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REPORT OF CONDITION
or the
Munsey Trust Company
RESOURCES.

OF Washington. in the District Of Co.
lumha, at the close of bust
ness on December 81, 1925.
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LA RIIITIES.

is. Capital stock paid in. 81. 600, 600 90
Is. surplus ................. NH.G0O OH
II. Undivided profits-net... S22.619 Is
IS. Reserves for dividends
contingencies. etc.,. 800 0u
10. Reserves for interest
taxes and other
penses accrued and
unpaid ............ 464S2 =
81. Due to banks, including
certified and Treas
nrer's checks out
standing ........... S5,O3S q.
%. Demand deposits. S,6I5 ga Su
20. Time deposits. .......... 1,h4S.6l5 81
81. Other liabilities. ....,... I6l,15S 81
Total.
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liabilities
IS. Capital stock paid in. $500. O00 10
16. surplus -. .......,.,.. go. 900 20
II. Undivided Profits 45,UI9 ~
19. Reserves for interest,
taxes and other expenses
accrued and unpaid 49,. 29672 g
Fl. Due to banks including
certified and cashiers
checks outstanding..... 167.9S& IS
%. Demand deposits. l94gsNI -"
20. Time deposits. ........,.. 1,464.7IO p
Total. &4407,O83 81
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RESUJ HJbS
/. Loans and discounts. j2s52395 20
2. Overdrafts ........ 123 81
.. United States Govern
ment securities owned. 100. 965 81
1. Other bonds stocks and
securities owned. ........ 329S5l 81
8. Banking house, $222,-
$50 09: furniture and fix
lures $1O,252 66........ 232.432 75
]. Reserve with Federal Re-
serve Bank.............. 25239s 80
.. Cash and due from
banks ............... 6O7S91 n
IA. Other assets. l.520 So
Total. Observation-Disclosures. .$4.407.OSS 81
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.Innn<KPlCIlS;Ek f.
AT NEW ORLEANS

WEATHER CLOUDY, TRACK FAST
2ACE-Three furlonEs The Pennant. Purse
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BANK STATEMENT
REPORT OF CONDITION

or the
McLachlen Banking Corpora
tion
OF Washington, in the District Of CO.
lumbia, at the close of business
on December 81, 1928.
RESOURCES.
1. Loans and discounts. 81, 1,2O1,225 -
2. Overdrafts ............. 1870 81
I. Other bonds, stocks and
securities owned. . S51,73e OF
9. Furniture and fixtures,
342,3S4e2 ......... 42,?s4O2
banks ................, 2ss.372 81
10. Outside checks and other
cash items...,..... 1855 ~
Total. $2.343.4S3 So
LIABILITIES.
is. Capital stock paid in... 1850. 600 90
Is, surplus .......,.......' loO,OuO 10
II. Undivided profits-net.. 42,432 81
is. Reserves for dividends,
contingencies, etc.. '1A45s4S
II. Due to banks including
certified and cashiers
checks outstandinE.. 1O,5St92
"a. Demand deposits. 1,OSS,5 544 IS
%. Time deposits.......... 742,497 -
rs. Bills payable and re
discounts .............. 100000 90
Total. $2,343,4636S
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BANK STATEMENT
RANK STATEMENT
Reserve District No. 5.
REPORT CONDITION
Merchants Bank & Trust Co.

In COTUmbla, COse OF
VI "" 81, 1928.
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SHORT TERM SECURITIES

TEX dividend.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-02-01
The High Cost-of-Prohibition Bugaboo Again

The Chicago Tribune recently contained al
legged item from Washington calculated to
make the public believe that prohibition enforce
ment is just about sinking the country financially
This article is typical of scores of similar state
ments constantly being repeated by wet newspapers
wet officials, and other agencies that have always
been opposed to prohibition. 1t AYERS that more
money has been spent annually to enforce the Vol
stead law than has been spent to enforce all Of the
other ten thousand laws the Federal statute
books Think of attempting to substantiate such
preposterous statement! Of course the whole truth
is not told. No figures whatever are given to show
the amount of money received in fines and for
FIXTURES in prohibition enforcement.
Prohibition enforcement has practically paid it's
own way from the beginning. Mrs Mabel Walker
Willebrandt Assistant Attorney General of the
United States in charge of Federal prohibition pros
ecutions, recently said 1--WE find, after taking the
total expenditures of the government for enforce
ment, and after deducting the amounts accruing to
the government from fines, forfeitureS and penal
ties, that the cost of prohibition enforcement is
Just twelve cents piece for the American people"
The renowned economist Professor Irving Fisher,
Of Yale University, is authority for the statement
that prohibition per cent of what used to be
wasted out of our incomes, and adds another 5 per
cent into the bargain. He shows that if prohibition
enforcement cost three hundred and fifty times as
much as 1t actually COSTS it would be well worth
while purely as an economic investment.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-02-01

