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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-08-01
The Rural Newspaper and Prohibition

The rural newspapers of the United States prac-
tcaly unanimous in their support OF the prohibition law
and its enforcement.
This fact disclosed in the annual National
Editorial Association held at Los Angeles California.
Many of the large metropolitan newspapers are openly
and vieiousy wet. While declamng loudly and unc-
tiousy in column against the lawessness of the
urban eenters of popuation-in the next column
they are promoting that lawessness with high
hand
Sneerng at part OF the Constitution of our coun-
try and the laws that make it effective to the wind
and will everywhere and always reap the whirlwind.
If dozen of the great metropolitan newspapers We
could name were loyal the homes of country
as they the vice and sporting interests the prob
lem of 1awessness would be we'll the way TO salts
factory solution.
All honor to the country press for its fine service in
behalf Of law and order and that home-lie which makes
nation truly great.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-08-01
Do NOT FORGET

That the attorney is the key the situation in
the enforcement of the prohibition law in every county
That he can enforce the law if he wills to do
That in of conviction the judge follows the
recommendation of the states attorney
That when the states attorney makes it the general
policy of his office to recommend to the judge fine
without jail sentence accompanying it, he is
truly traitor to his his oath of Office, and
the public welfare, Benedict Arnold
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-08-01

laws and states rights to bring it about"
If the Senator could point earnest effort he
his booze friends have made promote the enforcement
OF the prohibition law by securing the appointment of
vigorous aw-enorcement federal official for his state;
if he refer to single address made by him urging
and federal officials loyalty in strictly enforcing
the law and unfolding the Constitution of their country,
his various in the relative to law and
order would not smack quite loudly of hypocrisy
they now do.
The senator's championship of states rights where the
belittle and ignore the Constitution of
comomn country cannot fail to awaken feeling of
contempt and disgust in the heart of intelligent and
patriotic citizens
We had supposed that theory OF rights for this
evil thing still remains, the time overdue to choke it to
death with ballots in the November election just ahead
of
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-08-01
Why Vets Rage Against One-Half OF One
Per Cent

The vets constantly and with increasing vicious
ness attacking the Eighteenth Amendment and the En-
forcement Act which makes it effective
In practically all their newspaper propaganda and in
every public address, these champions OF boozedom strike
at that provision of the Nolstead Act which limits the
amount of alcohol in any beverage which be legally
1old to one-ha1f of per cent
They demand that this standard be abolished and that
standard of us of alcohol take its place.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-08-01
KEEP TIN MIND

adequate power to enforce the prohibition law in the
same degree as other criminal laws are enforced
That the Judge who makes it the general policy of his
office to administer fine without at the same time Civ
ing stiff jail sentence, saps every decent home in Hi
nos in the face and in effect invites every bootegger to
go with his lawess job.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-08-01

Why this persistent endeavor to change the alcoholic
standard? Because they know that with any honest
forcement of the prohibition law with the alcoholic stan
dard at onehalf of cent ii is practically impossible
break down the law by selling intoxicating liquor
der the Of Intoxicating drink; but with the
us standard the gates would be thrown wide open for
the sale of Intoxicating liquors. the breakdown of the
law and the notification by indrecon of the Constu
ton
With the wet demand granted, small increase in the
size of the glass would give the old glass of beer with its
So per of alcoholic content, and the good old
days of the saloon whose traffic than 90 per
cent in beer and wine, would be upon again.
The vets vehemently declare that the low standard of
one-haf of per cent alcoholic content fixed by Con
gress is insincere, dishonest.
The facts that had the standard demanded by the
vets been fixed by Congress- would have shown that
the trainers of the law both nsncere and dishonest
At the time of fixing the one-half of l per cent stan
dard nearly thirty had the alcoholic standard at
one-ha of per less, and only three had per
United even a per cent alcoholic standard
When the bootegger and blind pig keepers of the old
saloon days cutting in the sales of the licensed
dealers these dealers demanded OF the government that
no unlicensed dealer should be allowed sell beverage
containing more than onehaf of ! per cent Of alcohol
The government granted their demand but this
same old crowd refuse to take their own medicine
Massachusetts Georgia and other tried for
years in the other days the licensed sale OF beer tenn
perance and the time excluded the sale
Of hard liquors. but it did work.
Under that program drunkenness and debauchery
prevalent Under the foam of the beer-mug hard liquors
were freely sold and did their particular and devilsh
work Because of the black record made these special
beer laws repealed in the interest of the public well
fare
The light wine and beer fake temperance measure
has been thoroughly tested and fully exploded.
George E Brennan in Illinois and his fellow conspira-
tors in other will not be able to chain their beer
chariot second time the red-booded straight thinking
citizenship Of this commonwealth and the nation
whole
The average American is not fool and in these
critical days keeping wildly in mind the declaration Of
Josh Billings, who said IF mule kicks you the first
time the mule is blame but if he kicks you the
ond time YOU are blame"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-08-01

