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New Britain herald., 1930-08-26
WALES FEELS EARTHQUAKE

Swansea. Wales, Aug 26 Pl- Several earth tromors were felt here last night but there were no reports of any damage.
 All south Wales experienced the tremors. In some cases the rumb- lings were attributed 10 street traf- fife.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-26
WANTS PLACE IN BAND

Derry. N. H. (UP)-At the age Of l4, Albert Otto Seeler will enter Harvard university this fall. The boy, who plays trumpet, says his principal worry is whether he will win a place in the Harvard band.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-04-01
DRYS BEGIN REBUTTAL OF WET TESTIMONY
After Seven Days Wet Oraory House Committee Dry Arg
Host of Witnesses Urge Retention and Enforcement Of
Prohibition; Ford and Edison Approve Policy

Prohibition; and G. P. Connolly, of East
Orange New Jersey, former prosecuting
attorney of Butte, Montana, and maya
zine writer.
Mrs. StraWbridge launched vigorous
attack against w. w. Atterbury and Pierre
S. dupont for the stand they took when
appearing before the Committee for the
vets Mrs. StraWbridge insisted that the
serving Of liquor at social entertainments
was AN unutterable nuisance" and that the
only anxiety Of the American high society
matronS was "as to how they could most
effectually free themselves and their
families from it," She presented as her
authority for this statement the results of
a poll she conducted among society ma
irons. Out of $3.50 women polled she de-
clared that 1887 favored obeying the law
while only 247 disapproved. Later in her
testimony she branded Atterbury's testi-
mony faVoring repeal as utterly I'M
sportsmanlike and unworthy Of leader
of public opinion" Dupont she called a
private prohibtionist "in his own gun
powder plant and publicly an anti-prohi-
bitionist for himself and his motor-driv-
ing friends"
Taber also condemned dupont and ex-
pressed the opinion that the liquor traffic
would never return to the United States
because of the automobile.
FARMERS NOT EAGER FOR REPEAL
Representative B ur t n es S, Republican,
North Dakota, presented statement
from prominent North Dakotians, denying
that prohibition had ruined many grain
growers, as charged by wet Pierce Blewett,
of that state Representative Cellar, DEM
ocrat, New York, issued an invitation to
Commander Booth of the Salvation Army
to appear before the Committee to testify
concerning her organization problems with
the young liquor drinkers
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-04-01
RESPONSE FROM COLLEGE
Northwestern University Junior
Answers Fallacies of Fabian
Franklin's Plea for the
Condoning of Liquor
Law Violations

Mr.. Fabian Franklin has been prompt
ed to write in the october issue Of the
Forum concerning the prohibition ques-
ton for reason that he considers vital
and one that he believes has been long
overlooked In effect he argues that pro-
hibition is contrary to the spirit of the
Constitution and is unique in that 1t Ylo-
lates certain fundamental rights OF the
people. Consequently, violators Of the
Volstead act are entirely within their own
right
That prohibition may be contrary to the
spirit of the Constitution is at least
question But may it not be asked are
there not other governmental powers that
are in violation of the original spirit OF
the Constitution which receive the whole
hearted sanction of a large majority or
those now protesting opposition to prohi-
bition on the ground that it is contrary to
the spirit Of the Constitution?
Tt is at once apparent that Mr. Frank
lin is representative of group who OPP
pose prohibition on the alleged grounds
but who would object in the strongest
terms to an attempt to abolish the party
system within the United States But is
not the party system in opposition to the
intention Of the fathers and to the spirit
which they embodies within the document
of their creation? All authorities in the
realm of political science, believe, agree
that the authors attempted to frame the
Constitution in such way as to prevent
the introduction of party government. But
that political parties are essential IN
republic such as ours is not generally dis
puted. No less q person than George
Washington believed the party system
l,o dot, al f0 rtfr
eminent. Example after example of the
operation Of our government could be cited
which is directly contrary to the original
intent of the document from which 1t de-
rives its existence, but which has been
made necessary by a changing environ
ment.
The noted authority on political science,
Charles A. Beard, cfaracterizes the trans
formation in the letter and spirit Of the
system of 1899 as radical and as extending
to the utmost eXtremities of the system.
He says, ut requires no far stretch of the
Imagination to believe that the original
trainers would regard the recent develop
ments as entirely beyond their intentions"
What could be more contrary to the spirit
of the Constitution than the doctrine of
Roosevelt that the President could do any
thing which he conceived to be in the pub
lie welfare not forbidden to him by the
Constitution? Imagine Monroe signing
bills appropriating Federal money for
roads, education, public health, and other
social purposes.
Judge Cooley once stated, eve may
think that we have the Constitution all
before us; but for practical purposes the
Constitution is that which the government
in it's several departments and the people
in the performance of their duties as cit
liens recognize and respect as such"
It would seem that opposition to prohi-
bition because it is contrary to the spirit
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-04-01
WILL GOV. ROOSEVELT
SIGN?
SIGN !?

