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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-07-01
IMPORTANT DRY BILLS PENDING IN SENATE

necessary for law enforcement and
every days delay in their passage in
ures to the benefit of violators of pro-
hibition laws. These bills are:
% The civil service bill for agents,
endorsed by both political party plat
forms, recommended twice by the
President and passed by the House
and now pending in the Senate.
% The reorganization bill, to pro-
vide for a bureau of prohibition and
bureau of customs, which has passed
the House by large majority and is
on the calendar of the Senate.
90 The measure for amending and
strengthening the prohibition act,
which is before the Senate and House
judiciary committees
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-07-01

TO the House by the Judiciary committee.
did not carry all the provisions desired by
General Andrews. Among these were
the provisions authorizing the search of
homes and the seizure of vessels beyond
the three-mie limit, except in the case of
British ships, which are covered by special
treaty.
The provisions also were omitted which
would not make employers in industrial
plants liable for offenses committed
against the prohibition law by their em-
ployes except in cases where the employ
ers could be shown to have guilty knowl-
edge.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-07-01
INDIANA LAW SUSTAINED

The supreme court of Indiana has up
he'd the constitutionality of the Wright
dry enforcement law, passed by the Leg
islature of that state. The law is consid-
cred the most drastic dry enforcement
measure on the statute books of any state
in the Union. Vets were sure it would
not stand the legal test, but it did. The
decision was made in the case of a man
who was fined 5000 and sent to prison for
sixty days for possessing intoxicants.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-07-01
YIELD TO FEAR OF DoLEs
Liquor Traffic In Lower Slesia Threat
ened to Discharge Employees if Reg
ulations Were Not Rescinded

The Paris edition of the Chicago Trib-
une for May 10 carries Berlin news story
of the repeal of certain regulations in
Lower Silesia governing the sale of liquor
in restaurants. These regulations prohib-
tied liquor sales from o'clock in the eve
ming until clock in the morning
Threat was made by distllers and brew
ers and proprietors of cafes, restaurants
and hotels that they would discharge all
their employees on May Is unless the pro-
hibiton ban was repealed. The govern
ment would have been forced to pay doles
to the jobless, and, fearing the expense,
preferred to repeal Lower Silesia's dry
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-07-01

The legislative committee of the Anti
Saloon League of America, consisting of
Bishop James Cannon, Jr, Bishop Thomas
Nicholson, National Superintendent F.
Scott Mcbride, DR.. A. J. Barton, Kansas
City, Mo-; A. J. Davis, New York; DR..
Z. H. Cherrington, of Westervifle, Ohio,
and Wayne B. Wheeler, of Washington,
D. c., issued the following statement.
June II:
We believe that the people of the
nation have every right to expect that
the important prohibition measures on
the Senate calendar and before the
judiciary committee will receive ia
vorable action before Congress adj
journs Those bills have been intro
duced as administrative measures as
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-07-01
WANTS HIS PARTY WET

John NJ. Callahan, chairman of the
Democratic state central committee for
Wisconsin, addressing that organization
in Milwaukee, criticized national prohibi-
ton as it is enforced under the Volstead
act as obviously contrary to intelligent
government and urged the adoption of
a resolution favoring the repeal of the
Eighteenth Amendment. He also favored
referendum on the question.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-07-01
Penalties Retained

The penalties of the Golf bill, as framed
by treasury officials, are retained. Fines
are increased up to maximum of $4,000
and the minimum is fixed at $500, instead
of permitting the courts to name the min
imum. Redistribution, either in private
residences or manufacturing plants, is
made an offense against the law
The committee also retained in part the
section giving to the treasury department.
additional powers over the manufacture
OF cereal beverages containing less than
one-half OF ! per cent of alcohol by vol
ume. The bill provides in its amended
form for the annual renewal of permits and
places denatured alcohol and denatured
rum clearly within the province of the
prohibition forces. Counterfeting an ap-
plcation for permit, permit form, ply
sicians' prescriptions or other forms
through which intoxicating liquors may
be lawfully withdrawn is made crime.
Asks Fair Chance for Government
The committee made the following plea:
1T is respectfully presented to the
House that since the national admins
tration together with the states) is re-
sponsible for the enforcement of the laws
with regard to the Eighteenth Amend
ment it is only fair that such amendment
of the law being asked for by the admin
istration should be granted, so that with
the added elements strengthening enforce
ment it could not be said that Congress
had interfered with the national duty in
this respect"
Vets Bills Reported With Recommends
ton They Do Not Pass
On June IA the vets bills for modify
ing the dry law we're assured a place on
the Senate calendar. However, they go
there with an adverse report by the judi
ciary committee. After a two hours de-
bate in committe the measures were or
dered to be reported adversely, with an
accompanying recommendation that ac-
ton on them be postponed indefinitely.
However, they are placed in position SO
that the wet leaders in the Senate can
make fight for them.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-07-01
POMERENE SEEKS SENATE SEAT
Former United States Senator Pom
creme, of Ohio, Announces Can
didacy; Has Wet Record

