BUSTED"

Some of the newspaper comment gath
cred under this aliterative title sounds
not little like what has been called the
screaming of the American eagle. At
least, it is refreshing This from the
Washington Star:
Great Britain has treaty with the
United States which, in effect, recognizes
the prohibition law of this country and
extends the area Of search in the waters
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-06-12
[McNaught's Monthly. Feb, 1925 and
May, 1929
THE TRUTH ABOUT KANSAS
A Scofflaw's Confession
THE KANSAS MYTH
By Avis D. Carlson


II there were no people who wanted to
drink, there would be no law, and no need
OF laws against manufacturing and selling
liquor. We all know there are people
who want to poison themselves with also
hol, just as there are people who want to
commit suicide, and do. We know there
are people who do what they want to do
regardless of whether or not it is in ac-
cordance with moral or civil law Kan
sas no doubt has her share of these,
though Irwin Cobb thinks she makes up
in moral Himalayas what she lacks in
natural scenery. Avis Carlson says there
always has been drinking in Kansas and
always will be. And all the scofflaw's
truth" about Kansas amounts to is that
there are people there who drink, himself
among them. On the real question as to
their comparative numbers he has no evil
dence. As he associates with that class
he naturally sees more of them than a
non-drinker would.
Carlson says that Senator Cappcr owns
newspapers and weeklies that go into
three-hfths of the homes in the state and
that he knows, better than any other poll
tician "how to keep his ear to the grass
roots" And letter from Senator Cap
per, published on the last page of the
same number (May) says the Scofflaw
article is "a tissue of lies" that mine
tenths of the people of Kansas believe in
prohibition" This is corroborated by
Carlson who says that although every
village and countryside have their sots,
every town its bootegger, and most in
dividuals few youthful sprees, his gen.
Grafton makes prohibition one of its pri-
mary faiths" Only degenerates would
want law that really promoted drinking.
There are other things to judge prohi-
bition by than the places where knowing
ones can find drinks. One traveller who
investigated Kansas when it had state
prohibition took into account the number
of dolls he saw in the stores. How dared
the proprietors lay in such stocks? Be-
cause they sold. Kansas, that investi-
gator found was land of happy chill
dren. Would it have been, and would
the voting strength of the state make no
question of maintaining prohibition if UNI
der it the dsll exhibit were chiefly in the
pawn shops, where the fathers left them
TO get money for drinks?
According to Carlson, the automobile.
the radio, the monograph, the movies and
cheap reading matter are leveling down
boundary lines Kansas is becoming cos
mopolitan, like the rest of us. And they
have had prohibition there so long that
soon there will be no one who remem-
bers prohibition conditions. Let
some old Kansan talk
The Washington times., 1925-09-05
Chicago Live Stock

CHICAGO, Sept. S.-Short re.
ceipts featured the weekend live
stock trade, shippers curtailing sup
lies on account Of the Monday holi-
day at thi spoint4
Great bulk of the cattle and sheep
runs were billed direct to packers
from other markets, while about
half the hog receipts were also
directs, leaving few fresh swine for
the market. Top holds sold at
1925.
Despite seasona1ly large runs of
all classes Of livestock offered this
week a good clearance was effected,
but trade will not long stand the
crowding it received this week with
out severe setback in rates, n
feature unwanted by both sellers
and buyers.
HOGs-Receipts, 1000; market steady.
Bulk, $11.000l3.0O: top. $13.25; heavy
weight. S1200@12.so; medium weight,
$11:25 Q1a.15; light weight, $11.25 q
1925; light lights. $11;oo@1s19; heavy
packing sows, rough. $1O.2501O.70; pigs,
CATTLE = Receipts. 500. Market
medium and good, 10000 1880; good
and choice, $14OO@15.75: common and
medium. $7.00@12.00; butcher cattle,
heifers, $5.OO@12.5O; cows, $4.00@S.50:
bulls. $4.0O@7.OO; Gamers and cutters.
steers. 5000 700; veal calves 0ight
and handyweight, $10.5O@13.5O; feeder
steers, $500 QS.50; stocker steers, $3.50
@8.25; stocker cows and heifers. $1,000
eern range cattle. beef STEERS, $1,000
HOO; cows and hfrs, $3.5O@750
The Washington times., 1925-09-05
UTILITY STOCKS LEAD
IN ADVANCE ON CURB

