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The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-10-24
American Aviator Is
 Killed in Crash, Fire

PARIS, Oct. 24.-Gilbert Lane, American aviator, and his French companion Pierre Nicgolas, were killed when a plane crashed and burned as they were taking off for Cairo and Addis Ababa to witness the coronation of Ras Tafari as Emperor of Ethiopia.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-10-24

s. s. Swenning and Indal Peder- sen are greeting friends here. The two Ketchikan residents are stay ing at the Alaskan.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-10-24

MT. and Mrs. w. B. Kirk, who have been on a vacation visiting various Pacific Coast sections for the past 60 days, returned home last night on the steamer Princess Louise.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-10-24
CLARENCE BERRY
 FORMERALASkAN DIES IN SOUTH
Multimill lionaire Passes Away Following an
 Operation

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 24. Clarence Berry, multimillionaire oil man and former Alaskan, died following an appendicitis operation in Los Angeles last night. Berry laid the foundation for his fortune during the Klondike rush. With two brothers, Frank and Fred, he had claims in the Fairbanks district on Ester Creek and at Eagle. He made $150,000 in one season.
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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-12-01

each state-and within each state each
county, and within each county each COM
munity, and within each community, eacn
ward, and within each ward each preeinci
would decide for itself whether or no
1t would have within its borders any form
of the liquor traffic The civil war
should have taught lis that the whole OF
the American people intends to control all
of its parts on any issue It thinks 0ttat TO
the general 1Ueltare. If we are going to
exist as a united nation, we must have APP
proximately the same laws on great issues
governing all Of us. .
I'VE would better think long before we
decide to vote for a form of modifying
prohibition that would mean the rein
statement of liquor as a lawful article of
commerce"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-12-01
INTERESTING FACTS
IN. HERsCuEL FERGUSON
in Ohio State Journal

The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union gained $4,000 new members last
year Receipts from all sources totaled
$25O,000 during the year.
Senator Arthur Cappsr of Kansas, is a
vice president of the Anti-Saloon League
of America. So is the Hon. Josephus Dan
iels, editor of the Raleigh Nel0S and OBJ
SerUer And so is Willis j. Abbot, editor OF
the Christian Science Monitor.
Senator Simeon d. Fess, chairman OF
the Republican National Committee, is an
advisory member of the Methodist board
of temperance, prohibition and morals. So
are Congressman HaWley of Oregon, Hook
of Kansas, Robinson of Iowa, Smith OF
Idaho and Summers of Washington.
Mrs. Lenna Lowe Yost of West Virginia,
head of the women's division of the Re
publican National Committee, is one OF
the most brilliant members of the Wom-
ans Christian Temperance Union.
President Hoover's mother was the first
president of the first w. G. t, u. at West
Baden, Iowa.
Vice President Curtis while a county
attorney in Kansas in 1884188S closed
eighty saloons in thirty days and kept
them closed during the four years he held
Office.
Kathleen Norris, the author Is men,
Der OF the executive committee of the AS
ISOLATION of Catholics Favoring Prohibi-
ton. So is DR.. John A. Lapp of Milwau-
kee, who was president of the National
Conference of Social Work in 1926-1927,
and was for seven years director of the
social action department. of the National
Catholic Welfare Council.
The National Grange, with 300, 900 men,
bers is solidly back of the Eighteenth
Amendment. So is the National Education
Association, with 100000 members. And
the General Federation OF Women's Clubs
with 100000 women members. Not to
mention the Young WOmen's Christian
Association with 100000 members.
Practically every Protestant denomina-
ton has Endorsed the Eighteenth Amend
ment during the past year And many of
them have Endorsed the Anti-Saloon
League and the w. c. T. u.
Dr. Daniel A. Polling is president of the
intercollegiate Prohibition Association He
has tremendous influence by reason of his
position as president of the International
Society of Christian Endeavor 100000
members), president of the General Sy-
nod of the Reformed Church in America
Q50,000 members), editor-in-chief of the
Christian Herald and contributing editor
of the Christian E1rdeaUor World.
Amos Alonzo Stage of the University OF
Chicago and Fielding Harris Yost Of the
University of Michigan are directors OF
the intercollegiate Prohibition ASsocia-
ton.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-12-01
DECLINE OF ALCOHOLISM


the fcest
Notwithstanding
poisonous
alcoholism
in a
in
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-12-01
ALCOHOLISM DEATHS

