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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-28

The six Companies are the IN
official rulers of the San Francisco
Chinatown. They are the clan organ
izations of the six families to which
most of the early Chinese settlers in
California belonged. They maintain
a central body, composed of repre-
sentatives of each company" with
neutral chairman brought over from
China, and combine the functions Of
a chamber of commerce, an arbitra-
ton court, and governing body,
since in an emergency they have been
known to levy fines or even sentence
individuals to be assassinated. They
maintain a beautiful and elaborate
headquarters in Chinatown, run
schools in the Chinese language, etc.
They represent primarily the COM
nercial class, and are both powerful
and extremely conservative.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-01-01
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND BEER

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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-01-01
AND NOW BOOZE SINGS!
VETS Using Radio to Sing Their
Pleas for Return of Booze

The vets are not only spreading their
propaganda through the medium of the
newspapers, mostly the metropolitan
press, and magazines but they are also
using the radio, broadcasting wet speeches
and wet songs.
There has come to THE AMERICAN ISSUE
desk a copy of a song published by q New
York music publisher which perhaps Will
be heard sooner or later "On the air" The
words of this song, entitled Give Us Our
Beer Again" are not only miserable dog
gerel, but they also most grossly nisrepre-
sent facts. The burden Of the song is q
pathetic appeal for the return of beer and
q protest against "a law that IS depriving
the man with thirst of the exhilarating
beverage"
However, Notwithstanding the extreme
aridity Of the nation the singer declares
"drys are full of beer and bluff Evil
IDENTIFY by some strange process Of which
the poor thirsty boozers are not ac-
quainted. drys have no difficulty in get
ting q liberal supply Of beer.
The song concludes with the statement
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-01-01

pected early in the year, will doubtless
make a number of definite recommended
tons to increase the effectiveness OF court
procedure One benefit of its report viii
be the quieting of endless runors and pre-
dictions about its probable action There
seems to be no probability that any cases
Will rise during the year in which the
Eighteenth Amendment and the essential
enforcement statutes viii be held invalid
by the supreme court.
The intensity of the wet attack is eX-
pected TO continue, during 1881, with the
wealth available to wet organizations and
the sympathetic attitude of the metro
politan press towards the liquor program,
as the two major clements.
Dry organizations and agencies will be
more active and more aggressive during
the coming year than at any time since
the Eighteenth Amendment was adopted.
significance is anticipated since an over
whelming number of the state legisla-
lures have safely dry maiorities.
BY the end of 1881 it will be even clearer
than now that the vets want liquor, and
that their pretentions about mo saloons"
or state control" are as insincere as was
their now abandoned beer and wine pro-
posal From now on the issue will be more
clearly between the vets who want alco-
holic beverages and the drys who believe
modern civilization better without liquor.
BY the end of 1881 the nation will be
nearer to the ultimate decision as to
whether America is to license liquor and
pay the price or prohibit intoxicants and
derive the benefits.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-01-01
NO CRIME SAYS JUDGE

According to an Associated Press dis
patch from Cleveland, carrying a dateline
of December %. Common Pleas Judge
Baer ruled on that date that conviction
of the violation of the prohibition law
cannot be considered as a serious infrac-
ton of the constitution" The decision
was handed down in connection with the
granting Of American citizenship to Sam
Cohen.
Admission of Sam Cohen was contested
by S. E. Fox, citizenship inspector, who
claimed that he had been twice convicted
of violating the liquor laws, the second
time in 1929 when he was fined $1,000
and sentenced to nine months in the Day
ton Workhouse.
Judge Baer held that the last convic-
ton was simply for a misdemeanor and
could not be taken seriously in the mat
ter" Citizenship was then granted to
Cohen, apart of the ceremony being his
oath to uphold at all times the constitu-
ton of the United States of America in
the breaking of which he is SO adept.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-01-01
CANADIAN LIQUOR IN
TERESTS RADIO PRO
GRAMS NOT WANTED

A dispatch from washington says
that an effort to broadcast radio
programs sponsored by Canadian
liquor interests has been ruled il
legal by the radio commission.
Replying to a letter from S. w.
Edwards. radio supervisor at De-
troit, asking what stand the COM
mission would take to bring such a
program across the border by wire
and broadcast it in this country,
letter was dispatched saying that it
would be considered improper.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-01-01
DUE TO PROHIBITION