The American people as whole are far-sighted
enough to appreciate the tremendous conservation
power of our prohibition policy they also know full
we'll what it would mean for the government TO
surrender to the laWbreakers Let the Tribune wall
about the small sum which, on the face of bare
figures prohibition enforcement would seem to cost
the nation Thinking, patriotic people fully realize
that in the last analysis, the question before the
country is not whether the enforcement of proh
bition law costs five million, ten million, twenty
million dollars year, but whether willing to
surrender to the nulliferS of the Constitution or
whether going to teach these outlaws, by
adequate funds and efficient enforcement staff,
that the laws of this government are made to be
obeyed, and that there is ample power in the gov
eminent Of the United States to compel obedience
to its mandates.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-02-01
Bribery and Corruption Then and Now

Did you ever check up on the statements which
constantly being bantered back and forth these
days about many public officers selling out" to
the vets? II you haven't you have missed an in
teresting and enlightening experience. It has been
our experience in about nine out of ten cases that
close analysis one cannot even find starting
point for Investigation. In other Words the
large majority of these statements are found to be
mere noisy generalities. When one does get few
apparent facts upon which to work. in most cases it
soon develops that what was said a repetition
Of what some other fellow said who ought to
know" but to find the original yarn-Spinner is as
hopeless task trying to find the proverbial lost
needle
No doubt, strong temptations come to those en-
gagged in liquor-laW enforcement, and resistance
has proven too much for some This is true in the
case of all law enforcement But the Systematized
corruption OF the organized, government licensed
traffic was far more reprehenSible and dangerous
than the situation which confront with the out
laWed legally defenselesS liquor traffic today. The
liquor traffic under the licensed system was the
most corrupt political influence ever known in this
country The opponents of prohibition are of course
eoQuently silent about this. But reports of various
official and semi-oficiaI fact gathering commits
SionS, and Investigations by Congress- dating back
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-02-01
OF ILLINOIS, REPRESENTED IN
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Section |. An act to restrict the manufac-
ture, sale, transportation, possession and use of
Intoxicating liquor, aiding thereby in establish
ing uniformity IN State and Federal laws in
gard thereto" approved June 81, 1921, and AN
Act to restrict the manufacture, possession and
use of intoxicating liquor within prohibition
territory" approved June 81, 1919, are hereby
repealed.
If this measure Should pass, Illinois would be
without any law with which to uphold the Eight
zenith Amendment to the Constitution of the United
States. It is the avowed purpose of the organized
forces fighting for the return of the liquor traffic to
withdraw Illinois from the Union SO far as support
of the Eighteenth Amendment is concerned; to
throw this commonwealth into state of anarchy
chaos, and rebellion prohibition enforcement.
The protesatons of the wet leaders of their in
terest in law enforcement; their desire to rid the
state of bootleggers; to modify the law to obtain
better enforcement, and clearly for public
consumption only Their real purpose stands out
in bold relief in House Bill No 49, They would wipe
every vestige of liquor law off the statute books and
turn the state without reserve to the bootleg
gers runl-runnerS and blndpiggers.
House Bill No ID, deserves and we believe will
receive, all the luck to which the number it drew
entities it.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-02-01
Obedience AS a Title to Protest