Deaths from alcoholism are declining
under prohibition. The census figures show
an actual and proportional decline in 1929
as compared with 1928.
The total number of deaths from alco-
holism In 1929 was 1889, or death rate
from that cause of 81. per 100000 of popu-
lation, while in 1928 the total was 4,627 or
a rate of Al per 100000.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-12-01

being reduced and will be controlled ulti-
mately.
Prohibition did not produce speakeasies.
The speakeasy, the blind pig, the
blind tiger and such other designated in
situations were the product of the saloon.
They entered under the saloon regime.
The man who conducted speakeasy or
blind pig, bought barrel of whisky from
the saloon ,adulterated it, multiplied 1t
into three or four barrels, and sold 1t
right under the shadow of the saloon, and
under the protection of the saloon When
we say the protection of the saloon, we
mean that the existence of the saloon was
a protection to the speakeasy because If
one of the blind pig customers was seen
on the streets in an intoxicated condition
the public attributed his condition to the
saloon. Therefore, the saloon really con-
cealed and protected the blind pig and
the speakeasy In every town where there
were saloons there were at least as many
speakeasies, blind pigs and blind tigers as
there were saloons.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-12-01
TAKE A LOOK AT THE CON
SEQUENCES

I"Modified Prohibition" by WILLIAM H.
HUDNUT, JR., Christian Century, No.
vember 5, 1901
A thoughtful consideration based upon
past experience is here presented of what
would happen if some of the current Sug-
geStionS for modification of the prohibi-
ton law should be adopted. We have
learned that the liquor traffic creates
trouble when 1t is legalized as well as
when it is outlawed. If modification made
alcoholic liquors more available, that
would increase the evils for which they
were prohibited. Prohibition may be diff
ficult to enforce, but ITO seek a restrain
ing law however mild, which the traffic
would obey, would be to seek in vain"
mo license likely to be imposed would be
too large for the great legal corporations
chain of saloons all over the country, to
pay"
If the traffic were legalized it would ad-
vertise and there is tremendous Sugges-
tive power in modern advertising.
Modern business has learned that a plen-
tiful and cheap supply OF any article can
be counted upon to create q demand for
that article if it is properly advertised.
Such advertising would of course be en-
ployed by the liquor traffic the moment it
was given legal status, and little time
WOulQ DC lOSG III uLdklIB us dlCOIlO1
minded. -. There is little doubt that,
If the liquor traffic were once more legal
lied in any form, and tried seriously to
make this a drinking country as high
pressure automobile craftsmanship has
made it driving country, we should be
one of the most drunken nations on
earth.
If light wines and beers were legalized,
how would permissible liquor be defined
and how recognized? Every enforcement
official would need to carry pocket lab
oratory around with him. How ridiculous
it would be to arrest a man for the unwit-
ting sale of liquor that had half of l
per cent more alcohol in it than the es-
tablished maximum"
If we were to adopt government con-
troll" it would mean government dis
pensation, providing brewers and distillers
with markets and statesmen, giving re-
spectability to traffic so opposed to the
common welfare that its unrestricted OPP
erations cannot be tolerated. IF there
were such "flexibility' in the law as some
of the modif1cationists advocate, then
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-12-01
What the Current Magazines Are Saying About Prohibition
and Law Enforcement
(Reviewed by L. -7T-7v-Tv~
(Reviewed by Emma L. Transeau)

ing among them. I knew that a certain
proportion are girls, and there's not much
drinking among them. knew that Ger
tain proportion are postgraduates, teach
ers mainly seeking advanced degrees, and
there's even less drinking among them.
And had definite figures from practical
~ every fraternity. I was sure of my facts.
1t is true beyond any possibility of mis-
take that the number of students here
who drink, in any amount sufficient to
constitute a problem at ALL is very small.
And it is growing smaller every year The
liquor problem is less of problem here
today than it ever has been in the past.
Athletic directors in the other UNIVERSE
ties of the Big Ten tell me about the
same thing regarding conditions with
them, although you will understand that
there are differences between one college
and another
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-12-01
CHARGES THAT SHOULD BE
ELIMINATED