Former Senator Atlee Pomerene has
announced his candidacy for United
States Senator, subject to the Ohio DEM
ocratic primaries to be held in August
Senator Pomerene will be opposed in the
primary by Supreme Court Justice Flor
ence Allen.
Pomerene is decidedly wet, having been
an aggressive foe of prohibition when he
was in the Senate few years ago. Judge
Allen is dry and has never hesitated 10
make her position known.
Senator Frank Willis has announced his
candidacy for denomination, subject to the
Republican primaries. Senator Willis, as
every one knows, is an aggressive dry.
He will probably have some wet oppo-
nents against him. If Judge Allen and
Senator Willis are the nominees of their
respective parties the prohibition question
will not be an issue in the senatorial CAM
paign in the fall II Pomerene is the sue
cessful candidate, however, in the Demo-
ocratic. primary, and is Willis opponent
this election will be a real referendum on
General Counsel Wayne B. Wheeler, of
the Anti-Saloon League, in discussing
Pomerene's candidacy, says
His record in the United States Senate
shows that his prejudice in favor of liquor
considerably warped his legal Judgment
to state the case mildly.
when the dry states were trying to
protect themselves from the lawless liquor
traffic, which solicited orders and shipped
liquor into these states in violation of the
state law, Senator Pomerene opposed the
passage of the Webb Kenyon act, saying
Gas shown in the Congressional Record,
part 3, page 2S9o, February 10, 1919:
Mr.. Pomerene-Mr. President,
cannot vote for this bill for the fol-
lowing reasons:
First, it is clearly unconstitutional.
Again, on page 2o01, Mr. Pomerene
said:
II we are not content with the pres
cnt conditions we must change the
form OF our government by amending
the Federal Constitution.
"The supreme court of the United
States disagreed with Mr.. Pomerene and
found the law constitutional.
Although the Constitution expressly
provides that Congress shall legislate for
the District of Columbia, Mr. Pomerene
as a constitutional lawyer favored an un-
precedented and illegal referendum of the
District of Columbia prohibition bill
backed by the vets, but when a legal
method was proposed to protect dry ter
ritory and to submit ratification of the
Eighteenth Amendment to a legal refer
endum OF the states he used weasel words
to defend his inconsistent position and
voted no"
Mr.. Wheeler offers further evidence
from the Record to show that Mr.. Pom
erene's sympathies have always been with
the LIQUOR interests as a public official.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-07-01

There is not much patriotism in a news
paper that gives encouragement to the
outlawed liquor traffic.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-07-01
Republican Steering Committee in
Senate Fails to Put Golf Bill on
Preferential Calendar
ADJOURNMENT IS NEAR
Drys Urged to Wire Senators Ask
ing Immediate Action on Bills
Already Passed by House