(The Chicago EUening Post, Friday, Dec. 7, 1929
There is much clamor against the Eighteenth
Amendment and the VolStead law which cannot
Justify it's right to recognition because it from
those who violate the law The laWbreaker has for
feted his right to demand repeal of the law he will
not obey.
Eliminate from the opposition to the law those
who break and there will be little left to protest
What there is left is entitled to respectful hearing
All man-made law is subject to amendment or
peal. However good may think law; however
eager we may be to see it sustained, may not dis
regard the objections of those who differ from us
if they Justify their right to differ by obedience to
it SO long the law obtains. But may insist
that they bring their protest with clean hands.
Prohibition is an effort of the American people
to deal with evil in the life of the nation. There
is a very general agreement to the evil. Few
men will venture today to defend the saloon or to
make apologies for the conditions which it bred and
encouraged. Few men will deny that intemperance,
which one of the great progeny of ills engen-
dered by the saloon, is a curse to the home, to
ciety to business as to civic life.
Let those who think the Eighteenth Amendment
the Vostead law is mistaken effort to do good,
establish first their right OF protest By obedience
and they will win the respectful hearing of the
country for their But why should the country
listen to the laWbreaker who urges that the law
should be repealed because he has broken It?
We think however they should do more than pro-
test. They should offer us some better method Of
dealing with the problem which the beverage use of
alcohol represents. That is the problem set out
to solve. Thus far no suggestion has been made,
which has come to attention, of any solution
which is likely to prove more effective than prohbi-
ton. Possibly an obedient opposition would have
greater success in developing better solution or,
possibly through obedience it might become con-
verified to belief in the wisdom and efficacy of the
law as it stands
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-02-01

a defendant charged with violating the prohibit
ton law is entitled 10 every right guaranteed to him
under the statute and the Constitution in his trial.
but he Is not entitled TO any more than those
statutory and constitutional rights Every Judge
and every states attorney are required to take a
constitutional oath to support and maintain the
constitutional rights Of the defendant, but also to
enforce the public laws and Constitution of the
country and the Eighteenth Amendment is as bind
ing provision or article of the Constitution any
article in them. and the question of whether or not
like Il or don't like it, or whether other people
ike it or don't like It. are not questions to be con-
sdered IN courts II The trial of cases or the review
of cases.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-02-01
Wholesome Doctrine From Illinois
Supreme Court

In the case of the People v zalap reported in
Volume 321 Illinois Supreme Court reports, page
484 the Court in opinion written by Justice Dunn
gives expression to the following timely pronounce
ment:
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-02-01
STATE OFFICERS

President-nishop Edwin Holt hughes chicago
PrsdentsAichael H. Galeaa Alfred T. t"pfs'
laoksonyle Mrs. Carrie 4. Bahfeu1erg be.e5ile.
Secretary Root Edwards Piuckneyvtle
Thomas J.. Bolger. Evanston.
Headquarters T. coleman chicago 1ha-
NJ P noynon, CHICAGO. Secretary John iianbefF,
Rock H. Wilson. Quincy John lndih Chi
eago Or T. Krndson. Springfield Andrew Zeno, Chi
ago: Fisher. Normal Thomas J. 1olSef,
Edwin Holt Hughes Chicago
George - Stafford, Pho Chicago
Enforcement Work. H. Collier. Chicago
Scandinavian Department-Car J. Andreen Chicago
business Managers. ". Ewing, Chicago.
hicago !.
cago J. A. Chicago; Fletcher IIoman, Chicago East
G Western L. A. Tate Gaesburg
Springfield Legislative H. Yue Chicago.
Field i. y. \. l. Shater, ". H.
CULLEN. q u. Chlds =. Fletcher.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-02-01
FEBRUARY, 1929
Every Dry Should Help Inform, Educate,
Arouse, and Enlist Public Sentiment

One of the greatest handicapS to prohibition en-
forcement today and hence to its future success lS
without doubt the effect of the high pressure anti
prohibition publicity which is steadily increasing IN
volume and unreliability. Making due allowance Tor
the discerning thought which today evaluates all
writings as perhaps never before the constant Sug
gestion of this propaganda eXerts its subtle in
fiuence even upon minds which perceive its trend.
Hence there is nothing so much needed today as a
determination the part of individual drys every
where to make 1929 the banner year IN getting the
truth to the public
The greatest benefits and blessings which have
come even from imperfect enforcement, should be
broadcast far and wide by the friends of the cause
everywhere Facts like the following should be
elaborated upon: How prohibition has improved
home conditions how it has raised the standard of
living of the laborng man: how it has increased the
number Of home owners and bank depoSitorS how
it has reduced industrial accidents; how 1t has i'm
proved health conditions; how it has resulted in
saving to the nation of billions Of dollars each year.
We have slogan ON our wall which reads:
Find the facts
Filter the facts.
Focus the facts.
Face the facts
Follow the facts.
prohibition will benefit the cause even in its most
difficult friends. BY every test prohibition is sue
ceeding. Let's advertise it's merits with such over
whelmng proof and enthusiasm that the enemy
will be kept constantly on the defensive, until the
last squad in its lingering laWlesS army has been
compelled to surrender.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-02-01

