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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-03-01
THE AMERICAN ISSUE

heationists expect the mountaineering
adult 10 get any satisfaction out OF it?
And the moment it is proposed tc dis
criminate and to make certain beverages
unlawful for minors, that moment It is
admitted that these beverages arc unlaw-
full for anybody under the Eighteenth
Amendment The amendment does not
set an adult standard of alcoholic con-
sumption as a measure of intoxication.
Hint to Modihers
We think it might occur to our moral
list modifcationists that there is here, pos
sibly, a subtle plan of those who are in
terested in restoring the liquor traffic to
its former prosperous state. If by the
general sale of kick" drinks, on the law
sustained theory that they are non-intoxi-
eating. they can keep the appetite for al
cohol alive in the present generation and
cultivate It in the coming generation. they
are ON the way to achieving their purpose
The modificationists' method of pro-
tecting youth from the dangers OF alco-
hol, as we see it. offers no reasonable
prospect of lessening any of the present
dangers, but, on the other hand, threat
ems seriously TO carry the peril into the
earlier years of youth with the saction of
the Constitution.
We suggest that those OF our friends
who are urging light wines and beer ask
themselves whether they want the little
folk in their homes to be able to buy
these drinks at the corner drug store or
the neighborhood candy store.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-03-01

only purpose can be the public good
What a bland and childlike confidence
Mr.. Britten must have i'll the stupidity of
his constituents. He pretends to believe
that after the vets have exhausted all the
adjeetiyes in the dictionary denouncine
me as the most extreme or fanaticallv dry
there was chance TO corrupt me to vote
dry. A person who would argue such
nonsense would argue that former Presi-
dent Wilson could have been corrupted to
support his pet--the League of Nations.
II Mr. Britten believes that it is corrupt
to accept campaign contributions from
people whose sole motive for making such
contributions is the public good he must
believe that working for the public good
is crime.
Not dollar was spent in my congress
sonal district by the Anti Saloon League
either state or national until my attitude
on prohibition was nationally known. Be
fore any such support was given | helped
to shape and pass in the House the
Eighteenth Amendment to the Consfit,,-
ton | assisted in drafting and had re-
ported to the House the first enforcement
bill for war prohibition | had drafted
and taken an active interest in passing the
act that bears my name-the national
prohibition act No Anti-Salo League
state or national, has ever paid me one
cent Tor any services nor contributed one
penny to ME or any campaign committee
for my nomination or election. What II
did was to send some campaign literature
and some speakers into my district. II
there were any corrupt influences in my
campaign they came from the vicious
talsehoodS circulated by the vets. Why
do certain great newspapers SO aggres-
sively lend themselves to this wet propa-
ganda? We know that money has been
used lavishly i'll campaign for permits
sion to sell beer and wine. That fact is
clearly established by an investigation had
in the Senate during the war. II these
papers are being paid no other explana-
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-03-01
FRIENDLY HANDS FROM ACROSS THE SEA

Welcome and definite information has
recently come to this country that repre-
sentative Englshmen and the government
OF Great Britain are emphatica1ly out of
sympathy with the whisky-smuggling op-
erations of their nationals to this country.
An open letter from an influential group
of American citizens was laid before
the United Kingdom Alliance protesting
against the smuggling of liquors to our
shores.
The lord bishop of London presided and
Sir Donald MacLean. together with the
bishop, addressed the assembly.
My personal opinion, said the bishop,
is that we have been told a great many
manufactured lies which have been sent
across the ocean about prohibition There
is not the slightest doubt that the output
of industry i'll the United States has in
creased and that the health of the great
majority of the nation has also improved.
You can't think anything of those silly
little fools who swagger at dances with
brandy TASKS That is mere bravado.
You have to have the great, broad effect
upon the nation.
Assail British Smugglers
at is gross impertinence for us to
try to undo anything our great sister ma
ton chooses to decide for its own good"
The bishop quoted statistics showing
the number of British vessels seized for
smuggling. The figures were received
with cr.ac aF fsSbao,ap
This traffic." said the bishop, ''is most
dishonoring to Great Britain. We have in
our minds a wonderful rescue by the Pres
ident Roosevelt. Let us make some ade-
quate return
In a letter Lady Astor, member OF Par
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-03-01
CONGRESSMAN YOLSTEAD
SPEAKS OUT

