The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-07-01
June Il edition of that publication.

June Il edition of that publication.
A careful reading of the article headed,
'Prize Puzzle of the Washington Clergy"
reveals a lot of camouhage and attempts
to explain the mistake by stating that the
preachers who had received supposedly
three different ballots, had failed to note
that one of these was designed and es-
pecially designated for the clergy.
OF course, we know the members of the
clergy are an especially dumb bunch, but
we don't believe the diagnosis of the Lit
erary Digest that when these preachers
received ballot marked clergy" they
were SO dumb they couldn't read it.
One thing stands out prominent, and
that is the failure of the writer of the ar
ticle to explain where they got the 232
votes for repeal, when there were only 81
preachers marked and returned their bal
lots, and all of these declared they voted
for enforcement.
There is evidently something rotten in
the Digest poll.-Neius-Bee, Harley.
ORDERS BAR FIXTURES CON-
FISCATED
In an effort to rid Lasalle county of all
old-time bars and other equipment which
make convenient the operation of a mod
ern speakeasy, Russell O. Hanson, the
states attorney, has recommended to
Sheriff Floyd Clark that in future liquor
raids he eonfiscate all bar equipment and
fixtures on premises where liquor is found.
Clark will be asked to remove the bars
under the wording of the search warrants
used under the Illinois prohibition act,
which provides that the officers "seize and
bring any and all intoxicating liquor there
found and all vessels containing the
same, and all property, implements, fur
niture and vessels kept or used for the
purpose of violating or with which TO v.o-
late any law of this state
Hanson feels that with the bars gone
there will be less inclination to cheat on
the prevailing prohibition laws, and that
it will be easier to prevent open viola
tion.-TjmeS-P Press, Streator.
WASHBURN EDITOR TAKES PRO-
HIBITION POLL
Editor Patterson, of Washburn, has
been doing little wet and dry polling in
his town to find out "how wet they am"
The following was the result as the
Leader gives it:
Washburn, one of the original dry COM
munities, continues to be predominantly
dry according to the WaShbnrn Leader
poll taken this week when SIS ballots were
Q1SJT1DuCeQ 10 Cne voters OF the Town,
which, to the best of our knowledge, COM
pletely covered the legitimate voting list
of both men and women. Three hundred
and tWenty-three ballots were returned,
properly marked, on Tuesday when the
canvassers again returned to the homes.
Of this number $50 returned ballots were
for enforcement of the Eighteenth Amend
ment, SIS voted for repeal of the amend
ment and 40 for Observation-Disclosures
Washington.
ENFORCE THE LAW!
The Literary Digest poll was wet but
the voters voted dry at the late primaries,
all of which proves that the quicker we
quit fooling with the prohibitory law and
proceed to enforce it to the limit the bet
ter off we will all be.-Citise1s, AUd.
MORROW, PROHIBITION AND
POLITICS
Admittedly, Mr.. Morrow is a man of
affairs and of great popularity Incden-
tally he's Col Lindbergh's father-in-law
But to date we fail to find such eXcep-