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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-11-20

claim that they were instrumental II ar
ranging for referendums in eight states"
Many good people found it difficult to
follow our suggestions in this matter. be-
leving that they should stand up and be
counted, and if they did so, the drys might
win. We pointed out TO them that being
counted in the proposed referendum would
really have no effect on their stand on the
wet and dry question or in support of the
Voistead Act, because the referendum
submitted did not touch that subject. But
they could not, or would not, think the
matter through and were of the opinion
that we were mistaken, and consequently
voted mo" on the referendum when sub
mitted.
However, the effect of the position Of
the League and other reform forces,
which understood the significance of the
referendum, was so effective that only APP
proximately half as many dry votes were
cast against the referendum as the votes
cast in behalf of dry candidates. Rough
ly speaking, there were about 100000
who voted mo" on the wet referendum,
whereas there were approximately 100000
in support of dry candidates.
Do the Vets Want Another?
The strategy of the League in this mat
ter was such as TO really compel the vets
to fight their own record in 1922 instead
of fighting the drys in 1926. They were
really not fighting the dry forces because
only a portion of the drys took part in the
referendum, whereas they had to equal or
beat the record made in 1922 or else face
the charge of big reaction against their
policy. The results show how wise this
strategy was and leave the vets trying to
explain away the most damaging Stats
teal results of this election.
In 1922 the wet referendum received
1,O65,0O0 favorable votes in Illinois. In
1926, four years after, in spite of the IN
crease in population, they received ap-
proximatcly 100000 less votes. In Chi
cago and Cook county, We have the exact
figures and they were impressive and in
spring. The 1922 wet referendum re-
ceived 552,O03 votes in Cook county, and
in 1926, in spite of an increase of more
than quarter of million in population,
they received in the same area 45204l
votes In both years the vets did their
utmost to get out their whole vote be-
cause it was their scheme and their poll
tics to do SO, and then the results show
100000 fewer votes in Cook county IN
1926 than in 1922. 1t is impossible to ex-
plain this on any ground excepting by adj
hitting that there is steady and power
full drift in public sentiment from the wet
to the dry side.
In conclusion, we opine that the vets
will not be in big hurry to put on an
other referendum on the prohibition ques-
ton.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-11-20
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

1t IS a curious perycrsion of logic by
which nti-prohibtionists blame the pro
hibition amendment and law for the Ct
fects of drinking poison liquor, as if the
bootleggers had no moral responsibility
in the matter, and the drinkers themselves
had no responsibility.
About per cent Of the stuff now sold
as whisky is real whisky. Nine-tsnths OF
the rest is made from denatured alcohol
containing poison. This fact is well
known, or should be, after all tbs public
ity it has received and all the liquor
deaths that have occurred. To sell such
stuff IS murder. To drink it is suicide.
Why not put the blame where It belongs!
Scientific tests by w. c. t. u. investi-
gators show that if workingmen should
start drinking beer today in the same pro
portion as before the Volstead Act, our
national productivity would be reduced
from 10 to 20 per cent. Such a decrease
in productivity would naturally find eN
preston in shrinking wages. The ma
tional income OF worlIingmen has in
creased enormously, as a matter of fact:
and every factory executive who has Civ
en- testimony on the subject has declared
that prohibition has done more for pros
perity than any other change in national
affairs. -
DIR. Nolan r. Best says: National pro
hibition in America is not failure nor IS
it going to be. It is simply not yet com
pleted success because there has not yet
been time to force the battle in its behalf
10 Er.a1 ..icfnrun
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-11-20

In the federal court at Danvillc Eddie
Grimes of St. Louis, was convicted of
running hcad-on against the Eighteenth
Amendment. He was fined $1,000 given
three months in jail and had, in addition,
his place padlocked for year.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-11-20

6nc of $500 and 80 days in jail and told
him if he was convicted again on a liquor
charge, he would give him year in the
penitentiary.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-11-20

Judge Lindley at Cairo, the other day
had before him Arch Sexton, "who lived
beside the road" but was not "a friend
TO man." for he pleaded guilty TO selling
shootch." The judge sentenced him TO
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-11-20

