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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-10-01
Duty to Obey Laws is on Every
Citizen, says Evangelist
Billy Sunday
PROHIBITION ALI. RIGHT
Smash the Booze Board and Smash
Booze Politicians" Billy Declared
in an Address to Thousands
at Lakeside

Billy Sunday made several addresses in
Ohio this summer and was greeted by
large audiences. The noted evangelist
has not lost his fervor and this is cs-
pecially true when he flays the old liquor
traffic and those who oppose prohibition.
A couple of weeks ago Sunday spoke
to several thousand people at Lakeside
He urged the church to stop "pussyfoot-
ing" and to take a sledgehammer and
smash the "booze brood" and "booze poll
ticians"
Prohibition is all right" declared Sun
day, and the people are obeying it, ex-
cept the rich scalawags at the top and
the hobo riff-raf at the bottom
1.-THE Eighteenth Amendment is the
greatest piece of legislation ever enacted,
morally and economically and the great
est calamity that could befall this country
would be its repeal. And the re-establish- I
ment of the saloon would be the over I
throw of the nation.
Prohibition is not making new type
of criminal, but only bringing oft the old
type. OF all convictions for felony in the
United States during the last year, less
than per cent are attributed to the
Eighteenth Amendment"
In speaking of law enforcement the
evangelist quoted President Hoover say
ing 1.-The enforcement of law is more vital
to the preservation of our institutions
than any other question before the Amer
lean people"
eff the prohibition law is wrong, its
rigid enforcement is the surest guarantee
of its repeal" Sunday said "If it is
right, its enforcement is the quickest way
of compelling respect for it."
1.-THE duty to enforce the laws rests
upon every public official. To obey law
rests upon every citizen
I'm my position as a minister and a
citizen, with my obligation to fight SIM
there can be no argument. There is no
one here who would respect me if I as
sumed any other attitude"
"Stop pussyfooting," Sunday thTudered.
evil will never be put down if the church
backs down. Give us a sledgehammer,
with an Elijah to swing it. Smash the
booze brood, and smash the booze poll
ticians at the polls.
'That there is more liquor sold than
when we had saloons, is bunk. a lie and
propaganda If it were true why don't
the vets yell hurrah for prohibitions"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-10-01
What Ike Current Magazines Ere Saying About Prohibition
and Law Enforcement
by Emm I. Transeanl
tReviewed by Emma L. TranseaW

shrewdly saw a chance by the simple act
OF cutting out the two words for sale"
to try TO stop all drinking of all alco-
holic drinks by everybody within the ma
tion.-WILLIAM G. SHEPPARD in Golfers
National Weekly, September 81 1920
This is the way the vets are writing
prohibition history. Because Wayne
Wheeler was astute enough to know
loophole when Sc saw it and had sufficient
influence, legal knowledge and ability to
plug it up, he must be called tricky"
cunning IAN evader," "a sneak" a
GEAR" etc.
The charge of cunning" Is based on his
refusal to have the buyer of Intoxicating
liquor as well as the seller included in the
prohibition. His reason was that this
would prevent the buyer from giving evil
dence. AS we all know, no witness is
obliged to incriminate himself But to
forsee and prevent such an obstacle to en-
forcement must, perforce, be called Gun
ming"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-10-01
DRY LAWYERS ORGANIZE

A group of New York men and women
lawyers, have formed law enforcement
committee One of the leaders is Martain
W. Littleton, Jr., Assistant District At
torney. Prominent members Of the New
York bar are lending their names and
influence to the movement. Wet members
of the New York bar have an organization
to assist the movement to nullify the pro-
hibition law. The law enforcement COM
mittee will Offset the action of the wet
lawyers.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-10-01
WHO COULD HAVE PROVED TT WAS
MADE FOR SALE?"