Senator Edge of Net
outlawed and law defyi
81 am for enforcement,
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-08-01
Senator Edge and Law Enforcement

ersey, that gallant friend of the
eooze interests, recently said:
a. aot for violating other
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-08-01

Who wants to ride train with drinking engineer
i'll the cab of the locomotive?
Do union labor desire to exchange the great labor
banks which have developed since national prohibition
came into effect for the bartenders cash register?
Since the oiler not rush the cam and run For1
the same dollar, which will the sensible worker
choose?
Is there anywhere an intelligent leader in the labor
world who doubts that under prohibition, labor has made
greater progress with fewer strikes and fewer defeats
when strikes called than when the saloons
every corner?
Would it show good commercial to exchange
the 100000 self-sarting automobiles for $4,000 bung
starters?
Did any job because il was known
that he drank intoxicating liquor hold one after he
had secured it, for the same reason?
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-08-01

Who wants to ride train with drinking enginee
in the cab of the LOCOMOTIVES?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-19

name is quite familiar to those who
have even a nodding acquaintance
with the revolutionary movement in
the United States.
Communists, l. L. P.'ftes, Young
Communists, Young Pioneers, Labor
Party branches, Trade Unions-they
were all there marching together.
This looks like what we in the
States would call a United Front"
says to myself, but just then there
was commotiOn down the line. l
could hear angry shouts, Get the has
tards!o ~.
Two lorries came tearing along
loaded with fascist. And you never
witnessed such scurvy collection of
human beings!
Perhaps everybody on the side-lines
were not workers or radicals. But
there was no sympathy for the black
shirts. Fortunately for them, the
drivers stepped on the gas and they
escaped with their hides. But they
did not capture any red flags, as the
capitalist press reported.
r AM in Hyde Park. 1t looks like
4 the vicinity of a picket line in an
American Industrial struggle. Police!
Police! Police! Mounted and on foot.
A disturbance in the distance and
mounted police dash to the scene Of
trouble.
There are many kinds of people
there-some hunting for amusement.
But then, even during the French rev.
oiution, the theaters were openl
Here is George Hardy. sturdy and
red-faced, acting secretary of the Ma.
iional Minority Movement. The sec
rotary, Harry Pollitt, is in Jail, but
his wife, Marjorie, is on the job. She
makes hit with the crowd.
George Hardy was delivering a
speech or reading resolution. He
was on the Seamen's platform. George
is an old "Wob" and is just as proud
of the fact as even Bill Haywood.
stepped behind the platform and
pulled his leg-literally.
There are three bastardly finks out
here" he whispered. Il will meet
you at"
Scotland Yard men were busy with
their notebooks. Not that they needed
any. The British stools" are the
most accomplished liars in the world.
And the judges usually take their
word.
Nat Watkins of the National Mi.
nority Movement totes a considerable
pipe, but, unlike that worn by our
He'll and Damnation Dawes, it is not
upside down. Neither is Nat.
The park was congested. Police
lying on the grass, smoking pipes.
iddling or dinging or what
ever yodlers do. mo more war" BAN
ners in dangerous proximity to Com
munist banners that told the workers
Il was no use blinking the class war.
II was there.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-19
New Days in Old England
A Historic Nav Dav
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY.