Prohibition and its enforcement con-
finues to hold chief interest of both House
and Senate. The drys are making siren
nous effort to get favorable action in the
Senate on number of measures that have
been passed by the House. Chief among
these are the civil service bill for agents,
endorsed by both political parties and
recommended twice by President Cool
idgc, and the reorganization bill to pro-
vide for a bureau OF prohibition and
bureau of customs
This session of Congress is rapidly
House and Senate are anxious for adj
journment by the end of the month. 1t
is generally conceded that il the dry meas.
ures can be brought to vote in the Sem
ate they will pass this session.
Drys were disappointed by the action
of the Senate Republican steering COM
mittee on June in sidetracking the adj
ministration bill for tightening up prohi-
bition enforcement. The committee threw
this bill into the discard along with
number of other important measures in
an effort to relieve the calendar in the
hope OF early adjournment.
The steering committees action was
not taken without protest by some OF the
dry leaders. While turning down this adj
ministration measure, which is known as
the Golf bill, the committee agreed to
have the Senate consider another admin
istration measure, creating separate bu-
reaus of prohibition and customs in the
treasury department., with director at
the head of each. This bill, as stated
above, has passed the House and the
friends of prohibition are urged to wire
their Senators asking for immediate ac-
ton upon this bill.
May Call Up Golf Bill
There is some talk that the drys will
undertake to call upon the Golf bill, which
Is now on the regular calendar, and force
action before adjournment AS the pref
erential calendar now is arranged bills are
given in this order for consideration after
the farm relief bill is disposed of:
Permitting certain railroads TO fund
their debts to the government.
Provoking for government control Of
radio communication through an indie
pendent commission.
Creating separate bureaus OF prohibi-
lion and customs in the treasury.
Placing prohibition field agents under
civil service.
House Follows Example of Senate
According to a special New York Times
dispatch of June 10 the Republican or
ganization of the House planned to side
track the Golf bill in accordance with the
action previously taken by the Republi-
can steering committee of the Senate.
The judiciary committee of the House,
on June 10, recommended that the Golf
bill be passed. Leaders in the House
argued that in view of the fact that the
bill had been excluded from the Senate
program for this session it would be idle
for the House to pass a measure which
had no chance of passing the Senate at
this time.
The Golf bill, as presented for passage
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-12
Church Dance Tonight

The second annual card party
knd dance for the benefit OF 81.
Rita's Catholic Church, Of Mt Ida,
Va, VIII be held tonight at the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-12
UT|L TIES RIF I
IS DENIED

Although it was found necessary
TO hold three executive meetings on
the extension of the Woodley Road
bus line into, Richmond Park, the
Public Utilities Commission has de-
MED that Commissioner Fenning
ever questioned C o m m IS o n r
RudoIph's right to vote because of
the latters absence from the public
hearings
In a statement issued to the
press the commission said .'Comnis.
sioner Fenning did raise the ques.
ton as to whether when a hearing
was held by two comnaissi oners who
arrived at opposite conclusions, the
said commissioners could submit
their acts and orders to the fuii
commission
Lieut.. Col j. Franklin Bell said
he did not care to anlplify this
explanation of the reason for asking
Corporation Counsel Francis FL.
Stephens for an opinion on the
Nvoting powers OF the members OF
he commission.
Settlement on q comp omlse
route for the bus line was made.
1t will run north from Wioodley
Road on Wisconsin Avenue TO. ora.
way Street. to Thirty-fourth Street
60 Woodley Road. The busses VIII
pass the John Eaton School al
Thirty-fourth and Lowell Streets,
necessitating the presence of two
policemen at all times for the pro-
lection OF children.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-12
MANY WILL ATTEND
DINNER TO SHERIFF.

Many distinguished officials in
the Amy and Navy, as well as
prominent Washington citizens. ac-
cepted invitations today to attend
the dinner in honor of Col. g. @.
Sheriff.. formerly Director of Public
Buildings and Parks here, to be
held at the willard Hotel. Feb.
ruaFv ~.
Mayor Murray Seasongood, Of Cln-
cfnnati. has promised to be present,
as we'll as members of the city
council Of that city, where Colonel
Sheriff.; win soon be stationed as
CITY manager
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-12
WARREN AGAIN HEADS
RIFLE ISOLATION

The National Rifle Association Of
America at its meeting last night
III the Lafayette Hotel reelected
Senator Francis E. Warren Of
wyoming, as president. Col. r. n.
Waterbury was. elected first vice
president. Benedict Crowell. second
vice president, and Lieut. Col. u.
nj. Rumsey. third vice president.
Residents Of the District Of Co
lumbia elected to the executive
committee were Mai. Gen. G. G.
Williams. Rear Admiral Montgomery
Taylor. Lieut.. Condr. E. y. VII
son, Col. IA. .. Macnab and Major
Ralph Keyser.
, 1926-05-26
WHAT DO WE