meeting in Soldiers Memorial Hall,
Pittsburgh, Pa, October 3, 1880, Chris
ti1n Advocate, October %, 1901
In this address Dr. Mathews dealt with
some of the unfounded charges against
prohibition.
"The Eighteenth Amendment does not
say that it is sin to take drink of
whisky the Bible does not say that it is
a sin to take drink of whisky; therefore,
when irrational people inject what they
call the personal moral equation into the
problem they are doing it for other rea-
sons than the establishment Of facts.
1.-THE moral forces OF the country the
churches, the Sunday schools, public
schools, colleges and universities should
continue to teach at every possible OPP
portunity the evil effects of alcoholic con-
tents upon the human system. . The
Eighteenth Amendment did not eliminate
that responsibility, nor did 1t advocate
that the moral forces lapse in the per-
Torrance of their duty in that respect.
prohibition under the E ig h zenith
Amendment did not produce the boot
logger He began to thrive in Massachu-
sets and other parts of this country $50
years ago. He came into existence when
the groceryman and dry goods merchants
were permitted to sell wine and beer In
New England they wore boots and he lit
orally reached down into the legs of his
boots and produced small pint bottle OF
hard whisky. He was the real and literal
bootlegger. He was the product of the
light wine and beer regime of $50 years
ago. He existed before prohibition and he
continued to exist under prohibition; but
he is being destroyed and will eventually
be reduced to very small minimum.
Prohibition did produce the moon
sinner. The moonshiner came into exist
ence when this government taxed alcoholic
beverages. The old mountaineer moon
sinner considered he had a perfect right
to distill his corn and to grind 1t into
meal. He existed In the mountains
Of the south and Of the east before pro-
hibition. He has continued to exist, but is
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-14

have character of open struggle for demands
of immediate character, such as the legality
of the Communist Party, free speech and re-
opening of the offices of the two trade union
organizations.
These battles synthesized the rebellion of
the Cuban proetariat which during five> long
years had endured fascist dictatorship. Dur
ing these five years, the best trade union
and political leaders of the workers were
deported. The frontier was passed to as
sassinate such leaders (the case Of Julio An
tonic Mella). The jails of Havana were filled
and prosecutions fed the sharks of Havana
Bay (the cases of Brusson and Jalob).
Police Fire Upon Workers.
On the first of May in Regla, a suburb of
Havana, there gathered more than 10000
workers to surround the place known as
"Lenin's Tree" as revolutionary demonstra-
ton and tribute to the leader of the world
prolttarian revolution. The police fired upon
the workers and killed two, Montergo and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-14
Party-League Relations
By ETHEL STEVENS, est. Louis, MOI

BY ETHEL STEVENS, est. Louis, MOI
THE pre-convention discussion which the
Party is carrying on must also embrace
the question of the Young Communist League
and its tasks. Today for the first time, we
can have a sincere discussion on the Y. C. L.
and C. P. relations without any fractional
bearings. In the past, under the guse of
"the League must be the best interpreter of
the C. l. decisions" the Party modified the
League to serve the interests of either faction
and not the interests of the young workers.
Just as the Party was unable to develop into
a mass organization because its "man OBJ
stace" was not removed so the League func-
toned as an isolated and sectarian group of
wranglers.
Now we have the historic C. |. Address
which gave the severest blow to factionalism
and which is now enabling the League to
carry out it's mission of leading the young
workers in their struggles The fight which
the Party carried against the open OPP
position to the C. l. decisions as we'll as the
recent conciliatory tendencies likewise
carried on within the ranks of the League.
While in the past the reflection of the Party
fractional struggles within the League was of
greater hindrance, today the League can
sist in exterminating all right wing and con-
ciliatory elements from ranks
Let US deal for moment with the ques-
ton of Party and Young Communist League
relations. For six years the League was
used as fractional foot ball and received no
help or attention for the Party. Today the
situation has changed considerably but there
is still room for improvement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-14

The League members joining the Party to-
day are aware of the fact that their chief
functions will be that of doing Party work.
1t is generally conceded that young blood has
always been an aid to any cause and this is
no different. The Party, on the other hand,
must not take the services of these people
for granted and devote considerable atten-
ton to their activities.
If we examine such League units where
there are no corresponding Party units to
give guidance Hammond, Ind, Waukegan,
ILL.,, Granite City,, we can clearly see that to
help in the building Of the Party becomes
task of the League. The League without
building up Party units and Party apparatus
in such places is apt to suffer the conse-
quences of being leaderless politically. 1t is
therefore clear that prerequisite in estab-
fishing proper relations between the League
and the Party is an understanding on the
part of the League members of the necessity
of building the Party and vice versa. Today
more than ever, this understanding is being
established sound basis, for today the
guidance of the c. |. is taken most seriously,
not in the sense of which faction does the
C. |. favor" but in the sense of trying most
strenuously in building up mass Party and
League in America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-14
By V. KEMENOVICH.
(Penna. N.M.U. District Sec'y.)