Four thousand cases OF liquor valued
at 100000 was destroyed by the govern
ment order recently after the coast guard
had seized the S. S. Elma off the coast of
South Carolina.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-11-20

John Harmon of Ina, will spend 90
days at the Vandalia prison farm for deal
ing in liquor.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-11-20
"A Rogue Ne a Felt the Halter Draw WhCOO Opinion Of the Law
(Since our last Edition)

fined $500 and costs and given 80 days in
Jail for apparently regarding the Volstead
act as mere "piflie."
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-11-20

Judge Edwards at Rockford has sem
fenced Peter Piccioni TO serve eight
months in the county jail and pay $1,000
fine for an uncontrolled desire to manu-
facture and sell intoxicating liquor. When
the eight months term in jail is COM
p1eted and the $1,000 fine paid, Mr.. Pic
cioni will probably have more respect for
the laws of his adopted country than ever
before.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-11-20

Judge Leach at Rockford, has recently
melted out justice for the violation of the
Volstead Act as follows: Jenny Cioppi,
four months in the county Jail for posses
sion; John Cioppi, $1,000 fine, possession;
Thomas Castree, $1,000 fine, possessions;
and Dominica Alfano, sale and posses
sion, six months IN the county Jail and
$1,000 fine.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-11-20

Fourteen Chicago druggists and physi-
clans have recently had their permits re-
voked by Federal Administrator E. c.
Ye1lowley for violating the prohibition
law
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-11-20

Caterina Piccioni of Rockford has been
sentenced by Judge Edwards to pay a
fine of $500 and placed on probation for
one year for ignoring the liquor laws.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-11-20

F. C. Mortimer OF Princeton has been
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-11-20

Lew Atwell of Peoria will remain for
so days in the county jail, pondering the
problem of whether or not it pays to vio-
late the prohibition law.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-11-20

Arthur Wood of Yorkville has been
fined $500 and cost by Judge ReciS in the
LaSalle county court, because he re-
spected not the prohibition law.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-10-22
Idaho Alumni Organize
In Southern California

UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, Moscow
The Gem Of the Mountains has
taken root in California alongside the
movies, real estate agents and the
tabled Iowa residents, with the forma.
ton recently Of a University of Idaho
Club in Los Angeles. Formation OF
the club was perfected through the
work of Miss Helen Hardman, Idaho
IA, who is practicing attorney in
that city. She was named secretary.
Officers of the Idaho club are: Dr.
w. Curtis Brigham, Idaho ex '04
president; w. E. Robertson, Idaho, 'O7
vice-president; Louella Glare, Idaho
IL, treasurer, and Miss Hardman, sec
rotary. The club meets once each
month to entertain the hundred
Idahoans in business in Los Angeles
Miss Hardman has announced that
plans are under way to offer a Uni
versity of Idaho scholarship.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-10-22
PINEAPPLE FROM THE PARADISE ISLANDS
By Capitola Williams Ashworth

derby rows, the lines as straight
and beautiful as soldiers ever
marched in parade, every soldier
plant bearing a tremendous pine
cone in its center, regally topped
with a crown of pointed leaves It
is it's resemblance to a pine cone,
together with the tart and juicy
nature of. the meat that has given
the fruit the name of pineapple.
AS pineapples are grown in ire
mendous quantities in the Hawaii
an Islands, or the Paradise Islands,
as they are popularity called, many
hundreds of thousands of cases are
canned every year and shipped
to the United States, England,
Europe, Asia, Australia and prac-
t;cally every corner Of the world.
Those people who live in the Ha-
waiian Islands may have fresh
pineapple three times a day, and
many of them do, as it is fruit
che does not tire of easily and is
r. great boon to the health, par
ticularly of people who do mot
lead an active physical life. How
ever, this same pineapple which
comes to US in cans, is equally as
healthful as the fresh and much
more palatable than the fresh that
we are able to obtain in American
markets, for the reason that the
so-called fresh pineapple has to
he plucked while still green and
unmatured in order to stand the
long trip to market. This is true
even of the few rineann1es that
are grown in the United States.
Many housewives are learning
to prize this tropical fruit that
comes to her in tin can with all
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-10-22

