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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-07-01
PROHIBITION AND BUSINESS
(Altred On. Y SUM

Impressive evidence of the good results
of prohibition comes from another quar-
ter-the National Retail Dry Goods As
ISOLATION. A speaker before a convention
of the association last week said that pro-
hibition is divertng not less than $4,000,
100000 year that would ordinarily be
expended for alcoholic liquor.
A return of the pre-Volstead conditions
he said, would mean several billions of
dollars less business in home furnishings,
automobiles, musical instruments, radio,
travel, amusements jeWelry. insurance,
education, books and magazines.
People have more money to spend or
TO save; that is the one plain indis-
putable lesson of prohibition, even i'm
perfectly enforced And it makes a very
embarrassing argument for those who are
trying to make the country believe that
prohibition is sending us all to the bow
vows Most of us are willing to go there
if it means more than $23000G00,0 900 in
the savings banks, $100000000, 900 in
vested in life insurance and 00.000,0u0
more to spend in the stores for things we
want.
One can not look about at the every
day facts on every side without seeing
some extraordinary force at work that is
giving people of all classes many blessings
that they never had before. If that force
is not prohibition. what is it? Do the
people who hold their precious personal
liberty at such dear account wish to give
up their automobiles, their radios, their
Oriental rugs, their comfortable homes?
Prohibition, it is true, has not yet
brought in the millennium; it has not
given every man in the country job and
it has not distributed prosperity with en-
tire equality among all businesses. But
1t has put into mems hands and pockets
money that they never had before. That
is one fact SO obvious that even the anti
prohibitionists do not attempt to argue it.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-07-01

Dr. William j. McSurely librarian
emeritus of Miami university and the old
est alumnus of the Oxford college, who
died at Oxford, was the father of the
temperance crusade which swept the Mid
die West in 1878 and resulted in the for
nation of the Won1an's Christian Tenn
perance Union.
Dr. McSureIy was then a young min
lister in the Presbyterian church at Hills
boro, Ohio. It was early in his pastorate,
which lasted more than quarter of
century before he resigned to become
librarian at his Alma Mater-OXford.
Dio Lewis, 1ecturing on Our Girls'-a
temperance lecture-came to Hillsboro
just before Christmas, 1873, and, at the
conclusion of his lecture, he declared that
the women should organize a campaign
of prayer and moral suasion" against the
saloon.
The women, following his suggestion as
sembled in the Crusade church. the fol-
lowing morning, the morning of Christ
mas eve. After the meeting had been III
session for a short time DR.. McSurely
said: I'VE men seem to have failed. Per-
haps the women may succeed. I suggest
that we men retire and permit the women
to pray"
The men went outside the church. The
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-07-01
DRUNKENNESS ABROAD
(W. C.. T. U. BGLIetin)

Although many returning travellers tell
the newspapers that they travelled all
over France and never saw drunken
Frenchman," the Paris police have no diff
ficulty in locating public DRINKS according
to latest official statistics.
One has to be thoroughly drunk to be
arrested in Paris yet arrests for drunk
enness are three times as great per ten
thousand of population as in New York,
the wettest of American cities. In Paris
the arrests for drunkenness are SO per
ten thousand while in New York they
are IS per ten thousand. In Paris the
police are inclined to leniency in making
such arrests, whereas in New York they
are inclined to arrest anyone seen drunk.
In London the convictions for drunken
ness, not arrests, have ranged from 48 to
so per ten thousand in the past few years.
In Edinburgh the arrests for drunkenness
are startling. They have recently gone
as high as 1853 per ten thousand, while
the highest mark in New York's arrests
for drunkenness since prohibition has
been a fraction more than Is per ten
thousand in 1924.
These figures, we trust, will put an end
to the declaration that there is no
drunkenness in wine drinking, whisky
guzzling Europe.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-07-01
FOR BORDER PATROL
Reorganization of Law Enforce
ment Methods Provided for
in Hudson's Bill