Hon. A. ]. Volstead gave the follow
ing statement to the press in answer to
the resolution OF Representative Britten
and the comment OF the Chicago Tribune
on this resolution:
The dog days OF wet politics are here.
| notice by the Chicago Tribune. in an
editorial OF the 10th instant, 1t prctends
to take seriously a resolution recently in
troduced in Congress by Representative
Britten of Chicago, in which the Anti
Saloon League is charged with the very
serious offense of having supported me
for reelection to Congress. It solemnly
assures its readers that this is very sin
lister affair. This charge is an old and
stale story OF the class saloon buns de-
lighted in exploiting.
Some four or five years ago Repre-
sentative Tinkham, of Massachusetts,, one
OF the high priests OF the wet cult, intro
duced resolution using the same charge
in an attempt to remove me from the po-
siton | then held as chairman OF the
House judiciary committee. The House
very promptly put the resolution in the
waste basket. My recollection is that Mr.
Tinkham was only able to scare up two
members who were then wet enough to
support him. Even Mr. Britten, ii | am
not mistaken, acquiesced in that action
OF the House. Evidently political eXigen-
cies did not make him as virtuous then
as he pretends to be now To give point
to this charge Mr.. Brtten insinuates that
it might have corruptly influenced me-
He agues that if the chairman of the
naval affairs committee should receive
campaign contributions from shipbuilders
or the chairman of the interstate conf
merce committee from the American
Railway Association the country would
rise up in arms A person must be
dense, indeed, who can see no difference
between contributions coming from per-
sons who may have pecuniary interest
in legislation that member of Congress
may influence and contributions coming
from churches and their supporters whose
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-03-01
STANDS BY THE LAW
Elks' Magazine Upholds Grand
Exalted Ruler Atwell in His
Attitude on Charters

Judge Atwell, grand exalted ruler of
the Elks, believes the order should obey
the law. He has not hesitated to COM
pei the surrender of charters in instances
where ii was proved that the order had
not observed the prohibition law
Judge Atwell is supported in his stand
by the Elks' Magazine, the organ of the
order, and by a great majority of the
members of the lodge, who are humili-
ated. because there are lodges and mem
bers who do not have such high ideals.
The EMS Magazine, in recent num-
Der, says:
individual! oInion as to the justice
or propriety of written laws has no
bearing upon the duty to observe
them. Ii a member be not wiling to
subordinate his opinion to that of the
great majority of his brethren who
do approve and support them his
remedy is open to him. The doors of
the order are as wide to permit the
exit of a dissatisfied member as they
are to admit him who seeks to join
it and sustain its high purposes.
A subordinate lodge which as
sumes the attitude that it is a law
unto itself and is not amenable to the
superior authority Of the order, of
which it is but a single unit, except
i'll SO far as it may choose to obey it,
should surrender It's charter
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-03-01

Will some one please explain what
good thing beer has ever done for the
people of the country?
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-03-01

lament, said she knew that the British
government had considered whether it
could take further action to check the
smuggling. She said she was moi aware
that any practical scheme had been re-
jected by it.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-03-01
BREWERS WINE AND
BEER PROGRAM
Outlined by Chicago Post; Editorial
in Full Below; Subheadings
Are Ours
THE JoKERS IN MODIFICATION

