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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-09-01
FOR LIQUOR SOCIALISM
malone Telegram

The advocates of government conduct or
the liquor business and the Socialists both
display faith in the governments ability
to conduct business on highly idealistic
level.
All such advocates admit the liquor bus
mess is a bad business, at least as far as
the saloon is concerned. But they have
the remedy. Let the government conduct
it. Then it will be operated right.
1t is highly amusing to see some OF
those big contributors to the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment adj
vocate socialism for liquor, on the theory
that the government will conduct the bus
mess on clean, efficient plane.
The advocates of liquor socialism as
sumo that government ownership and
management of the manufacture and dis
tribution of alcoholic beverages is a nice,
orderly way Of carrying on business, par
ticularly bad business which always has
been associated with political corruption
and some other grand scale evils.
It doesn't occur to these persons that if
government conduct of the chemical in
dustry, say, would be q case of political
management, government operation of the
liquor business would be also a case Of
business of, by and for politicians.
Just how those capitalists think social
ism for liquor would be an ideal solution,
while socialism for any other enterprise
would be all bad, is a difference they
should explain.
Anyhow, the Socialists should be de-
lighted to see captains of industry come
out for Socialism, Ltd. 1t is long step in
their direction
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-09-01
LIQUOR NO LONGER RESPECTABLE
(Kansas City STAR


admit
able 1t growing powerful public realizes
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-09-01
INA" FERGUSON DEFEATED

In the Texas Democratic run-off pri-
mary election Saturday, August %, Ross
S. Sterling, of Houston, by about 100000
votes defeated Mrs. Miriam A. "Ma"
Ferguson, former governor and wife of
James E. Ferguson who was impeached
when in the governors chair.
Up to Sunday morning more than $780,
900 votes had been tabulated and the to-
tai vote cast was expected to reach $685.
900.
Mrs. Ferguson's candidacy was spon-
sored by her husband who was her per-
sonal campaign speaker. He is reported to
have declared that if his wife were elected
she would pardon all convicts serving time
for violation of the state prohibition law
that she would liberate 1000 convicts from
state institutions This would be in accord
with her record as governor. While gov
ernor Mrs. Ferguson became nationally
known because Of her record in pardoning
convicts.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-09-01
BY THEIR STYLE We SHALL
KNOW THEM

["Prophet of Prohibition" by RAY T.
TUCKER in the North American Re-
pieio August, 1901
After reading a few of the recent bio
graphical caricatures of temperance lead
ers emanating from opponents of prohi-
bition one detects a common flavor. First
they are as derogatory as possible with
the scant material of that nature avail
able. Second their attempts to be funny
are manifest but not highly successful;
and third they reveal inability to under
stand much less appreciate. the spirit Of
their subjects.
For example, DR.. Wilson is a "pugna-
cious pulpiteer" who has "beat TOM
TOMS" "scourged the saloon" rode herd"
with Transformers" who "tempers his
tracts and his tongue to shorn mentan-
ties and limited outlooks." Here one
stops to ask, who made thee judge OF
mentalites and outlooks?"
DR.. Wilson'S broad field OF attack
against social evils are viewed by this
writer as the activities of "the sqnatter
guardian of our national morality as evi-
dence of yearning ito strut the national
stage as Richelieu.'
Next
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-09-01

['TIow Philadelphia Responded" by
RUTH CT. K STRAwBRIDGE, in Pictorial
ReuieiO, August. 1901
Many important facts not widely rea-
lied are clearly set forth in this unaf-
fected account of the desire of society
women for emancipation from liquor en-
tertainments. Women who do not feel
themselves in q position TO become con-
spicious exceptions while everybody in
their set" serves liquor are ready to
abolish the practice as soon as doing SO
becomes more general The proportion OF
society matrons who are expressing them
selves in favor of abolition now, when
more than 100000 have been addressed,
is about the same as at first, that is, over
70 per cent.
Leaders only have been awaited, and
these are now coming forward. Mrs.
Strawbridge says they are ready to "pio-
neer" Viewed from the standpoint of the
"many" young m irons who have
pleaded" with Mrs. StraWbridge ito help
change the STYLE" these pioneers deserve
the term emancipators.
Mrs Strawbridge believes that society
is on the eve of abolishing alcohol in
"toto" and this opinion appears well
founded for, fortunately the women who
compose American society are for the
most part more keenly conscious of their
public responsibilities and social influ-
ence than ever before"
1t is interesting to learn that Mrs.
StraWbridge was personal friend of Will
liam Howard Taft, with whom she con-
suited and who advised the action she has
taken. Together they disoerned the vital
spot, not only in the enforcement of pro-
hibition, but in the whole alcohol ques-
tion--the coercion of custom.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-09-01
QUEENS LAWYERS WET