A denial that he was "straddling" the
prohibition issue as charged in editorial
comment was issued recently by Governor
Roosevelt, of New York.
care you straddling the question, COVER
nor, as these charges say?' he was asked
Certainly not" he replied.
interpretations of an address given by
the governor in New York City early in
March have led to the belief that he will
refuse to sign state enforcement bill for
New York. Such a measure the jerks
Brown bill, is now in committee in the
state Legislature.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-04-01
PURCHASING POWER OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

United States
preceding
American
following
people that period He says
Examination of the important ordinary
the purchasing
population the
the total
OF the worlds total
rubber cent of the s 80 per cent
the copper % per
petroleum. and out Of nearly 81 million In
1929 "a million were found TO De IN ne
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-04-01
LIQUOR EXPORTS DECREASE

According to an Associated Press dis
patch of March 6, the amount of liquor
exported to the United States from Can
ada for the months of January and Feb
ruary showed a decrease of more than so
per cent as compared with the same
months last year. This report was based
on figures made public by Assistant Sec
rotary Lowman. "a considerable percent
age of the alcoholic beverages leaving
Canada for the United States was seized
by the Customs and the Coast Guard and
a further quantity was diverted back into
Canada" Mr.. LoWnan said.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-04-01
PASTOR CHALLENGES VETS

DR.. William K. Anderson, pastor of the
Franklin Street M. Z. Church of Johns
town, Pennsylvania, has issued an open
challenge to a debate on the prohibition
question. DR.. Anderson announced from
his pulpit that he was ready TO meet any
qualified champion of Johnstown's wet
group in formal debate. He suggested
as subject, "ReSoIUed That the Eight
zenith Amendment Has been and Is a
Benefit to the United States" The wide
spread publicity given the prohibition
question by the hearings before the House
Judiciary Committee in Washington, led
him to issue the challenge, he declared.
He believes that formal presentation OF
both sides of the question will do much to
clear up the speculation and muddiness
of thinking which is evident in Johns
town This is an idea which other cities
and villages might do we'll to adopt as a
method of getting the facts about prohi-
bition before the people.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-04-01
NEW TRIAL GRANTED

Mrs. Eta Mae Miller, first woman to be
sentenced under the life-tern provision
of the Michigan criminal code as liquor
law violator will be granted new trial
according to an United Press dispatch of
March Z. The Supreme Court of Michi-
gan has set aside her conviction and or
dered that she be retired. Her sentence
had previously been committed to from
seven and one-half to fifteen years.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-04-01
CONTRARY TO SPIRIT OF THE
CONSTITUTION

CONSTITUTION
When EIr. Franklin goes one step fur
ther and states that many Violators of
prohibition feels no sense of guilt he Ut
terly destroys the reason which he gives
for that very act. Nothing could be more
contrary aot only 10 The spirit Of The Con-
stitution but TO all human law which
forms the basis for society, and nothing
could be more vicious in its effects than
the right Of each individual TO determine
for himself which laws he shall obey and
which he shall violate. It is conceivable
that in a social order entirely different in
nature than is ours the doctrine protested
by Mr.. Franklin would gain validity. The
present organization of society is wholly
incompatible with any such doctrine. This
existing state of affairs, however, does
no violation to the right of any individual
to express an opinion on any subject or
any law and to work for the extinction of
that law.
In modification of his doctrine Mr..
Franklin is led to state ito hold that any
law may be ignored at the discretion of
any citizen or public official would be
worthy only of an imbecile; to hold that
there are some laws which rightly may be
ignored is a very different thing"
Mr.. Franklin, however, does not tell us
W1ldG laws IlltoS dIG AGVlOtully UtlGNlils5
prohibition to be the only one), which is
to determine those laws in violation of the
fundamental features of the government
and fundamental rights Of the people" nor
upon what criterion judgment is to be
passed. Certainly he does not intend that
the stomach should be the standard upon
which the validity of our laws shall be de-
termined Certainly he does not deny that
the great majority of the American people
in opposition to prohibition base their
vociferous but hazy opinions fundamental
ly upon whether or not they have an ap-
petite for alcohol Certainly he cannot
deny that the criterion for determining
which laws are fundamentally wrong will
in cases such as prohibition substitute the
craving of the stomach for the intelligence
of the brain. Mr.. Franklin does not and
cannot set limits to his doctrine. In
evitably there must prevail obedience by
each citizen to all laws characterized by
properties such as those inherent in the
prohibition issue, or it shall devolve upon
each citizen to determine whether he shall
or shall not obey any law that might be
enacted. There can be no compromise
upon questions of a nature that prohibit
any semblance of impartiality. Therein
lies the uriqueness of the prohibition is
sue.
WRAY SHARP
A Junior at Northwestern University.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-04-01