A decrease in the population of the Chi
cago wornen's prison was attributed to ma
tional prohibition by the Rev. NJ. p. Boyn-
ton. pastor of the Woodlawn Baptist
church He said:
Cur Chicago's women prison, which in
the old saloon days was thronged with 800
or 100 unfortunate women, had on Tues
day of this week, 145 prisoners. When
preaching in this prison sometime ago, 7
asked the matron how she accounted for
the small audience she gave me, and she
said in old saloon days they were COM
PEELED at times to put cots in the corridors
to care for the great crowd Of drunken
women"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-01-01
OHIO SCHOOLS OBSERVE
TEMPERANCE DAY
Law Requires Temperance Pro
gram Be Given Once Year

The state law Of Ohio requires that the
public schools observe the anniversary of
the Eighteenth Amendment on the Friday
the nearest the 18th of January in pro-
gram not less than two hours in duration
the program designed to teach the pupils
of the benefits and the physiological value
of temperance.
AS required by law, DR.. John L. Clifton,
state superintendent Of public instruction,
has sent each school o temperance day
program. This program contains poems
and recitations on temperance and we'll
known views of such leaders as Theodore
Roosevelt, Irving Fisher, Thomas Edison,
Colonel Charles A. Ilindberg, Connie
Mack, Alonzo Stage, and others.
The program is to be opened with the
singing of America, the Beautiful" and
closed with the singing of Onward Chris
tan Soldiers"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-01-01

that In every race in history the
wise men got their brains from wine, the
brave men strength from beer"
OF course, no one who is at all informed
on the effect of alcohol upon brain and
muscle will accept this bald statement of
a jazzy song writer in preference to the
declarations of nationally known scientists
to the contrary who base their findings
upon careful laboratory research. But the
danger is that unsuspecting youth will be
misled by this misrepresentation.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-01-01
CATHOLICS AND PROHIBITION
Prominent Manufacturer of Louis
vile Tells of Activities of Cath
olics in Temperance
Movement
BY P. H. CALLAHAN,
Secretary Association OF Catholics
FGvoriag Prohibition

From various sources antagonistic to
prohibition has come the suggestion that
prohibition is exclusively Protestant
movement, intended to strike at the Cath
Ollie religion by preventing the use of sac
ramental wine. This has aroused religious
prejudice, which was, of course, the pur-
pose intended
But many of the great leaders of the
Catholic church have been staunch advo-
Gates of prohibition. Moreover, the foun-
dalton of the Eighteenth Amendment was
laid by Roger 3. Taney a Catholic chief
justice of the United States, in the year
1847, in his opinion in what is known as
the License Cases, &c U. S. Reports, page
504. That was seventy-three years before
another Catholic chief justice, Edward
Douglas White, wrote his opinion uphold
inc the Eighteenth Amendment and the
Volstead act.
Aside from the fact that it is the law OF
the land, why should we Catholics not
favor prohibition? More and better
churches have been built since the COM
ing Of prohibition than ever before in the
same length of time. Catholics are rub
bing elbows with prohibitions from the
time they are born. AS Catholics, we sub
NIT to the prohibition of meat on Fridays
ana IaSL days, the prOllDlJlOn OIL CeIUhlL
forms of amusement in Lent, the prohibi-
ton against divorce, against reading GER
tain books, and many other similar pro-
hibitions. We are in accord with all these
various prohibitions, feeling that it is for
our own welfare, as well as for the well
fare of our religion.
In 1884, Bishop John A. Watterson, Of
Columbus, Ohio, published the law that
no new Catholic society should be formed
in his diocese which would admit to men,
bership any person engaged, either as
principal or agent, in the manufacture or
sale Of Intoxicating liquors Archbishop
Ireland Of St. Paul was one of the first
vice presidents Of the Anti Saloon League
and the nationally known Father John j.
Curran of Wilkes-Barre, Pa, is one of the
present vice presidents, in addition to be-
ing president of our own association.
The Knights of Columbus deny men,
bership in their order to anyone engaged
in the manufacture or sale of Intoxicating
liquor as a beverage. In fact, the Eight
zenith Amendment is practically a copy Of
the laws of the Knights of Columbus.
Not even q stockholder in any liquor con-
Germ could be a member Of the order
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-01-01
1880 = REVIEW AND PREVIEW = 1881
(Statement bu Anti-Saloon Leaque Of Americ!