The Ne1o York Times announces that as
a result of questionnaire 191 members
of the Queens County Lawyers Association
favor the repeal of the Eighteenth Amend
ment, forty-nine favor modification, while
thirty favor enforcement. Further an
nouncement is made that the lawyers all
over the country are being formed into
movement to combat the prohibition laws.
One thing is certain, and that is that
these wet lawyers are not contributing
anything to the general respect in which
they are held by the public by any such
declarations. There have been those who
have been cruel enough to suggest that not
a few of these lawyers are actuated by sell
fish motives, knowing that while the old
liquor traffic existed the general use of
liquor. and the efforts of the trade to pro-
mote an increased use of it, furnished a
maximum of work for the courts and for
the legal profession.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-09-01
NEW YORK SUNDAY COURT

For the first time in the history of the
federal court. says the NetD York Times
for August 2, defendants in liquor law vio-
lation cases will be arraigned before a
United States commissioner, on Sunday,
who has been ordered by Federal Judge
John c. Knox to sit between 10 a. m and
D. m, every Sunday to offer relief to
weekend prisoners in liquor cases
The arrangement was decided upon fol-
lowing a conference between Judge Knox
and Chief City Magistrate Joseph E. Cor
rigan, who recently decided that magis-
trates would no longer hold court at nights
or over week-ends to write bail bonds for
prisoners of this classification
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-09-01
LAWYERS REFERENDUM

The American Bar Association at the
general session of its fifty-third annual
convention, August 20, refused to with
draw its current referendum on repeal Of
the Eighteenth Amendment James F.
AilShie, of Occur d'Aline, Idaho, intro
duced resolution demanding an immedi-
ate withdrawal of the poll without can
vassing He attacked the referendum as a
political question upon which the bar as
ISOLATION should not commit itself.
Former President Quincy L. Newlin Of
the association, declared the referendum
could not be withdrawn since more than
$500 ballots had been circulated among
the members and he moved the Ailshie
resolution was out of order and unconsti-
tutional and his contention was sustained
by President Henry Epson Sine.
The presidents ruling was appealed to
the floor and the convention upheld the
chair.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-09-01
THEY SAW FURTHER, THE PROBLEM
BEYOND THE DIFFERENCE

T"The Law of the Land" by brand
WHrTLocK, in the Atlantic Monthly,
August, 1901
IT our good trends the moderates, the
"gentlemanly" table drinkers, whom Prof.
Bunge called the "decoys," would only
take less superficial view of the matter,
they could be much more helpful.
For example when Mr. Whitlock says:
''The trouble arose when teetotalers who
could see no difference between a hillbilly
getting drunk on applejack and a man
having bottle of chateau margaur with
his dinner tried to impose their habits
and standards of conduct on the entire
population of the land" he does not even
do justice to his intelligence.
He must know, or if not he should
know that the well-informed total alb
Stainer sees much more than this mere
difference of degree of alcoholic indulg-
ence. He sees the difficulty of providing
the gentleman with his dinner wine and
preventing many hillbillieS, as well as
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-09-01
What the Current Magazines Are Saying About Prohibition
and Law Enforcement
tReviewed by Emma L. TranseaW

gentlemen and all grades between, from
being led by wine, or its alcohol equiVa-
lent, into all stages of alcoholism.
The abstainer also sees, what should be
patent to all clear minded thinkers, the
difficulty of preventing a legalzed liquor
traffic from imposing its standards and
habits upon the good people while it
withholds. as recently in France, rightful,
and needed information concerning the
nature and effects of the product it dis
penses.
Any abstainer sufficiently intelligent to
discuss the question at all understands
that inner conviction is a stronger force,
ultimately, than compulsion from with
out. He always has and always will work
first for universal, intelligent conviction.
By so much he refuses to empower a
profit-seeking traffic to work the reverse.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-09-01
RESIDENCE PADLOCKED