NEW YORK, Sept. 5.-Public
utility stocks moved upward in the
curb market today in response to
urgent buying based on actual ana
prospective amalgamations and COM
binations of prominent companies,
the latest to be consummated being
that of the western Power Corpora
ton with :. the powerfHk1 AeTth
American Company.
United Light and Power advanced
4 points to 1874; Lehigh Power
was up az; Midwest, up I; Electric
Bond and Share, up 2az; Common
wealth Power, up IL; American
Light and Traction, hip IN,
Good buying continued in the low
priced motor stocks, including Stutz
and F'ageol, which gained nearly a
point each. Durant was reaction-
airy and sold dwon to IL for a loss
of IN.
Galena Signals decline to 40 was
the heaviest slump in the oil stock.
Prairie lost IL at 40; South Penn
was up IL at 154, and Standard OF
Indiana fractionally higher. Est
Railways of France per cent
bonds sold at ST. for a moderate
gain. Domestic bonds were fairly
active and steady.
The Washington times., 1925-09-05
MOTOR STOCKS
AGAIN LEAD
ADVANCE
Market Makes. Up in Bouy-
ancy What It Lacks in Activ-
itY-Some New Records
BIZ NJ. S. COUSINS

NEW YORK, Sept. 5.-The rally
In prices of motors and industrial
stocks was carried over into to-
days short session.
The market made up in buoy
ancy what it lacked in activity.
and there were enough distinctive
price movements to mark the ses-
sion as something more than the
ordinary pre-holiday market.
Pierce Arrows advance to a new
high at 42A in the first period,
while the preferred stock was adj
vancing points to a new high
at 90, was easily the feature.
Studebaker continued to move up
ward fractionally and more &C.
tive demand was seen for General
representative motor shares.
WESTINGHOUSE Air Brake made a
further gain Of 3 points in active
trading, and United States Steel
was also active at fractionally
higher price level.
American Can sold above $50 for
the first time on the movement
and high priced equipment stocks
and specialties showed no signs Of
weakening. A squirt in st. Paul
common carried the common stock
to around 91s and the preferred
to above II; Katy, Wabash and
Rock Island were in good form
and sold nearly a point higher.
Oh stocks were active, but a few
Of the prominent Independent oils
like Shell Union, Sinclair and Mar
land made fractional advances. Lo-
cal traction stocks, including Brook
lyn Manhattan Transit. and Man
haitian Elevated. sold higher. the
former estab Iishing a new high rec
ord for the year. Stock of the
store companies. Sears Roebuck,
etc. made moderate improvement
over yesterdays final prices.
A number of the prominent COM
modities markets were closed today,
including the New York and New
Orleans cotton exchanges, the local
coffee and sugar exchanges.
The Washington times., 1925-09-05
Canadian Wheat.

WINNIPEG, Sept. 5.-Opening
wheat prices. October. 1881, OFF
h; December, 1905. off II; May,
154A.
The Washington times., 1925-09-05
ATSQNERSEI
IN ANOTHER
LOVE SUIT
Richard Gallagher Says Ac-
tor Has Been Too Friendly
With Mrs. Gallagher