in prohibition history the Eighteenth Amendment stands solid as rock as 1889 end
Publicity the but n dry enforcement
Chnery is nreasing
The Alaskan., 1931-09-25
PACIFIC TAKES WINTER
 SCHEDULE OCTOBER

Beginning the first of Octo- Der, the Pacific, mailboat oper- ating out of Juneau will go on winter schedule. She cuts out Port Alexander and Tebenkoff. and serves ports only between Juneau and Petersburg.
 Her first voyage on the new schedule will be Thursday, Oct. 1 but thereafter the Pacific will sail on Saturdays from Juneau
 J. D. Spencer and Merl J. Moe, Ketchikan, were bound ov- CT to the grand jury charged with larceny from a boat and bail set at $1,0O0 each.
 w. H. Peterson of Haines, was fined in Commissioners Court charged with possession of liquor in violation of the Alaska Bone Dry Law.
The Alaskan., 1931-09-25
Fish Buyer Placed
 Is Arrested Here

On telegraphic information Deputy U. s. Marshal Hans WicK arrested A. J. Martin last Fri day. It is alleged that Martin obtained cargoes of fish under false pretenses.
 When arrested, he was on the gasboat Galveston with a load ot salmon which he said he was unable to sell here and he re- quested that he be permitted tC take it to Ketchikan. Pending arraignment before Commis- sioner Clausen this was denied
 It is alleged that Martin re- presented himself as buyer fol the Juneau Cold Storage and gave worthless orders on that firm for fares he purchased.
The Alaskan., 1931-09-25
p. '. A. Reception
 We'll Attended

Followirg g the time-honored custom, the new members of the teaching staff of the Peters burg schools were rendered a re : ception by the Parent Teachers Association last Friday evening. A joVial party completely filled the fraternity room of the se~ cond floor of the Sons of Nor way Hall, giving the teachers an opportunity to meet their new friends, the parents of Young America.
 A very pleasing program was rendered, including a piano solo by Myrtle Johnson, two selec- tions by the high school Orches- tra, a reading by Myrtle Dunkel- berger and two vocal solos by Miss Lillian Swanson, Dr. Rude addressed the gathering in be- half of the school board and the parents and MT. Beck, the new principal, spoke for the faculty. Both urged the parents to make close friends and confidants Of the instructors Of their own suggesting that they visit the class rooms often, thus encouraging the teacher and impressing upon the child that and dad are interested in his or her progress.
 One of the most delightful events of the evening was when the hostesses brought out plate after plate of the most delicious cakes with steaming cups of cof- fe. Mrs. Charles Anderson, Mrs, c. Clausen, Mrs. B, Dinner and Mrs. T. Lando were the official hostesses and they were assisted in the serving by Q bevy of high school girls. All in all, it may be said that the P. T. A. is off to Q flying start and many pleas ant evenings may be expected during the winter.
The Alaskan., 1931-09-25
SEES CHANGE IN
 SEATTLE SKYLINE

pr. Harry c. DeVighne of Ju- neau, Territorial Health Officer, arrived in Seattle last week en- route to New York where he will take a post graduate course in medical school. He commented on the change in the Seattle sky line, which he had not seen for several years. He recalled mem ories of Seattle and Alaska as he first saw them when he came to the Queen City 27 years ago:
 Those were the days when it took us four weeks to carry se- rum from Fairbanks to Nome by deg team at an expense of $1, ,000 we cover the same distance in six hours by air plane, and it does not cost more than $250,'' said the doctor.
 Dr. DeVighne welcomed Dr. Frank s. Fellowes as supervisor of health work among the Ma tives in connection with the Public Health Service, and said this new arrangement would mean the health work for whites and natives would be divided in- to two groups with separate appropriations, for the first time through the Interior of Alaska, for the latter thru the Bureau O. Indian Affairs.
The Alaskan., 1931-09-25
Will Form High
 School Asst