A Boston dwelling has been padlocked
as liquor nuisance for the first time
since prohibition, says a United Press dis
patch. Tony Princiotta and his wife will
not be permitted to live in their South
Boston home again for year as the re-
suit of a paddock placed on it by the
deputy sheriff acting on superior court
order. The paddock proceedings resulted
from series of dry law violations.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-09-01
THE CHRISTIAN HERALD BRINGS
UP REINFORCEMENTS

I'Prohibition Goes On First Page"
Editorial in the Christian Herald,
July 10, 1901
A promising outlook for some WORTH
while publicity is announced by the
Christian Herald. It proposes to publish
interviews and articles from Henry Ford,
Thomas A. Edison, Daniel Carter Beard
startling article from Senator Borah,
investigations and surveys and helpful
cartoons, and to continue the campaign
through the elections and after-if need
be.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-09-01

You will feel better. II you are a voter,
If you do your duty at the Ohio primary,
August u, even if all the candidates for
whom you vote are not nominated.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-09-01

The number of automobiles have trebled
in the United States since prohibition
closed the saloon.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-09-01

Attempts by the vets to destroy prohi-
bition through referenda have recently
failed in three states: California, Colo
RADIO and North Dakota
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-09-01

Do not let anything interfere with your
duty as a good law-abiding citizen at the
primary, August u.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-09-01

The silent claim of vets is that they
are opposed to prohibition, but are against
the return of the saloon.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-09-01
CUSTOM IN THE MAKING

[''How Philadelphia Responded" by
RUTH CT. K. STRAwBRIDGE, in Pictorial
ReuieiO, August. 1901
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-09-01

I"Prophet of Prohibition" by RAY T.
TUCKER in the North American Re-
pieaU, August 1901
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-28
MAN ENDS LONG
CHURCH TRANCE;
VISIONS TRUE
Department Store Porter
Going Back to Work
After 144 Hours.

After IA hours of fulfilling a
vision" which he asserts healed him
of illness, Edgar K. Wheatley, 81,
of 311 West McCarty street, was
ready today to go back to his work
as porter for a downtown depart
ment store.
Wheatley arose from his cot in
the Church of God at the McCarty
street address Sunday night. He
had been lying there, in trance,
dressed In white, since last Monday
night.
Hundreds of city and state resi-
dents visited Wheatley's bedside
throughout the self-imposed rest.
Everything / saw in the vision
came true while I lay on the cot,
Wheatley said today.
Doctors, lawyers and people from
afar came to see me. I was the
power of God He told me in the
vision I had before I went to bed
that I should lie down. If I hadn't
followed his instructions. He might
have killed me-" Wheatley declared.
Throughout the six days of rest
ing. Wheatley lived on milk and
water.
His first meal following his fast
consisted of q hardboiled egg. a
piece of bacon, two cups Of coffee.
potatoes, salad, vegetables. piece
of pie and a piece Of cake"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-28
DISTANT STATIONS

MONDAY
$50 P. M
CoIumbia-United States Navy band to
NBc system-A. g. P. Gypsies to wEAF
WIS ts7o). chicago-Musical memories.
--6:45 P. M
wBBM (77O). Chicago-Lee Sims.
- P. M
Columbia-Physical Culture hour to WABc'
wBBM (77Oj. Chicago eruns orchestra.
NBC systemm-Maytag orchestra to WIZ
WIS k5H 187o) n cH m EpAH Singers.
1870 P. M
Colurn bia-Mardi Gras to WFBM.
WBBM t77o). Observation-Disclosures pro-
MIC system-Motors Party to wEAF'
wENR Cs7oj. Chicago program,
MIC system-"Real Folks" to WIZ. KYW,
WLW.
-s P. M
wBBM (77ol. Chicago-Memory. teaserS.
WENR 800, >hicago--Smith family.
NBC System Stromberg- Carlson orchestra
to WIZ. KDKA. RYW, WHAS.
$3.50 P. M
columbia-Jesse Crawford to WABC,
WKRC, WMAQ.
NBC System-Sign Of the Shell to WEAF,
WENR, WHAS, WTAM.
NBC system-In The spotlight to WIZ,
KDKA. WLW. KYW.
-S:45 p. M
WBBM (770), Chicago orchestra.
% p. M
KYw (1o2o). Chicago-News; state
Street.
WENR C870), Chicago-Mike and Herman.
WON (720). Chicago-I omorroW'S Tribune;
Hungry Five.
WMAG t670j. Shicago-Dan and Sylvia;
style hour.
-9:I5 p. M
KDKA (980), Pittsnurgh-Wn. Penn Or
chestra.
NBC System-Uncle Abe and David to
WENR. WSAI.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-28
DYNAMITE USE
BAROMETER OF
BUSINESS TREND
Analysts Watch Sales for
Accurate Prediction of
Prosperity.