of the Constitution is resting upon an ex-
tremely insecure basis. In fact the pro-
vision for amendment was Incorporated
into the Constitution to enable it to adapt
Itself to the exgencies of the union and
adjust itself both in spirit and letter TO
future DEVELOPMENTS.
The producers news., 1930-03-21
LABOR LEADERS
WANT DAVIS JOB

This uncertainty is trying for
the candidates for that cabinet
seat. While none of the, trade
union officials whose names have
been mentioned for the secretary
ship of labor will admit that they
are seeking the place, yet the fact
Is that they have grown tired of
the uncertainty as to when Davis
will get out and let a real labor
man try to run the department.
As long ago as March, 1925, hopes
have been entertained that the su-
preme dictator of the Moose would
cease to promote his fraternal in
surance order from the Labor De
partment headquarters.
DOAK DEAN OF ENTRIES
w. n. Doak of the Railroad
Trainmen is the deal of all entries
IN this much-deferred contest. His
selection has been opposed by
Robertson of the Locomotive Fire
men, who likewise has been NAM
ed but had declined to consider
the job. John L. Lewis of the
United Mine Workers and w. L.
Hutcheson of the Carpenters are
labor executives who worked for
the election of Harding, Coolidge
and Hoover in turn. Matthew
Woll of the Photo -Engravers, act
ing president of the National Civ.
ic Federation, is now being men.
TONED, as being in harmony with
such high-tariff cabinet members
The producers news., 1930-03-21

ing that we had a good time. But
that kind of fish isn't fit to eat
by white people. But we did not
know any better.
We also have all kinds of Der.
ries. strawberries, blueberries
high and low bush cranberries ga.
lore.
We do not have to pay the high
prices for gasoline either that you
DO out there. The gasoline price
here is 1914 cents. The gasoline
tax is 3 cents. We do not have
to wait till we get old and feeble
to enjoy good roads. We have
them here already. Out in Mon
tana you are paying scent road
tax and it don't seem to do you
any good. People just circle
around trying to get away from il
to get away from the high price
of gasoline. When driving out to
Montana, l fill up my car at For
tuna, North Dakota, so that | will
have enough to take me back
there again, and they can't stop
me from doing it, and it is done
a thousand times. At that rate
they will drive people away in
| stead of getting them to come
there.
l am not writing this to hurt
Montana and urging people to
leave there, and l have too large
ranch and too much property
left there for that, and l am per-
haps coming back to raise some
more wheat in a few years, that
is, if the gasoline prices will be
coming down and conditions will
improve. But l will boost fol
Minnesota as l know it has future
and a big one too.
With best greetings to all my
old friends in Sheridan county.
JOHN ]. EGGEN.
The producers news., 1930-03-21

school and one half mile to gravel
ed highway, one of the best in the
state. 1t is just a few hours drive
to several surrounding big cities
such as Minneapolis, Duluth OF
Winnipeg, Canada. A mail route
comes right by the front door and
most every farm house has a tele-
phone.
The soil here is black loam with
just enough sand in it so that il
works up good. There is some
peat land in some places, but not
around here, and there is a family
living on almost every 160 acres
and some have only 80 acres and
some 40, and even they make a
good living. When we walk sixty
rods after the milk COWS we think
we are walking a long ways.
remember many times there on the
ranch in Sheridan county when I
rode sixteen miles to get the cows
and then came home without them
One hours drive takes US to
good fishing, motor boating or
swimming. We used to go fishing
in Montana and drag in a lot of
alkali carp and buffalo fish, think
The producers news., 1930-03-21
SEC. DAVIS RUNS
FOR SENATE