High school athletic coaches representing Juneau, Skagway, Douglas, Wrangell, Ketchikan and Petersburg schools will meet in Petersburg, Saturday Sept 27th to organize an ath- letic association, formulate rules for contests and arranged ten tative schedule of games for the season. MT. Regele of Skagway, MT. Durham of Juneau and MT. Renan of Douglas arrived in Pe- tersburg today and MT. Fabri- cious of Wrangell and the coach from Ketchikan are expected tomorrow.
The Alaskan., 1931-09-25
Juneau Recognizes and Faces
 Serious Unemployment Problem

With over two hundred known laboring men idle and with con- siderable more not listed, Juneau is facing a problem like it never has had to face before.
 Last week the mayor brought the matter before the Council and that body undertook imme- diately to cope with the situa- tion by:
 l. Employing an agent with headquarters in the City Hall, whose duty it will be to ascer- tain a market for the labor and to bring together the industrial agencies and individuals having work for those desiring it.
 2. Undertake by taxation Or other economic measures, a fund of $lO,OOO for the benefit of un- employed.
 3. Eliminate machines inas- much as possible in order to give employment to a greater num- Der.
 The Juneau Post of the Ameri- can Legion had listed 199 per- sons as unemployed and the Post was making effort to provide jobs for as many as possible.
 The City levied a tax of Is mills on property and were ad- vlsed by counsel that they could place an additional assessment of two mills in order to raise a fund of S1O,OOO for this emer- gency.
 The writer, while in Juneau last June, pointed out that the situation in Juneau was then
The Alaskan., 1931-09-25
Fierce Deuils OF
 Desert Filmed

Legionnaires-those fighters of all nations who enlist under the French flag for service in the sandy wastes and savage mountains of Morrocco-Will be shown at The Coliseum theatre soon. This play, "Renegades," iS a gripping story of heroism and treachery in the Foreign Legion.
 The drama revolves about the personalities of four adventurous privates in the Legion and sworn comrades, an alluring woman spy who had earlier betrayed one of the four. Breaking out of the Legion jail, where they were incarcerated for disorderly conduct, the quartette distin- quish themselves in action Dur ing their subsequent decoration at the hands of the minister of war at Casablanca, the leader sees the woman who had betray- ed him.
 Hoping to prevent recurrence of her deadly activities, he at tempts to choke her to death, but the arrival of his captain prevents, and the four engage in a desperate battle with na- tive police but are forced to flee. One of the policemen is thrown in the bay and thinking he is drowned, three of them desert to avoid punishment. Kidnap- ping the fourth later on, the re- united quartet boldly abduct the woman from her hotel and take her with them to the Arabs.
 How the four rencgades find themselves opposed to their for mer comrades when the Arabs decide to attack a lonely out post, and the woman, bitterly trying to avenge herself on the quartette, turns machine gun on them, forms the striking dra- matic climax of this screen of fering. Warner Baxter carries the feature role with Myrna Lay playing the part of the spy.
The Alaskan., 1931-09-25
Notes From The
 Public School

The Seniors, Juniors, Sopho- mores and Frosh of the High School have organized and elect ed their class officers as follows.
 Seniors:
 Walter Lersten, president, Mil dred Johansen, vice-president; Henrietta Dahl, secretary-trea- surer; Jennie Hammer, class re- porter. MT. George V. Beck is their advisor.
 Juniors
 Hugh Harris, president; Ray mond Swanson, vice-president: Sigrid Lund, secretary-treasur CT; Fred Magill, class reporter. Miss Dorothy Scott, Advisor.
 SOPHCMORES
 Randi Molver, president; Helen Magill, vice-president; Howard Heimdahl, secretary treasurer, Margaret Hanseth, class reporter Miss Bertha Lero, class advisor.
 FROSH
 Jack O'Donnell, president, Joe MacKecknie vice-president, Ger trude Stens4id, secretary-treas- urer, Alma Gribble, class report ter. Miss Sarah Josenhaus, Ad- visor.
 The Junior High school has organized a Junior High School Student-Body Association, ana has elected Kenneth Dahl as president; Allen Lee, vice-presi- dent and Sylvia Noreide, secre- tary-t treasurer.
 At the first meeting of the Association, Beatrice Fryer, Nor man Heimdahl and Ruth Tveten were appointed as a committee to draw up a Constitution.
 This newest of Petersburg's $ organizations has all promises of being one of the most active in school this year.
 A Boys Glee Club with IS members and a Girls Glee Club with g members, was organized in High School this week.
The Alaskan., 1931-09-25
City Council Approves Plans
 For New School Gymnasium