Bv ScriDDs-H otcord Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, July 28.-When
dynamite IS moving in great volume,
business is good; when dynamite is
sluggish, trade in general is Ian
gushing.
The recent emcTgenee Of indus
trial explosives as one Of the most
rensitive business barometers has
caused many analysts to revise their
gauging formulas during the last
few months. BY keeping its eye on
the dynamite sales curve, Wall
Street now can forecast the future
more accurately than with all the
elaborate curves, weights and bal
ances which made the old ba-
.rometers.
One Of the largest statistical or
CARNATIONS in the world discovered
and proclaimed the close relation
ship between the sale Of explosives
and general industrial conditions.
It found also that changes we're re-
fected more promptly in dynamite
than in any other index. The Maya
zine of Wall Street introduces the
new barometer 70 the financial world
this week.
I'm the first place." the explana-
ton runs, dynamite is bought for
immediate use. Ii The second place,
it's use involves the nations heavy
work-road building, construction,
mining, numbering"
All of these operations, it will be
noted, are basic, and the function OF
dynamite in each job is at the very
f1rst-literally to break the ground
in many cases.
Thus, sale of a ton Of dynamite
indicates not only new job, but a
Job created by long line of buyer
demands up or down the process
line. When a nine-oWner, for ex-
ample, decides to increase output
by any considerable amount, his
first need is dynamite.
Dynamite sales have been increas-
ing during the last four months, &C.
cording to reports from the three
principal producers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-28
Times Radio Dial TwisterS
$50 P. NJ


wGN C72o), Chicago-Goldkette' orches-
ira: symphony.
NBC Svsten1-Amos n Andy to KYW.
WMAQ. WHAS. WLW.
-s:45 p. M
KYw tlo2ol. chicago-wayne Kings or
MIC system-NatI. news events to wENR.
wsAP $500. Fl. worth-Musical program.
wDAF t6iol. Kansas City-Dance music;
wMAo ts7o). chicaso-Concert orchestra.
10 P. M
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NB0 System3Russo's orchestra to wear
won i72ol. Chicago Nighthawks; Dona-
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wMAQ t670l, Chicaeo-Dance music g
hours).
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KNOX rosol. ST. Louis--KMOx revue.
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won I72ol, ChicaEo-Dance program q
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WJR C750l. Observation-Disclosures orches-
ira.
WDAF (61o). Kansas City-Nighthawk
frolic.
wLW C70Ol. Observation-Disclosures
1880 A. M
KSTP u460), St. Paul-Dance feature.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-28
QUASH MIX TAX SUIT
Actor Pays Back Income Levies VIII
Penalties Attached.

b. United Prrss
LOS ANGELES. July 2s.-Federal
attorneys announced today that
three indictments charging that
Tom Mix, actor. defrauded and con-
spired to defraud the government
on his income tax returns have
been quaShed.
Mix paid his back taxes. penalties
attached. and court hearing set
for today was Cancelled.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-28
ISSUES FUND APPEAL
FOR PROBATION WORK
WOoIlen Asks Contributions Here
for National Association.

An appeal for funds for organi-
Eation and extension of probation
work in the United States was issued
today by the National Probation
Association, New York, with Evans
Woollen, Fletcher Savings and Trust
Company president. as indianapolis
sponsor.
George w. Wickersham is preSi-
dent Of the national association.
Woollen today called attention to
the. fact the association aided pro-
baton officers of Marion county in
1927 to make a study of adult and
juvenile probation work and in pas
sage of rev adult probation bill.
Contributions will be received by
Woollen here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-28
anTissinr- Flier Located

STROUDSBURG. Pa, July rs
Three days of intensive search for
Edgar Todd OF Pueblo, Colo. fliel
in the an-American air derby, who
WIS thought to have crashed in the
Pocono mountains. ended on Sunday
night when word was received here
that he was visiting nj Oak Park,
III. Todd was first reported missing
Wednesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-28
BY JOHN T. HAWKINS,
Times Radio Editor