NEW YORK, Sept. 5.-Pat Som
erset, English actor, again became
the third corner of a domestic tri-
angle when he was named as CO.
respondent by Richard Gallagher,
of Forrest Hills, Long Island, in
divorce papers filed in Brooklyn
Supreme Court. .e..-,
Somerset was the principal figure
in the action of Carl Carleton,
theatrical producer, when he sued
his wife, Edith Day, musical COM
edy star. fo= divorce. Carleton
charged Somerset with being the
father of a child born to Edith Day,
but withdrew the allegations when
he secured a divorce from his wife
and she married the English actor.
Gallagher, in the present action,
received permission from the court
TO publish notice on Mrs. Bertha
Irene Martin Gallagher, of 1897
Orange drive, Los Angeles, Calf
Gallagher alleges in the legal pa
pers that he found his wife and
Somerset in a compromising situa.
ton in her California home.
The Gallaghers were married in
Portland, Greg, in 1917. They sep.
arated a few weeks ago, according
to the papers filed. Gallagher is
an actor. Mrs. Gallagher was for
merly on the stage.
The Washington times., 1925-09-05
MASONS PICNlCKING
AT MARSHALL HALL

The second annual excursion TO
Marshall Hall of Fellowcraft Club
of Federal Lodge, No. 1, Masons,
and the Federal Chapter, Eastern
Star, is under way today. Three
trips to the resort are being made
by the steamer Charles Macalester.
A baseball game between two
Masonic teams will be the feature
of the afternoon. Swimming races
for men and women, foot races AMI
other athletic events are scheduled.
Prize dancing will close the pro-
gram
The Washington times., 1925-09-05
RAILWAY
WOULD ISSUE BONDS

The Virginian Railway today ap-
piled to the Interstate Commerce
Commission for authority to nomin-
ally issue $3,S96,000 of first mort
gage 5 per cent fifty-year gold
bonds and to actually issue and
sell $7,5OO,00O Of the same bonds.
The bonds will be sold to the
National City Company of New York
and Lee Higginson and Company,
Of New York at 95 per cent of
par.l The proceeds will be used to
meet the roads requirements from
August 1925 to January 1926.
The Washington times., 1925-09-05
COPS WAGES "coPPED"
IN BUSY CITY OFFICE

MAIDEN, Mass. Sept 5.-The
city treasurer's office here was
thrown into a state of excitement
when 1t was discovered that some.
one had ''copped" $3.50, part of
the Police Department payroll. The
theft took place on the bluecoats
payday.
More. than tWo.thirds OF the
force had been paid off when the
cardboard box containing the re-
manning pay envelopes disappeared.
City Treasurer Milliken, assistant
to Captain John II. Aylwar,I. noun
lnal head of the department; Mss
NJ. Louise Hitchcocks and several
clerks had not left the treasurer's
oc0 all day.
The Washington times., 1925-09-05
Chicago Grain Market

CHICAGO, Sept. ). Grains
opened lower today.
Wheat started 9s to &c lower
with fairly general selling and poor
support. Offerings disappeared On
the break and the market rallied ON
buying credited to shorts.
Corn started Is to 1Ac lower.
Trade was moderate with buyinS
power weak. There was a fair re-
covery after the immediate start.
oats started Unchanged to &c
lower. Trade was quiet and the
market easily influenced.
Provisions opened generally STEADY
The Washington times., 1925-09-05
AGRARIANS BLAMED
FOR MEXICAN DEATHS

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 4.-Charg-
ing Agrarians of the State Of
Puebla with being responsible for
numerous assassinations, President
Gales has Issued a warming to the
administration Of that state that
the federal government will take
drastic steps to prevent further
outrages.
President Gales made the direct
charge that Puebla Agrarians were
responsible for the murder Of
Robert Maurer, French subject,
and Rosalie Evans, a British sub.
Ject, whose death brought about
rupture of relations with Great
Britain. The death of a German
subject and many unnamed Mexi
cans were laid at the same door.
The Washington times., 1925-09-05

City of Graz s..
Denmark SIS ........
Est Ry fFrance), U.s..
French Nat MI Is.
Nun of Medellin SIS.
Prov Up Aust Is.
Russian Govt 6ks cts.
Siemens Is .........
Solvay & Gle IS 1850.
Toho e Pr Is 1880.
The Washington times., 1925-09-05
--Rv Richard Hatton-