Sunday, May Both, is Memorial Day. MONDAY, MAY 31st, will
be officially observed) This is one of our two particularly nation
al" holidays. The other is the Fourth of July. On the Fourth we
look forward, we boast triumphanly of what the country is and
prophesy vigorously of what it is to be. But today we look back
ward, We think not of ourselves, but of those who died for us.
What do we remember?
Nothing of much Importance, unless we remember that the ma
ton demanded their sacrifices for ideas.
The Civil War was a war for an idea-for the idea OF freedom.
"This nation" said Lincoln, Cannot exist permanently half-slave
and half-free." 1t did not it bought with blood and tears the right
TO exist permanently free.
The war of 19l4-19l8, so far as we are concerned, was likewise
a war for an idea-for the idea that a nation would better not exist
than brook interference with the moral principles on which it was
founded. The issue was far less clear cut than in the Civil war, more
involved both with economic and with fear; but when we called on
our men to fight, and if necessary. to die, for the country, we pur-
suaded ourselves rightly or wrongly, that they were summoned not
to defend the national honor" but to make the world safe for
democracy"
Any forgetfulness of that basic persuasion is dangerous.
War is an evil. and no man is a hero merely because he died in
war. The question is what he died for. And there is no unintei-
gence or meanness so profound as that Of an individual or a nation
which accepts a sacrifice without knowing or caring why it was
made.
If on Memorial Day we remember only that sons and brothers
have given their lives for us, without seeking to realize exactly for
what they gave their lives, then truly as far as we are concerned
those men have died in vain.
If we take Memorial Day merely as an opportunity to say. or
even to think. pleasant things about the dead, the day has not full
filled its purpose.
Perhaps if instead Of Memorial Day we called it Dedication Day,
we should be nearer the truth OF what it ought to mean. The men
OF whom we speak, whose graves we decorate, we cannot again
dedicate to service. Ourselves we can dedicate; and, if we really
remember, we will.
, 1926-05-26
THOUGHT

All who heard the address before the graduating class at the
high school last Friday evening should have gone away with a new
idea in their head which was well worth some serious consideration.
DIR. Coulter had a message which was of interest and which was put
IN such a way that it was made interesting to his audience. His sub
Ject, "As a Man Thinks brought out the greater importance of
mind over matter and the neglect of the education of the mind and
thought.
Light and electricity, of virtual if not identical velocity, COM
monty, are regarded as the swiftest things in the universe. Their
velocity is, roundy, $4,000 miles a second. There is something which
so much swifter that in comparison with its speed-if the term may
be used in this connection-the speed of light and electricity sug-
gests immobiity. 1t is thought.
Though may be projected in a twinklng into the outermost
realms OF conceivable space and UNNECESSARILY beyond indefinitely
to lnconcelvable remoteness. The transit OF light from the sun to
the earth requires about eight minutes, thought leaps from earth to
sun in an instant. Light travels six millions OF millions of miles in
a year. Teephotography has revealed a nebula. another universe,
a million light years. thousand thousand times six million times
a million miles-distant from our universe. Thought, undeterred
by the mconceivable intervening distance, reaches to this other uni
verse IN no more time than it requires to span the comparatively in
significant distance from earth to sun.
Thought What? Whence? How? To answer would be to
solve the riddle of the universe"
, 1926-05-26
THE FRUIT

"As this is being written the fruit
outlook in this part of the country
was never better. The blossoms
opened earlier han at any time for
years and fears were expressed that
the crop would be ruined by frost.
Since they opened. however, there has
been no serious frost and it is now
believed that almost all fruit is now
out of danger from anything but a
hard freeze. which we are not likely
to get at this time of the year.
Apples, ~crabapples, strawberries,
plums, raspberries, grapes, currants,
gooseberries, etc, never looked more
promising than they do today and
with average conditions ahead of US
we should have a record breaking
crop of fruit this year."-Basin Rus
tier.
We notice that the fruit prospect
in Park county is the best this spring
that it has been for some time. How
ever, there is little fruit in this coun.
try, except the berries, that is of much
commercial value. People in our
county depend a great deal on the
fruit from the lower part of the basin
and will be glad to hear that prospects
are bright for a big crop.
, 1926-05-26
Bill Provides for a
New Park Entrance