Sheppard's original amendment, intro
duced in 1913 but shelved, put it:
The sale, manufacture for sale, inpor-
tation for sale, and expectation for sale
of intoxicating liquors for beverage pur-
poses, etc. are hereby prohibited.
It was Wayne B. Wheeler who. as
Gar over the Anti-Saloon League men,
bers, event the whole hog" and cut out
the words "for sale" He wasn't con-
tent to go along with his associates in
an effort to sfop tl1oee -'''1 :
mercializng liquor. He planned and
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-10-01
SHOWING NEW YORK
THE WAY

Stivers of fear struck the liquor clan
of New York City as word spread that
Federal Judge Mccormick of Los Angeles
holding court there was building himself
up reputation like that of Federal
Judge Atwell of Texas, who fined New
Workers as much as $500 pint for pos
session. Judge Mccormick has padlocked
IL popular drinking places along New
Yorks White Way.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-10-01
HOW GULLIBLE ARE THE PEOPLE OF
THE UNITED STATES?

It is in the following countries that
our propaganda has been most intense.
England, Canada, the United States and
Sweden. The French Wines EX-
portation Commission was able to note
last year already that its publicity cam
paign in the great newspapers edited in
the English language in the United
States New York Herald, Chicago Tri6-
une, Daily Maid had given rise in the
American press to very numerous COM
mentaries highly favorable to it's cause
and given greater impulse to the anti
prohibitionist literature Of both con-
tinents--[FTom an article, on La propG
qdnd0 deS UinS francois q rertanger,
("FTench wine propaganda in foreign
countries') in the trade journal OF the
French Wines Expectation Commission,
L'ETportateUr Francais, for June 10,
1921
And so we nave such distorted news
stories and indignant editorials as those
which excoriated the officers of the law
and wept copiously over the sorrows Of
the boOtlegging family of Aurora, I'LL
nois. And these stories and editorials
are reproduced all over the country to
give aid and comfort to the enemies Of
the Constitution at home and abroad,
while the booze baronS of Europe chuckle
and pat themselves on the back because
OF the effectiveness of their publicity
campaign in the great newspapers edited
in the English language in the United
States ALFRED E.. COOKE, The Con-
gregGtionGIist. September 10, 1929.
The CongregGtionali5t and Mr.. Cooke
nave here done good service in helping to
how the people of this country how to
cad between the lines Of the wet press.
t answers the very natural question, Why
ire SO many newspapers and magazines
vet? One does not need to make the
weeping accusation that all publications
hat oppose prohibition are subsidized out
If the fund of many millions of francs
pledged by the wines interests of Europe
or naerciless campaign against prohibi-
ion, as per the announcement of the Or
sanzation Of this league in 1922 There
IRE certain earmarkS in the wet contribu-
ions which astute readers can detect. even
f they are composed with "circunlspection
md skill" The attempts at Righteousness,
he cheap epithets, ridicule and abuse
lung at prominent dry leaders are not
marks of sincerity Properly enlightened,
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-10-01
BOOZE TAKEN; MEN FLEE

Smugglers in charge of five luggers and
5000 cases of beer and whisky escaped
under fire from UnitSd States coast guard
cutters which intercepted them at the
junction Of Lake Erie and the Huron
River near Windsor. Nearly dozen
rum-runners fed in two speed boats and
escaped despite the yolley of revolver
shots from the coast guard men. The Of
ficers, however, were successful in captur-
ing the luggers. liquor and six empty
boats
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-10-01

Dry Americas addiction to
ice cream is increasing an
nually and last year 348,048,-
900 gallons were consumed in
this country.
The bureau of agricultural
economies, in making public
the statistics, estimated the per
capita ice cream consumption
in 1928 at $50 gallons. Ten
years ago, in 1919, enough ice
cream was sold to have sup
piled each inhabitant with 2.49
gallons, while IN 1910 the con-
sumption was only one-third
what it was last year. Per
capita estimates for 1910 were
1.04 gallons.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-10-01