it's exotic and delicious flavor pre-
served and enhanced by the adj
dition of sugar and cooked just
long enough to make it absolute
ly safe and sanitary. AS matter
of fact, many people, even in the
Paradise Islands where the fresh
fruit may be had in it's glory,
prefer the canned because the
sugar has sweetened the juices and
penetrated to the very fiber of
the ruit. Also tie fact that it is
canned in its prime when it has
reached a golden perfection, of
ripeness makes it more palatable
than most fresh fruits and melons
that can be obtain. in the mar
ket.
There are many other fruits
grown in these delightful islands,
about which most people know
little or nothing. There is the
papaya, melon which grows on
trees, and is served at breakfast,
or for salads, breadfruit which is
baked and served as starchy
vegetable, mangoes, guavas, ba-
nanas, and rose apples. And. Of
course, there are coconuts. Yet
the favorite of the islands is the
pineapple, which is shipped in
cans to every corner of the world,
the greatest amount coming to the
United States where it is served
on the American table as a
salad, a dessert, a pie. or viii,
vegetables and in cocktails, and
is becoming increasingly popular
in fruit punch to which it lerds
delicious tang and a tropical flavor
that can be obtained in no other
way.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-10-22
IDAHO UNIVERSITY DRAWS STUDENTS
FROM EVERY COUNTY IN GEM STATE

UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, Moscow
The University of Idaho is drawing
it's new students almost equally from
every part of the state, according to
a county survey of new students COM
piled in the office of President A. II.
Upham
Boundary county, the northernmost
division in the state, contributed five
new students while Franklin county
in the extreme south claims four new
registrants. The upper Snake river
valley country, including Bannock,
Bingham, Bonneville, Jefferson, Madi-
son, Fremont and Clark counties, in
the southeastern section, has 70 new
students, while Ada county, home of
the capital, has So. North of Adams
county, including Idaho, Lewis, Nez
Perez, Latah (home of the univers
ity), Clearwater, Shoshone, Benewah,
Kootenai, Bonner and Boundary coun-
ties, there are 285 students, while be-
low Adams county, 339 students have
enrolled for work for the first time
this year.
The apportionment by counties fol-
lows: Bear Lake, 3; Franklin, 4;
Oneida, 8; Cassia 8; Twin Falls, 80;
Owyhee, 2; Canyon, 10; Ada, 60; Ell
more, 6; Gooding, ID; Jerome, s; Lin
coin, 2; Minidoka, 10; Power, 8; Ban
mock, rs; Bingham, %; Blaine, z; Pay
cite, Is; Gem, S; Custer, 4; Butte, 1;
Jefferson, q, Bonneville, IA; Fremont,
IL; Clark, 4; Lemhi. 1; Valley, 5;
Washington, 8; Adams, q; Idaho, 10;
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-10-22

Plans were announced this month
by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce
for a trade excursion to the Hawaiian
Islands next February. To increase
the Northwest's share in the $85, 000,-
600 annually spent by the Hawaiian
Islands on the Pacific Coast Is given
as the reason behind the business
trip which was originally planned a
year ago but fell through owing to the
inability of the sponsors to secure a
representative group of business men
from the Northwest. At present
Puget Sound exports to the Islands
are estimated to be in excess Of $10,-
100000 yearly, contrasted with the
Hawaiian annual commerce of $780,
100000. The party will make the trip
on the Matson liner Lurline. The
estimated total cost per person will
be about $400 for a three week
journey.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-10-22
MHA
De'H Health
| PUBLIC HEALTH IS PUBLIC WEALTH h
COMPILED BY THE II
PUBLIC HEALTH LEAGUE
or WA 1fNGTON il
MEDICAL EXAMINATION BEFORE
MARRIAGE?

