The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-04-20
s AND TO- DRY LAW WORK OF
CONGRESSMAN NOT SENATOR
What's 1his7-The Jones Law
isn't the Jones Law at
All! rs Stalker's!
PIT TEETH IN VoLSTEAD ACT
New York Representative Intro
duced Bin In House, but
Jones Gets Credit
~ RODNEY BUTCHER

Copyright, 1899, NEA 1ervice. 1nc.)
Washington. April 2O.-(NEA)-
one Of the most surprising things
about the Jones law Is that It isn't
the Jones law at all.
The famous new Five and Ten
law. now tackled onto the volstead
act. Is no more the. child OF Senator
wesley L. Jones OF washington than
President Hoover is the son OF jackie
Coogan.
Yet Jones gets all the credit and
the country probably will keep his
name tied onto the measure as long
as anyone pays any attention to It.
The real father and author Of the
ZONES law" Is Congressman Gale II.
Stalker, a modest lumberman from
Elmira, N. Y.
70 Put Teeth In Dry Law
give and Ten was the fruition OF
six long years Of earnest and devoted
labor on the part Of Stalker, who
wanted to put teeth In the Volstead
act.
Stalker. when . young man, saw
how lumberjacks acted on Saturday
night after being paid of and mas
been q prohibitionist ever since.
Briefly, the history Of his dras-
tic law was this:
On Jan. IL, 1928, Stalker introduced
into the house the bill which was to
become the ZONES law"
Immediately afterward the dry
examinations which maintain lobbies
in washington went to Senator Jones
and asked him to introduce exactly
the same bill In the senate. Senator
Jones was delighted.
House Passed II First
On Jan. ~, 1923, he did just that
The bill he introduced was identical
with the Stalker bill.
The house passed the Stalker bill
long before the senate passed ths
Jones bill.
Jones has not tried to steal all thu
credit. He himself has publicly stated
that It ought to be called the Jones.
Stalker Law. But no one paid m,
/ attention to him.. -----.s.e =
The spotlisht, in connection Will
the oct, has continued to shine full
on Senator Jones, with never even
klimmer being reflected upon TIN
man who has the only real claim x
paternity. Jones has become famous
over night while Stalker remains II
his comparative obscurity-althougl
back In Elmira they're suggesting
him for the New York governorshil
or the senate.
Stalker Is 50 years old. He va
born in Long Eddy. New York, q lum
Der town Of about thousand soul
and II saloons.
1T was q very unsafe place on Sat
urday night" he says. THAT kim
Of thing would have prejudiced any
body In favor Of prohibition"
Back 10 His Saw Mill
The Stalker family was in tn
lumber business and so was Gal
Stalker by the time he came Of age
He went to business college and t
night school In. New York city, how
ever, and was later able to build "
his own hardwood manufacturin
business. Today he says his chic
recreation Is to 60 back to his So
mill and estimate lumber.
He Is shorter than tall. fairl
heavy, smokes cigarets and wears
derby hat, stiff collar. tortoiseshc
nose spectacles and . pompadou
haircut. One Of his Elmira coIlsti
tuents Is Seymour Lowman, assist
ant treasury secretary in charge (
prohibition enforcement. Stake
himself was elected six years ago {
the seat previously held by Alanson
Houghton.
He won't 60 50 far as to say ths
he never took drink. but believe
the fact that he's teetotaller an
practices his preachings swelled h
successive elective majorities Of Is
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