r LEFT the usually turbulent but
! now comparatively peaceful Dub
lin on the evening Of the SOth Of April,
bound for London.
Dublin is not an easy place to
particularly for those with a
thirst for the dramatic.
But May Day in London in 1926
with 100000 coal miners out of the
pits! And with a general strike threat
enedl This was something that many
men and women would sacrifice years
Of ordinary existence to experience.
So l resisted the temporary invita-
ton of friends to spend week shoot
ing curlews in the heather-clad noun
tains of Wicklow, or discussing the
futility of things in general with the
cynical intelligentsia of Dublin who
survived the gats of Black and Tans,
Regular and Irregular Republicans and
Free States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-19

ON they came in thousands, on foot
~ and in many types of conveyances
young, middle-aged and old.
stand by the Miners" Down with
the Fascist" Support the Workers
Defense Corps Read the Sunday
Worker"
Slogans-fighting slogans. what
kind of a paper is this Sunday
Worker?" asked quite innocently Of
a portly person who watched the pro-
cession with much interest.
"A labor paper he replied proudly
You should secure copy" And so
| did, and met Comrade William Paul,
the genial editor. and the equally
scintillating Charlie Ashleigh, whose
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-19

watched the May Day parade at
the Marble Arch, one of the entrances
TO Hyde Park, where the procession
dispersed.
How many OF you remember what
David Lloyd George said OF the social
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-19

ist propaganda carried on in this IA
nous meeting place, while speaking
on the rise of the working class move
ment in the commons a few years
ago?
George is a clever political oppor-
tunist. He is an astute reader of
mass psychology. He reminded his
colleagues in the historic house of
the days-3O years ago-when social
list soap-boxers "raved" in Hyde Park,
and the silk-hatted crowd laughed at
them, the police tolerated them and
the ruling class felt quite happy in
the thought that the workers were too
stupid to unite and the nuts" were
too crazy to lead.
But the nuts" have changed, said
the willy George and SO have the
times, which is responsible for all
change. The willy Welshman likes to
scare the bourgeoisie, so he can get
better price from them for his sense.
But the Hyde Park demonstrations
are no longer sneezed at by Scotland
Yard. Mounted police were there on
May Day, 1926-plenty of them. Lloyd
George, the turnkey of British i'm
perialism, knew what he was talking
about. The British working class
movement is no longer thing to be
sneezed or laughed at.
Young, old and middle-aged,
L marched or rode from the EN-
bankment to Hyde Park. Policemen
on slick mounts accompanied the pa
rade. The horses pranced and did
their stuff" perhaps to impress the
workers with their mobility. At that,
they looked as precocious as those
who sat on their backs.
The present London police force is
comparatively new. None of those
who went on strike a few years ago
were reinstated. This is not surpris-
ing. 1t is serious matter for the rul-
ing class to allow their uniformed
hirelings to affiliate with the Labor
Movement.
Don't forget that Calvin Coolidge is
"our" president, because he claimed
credit for breaking the Boston police
mems strike, tho ne should give the
undeplored deceased Gompers a share
OF the credit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-19