stances, however, which the Council thought should be taken into consideration. The school has needed a gymnasium thru out the years. Other plans to provide a building have failed. Every patron of the schools is heartily in favor of providing a place where physical instruction can be conducted in conjunction with the school for the benefit of all members of the student body instead of contracting all efforts on a favored few athlet- ic teams who really need it least. There are many men who are likely to find they have time to spare for such a cause and the Council believes they will be public-spirited enough to donate @ considerable amount of labor. Others have expressed a willing ness to donate two Or three days a week. With such a spirit, it would seem nothing can-prevent construction of the gymnasium.
 The Council has accordingly approved the plans and set aside an appropriation of $7,500 which will be used as economically as possible. It is not planned to finish the interior of the build ing at this time and the equip ment will be something for the P. T. A. to provide.
 Robert M Allen was appointed to represent the Council and in cooperation with a member of the school board to pass on the structural, secure prices on all building materials and to act in Ia general advisory capacity.
The Alaskan., 1931-09-25
Ask Liberty For Y
 Jailed l. ". W. s

Hearings were given by the penitentiary parole board and Governor Hartley of Washing ton last week for release of the six remaining defendants in the 1919 Centralia Armistice Day riots, the Rev. M. E. Bollen, pas tor of the University Baptist Church, Seattle declared last week.
 He, with Dr. Fred w. Shorter, pastor of Pilgrim Congregation al; pr. Marvin o. Sansbury, pas ter of First Christian, and Rev, E. Raymon Atterbury, pastor of Grace Methodist, all of Seattle, represented a committee of thir- ty religious leaders and laymen ot Puget Sound cities in request ing the release.
 One of the sextete, Eugene Barnett, reprieved by the gov ernor late in May, is at Clarks- ton where his wife is recovering from a major operation. The parole board and the governor did not make an immediate de- ciSion.
The Alaskan., 1931-09-25

grave but was called "a pessi- mistic fool" for his observations.
 Heretofore the town of the big mine has been fortunate in that the fishing population brought in their earnings, small as they were, which helped the situation in many ways. This year, the fishermen mostly did not even pay their summer food bills and SO returned to Juneau looking for work. Added to this was the fact that the canning industry employed less local and used more cheap imported labor than usual. This cheap labor was raid off in Seattle which does not add to the riches of Juneau. This federal, mining town has been out of sympathy with the other towns which were entirely dependent upon the fisheries for their existence. Now they are getting a taste, and with a ven- geance, of what the other towns have had to contend with. And perhaps they are going to take care of not a few of the fisher men from other towns.
 Alaska has so much natural resources that unemployment should be the least of it's worries.
 This matter of providing for needy folks, for men out of labor has been a problem with other towns and organizations for a long time. The lesson, perhaps, may percolate into the ivory domes of the bureaucrats and their political henchmen.
The Alaskan., 1931-09-25
John Abolin Kills
 Self With Gun

While the City Council was in session last Monday evening, it vas interrupted by a call turned in by c. Christiansen for Con- missioner Carol Clausen, saying that John Abolin was found dead in his cabin under sus- picious circumstances. The coroner, a doctor, marshals and a coroner's jury, left immediate ly for Abolin's cabin.
 They found the body in a chair tilted back against the wall. A Krag rifle was leaning against his chest; a piece of cut tyhunk was tied to the trigger. in a loop of which the mans bare foot rested. The head had been almost completely blown off by the force of the charge. The jury brought in a verdict of suicide.
 John Abolin, perhaps fifty years old, has been well-known in this vicinity for many years He was hard worker and had accumulated some real property and had some money on savings account. Seeking diversion, his neighbors say, he and some pals had been more or less intOxicat Cd for a week or more and it is thought that he ended his life in a fit of despondency.
 The discovery was made by John Brailand when he entered the room in the evening and turned on the light.
 The body of John Abolin was inferred Wednesday afternoon in the cemetery.