Washington-(FP) = Secretary
of Labor Davis has cautiously let
himself into the swimming hole
of the Republican senatorial pri-
mary in Pennsylvania, but he has
tied a long string to his cabinet
clothes, and he hangs on to that
string. If Sen. Joe Grundy, with
the help of Secretary of the
Treasury Andy Mellon, should de-
feat Davis in the primary-where
Davis is the agent of Boss Bill
Ware of Philadelphia-then Davis
will feel it his duty to the nation
to return to his cabinet post and
its $4,000 salary, and its round
of embassy dinners. So Davis
has not resigned from the cabinet.
just yet.
FOXY ANDY
PLAYS POLITICS
Possibly President Hoover, at a
hint from Mellon, may suggest
to Davis that his resignation will
be welcome. Or possibly the
shrew old head of the Mellon
trust will suggest, through. Hoo
yer, that Davis refuse to quite
thereby advertising his lack of
faith in his own candidacy against
Grundy.
The producers news., 1930-03-21

money to advertise, that money can be saved by
not advertising, and after you advertise you al
most got to give it to the lowest bidder There is
no money in that-for the fellow who is letting
the contract. The commissioners have kind of
drifted away from this bid proposition, and all at
once they are coming back to it again.
There is no money in janitor job-fOr the fell
low who does not get the job. So when it comes
how perfectly fair we are handling the public
funds by calling for bids. 1t is good politics Look
at all the money the county can save by getting
bunch of half starved people fighting one anoth-
er in order 10 see who can get the job at the low
est price.
Over twenty thousand dollars worth of machine
ry has been bought by the county the last few
years without asking for bids
The producers news., 1930-03-21
CALLING FOR BIDS
ca contributed editoriaA

Has the court house ianitor S+aa-,os
Douy toes His salary has been raised se,aroI
nmes oy the present administration. which have
taken as an indication that they realized be vss
dO4 very useIui man. but good and faithful service
papers where the commissioners bave now sa IA tne
t;lc nlos Tor the janitOr's job. good man with a
Ois fanny Is gong TO be turned out in the cold
NO doubt, at this time where lots of peonls do
tbe, tlOs AnGw wnere their next meal viii come from.
700; low enough so they will not be able to snn.
pDrs family on it. 1t will probably be better than
Starving but not much better Then the comm;s-
fba,' feis can come out and show the people what
tor anyway. " os 'anf-
somehow or other calling for bids has been ont
II s.yie the last few years. Advertising fnr bids
u0n pay-dont pay where it should pay-it cost
The producers news., 1930-03-21
A LITTLE CHILD
SHALL LEAD HIM
Plentywood, Mont
March Is. 1890.

Plentywood, Mont.
March Is, 1880.
Editor, Producers News,
Plentywood, Mont.
thought that l had cured John
Arthur Stahlberg of his ambitions
to inflict rubbish upon the general
public. After our dispute of some
time ago, John seemed to be dis
cOuraged and his literary effu.
sions no longer graced the columns
of the Producers News. But here
ne is again as bad as ever and his
letters are twice as long. He
gives out reams of advice on how
to run the paper and after a lot
of raving about pipe wrenches and
Sears-ROebuck. and local business
firms he says that the Producers
News no longer appeal 10 him as
he feels that it is undependable. |
know what is wrong with John. If
you will give him the Job of
sweeping out the News office and
starting the fires and give him a
salary of about $25 a month he
will be a loyal supporter of the
paper. He is as bad as ever about
getting his words and thots all
mixed up. For example: he SAYS
the News is beautifully inconsist-
ent about the sheriff's office and
as a specimen of the inconsistency
of the News he says that in one
tissue you say that Hans Madser
is a rotten sheriff and that in the
next you say that Rodney Sails
bury was the best sheriff Sheridan
county ever had"
Now, John, really, you are ter.
rible. If you continue this l will
have to mail you dictionary
Now / will explain your mistake
carefully and in a manner not toe
difficult for your mind to grasp.
If the Producers News had stat.
ed in one issue that Hans Madser
was rotten sheriff and then ir
the next issue switched and saiC
that he was a very good capable
man for the position, why that
would be inconsistency. l hope
you understand John and that you
do not make any similar errors ir
the future.
Now, John says that in the six
years Rodney Salisbury was in of.
flee he did nothing except arrest
a scared kid Now l wonder Il
thot scared kid" wasn't John, who
had gotten entangled with a quar-
of moon," and was making louC
and peculiar noises and causing Sc
The producers news., 1930-03-21