For what reasons do human beings
form a partnership called marriage
If we think clearly we should be able
to answer the question, SHOULD a
physical examination be required be-
fore entering upon the marriage
state?"
Two people deciding to spend the
rest of their lives together should
realize and know their reasons for do
ing so and the two chief ones are
companionship and procreation.
If you were going to offer yourself
as companion to anybody taking a
long trip, would you consider it fair
to withhold the fact that you are like
ly to be sick on that trip and there
fore burden? Would you think it
fair to have a companion hide from
you the fact that latent tuberculosis
might break out or that insanity
might easily develop if trying circum
stances happened during the journey
l am sure you will answer mo" to
these questions.
Consider the second reason for mar.
Misrepresentation. If you were plan.
ing to raise thoroughbred stock,
would you not be sure that the in.
heritance was good and free from dis.
ease? If you are incompetent to
Judge of it yourself, would you not
get expert advice? Again. you must
answer Eyes"
You would surely advise that care
full physical examination be made OF
all those applying for marriage If you
realize, as do many doctors, that great
suffering could be saved and the gen
eral mortality lessened by expert
medical advice.
Such examinations should be stand.
ardized to cover not only routine ex.
aminations, physical and laboratory
but they should include inquiry con.
corning the family and personal his.
tory of each individual and considera
ton Of his mental stability. These ex
aminations should be for both men
and women and the findings open to
the couple contemplating union SO
that they would fully know each
others physical assets and Liabilities
before marriage.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-10-22

w HEN you sit down to break
w fast and find dish contain
ing a golden island of pine
apple surrounded by an amber sea
of liquid awaiting you, do you find
your mind trying to picture the
tropical islands in the midst of
the beautiful Pacific Ocean where
this luscious fruit was grown, and
where it last saw the light of day
before it was popped into a can
in the heyday of it's life and start
ed on its long journey to your
table?
The story of pineapple is prob
ably one of the most interesting
of any fruit in the world, even
of any other tropical fruit.
In the Hawaiian Islands, prin-
cipally the islands of Oahu and
Lanai it is grown extensively. In
fact, the tremendous, carefully
tended plantations, spread out
over these islands, are one of the
sights ard wonders Of the place
to tourists. In a land where palms
wave IN the sunlit air, where al
most every tropical fruit and
flower known in the world bios
SONS and ripens, keeping the
ocean breezes laden with thoir
sweet and heavy fragrance, the
pineapple ranks as the King of
Fruits, it is the most luscious of
al tropical products. one of the
i,1iciest, healthiest, and most use
FL fruits that are grown.
THE appearance of a pineapple
plantation is that of a million of
cactus plants marching over pla-
teaus and up hill and down in or
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-10-22
Okanogan-Carbio Trail
Association Elects

OKANOGAN-L. j. Jones of Okla
hogan was advanced from vice presi-
dent to president of the Okanogan-
Cariboo Trail Association at the an
nual meeting at Kamloops recently.
A. J. Vogler of Omak was elected Sec
rotary. D. B. Johnston of Kamloops
was named vice president. S. T.
Elliott of Kelowna is the retiring
president.
A review of the results accom-
plished this year showed satisfactory
progress. Present figures show that
1000 more cars cleared customs at
the boundary than last year.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-10-22
NEW DOCK FOR 3. c. PORT

A new dock at Port Alberni, 3. c.,
is planned by the Great Western saw.
mills who have secured lease from
the e. & N. Railway of waterfront
property which will be used for
handling lumber produced by their
own mills.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-10-22