THE Girl Friends Three, Ethel,
Louise and Bee!" With this CHEEKY
opening, countless programs have
originated from the studios OF
WKBF carrying the melodies pro-
vided by Ethel Berninger, saxophon-
list; Louise Dauner, violinist, and
Bernice Houck, pianist Of the trio
of that name.
Probably no other organization
such as this trio works as many
radio programs per week as this
group. Never less than ten or
twelve commercial programs are on
the schedule for the girls each
week. And now that the CONNER
Gals are using so much Of their
time, it is seldom they have a
chance to put on program OF their
own, with their own ideas and
wishes, finding expression.
Played at Restaurants
Before taking the step that tied
them up definitely with radio. the
trio was identified with several Of
the downtown restaurants as enter
tanners. They started playing at
Whites on Illinois street shortly
after it was opened and continued
there for TWO years. Other places
where their music was in demand
were the Bamboo Inn and the for
mer Stegemier restaurant under the
Apollo theater
During the time they were play
ing downtown frequent radio
programs demanded increasing
amounts of their time. Finally,
radio so far overshadowed their 9TH
err engagements, they decided to
Join WKBF and devote all their
energies to the tleater of the air.
They Just have completed two years
of uninterrupted work at the station
and their popularity increases week
by week.
Two of the girls have won the
young artists state contest in music,
Miss Dauner taking first place in
1929, and Miss Houck winning 1t
two or three years before.
Besides managing the affairs Of
the trio and playing the saXophone,
Miss Berninger possesses a contralto
voice much in demand for speciality
programs and is very much at home
when playing the piano.
Liked to Practice
Miss Berninger studied at the
Metropolitan School of Music, the
Indiana College of Music and stud
led the saxophone under Guy Mon
TAM. And contrary to most young
pupils. her mother had a hard time
getting her away from the piano
when she was child. -Four hours
practice was just play for her.
Miss Dauner is continuing her
studies under Lewis PerSinger OF
New York.
1t might be interesting to know
that associations formed through
radio probably will have a lasting
effect on Miss Berninger. She Is
engaged to Jim Carpenter, program
director for WKBF.
The girls are identified with many
programs under different names.
They are familiar to listeners as
the Furnas Ice Cream Girls. the
Devoe Paint Girls, the Girl Friends
Three and a score of others.
They have had wide experience
in club and banquet work. and were
members of the "'Redheads," a girls
organization that now is on the
road.
So now that you know few lit
tie details about them, listen to
them and try and pick out the in
dividuals of THE Girl Friends
Three, Ethel. Louise and Bee"
THE END
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-28

NEW ALBANY, Ind, July %
More than one hundred battled a
brush fire that swept wooded tract,
hay field and destroyed a school
house. Eight homes, a tannery and
two farm homes were threatened by
other fires in the vicinity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-28
AIR CIRCUS FEATURE
FOR ROTARY OUTING

District Club Win Hold Picnic at
Speedway Park. Aug. 3.
Games, a chicken dinner, and an
air circus will feature the picnic
Aug. 5 of Group of the Indiana
Rotary district in Speedway park.
cities TO be represented at the
picnic are: Crawfc%SSville. Green
castle. Terre Haute. Lafayette,
Frankfo1. Lebanon, Sheridan and
Indianapolis.
The air circus will be conducted
through the courtesy Of Walker w.
winslow, president of the Indiana
Aviation Corporation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-28
THREE DIE IN PLANE
Days Last Trip of sightseeing Ship
Is Tragic.

BV Hffea Press
MATAWAN. N. J., July 28-The
last trip of the day for sight
seeing airplane resulted in the death
OF three persons Sunday.
Albert Biddle. "a, Marmaroneck
On. " pilot; Edward Hafman, IS,
wickatunk IN. j.. carpenter. and
George Schrank. le. Freemeau IN.
J. truck driver, were the men killed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-28
BABY Dies After Operation

Baby Dies After Operation
R,y Times Special
LOGANsPORT, Ind. July %
Patrick james Mattingly. 16-month-
old son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Brandt
Mattingly, Amarillo, Tex, visiting in
Logansport, died of complications
following an operation for removal
of a peanut that had lodged in his
throat.