There is now pending a sweeping re-
organization of law enforcement methods
on the Canadian and Mexican borders.
President Hoover has approved the pro-
posal and Congressman Grant M Hud-
son, of Michigan, former Superintendent
of the Michigan Anti-Saloon League, has
introduced bill creating United
States border patrol service"
The proposed service is patterned some
what on the idea of mounted police of
Canada and would embrace the customs
service, immigration inspectors, prohibit
ton and coast guard officers, and also
bring under it's jurisdiction some depart
ment of agricultural agents.
Before introducing the measure, Mr..
Hudson, who is one of the leading drys of
the House, discussed the plan with Presi-
dent Hoover who approves the principle.
There are now 712 customs agents on the
borders, $40 immigration inspectors, 80 in
spectors of the agricultural department,
aside from prohibition agents and many
coast guardsmen. They frequently dupli-
cate the work of each other and snug
glers of all kinds profit by division of au-
thority and duties according to Hudson.
If the bill becomes a law, the border
patrol will be uniformed. AS according to
Mr.. Hudson, sit is unanimously agreed
that uniform, when the wearer is con-
sidered real officer, is horror to crimi-
nails"
Mr.. Hudson's bill would give the Presi-
dent power to consolidate agencies by ex-
ecutive order placing the new border pa
troll under the Department of JustiC,. One
of the chief arguments for it, he said, is
that criminals operating along the Dor
ders usually engage in more than one vio-
lation. The violations led under certain
rings include smuggling, Of aliens, liquor
smuggling and the narcotic traffic.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-07-01
A PERSONAL LIBERTY CODE
Methodist Clip Sheet

at all. Every drunkard was once mod
crate drinker.
4. Even a slight amount of drinking
interfereS with H. 70 some extent IN
this automotive age. -obably the ma
jority of automobile accidents could be
traced back to drink. When a man I'M
der the exhilaration of drink takes an
unnecessary chance and causes an acct
dent, he has seriously interfered with the
liberty of other people.
s. Stress should be laid upon ones
liberty not to drink. There are more
ways of interfering with personal free
dom than by law. Group opinion is much
more powerful and many people who are
shouting loudeSt for personal freedom as
against the Volstead law are doing every
thing they can in their groups to COM
pei persons to drink. He is afraid that
he will not get a certain business opening
@ an invitation TO a particular set.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-07-01
DIPLOMATS VIOLATE LAW
Washington Police Chief Reports
the Arrests of Ambassadors for
Traffic Violations

Foreign diplomats, from an ambassador
and ministers plenipotentiary down to or
binary attaches, were halted by police on
the streets of Washington, d. c., 81 times
within recent years for driving automo-
bileS while drunk and for other traffic vio-
1ations Major Henry G.. Pratt, police SUI
perintendent, reported to the Senate on
June % in response to resolution of in
quiry.
The police chiefs report showed that
but IA diplomats we're halted by the police
for traffic law violations in the eleven
years from 1917 to 1927 inclusive. Last
year, however, there were Is diplomats
halted while in the first five months of
this year, the report showed a growing
Crime wave" among the foreign repre-
sentatives, with police forced to halt 10
Violators of the traffic code.
The police superintendent did not cite
which diplomats were caught driving while
drunk and which violated other traffic
laws.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-07-01
WOMEN BAN DRINKS
Society Functions Going Dry; Drink
Not Considered Good Form

Mrs. George H. Strawbridge, prominent
in Philadelphia society, has sent letter
to a number of women who are doing
great deal of entertaining, asking them
to refrain from serving alcoholic drinks at
social functions, "in order to create SEN
timent for prohibition in support of Pres
ident Hoover's efforts to make the prohi-
bition law effective"
This appeal is meeting with most graft
flying responses It is reported that
guests are accepting the absence of liquors
at social functions without complaint, in
fact that it is beginning to be considered
bad form to expect drinks. AS one host
ess expressed it "it simply isn't being done
any more"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-07-01