This constitution and the laws
changed" One can readily imagine
that in few short years there would
have been a revolution to destroy the
constitution and the laws many OF
which would have become oppressive.
That is exactly what the timber men
back of the reforestation constitu-
tional amendment propose to do to
the people of the state of Washing
ton. They have prepared constitu-
tional amendment which has been
passed by the legislature and will be
voted on by the people of the state
at the general election on November
End. Under the terms Of this amend
ment, it would be possible to enact
legislation taking untold thousands of
acres of timber land off the tax rolls,
and entering into contract with the
owners under which the land could
not be taxed for generations. The
terms of the contract could never be
changed or modified by the legislature
or by the people themselves through
enacting new constitutional amend
ment.
The argument in defense of the
plan is that the legislature would
never be indiscreet enough to do the
very thing which the constitutional
amendment proposes to do, but the
very fact that the legislature has al
ready passed upon this amendment
by an overwhelming majority, being
fooled into it's approval by a great
plea for the need of reforestation
policy, is an Indication that you can
not always expect the legislature to
use the best judgment. Ordinarily
little harm is done if the legislature
makes a mistake because the next
legislature can amend the law and
correct the error. Under the pro-
posed constitutional amendment any
mistakes made by the legislature
could never be corrected because a
system of contracting away the right
of taxation is provided for, and when
once the law is passed and the con-
tracts are signed, nothing short of a
revolution could give back to the
people the right to tax the timber
and timber lands, covered by the con-
tract.
This is probably the most danger
Gus proposal ever submitted to the
people of the state of Washington.
The fact that everyone wants con-
structive policy of reforestation adds
to the danger because they will not
study the text of the amendment and
the effort is being made to force 1t
through, playing upon the desire of
the citizens for reforestation policy
The question will appear on the ballot
as follows:
"An act relating to forestation
and reforestation and the assess
ment and taxation of land de-
voted to that purpose and the
assessment and taxation of the
products of such lands, and pro-
viding for an amendment to the
constitution of the state of WASH
ington."
No mention Is made of the danger
GUS contract system which. is con
tanned in the following words:
(which laws may provide for
contracts between the state and
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-10-22
REFORESTATION Amendment

enacted
existing Wnen
which
conditions legislature Congress- and the
abreast OF
the of
Federal constitution should have put in
a
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-10-22

Say, Bill, whenever I go to Spokane
| I never miss getting some Of those
dandy meals at the Tray Tavern on
Howard Street just north Of River.
side Avenue.-Adv.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-10-22

Lewis, 9; Nez lserce, 80; Clearwater
S; Latah, 119; Shoshone, Al; Bene.
wah, IL; Kootenai 80; Bonner, %;
Boundary, 5.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-10-22

Life's an eternal contradiction. The
less head man has the more he's In
clined to rush headlong into things
Farm and Fireside.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-10-22
the owner of such land for a def
mite and invariable tax on such
Land. durina a term of years"

Ine CWnST OF ouSIi idu0 tS' q WV
mite and invariable tax on such
land, during a term Of years."
If the people understood that this
dangerous contract system was In the
proposed amendment and just what
it meant they would vote down the
amendment overwhelmingly. If they
understood that tax reform requires
such constitutional amendment
without the contract system and that
such an amendment would permit
everything which the present pro-
posed amendment permits except
contracting away the right of taxa
ton. they would demand of the legis-
lature the submission of a constltu-
tional amendment permitting the
classification of property for the pur-
poses of taxation and would include
all property without any contract
system 1t is the duty of all good
citizens to see that the voters know
what this amendment means. In
order that our readers may have the
information on the matter, we are
printing again the brief prepared by
the Master of the State Grange for
the Washington State Chamber which
has been submitted to the various
commercial organizations of the state.
1t will be noticed that some changes
have been made since the brief was
first published in our column on July
5th. 1t appears below exactly as sub
mitted to the various commercial or
CARNATIONS.
Brief against the proposed reforesta-
ton Amendment.
Changing conditions require chang
ing tax systems If justice in taxation
is to be attained. The situation to-
day with reference to timber taxation
would seem to justify plan of tax
ing the land only on it's timber bear
ing value, and taxing immature tim
Der ION yield or severance basis
when cut. Such system would
doubtless encourage timber growing
as an industry Doubtless too, expert
ence would point to needed modifica-
tons in any law which might now be
enacted
However, no such law can now be
enacted, for Article VIII, Section 2,
of the State Constitution expressly
forbids it in the following language:
1.-THE legislature shall provide by
law uniform and equal rate of
assessment and taxation on all prop
erty in the state, according to its
values in money"
Therefore an amendment permit
ting the legislature to classify prop
erty for purposes of taxation is neces-
sary to clear the way for tax reform
in timber and all other industries.
The legislature has submitted such
an amendment, but has confined OPP
GRAFTON to timber lands only. How
ever, they have gone step further
and have given the legislature the
right to enact laws providing for the
signing of tax contracts which would
irrevokably take the taxing of timber
out of the hands of the legislature,
THE MOST DANGEROUS PROPOS-
AL ANY SPECIAL INTEREST EVER
MADE.
We have no knowledge of what