IN June 1 wage cut notices greeted miners
in the Rockefeller controlled mines in
northern West Virginia, United States Steel
subsidiary mines in Western Pennsylvania;
one mine of the powerful Taplin interests
the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company low
ering the day work scale to $3.50 a day in
Pennsylvania and to $3.50 in West Virginia
and lowering the tonnage scale to As cents
ton in Pennsylvania and about 80 cents ton
in West Virginia. This is new low level
reached since the 1917 scale signed with U.
NJ. w. A. and is an opening for a countrywide
wage cut in the mining fields. The maneuver
of the coal companies is obvious. They cut
wages in only mine, or the Consolida-
ton Coal in one section, thus making it i'm
possible for the miners to act simultaneously.
The Pittsburgh Terminal has mines 2, 3, 4, 7,
8, about II miles out of Pittsburgh, employ
ing over 5000 miners, yet they cut wages only
in mine No. 10 which employs 70 men. Next
will be mine 2, then 8, until all will have cut.
The United States Steel through its various
subsidiaries is doing the same Now they
only cut in the Duquesne mine, next it will
probably be in a mine on the Monongahela
River, and SO on, until all will receive a cut;
in the mean time the one that received the
cut first will be ready for a new cut. The
tactics of the coal companies are dangerous
for the miners, and these tactics must be
countered.
What Are the Unions Doing?
The U. M. w. A. in the West Virginia field
under the leadership of the admirable Van A.
Bittner, who came into the field in 1925 to
represent Lewis and told the mners--of
whom there was over $4,000 working under
an agreement-that he would not leave the
field until the whole West Virginia is organ
lied. He succeeded to organize it, in the good
Lewis style, and today there is not man
working under an agreement in the West Vir-
sinia fields. Today he is still telling the
miners the same thing, only not at the mass
meeting Of miners but through the Watson
, Rockefeller owned Fairmont Times and other
,heets of the bosses. The miners refuse to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-14
Wage Cuts in the Mining Fields

have anything to do with Bittners, but he
persists in doing something for the miners.
He is doing it through his thugs, spys, stools,
and he says it with blackjack pop bottles and
knives.
Thugs Beat Lucy Sass.
Under this leadership the thugs beat up
Lucy Sass, N. NJ. U. organizer; Charley Close
and another one of the N. M. U. men was
stabbed Hundreds of N.M.U. members and
sympathizers were blacklisted and driven out
of the field. The former good leaders like
Frank Kinney tied up with the newest
recruits in the camp of the coal companies
Harrington Fishwick- Howat gang. He is using
his former prestige and record of sham fight
against Lewis to again fool the miners. How
ever, he is not having any success as the W
Virginia miners have his as well as Van A
Bittner's record.
In the Pennsylvania fields the Lewis Pagan
gang has stopped to the lowest type of stool
pigeoning. They are too weak to use the Bit
ner "strong arm" methods, so they simply go
to the bosses and superintendent houses to
tell them who is a N.M.U. member or SYM
pathizer, and if man refuses to give them
a drink or a chicken dinner he is denounced
as NM.U. Communist, and certainly dis
charge follows. The Farrington-F ishwck- How
at gang is represented by the socialist" Rev
IHOiHds, WHO are eflJfeHCHeu III SOlHe VI UHe
fraternal organizations.
Browbeat Members of Party.
Browbeating the rank and file by petty poll
tician tricks and Roberts rules of order, and
thus keeping the discussion on the problems
of the miners from the floor of these organ
izations. To weaken the N.M.U. Affairs they
organize counter affairs. And to make it i'm
possible to hold meetings they refuse to rent
the N.M.U. the lodge halls, or if they rent the
halls, they spy upon the members of the NM.
u and get them discharged. The l. w. w.
which has some influence over the Italian and
Hungarian miners, make united fronts with
any one and every one using all the petty
tricks to weaken the N.M.U. They talk about
organizing big industrial union of all the
miners, but they say it with glasses of red
wine in the clubs, and the bosses do not even