Prohibition Is better observed and en-
forced generally in the United States at
this time than at any other time since
prohibition became effective.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-10-01

our attitude toward these attacks on pro-
hibition will continue to be, Il am from
Missouri
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-22
The LAWYERS Fault

A TTORNEYISM has done more
IA than anything else to create
such an ude-attorneyisrn, that
always stands between the client
and the jury, the state and the
criminal, the defendant and justice
In most other departments a
citizen can walk up and speak for
himself.
In the court, he can not. In the
court, he must not only do, but say
what he is told. In the court, he
becomes a mere puppet, a mar
ionette, dancing to the commands
OF the very lawyer whom he pays.
Il n n
The outstanding feature of Sin
clair's case is that he got into
trouble by following the advice of
his counsel, while the counsel who
gave it goes scot free.
AS a matter of common sense, the
lawyer who told him not to answer
Senator Walsh was vastly more re-
sponsible for his being in contempt
than he was himself, yet he not only
had to suffer the consequences, but
pay that lawyer a fee.
1t is a curious system that COM
pels us to hire lawyers when we
enter court, and then Furnishes us
If the lawyers give wrong advice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-22
Rush Needless

WHATS the rush? The players
w are going to need some Of
those foot-pounds of energy before
the afternoon is over, and it seems
to me silly to waste them in a race
in which first place counts nothing,
and third and fourth and fifth and
so on are scored in precisely the
same way.
Of course, I am aware that the
intent is psychological. The mad
rush is supposed to indicate to the
spectators and to the players them
selves that the team is just wild to
get at the opposing eleven and to
tear it to pipeces.
Still, since the other team is Civ
ing every evidence of the same
frenzied ilnpatience, the net result
is standoff.
Nor do I think that the psyche
logical concept is sound. A more
determined will is manifest in a
slow and steady tread.
It was at such pace that Marie
Antoinette went to the guillotine,
and, if I remember rightly, Gene
Tunney did no more than amble to
the center of the ring when first he
met Jack Dempsey.
Again in that earlier battle at
Boyle's Thirty Acres it was Carpen-
tier, about to be vanquished,, who
vaulted over the ropes. Dempsey
crawled through like a tired tramp
encountering barbed wire.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-22

HARVARD will win easily from
l. L Yale Saturday. I want to
get this prediction out in time for
all faithful followers to put their
bets down.
The forecast is certain, because
all logic points the other way. Logic
not only indicates the defeat, but
the humiliation of Harvard. The
team has no tradition. Its record
is a reproach. How can it fail to
win?
And, by the way, want to know
why it is necessary for a football
squad to make its entrance at such
a breakneck pace. First comes the
captain, with his head thrown back,
Logging it for dear life. The ends
and backs manage to keep up with
him, but usually there are a few
fat line substitutes tagging at the
rear and putting most uncomfort-
ably because of the mad charge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-22
REASON By Ff IASDIs

