Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-10-27
BAN Beer
Crusade Is
Going Places
Dajiy InsDatcfi Bureau,
- IN - Walter Hotel

~. Colonel Edgar
Races capacity as State di-
n III .he Seer industry 5 clean
.t''I ,sa~e uo campaign, IS quite
uP ' Avoiding even the remote
>'ea'y's 81 conducting any sort
an2''..' liz Whatsoever; but on the
o! II .aa his investigators are
que. . ee~ut over the State and
sc....'' e.ruetc evidence on every
~ ~ ,r.t his efforts are producing
Ie>,,......,.,r ~ not these efforts will
n.},.., the folks at large to dis
20 Beer entirely from the hard
, CO., ndu-trl and to regard beer
~. Al i beverage and not an in
s..H.,.+ns naaor Is a question which
Nh the future can answer; but it
49, rttcr of factual record that
~ ra.r campaign is doing things.
~ u-s tsct3c~ are of the bit by bit"
,,,+-,.a He appears to fear that any
,1rs..,..ea attack on a large number
5salers I'M one locality at one and
40 sa~e time would result in his
bs-rs classified rs shopping, UNI
Ssrr9rer fellow who is trying to eff
ss@t sreat cleanup" all at one
,sn 1xoan. And So he goes at it by
.,eeevtal. II. Tor instance, he thinks
,r4rs are twenty or thirty places in
NV Hano<er which need cleaning
I'M he doesn't immediately go before
tra county board and demand that
! ,,;,I lfaa,,vac TO C,,,;04
X selects two or three outstanding
EXAMPLES and attacks them.
If successful III abating these nuis-
arce, he turns elsewhere for a while
then comes back to New Hanover
and seeks revocation OF the permits
81 two ar three more of the remain
rg offenders. And in no case does
he ask 1r drastic measures until he
81 n, agents have uied to clean up
the situation without resort of of
fetal action
Il present. for instance, Colonel
BAN i actively seeking revocation
Of nine dealers in BuncOmbe, New
Hanover. CASTOR and Brunswick. He
has tLled petitions with the boards
for revocation OF three in BuncOmbe.
three in New Hanover, two in Gas
ton and one In Brunswick. He will
appear personally in Buncombe next
week. and the following week he will
60 before the New Hanover and
Brunswick boards. which is indica-
tive ST the fact that he does get from
one section of the State to the other.
Last month Bain's efforts were
successful in obtaining revocations
in 1IecklenbUrg. Wayne and New
Hanover Note that he is repeating
this month in New Hanover, which
is tactal proof of the bit by bit"
strategy outlined earlier in this ar
t.cle.
The colonel's appearances are not
based on conjecture, but always fol-
low through Investigations under
AIKEN by special investigators for the
brewers and North Carolina Beer
Distributors committee These inves-
agators submit full details to Balm
and the colonel is therefore always
provided with live ammunition when
he opens fire before a county COM
mission in an effort to have certain
licenses revoked.
Last week the investigator was in
the Asheville-Waynesville Hender-
sonville area: this week he is in the
Hickory Statesville- Newton sector,
and next week he will pay calls in
the Winston-Salem, Greensboro, High
Point triangle The November sche-
dule calls for Investigations in the
cities and towns Of Eastern North
Carolina.
L is quite noticeable that the APP
pointnent Of Claude Ramsey, for
mer AsheVlle newspaper man, as
aloe de camp to Colonel Balm has
been followed by much better anc
favorable publicity for the commit
tee than it was getting before.