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Interviews with various persons of
more or less prominence who dislike pro-
hibition and who urge that the Nolstead
law be modified SO as to permit the MAJ
ufacture and sale OF light wines and beers,
leave us wondering whether they hive
considered their substitute proposal with
any thoroughness of thought
Especially is this true OF those clergy
men and others who are actuated, doubt
les. by some better motive than mere
desire to be able lawfully 10 obtain the
mild stimulants they advocate. We as
sumo that they arc quite as eager as we
to abolish the evils attendant upon the
use of alcoholic liquors 1t seems to us,
however, that they are strangely blind TO
the jokers that lie only partly concealed
in the modification movement.
The "Kicl' Seekers
The good people who think that appc-
tites for alcohol will be better satisfied
with beverages of a content higher than
one-half of one per cent, but sufficiently
low to conform to the Notwithstanding
standard of the Eighteenth Amendment,
than they are with the present lawful
beverages, have nothing in experience
upon which to base their theory The
modification movement is primarily
movement to restore the so-called kick"
Ontario "A failed to please the kick"
seekers across the border. Will 25 please
them in the United States? Will any
thing please them that can be lawfully
produced under the prohibitory section Of
the Constitution?
VIII Modification Better Things?
Will there not be the same desire for
the stronger liquors that there is now?
Will there not be the same ingenuity and
lawlessness employed in providing them
Tor the inducement of the highly profit
able prices they will bring? Is there any
reason why it should be
easier to enforce rs law than a .05 law?
We cannot discover any reason for be-
lieving that such modification as may be
possibe-if any is--will
make the present situation one whit bet
ter. We can see reasons why it may
make it very much worse.
The Danger to Youth
We note that most of the modification
lists who take moral ground for their po-
sition assert emphatcally that they are
opposed to a return OF the saloon, and,
usually offer at the same time as a chief
reason for their light wine and beer pro-
gram that under prohibition drinking has
greatly among young people.
II there is to be no saloon, as in for
mer days, regulated as to hours of open
ing, forbidden to sell liquors to minors
and otherwise theoretically held within
then we assume the sale of
light wines and beers is to be as general
rs the present sale OF ice cream sodas. 1t
g, indeed, difficult to see how any bever-
lge lawful under the Eighteenth Amend
nent could be subjected to restrictions
which are not applied to other beverages.
This means that the kick liquor will
be as easily obtainabe by our school chill
dren as pop is today. The 7-year-old
will be as free to go to the
soda fountain and obtain his glass of
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-03-01
Chamberlain Tells Stand


Sir Donald MacLean, Liberal member
of Parliament, read letter from Sir Aus
ten Chamberlain, foreign secretary, which
said:
Il am happy to inform you that his
majestys government has done and is do
ing, by such means as are in its power,
all that is possible to assist the govern
ment OF the United States in suppressing
the traffic of which his majesty's govern
ment entirely disapproves.'
The following response to the appeal
from the American citizens committee
was unanimously passed:
You have taken stand in regard to
the liquor traffic which has aroused wide
spread interest. The safeguarding OF your
National Constitution is your inalienable
right, but that any British citizens, for
financial gain, should have taken any part
whatsoever in invading the sanctity of
your laws has aroused in this country
widespread indignation. As you are
aware, the government of the British
commonwealth has done something TO as
sist in frustrating these attempts.
Leave Nothing Un1one"
"The treaty extending the limit OF your
right OF search was a recognition of our
common responsibility, but we share with
you the feeling that nothing should be
left undone to reduce still further the
evils TO which you call attention"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-03-01

ton is necessary. The Scripture seys:
The OK knoweth its owner and the ass
his masters crib"
Evening star., 1926-03-28
MAY DAY HEALTH
TESTS PROPOSED
Committee Meets to Make
Plans for Examination of
Pre-SChooI Children.

Health examinations for children OF
pre-school age in the District VIII be
one of the principal objects OF the
Child Health May day observance,
which is being arranged for next May
l, by a general committee represent
ing various civic and social welfare
organizations of the city.
At a meeting of the commltte
Thursday In the Social Service House.
1922 Eleventh street. DIR. Joseph A.
Murphy, medical examiner for the
public schools, was elected head of a
committee to invite cooperation or
the Medical Society of the District
and the Board of Education in the
child health examination feature of
the program. DR.. Hugh j. Davis of
the Child Welfare Society presided at
the meeting, at which DR.. Murphy EN-
phasized the need of personal cooper
alton of physicians in conducting the
child health examination.
School Experts Present.
Others attending the committee
meeting were Miss Margaret Craig
and Mrs. Helen Hanna, for the Tuber-
culosis Association; Mrs. Joseph San
ders and Mrs. George w. Lady, for
the Parent Teacher Association; DR..
Rebecca Stoneroad and Miss Elizabeth
Molster of the physical training de-
partment OF the public schools, Mrs.
Frank b. Noyes and Mrs. Mary Ross
of the Child Welfare Society, Miss
Louise O. Beall and +. $. Potter OF
the Associated Charities, Mrs. Louisa
S. Roberts Of the Council of Social
Agencies, Miss Emma 5. Jacobs of
the home economics department of the
public schools. Miss Anita j. Turner
of the Miner Normal School physical
training department, Miss Marjorie
Shuster of the Community Center,
Mrs. Milton Baum Of the Council OF
Jewish Women and DR.. Viola Ander'
son of the Children's Bureau.
Mrs. Ross reported that more ply
sicians will be available at Children S
Hospital for the examinations, and
Miss Turner reported that steps al
ready had been taken in the colored
schools for the health exhibitions and
examinations Mrs. Ernest r. Grant
reported for the radio committe that
weekly radio talks on the subject OF
Child Health May day will be given
the first by herself next week and the
other radio speakers to include Surgeon
Gen. Hugh :. Cumming and Secre
tarv of Commerce Hoover.
Miss Craig, as chairman of the pro
gram committee. reported n tentative
program for the entertainment to be
given on the afternoon Of May day
at the Central High School stadium
1t is now planned to have pageant
of physical activities; singing games
by zoo first and second grade chill
dren; setting-up exercises by Cir
Scouts; folk dances and May pole
dances, and numerous other features
Parties for school children will be
arranged for May day morning, from
10 to II o'clock, at the Lincoln and
Tivoli theaters, with Cho Cho, the
health clown, as host, under the direc
ton of Mrs Harriet II. Locher of the
Crandall's educational publicity de
partment.
Evening star., 1926-03-28
GEN. J. M. LEES FUNERAL
TO BE HELD TOMORROW
Retired officer, Who Died Friday at
Walter Reed, Was in Civil War
and Indian Campaigns.