A Catholic clergyman has submitted a
prospectus of real personal liberty to MI.
Patrick Henry Callahan, of Louisville,
KY:
1. The man who becomes intoxicated
has, for the time being, given up his per-
sonal freedom. He is no longer master
of his own actions.
2. The man who acquires the habit Of
drinking to excess has given up his free
dom even more fully. He is slave to
the habit, and simply can not help drink
ing, thus periodically putting himself in
a position where he is not at all master of
himself
g. While great many persons can
remain moderate drinkers all their lives,
the percentage, TO- Is, 20-whatever it
may happen to be-will become slaves of
the drink habit. No one can tell before
hand in which group he will ultimately
be. The only safe thing is not to drink
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-07-01

women, after short prayer, decided to
act They elected Eliza j. Thompson
CMother Thompson) wife of Judge Henry
Thompson and Peggy" Foraker, mother
of the afterwards Governor and Senator
Joseph B. Foraker, as their leaders and
marched from the church, to kneel and
pray in and in front of the saloons.
The movement, known as the Women's
Crusade, swept the entire country, closed
thousands of saloons and resulted in the
organization of the W. G. T. U. DR.. Nc
Surely remained as minister in the Cru
SADIE church until 1899, when he went to
Oxford, where he taught, preached and
acted as librarian. He preached his last
sermon less than year ago.
His son, Judge William McSurely of the
superior court of Chicago and his daugh-
ter, Ella, survive
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-07-01
WANT LAWS ENFORCED

A demand for the enforcement of all
laws was made at the closing session of
the State Grange at Spokane, Washington.
A resolution passed by the members
specifically emphasizes enforcement of the
Eighteenth Amendment because of the
organized and malicious attacks upon it
by the liquor interests which hope to null
lily it
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-07-01
APPEALS TO HOUSE
Congressman Hudson, of Michigan,
: Urges Colleagues to Stand with
the President

In Congress before the summer recess
CONGRESSMAN Hudson of Michigan, in re-
plying to a wet representative from his
state who had demanded that "the reign
of terror of the Detroit river" be stopped
said: when we attempt to deal with
great traffic at whose base is greed and
appetite we have very serious problem
but I stand here and plead that this house
give to the governments enforcement Of
ficers the same moral support as is SEEM
ingly given to rum-runners and trafickers
in so-called contraband plead with this
house that it stand for order and stand
with the President for bringing about law
observance and not for anything else"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-07-01

Before prohibition there was annually
consumed in the United States an aggre-
gate of 100000 gallons of whisky.
Last years withdrawals of tax-paid
whisky amounted to 1.542204 gallons.
reforming himself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-14
CONVERTIBLE BOND
LIST AGAIN HIGHER
Utility Issues Show Improve
ment-Mortgage Group
Proves Irregular.
nv CHARLES r. SPEARE.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, August IA large
In American Telephone g. Telegraph
convertible AIS and international Tele-
phone 41as. Both made substantial
gains, which erased a great deal of the
decline at the end of last week.
The former sold. early at 200. after
closing yesterday at 1913, and then con-
tinued their rise, while the latter gained
az points Large blocks were dealt in,
with the same kind of Semi-Speculative
buying as had earlier In the month
featured these issues.
Other stock option bonds were rela-
lively quiet. The railroad issues were
steady. Among the industrials the
strongest was Commercial Investment
Trust 5l2s. which went back to par.
Mortgage bonds were irregular. There
were a few that exhibited strength, as
West Shore Is, Atchison adjustments
and Baltimore g. Ohio SIS, but the gen.
erai condition in this division of the
market was that of neglect, with the
average lower than In about four years.
Unusually large blocks of Cuba Sugar
debentures were offered at concessions
Of o point.
The local fractions were affected by
O moderate amount of liquidation.
Brooklyn Manhattan Transit IS touched
a new low at 80. Their high of the
year was $3.50. Hudson g. Manhattan
refunding SIS were OFF III points. ST.
Paul gold S. declined into new low
ground. Seaboard Airline adjustments
were off o point. There will probably
be another extension of the time for de-
posting bonds.
Foreign issues held at about Tues
days level. There is considerable talk
of new financing. This will of necessity
be in the form of stocks or Of bonds
with warrants attached rather than by
straight debenture obligations. United
States Government bonds and Treasury
certificates were higher.
The largest piece Of financing today
was that of the State of Tennessee,
whose per cent notes maturing be-
tween April IL. 1880, and April 20. 1891.
we're offered from 5s4 per cent to a
$40 per cent basis. The yield indicates
the present state of the tax-exempt
market. The savings banks in this To-
cality have been very. good buyers of
short-term municipalS and corporation
bonds this Summer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-14
|C|Ty BLOCK: IS UNIT
/ FOR SKySCRAPERS
Necessity for Large Office
Buildings Now Recognized
by Business Men.