Expenditure of ~s1,4O0,OOO for con-
struction of a road from Red Lodge,
Montana, to the Yellowstone National
park in northwestern Wyoming. was
proposed in a bill introduced recently
in congress by Representative Lea
witt. The measure provides that
100000 would be available during
the year beginning next July 1st. The
highway, as planned, would enter the
park near Cooke City.
Efforts to amend the interior bill
to provide for the road were unsuc-
cessful earlier in the congressional
session.-Exchange.
A bill similar to the above was in
troduced in the house some weeks ago
and was defeated. 1t seems that the
supporters of the bill from Montana
are going to receive some personal
benefit from the passing of the bill,
they are so untiring in their efforts.
The former bill failed to pass be-
cause of the short season that such
a road would be open to travel. The
latter bill will no doubt receive the
same fate.
, 1926-05-26
NEEDED ADVERTISING

Reiterating with emphasis, Yellowstone Park is in Wyoming.
Perhaps as much is written about the Wonderland of Nature"
winch constitutes the northwestern corner of this state as about
any OF the other national parks. A deal of that which is written and
Observation-Disclosures park gets a tremendous amount of paid
and Tree advertising. 1t is interesting to observe how much Of
tins publicity fails to mention that Yellowstone park is in Wyoming
Yellowstone is advertised but Wyoming is not except in the phase
that any advertisement Of Yellowstone is an advertisement OF that
portion OF Wyoming which is in Yellowstone.
Wyomingites OF vision and initiative now are working on
schemes for advertising Mornings charms for the tourist. A pub
licty drive is contemplated. This will lead, eventually. to the ex-
penditure of a good deal Of money for advertising. Yellowstone
park is the nations pre- eminent sightseeing" attraction. Consider
ing the fact and contemplating how Wyoming is ignored in publicity
regarding the park, one is constrained to speculate concerning
whether the most effective expenditure of this money might not be
TO apply it all to the purchase of space in publications elsewhere
heralding the faCt-that fact a1one-that,
Yellowstone Park is in Wyoming. Cheyenne Tribune.
, 1926-05-26
C. 0. P. Conference at
Casper June IL and IL

The state Republican pre-primary
convention will be held at Casper,
June II and u, Percy C. Spencer of
Cheyenne, state chairman, has an
nounced.
The state conference will be pre-
coded by a county convention to be
held in each of the 32 counties of
the state June 5th. Delegates on the
basis of one delegate and one alter
nate for each 200 votes cast for Rep
resentative Winter. leader of the Re
publican ticket in the last general
election, will be selected at county
conventions for the state conference.
Allotment on this basis will allow
eight delegates from Park county.
, 1926-05-26
DID YOU EVER STOP
TO THINK

(eoIommoO 10 pIuoa ''uIYO 'oou
(By Edison X. Waite, secretary, Shaw
Copyright 1926
That the ambition Of the business
men Of your city is to make il the
best city in your section.
That they realize that II takes bet
ter business to make n better city,
and that mere wishing never gains
anything for a city nor does il bring
new dollars to aid in its development.
That your business men back their
confidence in your city. its present
and its future, Blu investing their ev-
cry dollar in II.
That now Is the time for some OF
the citizens Of your city to remove
their "smoke screens" and let their
neighbors know where they are and
where they stand. II they are for
the home city they should say so by
both words and actions.
That no man should pretend TO be
a home city booster and then spend
his money in some other city.
That the citizens who build cities
are the ones who know what they are
doing and where they are going. They
arrive by keeping their money circu-
lating in the home city.
Money spent at home helps TO build
your homo city. Money spent away
from home builds some other city.
, 1926-05-26
TALK WITH A CODY MAN
Mr.. Jones Tells Something of Inter.
est to Cody Folks

>Oay I'm
There's nothing more convincing
than the statement Of someone you
know and have confidence in. That's
why this talk with Mr.. Jones of Bird
street should be nightly helpful here
In Cody.
C. r. Jones, 3rd street, Cody, says:
my kidneys seemed to act too often
and ! was obliged to get up several
times each night to pass secretions
which we're always scanty. My back
became lame and weak and II I tried
TO lift anything knife-like pains cut
across the small of Il. After using
one box of Doan's Pills from the
Western Drug company, the back
aches disappeared and my kidneys
acted properly"
Price 60c ut all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy - get
Doan's Pills, the same that Mr.. Jones
had. Foster Milburn Co., Mfrs. Buff
falo. N. Y. adv.