T~HOSE disposed to blame President Hoover for
l. lack of leadership because he has not been able
remember that we have had but President since
the Civil able to effect such harmony, and he
William Mckinley.
All down the line from Lincoln to Hoover with this
one exception, our Presidents have been unable to
wave the olive branch, but many of them have
waved the red flag.
McKinley's amiable heart and his long experience
in congress equipped him for the role of peace maker
and those who entered his presence in anger went
away smiling.
For instance, one day the papers said MCKINLEY
about to appoint Philander c. Knox of Pennsyl-
vania to the position of attorney whereupon
one of the Republican leaders of the Keystone state
opposed to him in law suit and had won it, costing
the political leader something like million dollars
MCKINLEY heard him through and then said that
1V1 he was sorry the leader had lost so much money,
but that when it came to selecting an attorney
general for the whole country he wanted the lawyer
who cases. not the one who lost them.
Then the President switched the conversation to
some theme OF mutual interest, after which the
political leader went away feeling he had spent an
enjoyable morning.
Babe Ruth demands $s5 600 for his services next
year which is $4,000 more than we pay the President
of the United States, but then Ruth can knock the
bali the fence which Mr.. Hoovers longest hit is
the Lacquer he knocked the last presidential
campaign.
All the ladies and gentlemen who have been de-
fated by the stock markets collapse in position
to Sympathize with the farmer, for he Debated
Immediately after the and he has been ever since
THE prince of Wales has declared for long skirts
l. because that will help the textile manufacturers
and now it Is up to him to out strongly for
bustles to bring prosperity to the excelsior manll-
facturerS
Senator Copeland fears that our statesmen are
going to ruin their health by over-work and worry
about legislation and he advocates reduction of
hours
Having seen quite little of the congressional end
of it, we say to that the average man. engaged in
keeping family and fighting the wolf works harder
and worries more than all the senators in Washington
Over at Urbana ILL.,, man was given year for
stealing sixteen chickens and bank president was
given the same sentence for stealing 100000 and
wrecking the bank.
MerTily We roll along. -sz aa4ks
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-22
Scarlet Fever AntitOxin Value Proved

Gates that incubation against scar
let fever is a safe procedure.
Of 12,775 people inoculated, there
was no evidence of harm in any
case.
Among the 1854 susceptible peo-
pie immunized against scarlet fever
in institutions where it was cpl
denic, there was not one case Of
scarlet fever subsequently.
One thousand one hundred
ninety-one nurses and internes
who worked in hospitals for people
with contagious diseases were i'm
munized against scarlet fever before
they began work, were constantly
exposed to scarlet fever during their
work, but none of them contracted
the disease.
AS a result of their study of the
use of scarlet fever antitoxin, the
Dicks are convinced that its early
use shortens the duration of the dis
ease, reduces the number and the
severity of the complications.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-22
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

ing the germ that causes scarlet
fever-a skin test which shows
whether or not a person could re-
sist the disease, a method of in
oculating people against the dis
ease and antitoxin which could be
injected into patients for the treat
ment of the disease and also for its
prevention.
They recently have collected the
results of observations made on
32,44o people on whom skin tests
for scarlet fever have been made
and on 1884 people who were
found in the skin tests to be likely
to catch the disease when exposed
and who therefore were given
graduated doses of the scarlet fever
toxin or small doses of the anti
toxin to aid them in resisting scar
let fever.
All of these people we're exposed
to scarlet fever in one or more cpl
denies. The complete study indi-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-22
Nothing to Lose

THIS explains the number of
Il startling upsets seen in this and
every other season. Again and
again the team which was picked
to lose has turned the tables. You
see the underdog always come into
the game with the sounder outlook
Defeat for it has been so freely
predicted that if the reverse comes,
it hardly can be hailed as tragic. Tt
can afford to take chances, and if
any one of them succeeds, the IA
vorite may be thrown into panic.
The eleven which is picked by all
as conqueror fans under a grave
handicap. 1t becomes the symbol
of the United States Constitution,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-22
Doubtful Policies