"The outlook for prosperous fall
and increased business is encour-
aging" said Executive Vice-Presi-
dent Bertram Chesterman. of the
Morris Plan Bank, today, although
there are some weak spots. An in
crease in the jobbing trade for fall
delivery is noticeable and carloads
of revenue freight, as compared
with 1924, show substantial in
crease.
Reports of both the Federal Re-
serve Board and the Department Of
Commerce are far from discourag-
Ing. The. reports of the Department
of Commerce show increases over Il
year ago = in most lines, including
the production of pigiron, steel in
gots, zinc, building contracts award
ed, bank clearings, postal receipts,
imports and exports Of merchandise,
deliveries OF tin, receipts Of wool
at Boston, loadings of freight cars
and store sales. -
"A comparison of the year 1924
with the year 1921 shows that
Class l railroads have reduced
operating expenses through eff.
cheney, economy and Improvement
by something like 25 per cent and
that the freight ton per mile in
creased nearly 81 per cent and
the passenger increase was 4 per
cent. Freight rates have declined
as a whole.
1t is fairly plain that business
fG yraiv
fair gait considering the season Of
the year. said Mr.. Chesterman.
end is a decided Improvement over
the poor summer which preceded
this one.
THE Federal Reserve Board
says" continued Mr.. Chestern1an.
that member, banks of the Fed.
eral Reserve System continue to
snow increase in loans on securities
ana that during the first half Of
July were at a higher level than
at any previous time. The Federal
reserve Board also states in its
august Bulletin that the Demand
Tor bank. credit for commercial par
poses was relatively inactive, and
the volume of commercial loans at
reporting member banks remained
near the low level for this wear.
although considerably above the
amount for the corresponding De.
riod in 1924.
The monthly bulletin for August
says: AT the reserve banks the sea.
sonaI demand for credit and cur.
rency was reflected in increased
borrowing by member banks, which
carried discounts at the beginning
OF july to the highest level in more
than year, and Notwithstanding
the subsequent decline, the total on
july ~ was still at relatively high
level
me authority given by the Fed.
eral Reserve act to member banks
to issue bankers acceptances is be-
ing exercised more fully than it has
Deeh IN the past. This provision Of
the Federal Reserve act has an i'm
portant bearing on our foreign
trade.
Locally" concluded Mr.. Chester.
man. there appears every reason
70 anticipate an active fall trade.
Ihere seems to be nothing on the
horizon at present to interfere with
the present outlook. / am optimistic
as to business this fall" concluded
Mr.. Chesterman, land believe that
those weak spots which now appear
on the horizon will disappear a
little later on"
The Washington times., 1925-09-05
DETROIT BUYS BAREFOOT,
COAST LEAGUE PITCHER

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 5.-CIyde
Barfoot, who yesterday won his
twenty-first game this season with
the Vernon Club, a second division
team Of the Pacific coast league.
was sold today to the Detroit club
Of the American League.
A price in the neighborhood of
$4,000 was paid for Barfoot, it was
reported.
The Washington times., 1925-09-05
Chicago Cotton Market

CHICAGO, Sept. 5.-Cotton open.
ed to points lower today. Oc-
tober opened at 21.94. down S;
December 22.16, down s; January
1922, down 8; March 22.4O, down
4; May 22.47, down 5.
The Washington times., 1925-09-05
Liverpool Cotton

LIVERPOOL, Sept. 5.-Spots
quiet. Prices steady. Sales 2,000z
bales.
Mid fair, 1S.45; strict good mid.
1895; good mid, 1910; strict mid,
1880: mid, 1926; strict low mid.
1910; low mid. 12.10;, low mid,
1880; strict good ord, 11.40; good
ord, 1880.
Futures opened easy October.
11.SS; December, 1882; January,
1884; March. 11.90: May, 1877.
The Washington times., 1925-09-05
New York clearing House

NEW YORK, Sept. Clearing
house statement exchanges. $S23..
000, 000: balances, $93,o00,0o0; Fed
eral Reserve Banks's credit bal
ance, $79, 100000.
The Washington times., 1925-09-05
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