Notices for change of adj
dontnuance aud an unbelievable papers pertaining to
should be addressed
Illinois Editor 5lo North Dearborn ST. Rooms 5lo-9lZ
II.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-02-01

Vets Launch Fight in Legislature to Repeal
All Illinois Prohibition Enforcement Statutes
AMONG the first bills introduced in the Fifty-siXth
General Assembly che for the repeal of the Ill
nOis Search and Seizure" law and the Illinois Pro
hibition Act This measure, known House Bill
No. 13, was introduced on January IS, by MeSSrS.
Weber and O'Grady sponsors of a similar measure
in the Fiftydtth General Assembly. At this writing
the bin has not been referred to committee Tt is
brief in It's provisions but farreachng in its effect
It provides:
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
OF ILLINOIS, REPRESENTED IN
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-02-01

Find the facts
Filter the facts.
Focus the facts.
Face the facts.
Follow the facts.
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FasterAutos Demand
Safer Highways I
BY z. z. DUFFY

Most automobiles being made have speed OF at least
80 miles hour.
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either of the other groups and the
result show in the comparative ac-
cident records.
Examinations Vital
II is the settled opinion of the
national conference that the licens.
ing of few drivers onl after exami-
nation as to their fitness is the
most important provision Of the
uniform code, 1t is not claimed
that examinations will eliminate all
unsafe drivers. 1t Is fully recog-
ntzed that some Of the most COM
petent drivers are dangerous. using
their skill to trifle with the rights
and safety of others.
This does not alter the fact. how.
ever, as the records of some Eastern
motor vehicle commissioners show,
that as high az 25 per cent of the
candidates for licenses fail to pass
Upon the first examination and that
save 2 or 3 per cent of these meet
the requirements This is held to
Indicate clearly that many candi-
dates first come up for examination
when they are incompetent either
because of inexperience or lack of
knowledge of traffic regulations and
would therefore be unsafe on the
highways at that time. Subse.
quently they practice driving and
learn the regulations in order TO
qualify, The fact that every new
driver Is required to learn the rules
and demonstrate that he knows the
fundamental of safe driving Is a
source of real. protection to the pub
lie.
The proof of this has been estab-
lished by tie National Safety Coun.
Gil which ascertained that the auto
mobile fatality rates in nine States
having drivers license laws with ex-
animation of new nrivers, enforced
by centralized State department.
average more than 20 per cent low er,
since the pasea --Of such laws. than
would have , cen anticipated on the
haSis of the prior experience OF the
same States and the experience OF the
non.license law States over the same
.riod. The States showing this
favorable record include California.
Connecticut, Maryland. Massachu-
setts, New '"r V. New York and
Pennsylv ia
The Washington times., 1929-05-08
MO 7 OR|STS To
FIGHT HIGHER
GAS TAX

United and organized opposition
by the motorists OF the country
must be made in order to prevent
further Increases in gasu in. taxes,
according to announc ement made
here this week by the American
Motorists Association, declaring open
warfare on State officials seeking
to further burden motorists of the
country with unjust gasoline taxes,
Thomas ]. Keefe. general manager
of the association, de Jared that
only active opposition can stop the
gasoline tax rates from going from
third 10 so per cent Of the average
filling station price.
Gasoline taxes are now an aver
age of 25 per cent Of the filling
station prices" Mr.. Keefe points
out. This is in reality a sales tax
OF 25 per cent. and is in addition -
the numerous other taxAs that 4
motarist must pay,
VIII Re Opposed
Gasoline taxes beyond This point
should. and Will. be bite ly Cpposa0,
and our assOcia ton is preparing to
car :. the campaign of opposition
into. every legislative district, If
necessary, t0 prevent further in
creases in gasoline taxes Mr.. Keefe
stated.
Through a comprehensive plan OF
organization. the associ anon intends
to enlist the support of motor clubs
and individual motorists every.
where in campaign against What
it declares to be excessive and un-
fair gasoline taxes, 1t vas an
nounced. Such a natl on-wide or.
ganiZation would lie prepared to
fight any candidate for the legisl1.
ture in any of the States who does
not agree to be fair and reasonable
in his attitude toward legislation
affecting the motorist.
The time has past when a few
handpicked politicians can gather
behind closed dors and. looking for
more public revenue. soak the mo-
torist and get away. with It," Mr..
keefe said.
"A tax on the motorist Is more
far-reaching than an income tax.
The latest motor vehicle recistra-
ton figures of the Bureau of Cer-
sus shows that there are about
"a 500 900 automobiles in the Gaitad
States, or an automobile for every
five people in the country. A tax
affecting such a large portion of
the public must be levied with ex-
treme caution, and only with the
consent of those who must pay.
Theory 10 Years Old
Gasoline taxes were first levied
ten years ago. The theory was
that the motorist, who derived the
principal benefit from the use of
highways, should pay a fair share
of their construction and main
tenance. The tax was therefore
levied for the sole purpose of build.
ing and maintaining highways.
But it was not long before poll.
ticians, seeing that gasoline taxes
were readily collectable and immedi.
ately available for expenditure, be.
gan to abuse the taxing privilege.
"The evils of abuse of this taxa
tion are apparent. A campaign of
aggression is the only effective way
of curbing the growing tendency of
legislatures to increase taxes and
the American Motorists Associa.
ton intends to take the lead in the
fight Mr.. keefe declares.
The Washington times., 1929-05-08