VI ordinary existence TO experience.
So resisted the temporary invita-
ton of friends to spend week shoot
ing curlews in the heather-clad noun
tains of Wicklow, or discussing the
futility of things in general with the
cynical intelligentsia of Dublin who
survived the gats of Black and Tans,
Regular and Irregular Republicans and
Free States.
MAY DAY. 1926, dawned rather
AsA auspiciously on the city Of fogs,
alias London. Perhaps the sun was
just as benevolent when Oliver Crom-
well, the pious bourgeois cutthroat,
sent his troops into the house of COM
mons and dispersed the jabbering fun
keys of the Stuart king. Also on the
day the royal Stuart had his royal
head chopped or by the psalm-singing
Covenanteer headsman.
The tight little isle" has a history
alright, but one would never dream of
such things waiting in the off1ng as
the Holyhead fiier few into London
station on May LIST, 1926.
$50 you are not on strike yet" /
remarked to the taxi driver who drove
me to a hotel.
1--WE are waiting for the call, sir"
he replied.
Yes, British workers use polite ex-
pressions, just as a Chicago gunman
wears silk shirt. But l frankly be-
leve that perfectly proper and
smooth-tongued British worker would
quite, nyoQnchalantly, bore holes in the
body of British aristocrat with the
same feeling of satisfied legality that
a Berlin porter would express in ac-
cepting a mark for tipping his hat to
a guest.
have known good Irish Roman
Catholics who would applaud the exc
cution of a counter-revolutionary car
dinal even tho they might thump their
chests in devotion, mixed with re-
Hgious horror over the contemplation
of the 5th commandment: Thou shalt
not kill"
All roads lead to Hyde Park on May
Day. And on this May Day more than
ever.
One million miners on strike!
Four million workers in other indus
tries, under the leadership of the Gen
eral Council of Trade Unions, threat
ening to strike in sympathy.
OF course, the right wing leaders,
led by Mr.. ]. H. Thomas, proletarian
by origin but turnkey by nature-em-
phasize that this was an Industrial
and not political struggle-that the
General Council was not fighting the
government or aiming to destroy the
Constitution"
But who believed in Thomas? Only
the capitalists and unfortunately large
sections of the workers. The villain
of "Black Friday" was out to beat his
second, and he succeeded-on the
evening of May IL.
But on May Day! Who could fore
tell what might happen, once the
masses began to move. The masses
are dangerous-to the ruling classes;
to those who prey on them.
Revolutions never take place until
the pains of rebellion are no greater
than the pains of obedience"
And this stage has arrived for the
British working class.
J. II. Thomas, privy councillor to
his majesty. the inebriated monarch
of Britain, Ireland, India, Egypt, etc,
would do his best to break the soil
darity Of the workers, but the best of
prophets make mistakes.
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-16
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
yuma Sum

Leaks in the present immigra-
tion barriers are indicated in the
annual report of the secretary OF
labor, showing that during the cur
rent year 10,994 aliens, who were
found to be unlawfully in the Uni
ted States, were deported. Many
of these were undesirables who
had sought to enter the country
through the regular channels and
were sent back because they could
not quality. Many also were those
who had tried to evade the quota
restrictions or legal obstacles by
being smuggled into the country.
Large as the number is, it rep
resents g. small per cent of the to-
tai leaks. Perhaps is represents
only a tenth of the smuggled aliens.
This is no criticism OF the immi-
grafton authorities. They could not
be expected to watch every point
of two unguarded frontiers and two
extensive coast lines. They con-
sctitute an insignificant force com
pared in othe a more closely con-
gested centers, experimenting IL
legal entrants when such are sus-
pected. and deporting them when
their illegal status is proved.
1t has been charged huge in
ternational Organization is oper-
ating in Europe nd Mexico for the
purpose of smuggling undesirables
into the United States. The alien
pays a considerable fee, for which
he is promised entry into the coun-
| try. Whether or not such activi-
ties are on a wholesale scale, it is
estimated that 100000 foreigners
of the type not wanted as American
citizens every year enter America
through illegal channels.
AS the need Of restrictions in
creases, due to the greatly increas-
ed population, the lure of Amer
ica increases because of it's pros
perity. The restrictions have beer
legally enacted, but the restrictions
are not automatic, neither can they
be made fully effective under the
present system.
The 1O,994 .deportations this yeal
/ is a record achievement for thu
immigration bureau. 1t is anything
but a record in efficient admins
tration when the total illegal i'm
migrants are taken into consid
Grafton.
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-16

Sometime next week the cs municipal Christmas tree
will arrive and will be up and decorated with ornaments
and lights owned by the city That much for the city itself
4n%~The council bought the tree and ornaments
But what is municipal Christmas tree without few
little presents wistfu little souls of
families? Electric lights spreading pine branches and gay
coored ornaments do little tummies and although
the treas now-niay be pretty thing to look
upon will not bring particular JOY TO those to whom
Christmas means merely heartaches.
For time imrnemorial have been cautioned at Christ
mas time to "thnk of the other fellow Too many of us
the of preparations for the glad event are
- = inclined to put self first
Winsow has its share Of poor. 1t is simply an ad-
dtion to their unfortunate circumstances that they nave IN
nearly all cases. large families. That child
ren Poor children Wstfu hearts that cannot under
stand why the Christmas spirit that reaches other children
passes them by.
few little presents of candy and nuts, little knlck-
m knacks what-nos will help in large measure to allie
viae suffering that accompanies poverty at this time OF
year. -
meeting has been suggested by City Engineer Stanley
Watkins which clubs womens organizations and
individuals with human hearts lay plans to make this
municipal Christmas Tree everything that the name implies
If everyone chips in it won't cost anyone much.
" Dividends may be collected the night the little tots
gather around reedvdends written in expressions of
oy on pnched little faces the kind that has been
""Tt able to realize from selfishness
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-16
THE DAY
I'M WASHINGTON