Funeral services for Maj. Gen. Jesse
Matlock Lee. L. S. A, retired who
6ief at Walter Reed Hospital Friday
will be held at Fort Myer Chapel to-
morrow afternoon at . o'clock. Chap
lain Milton O. Beebe. stationed at the
fort, will officiate. Interment will be
in Arlington Cemetery.
The list of honorary pallbearers is
as follows: Assistant Secretary of
War Hanford MacNider, Maj. Gen. A.
w. Brewster, L. S. A, retired: Maj.
Gen Peter c. Harris. L. s. A, retired;
Col. H. D. Wise. U. S. A, retired; Col
James Regan, Senator Tyson of Ten
nesSee, Maj Gen. Mark l.. -Hersey,
L. S. A, retired Col. e. V. Bookmiller,
Z. S. A, retired Col. p. L. Smith and
Maj. Z. NJ. Wilson, all of whom had
been members of the 9th Infantry, of
which Gen. Lee was in command for
many years; also Maj. Gen. Charles F..
Humphrey, U. S. A, retired, and Maj.
Gen John L. Glenn, L. S. A, retired
Gen. Lee was a veteran of the Civil
War, numerous campaigns against the
Indians and in the Philippines. He
was several times cited for gallantry
in action. He was SO years old.
Evening star., 1926-03-28
ADvENT|STS SCORE
SUNDAY CLOSING
Proposed Law Is Throw
Back" to Dark Ages, Declare
Speakers at Meeting.

SUNDAY closing laws proposed for
Washington were denounced as
throw w-haCk 80 the dark ages, as un-
constitutional and as a move when
must lead inevitably to the reunion OF
the church and State to the downfall
of civilization, Yesterday afternoon bE
speakers at q mass meeting at the
capital Memorial Seventh-day Ad-
ventist Church, Fifth and + streets.
The assembly voted unanimously IN
favor Of a resolution strongly assali-
ing the proposed sunday laws, took
up collection to fight the proposal
and organized teams of workers TO
spread pamphlets explaining the effect
and dangers of the pending secular
legislation.
Speakers included Rev B. q, VIII
lerson. dean of the Washington Mis-
sionary College Rev. Charles :. Long
acre of the Religious Liberty AsSocia-
ton, Rev Heher Notaw, Rev. +.
Franklin Bryan, pastor of the Ia
koma Pax Seventh-day AdNentists
Church: Rev. T +. Westbrook. presl-
dent OF the Potomac conference OF
the Seyenth-day Adventist Church;
Rev. T. A. Many OF the home mis-
sionarv division of the Potomac con
ference: Rev. +. II Shaw. pastor OF
the Capital Memorial Church, ana
Rev. F,ar! hickman associate SeCre-
taI'y Of the home missionary depart
meut of the general wol.d conference
Of Ceveuth-dav Adventist The mass
nesting was called 10y the Association
Opposed TO Blue Laws, jointly with
he Religious Liberty Association.
The resolution adopted described
the invasion of Congress by those
seeking religious legislation III viola
ton of the Constitution and the
Fundamental American ideals. who
want, by law. to force the District OF
Columbia to observe Sunday as holy
time" and voiced u protest against
the enactment of such pending bills.
These proposals are not neW. D:.
Lungacre declared They are exact
replicas Of measures enforced by
bishops of the church in the fourth
and fifth centuries in an endeavor to
meet the competition Of Sunday
shows The church and civilization
sank into the morass Of the dark
ages.
DIR. Wilkinson described dangers that
result from the union of church and
state and secuted the denialS of pro-
ponentS of the blue laws that they are
not seeking a religious law but civic
measure.
DR.. Wilkinson pointed out that there
are about 100000 persons in this
country who profess no religious
affiliatiOn, many thousands who wor-
ship on Saturday and a limited num-
her of Mohammedans who observe
Friday, and declared that a Sunday
closing law would violate their rights
for the satisfaction uf members of the
Sunday sects.
Evening star., 1926-03-28
NAB 'HIT-AND-RUN' DRIVER