Once more the state highway commission
resents itself in an attitude that suggests
nat the sooner Governor Leslie, either by
ressure or time limitation, secures new
oard the better it will be for the public.
This time the members, or the director,
nnounces that the low bids on cement are
!, he overlooked and the contract awarded
i concerns which use only coal mined in this
tate.
The board has gone through the formal
les of obtaining bids, as required by law.
The announcement says that the unsuccess-
Jul bidders will reduce their prices to meet
hat of the low bidder and promise TO puy
loal in Indiana. -,
That suggests that the interests which
are to receive the contract tried to get price
hat was more than fair when they submitted
heir offers and are hardly in position to
ask for any special favors.
The result of giving contracts to higher
bidders can only be an ultimate burden. II
The word goes out that the state OF Indiana
Hoes not follow usual business practices
and the LAWN giving contracts to the low
EDlQQeTS, DuSln6SS IIlcIl VIII III AOiASNA 1890 49,
trouble to submit bids. That would be very
fine situation'for board wishing to favor us
friends. 1t would relieve them of embarass-
nent in explaining their actions. But 1t
would cost the people heavily.
il Of course, there is nothing new IN the
handling of cement purchases, except that
the amount of money involved runs into
manv thousands of dollars. 1t is the largest
single purchase made by the state for any
purpose whatever. The difference Of few
cents on barrel runs into sizeable sum.
The board has not always been so kind to
home industries.
If the next legislature should, happily,
be set free from the clutch of machine poll
tics. it could do worse than look into the
building of roads and the expenditure OF the
twenty millions of dollars year.
1t could very easily remove the board, II
it desired, from temptation to doubtful prac-
tees in the purchase of cement by establish
ing state-owned plant to produce this ma
terial for the highways.
But until that is done, the least the peo-
Die can demand is that the contracts go to
the lowest and not the highest bidders.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-22
Hoover Likes to ScribbIe

T IKE many other men, President
- Hoover is a slave to the habit
of Scribbling when he listens-such a
slave, indeed, that he has done
enough to destroy its value.
There are scores and scores of
autographed sheets, decorated with
wheels, squares and floral designs
traced by his unconscious hand.
Mostly they are in possession of
children, to whom he has given
them.
Some day, when all but a few have
been lost, as invariably happens.
those that are left may bring a good
price, since rarity is the chief vir-
tue of things.
Roger Babson accuses the senate
of wasting time, and the senate
proves it by talking about him for
an hour or so.
Borah, Walsh, Hef1in ct al. drop
the nations business to explain not
only that Mr.. Babson is wrong in
this particular instance, but gen.
orally. If he is, why all the tumult,
and if he isn't, what good can the
tI1fnult do?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-22
Power

TINE scientific program OF the
l. Soviet government is interlU;ked
with q great industrial scheme,
which the Guardian correspondent
says is not sufficiently we'll known
in England. 1t Is equally unknown
in this country.
1.-THE large developments In de-
partments of technical physics hinge
on the five-year induStrialization
plan" he writes.
1.-THE Soviet is building an ex-
perimentaI electrical institute in
Moscow which will cost, l am told,
100000 pounds ($7,500,000) for the
first inStallment."
His conclusion is one which is in
teresting though it is quite possible
that many will disagree with it
sharply.
what will come out of the
Soviet's indignation of science, the
state and industry?" he writes. "In
twenty years time, quite possibly
the most powerful country in the
world" =,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-22
Indian Board Reports

The fact that the board of Indian commissioners
has Endorsed the policies of Secretary Wilbur and the
heads of the Indian bureau must be gratifying to the
latter. ...-.
1t is likewise gratifying to the public to know that
The board is in harmony with the acts of the pres
ent administration even though it has in the past
shown disposition to indorse the acts of whatever
administration happened to be in charge of the In
dian bureau. ...
The board scarcely could have acted otherwise in
this instance with public opinion approving the VIII
bur course as strongly as 1t has.
The sixtieth annual report of the commissioners
makes numerous recommendations for betterments In
The organization and personnel Of the Indian service
some of which Wilbur effectively has already adj
vocated.
Just how valuable the report win b depends on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-22
1T SEEMS TOME By HF BaoUS

the solar system and the supreme
court.
1t is the guardian of law and
order and the proposition that a
straight line is the shortest dis
lance between two points.
AS a sort of chosen. people, the
members of the favored team can
not afford to take chances. Their
play must be safe and sound, as be-
fits an eleven on whose shoulders
rests all the weight of Euclidean
mathematics.
They have been forbidden to even
contemplate defeat. And SO they
think of it. Victory is so exceed
ingly essential that no risks may
be taken to gain it.
Only heroic leaders of forlorn
hopes throw forward passes deep in
their own territory.