special DaBpaEch 10 Tne star.
NEW YORK. August 1.-THE adj
vantages of and the necessity for the
skyscraper even in the smaller cities
of the country seem today to be thor
oughly established.
This is indicated by the widespread
interest which has been excited in cities
all over the Nation in the prospective
operations of the New York Real Estate
Exchange, which will open for business
October /. This exchange is designed
to buy and sell real estate securities in
an organized, regulated trading place.
Many real estate men have felt that
there was an acute need of such mar
ket for two reasons. One was because
large real estate and building transac-
lions In the past had been financed by
bond issues. Bonds, like the hustle and
the long skirt. are out OF fashion. Then,
too. many investors with a firm belief
In the intrinsic value of real estate as
an investment had q hesitancy in buy
ing bonds which we're not regularly
listed on a recognized exchange and
which were not actively traded in:
They felt that II at any time they had
a sudden necessity of realizing on such
investments the active market would
permit them to do so.
Involves Huge Sums.
The reason for the widespread inter-
est in this new market Is self-evident.
The modern building operation-that is,
the erection of Skyscrapers for any pur-
pose--involves expenditure Of large
sums.
The borrowing of such sums from
banks is not possible in some cases.
Banking laws of many States limit Sc
yerely the amount or rather the per-
centage of its capitalization which
bank may loan to q single customer.
Proposals for two or more banking
houses to share between them the loans
of the necessary funds obviously are
not usually received with enthusiasm.
Financing of skyScrapers. therefore,
is becoming more and more a matter Of
public participation in the underwrit-
ing of the projects. The new methods.
real estate men feel, are allocated to
prevent fraudulent exploitation of this
tendency by means of over-appraised,
dishonest values. The real estate ex-
change will be national in scope.
The time has come, it is stated by
real estate men, when the unit of de-
velopment has become the city block.
The construction of a proper structure
on such q plot involves more capital
than is at the disposal of most individ-
uals.
Wanamaker Building.
However, John Wanamaker of Phila-
delphia-the estate, not its founder-is
starting construction of 24-story build
ing to cost $10,000,0OO. Ability to do
this was due in part to the acumen of
the founder of the estate. who built
what In those days was skyscraper on
a part of the land involved. Another
was built by John r. Betz. the brewer.
When Betz found himself overtopped by
the Wanamaker structure. he added two
more stories at great expense. Later.
wanamaker gained control Of this half
of the property.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-14
NEW MARKETING GROUP
HAS $50. OOO. 600 CAPITAL

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. August ,14.-Efective
action by the United Growers of
America, marketing group Of fruit and
vegetable growers recently organized
with a capital of $4,000 900, probably
will not be felt In Maryland for some
time, according to DR.. r. B. Bomberger.
chief of the department of markets Of
the University of Maryland Extension
Service. la
State cooperative organizations have
adopted O policy of watchful waiting
until details of the organization itself
and Of its marketing program become
available. he said.
The new organization probably at
first will seek larger fields than are Of
fered in Maryland, he added.
DR.. Bomherger said the Maryland CO.
operatives would study the proposition
of the United Growers Of America
when 1t is brought before them.
Any of Maryland's interests which
desire to join the movement will be al
liberty to do so. he added. He felt
however. that Maryland co-operatives
should be In possession of all facts per-
tanning to. the new association before
reaching any conclusion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-14
BANKRUPTCY ORDERS.

BALTIMORE, August "a Especially -
Orders were signed in United States
District Court yesterday adjudicating
Samuel M. Nowlin of Remington, Mont
gomery County. a voluntary bankrupt
and referring the case to Arthur d.
Willard. referee. The petitioner has
$l.452.70 assets and $685. 81 liabilities
Mr. Willard signed an order in the
same court appointing Ivan M. Carmody
receiver under bond of $4,000, to take
charge of the assets of the Bethesda
Lumber Co., Inc. of Bethesda, Md. a
bankrupt. The order was signed on Pc
tition of Radford g. Sander, Inc. The
defendant was adjudicated a bankrupt
on August z last.
A similar order was signed in the
same court yesterday by Mr.. Willard,
appointing Ivan M. Carmody receiver
under bond of 500 to take charge of
the assets of Edmund A. Murphy OF
Bethesda, Md. a bankrupt. The de-
PENDANT was also adjudicated q bank
rupt on August last.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-14

The Huth copy of the Kilmmarnock
edition of Robert Burns works, origi-
nally sold for IS cents, was recently
auctioned in London at $12,250.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-14
Wanamaker Building.
CHICAGO DAIRY MARKET.