John McAmiss, 304 c street, who
says he was once a prohibition en-
forcement officer here, was arrested
by Policemen ShimlkeZy and Schlosser
of the ninth precinct yesterday after
noon after a sensational chase along
Fl street northeast on charges of col
liding and failing to stop.
The policemen were at the corner
of Fifteenth and II streets northeast
when an automobile which they al
lege was operated by McAmiss crash
ed into a truck of the American Ex-
press Co. and pushed it into the side
of a small coupe owned by Eddie
Savoy. After this collision, accord
ing to the police, the machine bumped
over an electric light pole nearby and
went winging on it's way.
Policeman Shimkezy commandeered
an automobile and Schlosser COM
mandeered another and chased the
fugitive machine down H to Twelfth
street northeast, where they overlook
the car at Wylie street.
In the automobile, the police al
lege, they found private detectives
badge.
Evening star., 1926-03-28
HARDY TO BE HONORED.
MacNider to Attend Legion Fare
we'll to Coast Survey Captain.

The forewel reception to be given
TO Capt f. II. Hardy of the United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey at
the clubhouse of George Washington
Post. No. l, the American Legion
1929 I street. will be attended by AS
sistant Secretary of War Hanford
MacNider, who last night accepted an
invitation to be present. The affair
will take place next Thursday eve
ming.
The reception and evening of en-
tertainment is being given in honor
of the long and faithful service OF
Capt Hardy, who has served during
the past four years as finance officer
of George Washington Post, and also
as treasurer of the board of governors
of the club He has been detached
from duty in this city and ordered tC
Seattle, Wash.
His friends in the post have ar
ranged a program of entertainment
to be presented during the evening
following the reception, which will
take place at s o'clock. The commit.
tee in charge is composed of Past
Commanders Howard S. Fisk, chair
man; Lew S. Mohler and Wallace
Streater and E. P. Ellis, T. F. kraus
kopt, Post Adjutant Bernard c. Nc.
Gee and Post Commander j. j
Murphy.
Evening star., 1926-03-28
DOROTHY ELLINGSON
MUST SERVE 10 YEARS
San Quentin Directors Rule Girl
Slayer of Mother Cannot
Have Minimum Term.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
SAN QUENTIN. Calf, March "a.
Dorothy Ellingson, 18-year matri-
eide, must serve l years in San Quen-
tin prison, the board of prison direc.
tors decided today
The girl was convicted of man
slaughter, which carries an indeter.
inmate sentence of from / to 10
years. The prison directors, who
have power to parole a convict at
the expiration of the minimum SEN
tence, ruled that Dorothy must serve
the maximum time.
Under prison rules she will not be
eligible for a parole until after she
has served half of her sentence.
Good behavior would shorten the
time. The girl shot and killed her
mother, Mrs. Anna Ellingson, in a
fit of anger
Evening star., 1926-03-28
ORGAN RECITAL TONIGHT.
Edgar Priest to Continue Series at
st. Agnes Church.

Edgar Priest, organist Of the Wash
ington Cathedral, will give a program
of organ music at st. Agnes Church,
46 Q street, this evening at o'clock.
This is the fifth in series of seven
recitals to be given this season.
st. Agnes Church is not large
one and until this season has not
made any attempt to draw musicians
and music lovers Of Washington to
it. With the installation of the new
organ, the vestry decided to try a
series of recitals, and they regard the
experiment as highly successful. 1t
has been decided to continue this
every season from November till
June.
Mr.. Priest will play for the first
time in washington Heinrich Gotze's
1.-TWO Melodies as well as works by
Schubert, Corelli, Karg-Elert and
Bonnet