The Fall-Doheny case went to
the jury.
The new farm relief proposals
made their appearance.
Steps were taken to organize the
vets in the senate.
Republican and Democratic argu-
ments on taxation were made in
the Senate.
The House passed the interior
department appropriation bill car
rying $3.50, 100000.
Republican leaders warned Frank
L. Smith not to accept the Illinois
senatorial appointment.
The House naval committee
views on naval conditions were
brought to the attention of Presi-
dent Coolidge.
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-16
PIN POINTERS

What has become of the oldtfash
toned doctor who used to find there
was nothing wrong with you?
We hear that several bargains are
being offered in New York now You
can get a glass of water in a night
club for so cents.
A spiritualist informs us now that
there are movies in heaven People
probably will go to sleep in them
there. too
Gene Tunney Cancelled his appear
ance at a benefit show He must be
a true champion.
A girl landed 116-pound fish at a
seaside resort We wonder if he has
broached the subject to father yet.
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-16
WESTINGHOUSE
" 2Ity|M
LETTER e
AE OK
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA service Writer

NEA Service WRITER
WTAsHINGTON-"Bulldog 5Om'
w Walsh. the hero Of Teapot
Dome, is on the warpath again.
His sudden challenge Of the fit.
ness of Arthur r. Gould of Maine to
sit in the Senate was so unexpected
that some of his Democratic COL
leagues are wondering If he Is mere
ly seeking to settle question of the
Senate's right to eXpel in such a
case, or if he isn't perhaps laying
some groundwork for the fight Dem
ocrats are expected to make against
the seating of William S. Ware of
Illinois next year.
AS he made his speech on behalf
of his resolution for committee in.
vestigation. of the Gould charges, his
desk was piled high with reference
books, from which he read rather
copiously in order to- forestaN the
counter-attack of the Republicans.
led by Senator David A. Reed Of
Pennsylvania. He argued as judge
might deliver a charge TO the jury,
citing some precedents favorable to
his case and some that We're now
The Montana senator makes a
striking figure as he stands arguing
questions of law and precedence. No
man in the chamber is better in
formed on these subjects than he.
His Immaculate appearance-he
wears frock coat and dark gray
trousers--and his bristling white
mustache add the impression he
seeks to make as he dwelis on the
profound Importance" of the Ques-
ton at issue.
WTALSH himself says that the
w fate of Gould isn't important
its the principle Of the
thing. Can the Senate fire Gould
under the circumstances and If not,
then what2 He has taken pains to
point out that even, IL Gould went
out, his Democratic opponent in the
recent election would not succeed
/ him. hzJ
1t is not difficult to believe Walsh
when he says that, his, prime mo.
tives are not political.
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-16
SHOULD BE CAREFUL

According press dispatches yesterday the farmers of
Pima county the federal court in action
brought against of Arizona which sought to
weevl.
The victory in the form of sustanance of a
temporary injunction granted by Federal Judge Sawee
some time ago this time by Federal Judge Ross of San Fran
+hn
the only the that of actual nfec
ton and inasmuch appears that there actual
infection from the boil weev but danger of infection that
drew order the farmers of Pima county
have won out and result will realize their crops,
though may be small due to the low of
IS cotton.
officials should be careful in imposing
annes actual danger to have
heen the case in Pima county, To have maintained the
quarantine when it danger from the boil
weev really existed would have meant possible ruin to
farmers sometimes takes court action to curb
/, . official authority not used with discretion
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-16
FAIR ENOUGH

A. clergyman who rides to his
church in an auto received an
anonymous letter calling attention
to the fact that the Lord never rode
to church in a car. The clergyman
read the letter from the pulpit, and
then added
eff the writer Of this letter will
come to me next Sunday, properly
saddled and bridled, l will be glad
to follow the Lords example and
come to church as He entered JerE-
salem" Waa8