fairly high speeds, wider shoulders,
greater sight distance at curves,
better guard rails, better grade
crossing facilities such as under
passes, and better designed highway
intersections.
Double Deck Roads 1
Where traffic is quite heavy,
streets and roads are in some In.
stances being separated at inter.
sections through the elevation Of
one thoroughfare over the other.
The cost of such structures is soon
returned through the elimination Of
congestion.
Less expensive but quite suitable
arrangements for continuous and
safe travel at intersections may be
made. Notably in New York and
New Jersey, traffic circles, some.
times called rotary intersections;
are in service. These consist sim.
ply Of q circular pavement into
which traffic pours from the inter.
secting highways. This avoids an
left-hand turns-one of the great.
est contributors to accidents.
Some States are adding two extra
lanes to all highways at the inter
section. This extra space permits
free flow of cars. Another
method IL the curved intersection
wherein each OF the cross roads IL
joined to those adjacent by
curve, cutting off the corner and
forming a simple design similar to
that on some of Rrandmothsr'S old
comforters.
The Washington times., 1929-05-08
c. H. Miller Gets New
Studebaker Position

G. III. Miller. formerly COM
mercial car representative for the
Philadelphia branch of the Stude-
baker Corporation, has been ap-
pointed that firms eastern division
commercial car representative.
Headquarters will be maintained in
Philadelphia.
Mr.. Miller will have charge of
Studebaker commercial car sales in
the territories governed by their
branches located at Boston, New
York, Buffalo. Philadelphia. Wash
ington, Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
The Washington times., 1929-05-08
BABY ''8'S" Will
LEAD IN 1929

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May s.
Baby" straight eight motors will
again dominate the Indianapolis
Speedway classic on Decoration Day,
f. L. Cord. president of Auburn
points out.
OF the 40 or more entrants into
this greatest of all race classics it
is certain that practically every one
will drive car using the eight-in-
line principle. Number of cylinders
is not limited or set in the race the
only requirement being that the pis.
ton displacement be 911a inches or
under.
Win All Races.
In the last eight years every race
has been won by car powered with
a straight-eight motor Duesenbergs
leading with four firsts Millers with
two first, an H. c. S. Special, one,
and FrOntenac, one.
The drivers and the make of cars
they drove for these years are:
192S-Lousi Meyers Miller Special,
1927-George Saunders, Duesen-
berg.
1926-Frank Lockhart. Miller.
1925-Peter DeUaola. Duesenberg.
1924-Joe Boyer. Duesenberg.
192S-Tommy Milton, H. C. s. Spe-
Cial.
1922-Jimmy Murphy Duesenberg.
-1921-Tommy Milton, Frontenac.
The slowest average time for any
of these winners for the full 500
miles was 9862 miles per hour. Mil
toms record in 1921 DePaoIo set a
record for all time in 1925 with
speed Of 101.13 miles per hour for
the full 500 miles His top speed
was better than 1870 miles per hour.
Only five four-cylinder cars have
finished the race since 1922 and only
nine six-cylinder cars since 1912.
Cord cites.