CHICAGO. August IA (P.-Butter-
Steady; receipts, 6.720 tubs; creamery
extras, 40: standards. 42iz; extra
firsts, 41a42: firsts, 391.a401a; seconds.
37a3Sh. Eggs-Ffrm: receipts, 1915
cases; extra firsts, IS; firsts, 34a34h;
ordinary f1rsts. 30ass.
Poultry - Alive, steady; receipts, 3
cars; fowls, 27: springs. 27a28; bron-
ers, IS; ROSTERS. 81: turkeys, 20a30;
ducks, 1921; Spring geese. 10.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-14
Washington Stock Exchange

SALES.
Washington Gas IS A-$2O0 at 1O1,
500 at 10l.
Washington Gas IS B-$100 at 1913,
800 at 103, 500 at 103A.
Capital Traction Colo at 92h, 10
at o2A. 10 at 92h. SO at 81, 10 at
%. 40 at %, 20 at 90, 5 at 90.
Potomac Elec. SO pfd.-S at l12h. l at
ll2Ja.
Potomac Elec. 5E9o pfd.-1 at 100, 3
at 100. Is at 100.
National Capital Bank at 240.
Lanston Monotype-30 at l2Sla, ut
12814.
Mersenthaler Linotype-3 at 103%.
Real Est. Mtg. & Guar. pfd.-200 at 73s.
AFTER CALL.
American Security & Trust Co.. at
464.
Federal-American Co. COM at 41h.
Barber az Ross 6l2s-$500 at "a.
Capital Traction Colo at 91A.
Lanston Monotype-4 at 1884.
CANCELLATION.
The sales as of yesterday-Washing-
inkton Gas IS $500 at los.
Bid and Asked Prices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-14
STEEL PRODUCTION.

NEW YORK, August IA (P.-Pro-
duction of steel ingots is at about 90
per cent of rated capacity as against
more than o. per cent in the preceding
week and about 96 per cent two weeks
ago, Dow, Jones & Co., reports. Opera
tions of the United States Steel Cor
poration Is Mt 81 per cent, as against
% per cent in the two preceding weeks
Independent oprators are under 90 per
cent. compared with 81 per cent last
week and above % per cent two weeks
ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-14
TREAsURY CERTIFICATES.

In recent month l2.75g. 900 tons Of
coal were mined In Germany.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-14
COED SHIPMENTS.

NEW YORK, August 14.-London
advices today said that 10000 pounds
sterling (about $4500,000 in gold had
been taken from the Bank of England
for shipment to New York. The lie
de France will carry SOC, 900 pounds and
the new fast German liner Bremen the
remainder. Both steamers leave today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-14

securea By farss deed Of trust ON real estate
Prevniling interest and e0mmission.
-Hne@nh Waller so wash. I. . Ty.se
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-21
Asks Nation To
Stand Ready For
Soviet Menace

NANKING, July 2O.-P-Pres-
ident Chang Kai Shek, in his ca
pacity of commander in chief Of
China'5 military forces tonight ap-
pealed by telegraph to the country'S
military leaders and to the public
to stand united against the menace
of soviet Russia"
Russia and China through Of
ficial spokesmen have pledged their
loyalty to the Kellogg anti-war pact
and some Of the international ten
sion over the NIanchurian situation
was felt to be relaxed by their de-
cision. However each made it clear
that this position depended upon
absence of overt acts by the other.
Commissar Rudzutak, acting head
Of the Russian government and
Foreign Minister G. T. Wang, Of the
nationalist government, declared
their nations had not forgotten the
obligations Of a signatory Of the
pact.
Both made their peace pledges
conditional on abstention Of their
opponents from what Rudzutak de-
scribed as "warlike acts"
Foreign Minister Wang said that
"any move on the part Of the soviet
to place troops within Manchuria
will be viewed by the Chinese people
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