About thirty thousand dollars worth of steel
culyerts has been bought without any bids or COM
petition. Carloads after carloads of bridge lum-
Der the same way.
to thousands of dollars was shipped to Joe Dolin
before anybody knew anything about it.
There was no advertising for bids when DIR.
Storkan was given the county health doctor Job
with nice little pay check attached to it.
Lately when Fred Ibsen was given his seven
thousand dollar contract the county did not 90
to the trouble of paying for any advertising.
Just look what the county has been able 10
save In advertising in all these cases. sure hope
the people appreciate what has been done for
them.
A DAGMAR FARMER.
The producers news., 1930-03-21
HOOVER TOO TIMID-
AFRAID OF VOTER

But would red-baiting, as a ma
tionwide effort of the Hoover ad-
ministration, help Hoover to elect
a docile Congress this year? That
is the question to be met before
the machinery set in motion in
New York by agents of the De-
partment of Justice and by Police
Commission Whalen can be taken
by the Department of Labor. The
administration fears the loss of
the House, as it already has lost
control of the Senate. If persecu-
tion of labor radicals, after the
fashion of Mitchell Palmer and
Harry Daugherty, is going to
bring ridicule upon the White
House, then Hoover will not sane
tion it. And the press is suspi-
cious of everything Hoover does.
He is timid. That fact weighs
heavily against the choice, as Sec
retary of Labor, of any man who
would use that place to punish
radical minorities in the labor
movement.
The producers news., 1930-03-21
Friday Friday. March D ;.

jailed. That he -
SOU sOured on The : Tn,I5 vnl9t Aa il.
tlke trot;t the present SCIr0, onO,. BE dss.,
DaonfG EfatlGn' and he JoslHty JSsnty aSSs'' S;s'
people p who forUOsesS1n UOeSnt il. !
county offices. VEfly V5Tefly hgs y
anyway? VINO doe. \. =
John says he ca. 30
to wives taking ices ices 10 SSj.s.
doesn't or his SvH JOBS: Is. I gS.'s nv /
moIe,l De teaching school, "1s as, Tooi :
John does nothin, Expenses =:
things about Victayy I tay' a lt Il !,
when Victor AnEer D.. A1ket. n
6bl,p MS press 9;. agent, he RiIl 1SSd, ,,h lsh {
still. night as well
At the close Of Ii.
says that he iust ms letta !,
won't print it. We1i G1iiiCxS s:g that !
IT,, it? If even John nd, did04d old 70, " :
worth printing sursI,, usIll tAhEi 4
should. You must S1lfIy S5,a no ons I
as a space killer nave ptata.
,,, Yours truly.
MICHAEL sALisBrp,
The producers news., 1930-03-21
RUSSIA SURGEs FORWARD

IlF1O9 IIISII IN the United States and fbo
industrial nations of Europe and the recent mn
employment demonstrations in the industrial SEQ
uOns OF the nation, alleged to have been under tbe
inspiration and direction of the Communists f;,,
anced and inspired by the Third or Comrn,,n;..
International with headquarters in Moscow. canital
OI tne Soviet Republic, have resulted in brins~ir,,
ton. - "oiu atOen-
Ane capitalist press and the other publicity
1.es eolored by capitalist influences, naturallv
rearing the growth of Communism in this co,,r,
The producers news., 1930-03-21
The WASHINGTON SCENE |
By LAWRENCE TODD Federated Pr..s
: LAWRENCE TODD, Federated Press

as Mellon and Lamont. Less of
ten, the possibility is breathed
that President Hoover might pick
John Frey, secretary of the metal
trades department of the A. F. of
L., or Victor Olander, secretary of
the Illinois Federation of Labor, or
Thomas F. Flaherty, secretary of
the National Federation of Post
Office Clerks. Olander has fought
many a battle against Secretary
Lamont, one of the leaders of an
ti-union employers in Illinois and
Flaherty has waged war on the
low-wage policy of Coolidge and
Hoover in the Postoffice Depart
ment; their chances are seen TO
be very slight.