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Charges File J. M. M. Most Serious False Claim Charges have been filed against J. M. Marquess, President of Langston University and if one-tenth of the allegations are correct, his usefulness as President of that Institution is at an end. And in our opinion they are correct. The most serious of the charges is that false claim for salaries of employees have been made by the President and that the services claimed were never performed and that the parties alleged to have performed the services were not paid and that the claims were signed by President Marquess, and collected by him. If this is true the record will so show and there can and should be but one result, to-wit: the voluntary resignation of the President or the involuntary resignation, to-wit: removal. We believe the board of education at all times have done their level best to put a competent man as President at Langston and no blame can be placed at their door for the failure. The colored people of the State have been somewhat laxx in their duty toward Langston, as they should have made investigations as to the fitness of applicants and made known the results by informing the member who lived in their community and had Read the advertisements in this paper and patronize those who advertise with us; they deserve your trade. Our subscription is $1.00 per year. Agents wanted. Good commission paid. Write us. S. L. Dudley on South Main Street, is the harness man when you need anything in that line call on him, as he deserves the patronage of all good people. He is a deserving young man, who has lived in the city for a number of years and is making good. Read his ad. The whiskey peddlers should set up and take notice. When a man like reckmore goes to the pen the little allows should quit the game. The government is in earnest and means to break up the bootlegger. We believe the whiskey traffic should be regulated and every family should have a quantity for personal use, but once the law says no, be believe in paying the laws and we further believe that placing a tax upon the sale liquor would put a stop to the bootleger. Judge Vernor, after a strenuous mission of court lasting several days, is appointed Attorney Ed. K. Brook, guardian for Luther Manuel, the Irish Creek freedman, who is said to worth one-half million. The ignored all the nominations and it to the body of the citizenship of citizenship of our county and be the appointment. He did the he could under the circumstances. There were so many coning interests among the colored ple who used their influence upon minor and his mother that it was possible for the court to satisfy all the interests and the court probed along lines that he thought The main thing is to protect minor and we hope and believe will be done. The Government, understand, is satisfied with theiment and we presume this the contest. is always easy to find where the her stands on any subject. We make our fight in the open whole sometimes we may be g, yet you always known which our musket is pointed. Some are cussing us about our stand Langston matter but it is plain we not given any one the double- Is that plain? ING TO MUSKOGEE, OKLA. United Doctors, licensed by the Oklahoma, for the treatment of ailments and all nervous and life diseases of men, women and men, offer to all who call on this consultation, examination and free, making no charge what-ever the actual cost of treat- or the purpose of proving that have at last discovered a system The Muskogee Cimeter. this been done Mr. Marquess would have been an impossibility. We understand the fellow about whom we wrote last week has escaped from the guardianship of the President and fled to parts unknown and that the Bank at Coyle would like to know his present residence. Personally we have nothing against the President, but we go on record as being for our children first and that their interest is paramount to the interest of the President and we feel that the example set by the President is not a commendable one and no sane person can approve of his acts as laid down in the charges fled by Mr. Lagrone. We hope it will not be necessary to go further than the record evidence in the case and that the good sense and sound judgment of those who are near to Marquess will suggest that he do the proper thing by handing in his resignation. It is true that many of our people are sending their children to schools in other states because of the deplorable conditions in our state school and it is also true that it is not necessary to go beyond the borders of our state for the very highest type of manhood education, and ability to manage this school. and method of treatments that are reasonably sure and certain in their results. 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Said defendant, Fanny Griffin, will take notice that she has been sued in the above named court by the above named plaintiff, for an absolute divorce from her, the said defendant, upon the grounds of extreme cruelty and abandonment, and that she must answer the petition of said plaintiff nled therein on or before the 6th day of April, 1917, or said petition will be taken as true and a judgment for said plaintiff will be rendered accordingly. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand as Clerk of said Court and affixed the seal thereof this 21st day of February, 1917. C. H. SHAFFER, (Seal) Court Clerk. By TOM L. FULLER, Deputy A. G. W. SANGO. MAY STUDY "DRY LAWS" FAMOUS PUBLIC ECONOMIST RECOMMENDS NATIONAL COMMISSION He Suggests That An Unbiased Body Compile for Congress a Report Based on Careful Investigation of Prohibition Statutes-Touches On Compensation Feature Some remarks of Earl J. Hadley, public economist, on prohibition, might not fit into the text books of the extremists on either side of the question, yet they seem to point to a matter which is worth consideration. "Many thoughtful persons," he says, "have come to the conclusion, irrespective of personal views on the subject, that a national commission should be appointed to investigate the whole field of prohibition legislation and action, so that Congress might reach a matured rather than an impetuous decision. A commission of this sort, it is believed, should consider not only the extent of 'dry' sentiment but also the practical operation of prohibition; its benefits and its flaws, the associated questions of revenue and compensation to vested liquor interests, sporadic or ingeniously organized methods of evading the law—in fact, should compile for Congress some authentic basis of action. It is held that neither side of the controversy could well object to this plan, since arguments of facts or data, if sound, would benefit by examination. If either side feared scrutiny, then that in itself would mitigate against the case. Prohibitionists might combat what they regarded as the moral injury of delay; on the other hand, it is believed that such a result would be more than offset by the political injury of haste in tempering with the Constitution." These remarks of Mr. Hadley were made prefatory to a resume of the laws in European countries regulating the sale of alcoholic beverages, many of them establishing the most rigid and carefully considered restrictions, all of them rigidly enforced and all of them differing very widely from the arbitrary legislative enactments in this country which are largely unenforced and unenforceable. James M. Allison, in the "New York Day by Day" Column of the Cincinnati Times-Star. THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION He's Speaking For the Drys. [Cinchnatt Times-Star.] During these parlous times, where, oh, where, is Richmond Pearson Hobson? WOULD BAN ALL SHOWS PLAN OF SENATOR FROM "DRY" NORTH DAKOTA THEATRES ARE NEXT Mr. McCumber Startles Fellow Members In Congress By Describing His Proposed War On Playhouses—Thinks the Amusementless Period Should Last Ten Years The Prohibitionists' war on individual liberty began with a crusade against liquor; then they fought tobacco; next Sunday baseball and moving pictures; and now they intend to try to close all theaters. United States Senator Porter McCumber, of "dry" North Dakota, recently said, in Congress: "The best thing that could ever happen the American people would be the closing of every theater and place of amusement in the United States for ten years. There should be a closed season that would allow the people to regain some of their old stability, some of their old composure, that would allow them time to accustom their minds to the consideration of the real things in life rather than the artificial things." It's Away Money. The present mood of Congress is propitious, Senator. Why not put through a bill making it a felony to write, or present, or read a play? Congress is engaged in an effort to regulate personal conduct by destroying personal liberty. If there are Americans so unregenerate, so thoughtless, that they would rather see a play discussing some general and immutable truth than to hear a McCumber in full cry, should not the law take them in charge? There are persons, not a few, who are shamelessly familiar with numerous dramatists and who could not, right off the bat as it were, tell you who Porter McCumber is, and where he halls from, and what he does to get a living in those days of high cost when potatoes retail at the price of big red apples and half of the population is buying shoes without leather soles because they can be had for $3.50. If Congress, moved to action by the not quite justly celebrated eloquence of Mr. McCumber, should shut up the theaters everyone would know who McCumber is, at least, and as he is the real thing in the way of a Woolly West United Statesman, everyone would be thinking of at least one real thing when dwelling upon the reform and the reformer. "Hamlet," you understand, is an artificial thing. Sixteen columns of dapoodie "extended to the record" by a United States Senator rising to a point of personal privilege, or rising to a fly, is among the great and vital actualities of our day. As it is, obviously, only when there is no possibility of amusement that the masses will concern themselves as they should with meaty discourse, such as the Senator from-North Dakota, isn't it?—is prepared to provide, it is high time to shut up every show shop in the land. Such action would fit with the general program of interference with the individual in which Congress has been interested—Louisville Courier-Journal. VARRIS A. WINN A. O. Stanley Governor Stanley of Ken- a mob bent on lynching a for failure to release a Ne He said he would give the Governor of Kentucky first, Negro in Kentucky be lyn RAPS "DRY" IN FALLACY OF Philadelphia Sunday Item Urge District of Columbia Bill and Liquor Laws In Governor Stanley of Kentucky risked his life before a mob bent on lynching Circuit Judge Charles Bush for failure to release a Negro prisoner to be lynched. He said he would give the mob "a chance to lynch the Governor of Kentucky first," before he would let another Negro in Kentucky be lynched. RAPS "DRY" METHODS AND FALLACY OF PROHIBITION Philadelphia Sunday Item Urges Referendum Vote On Sheppard District of Columbia Bill and Points To Failure of Anti- Liquor Laws In Portland, Maine Discussing the attempt of Prohibitionists to force prohibition upon the District of Columbia without a referendum vote, the Philadelphia Sunday Item says: The Christian Science Monitor, of Boston, which is a national prohibition organ, prints a news dispatch conveying the not astonishing information that the mayor of Portland, Maine, had ordered last Tuesday all the saloons of the city to be tightly closed. Here is an admission from a constituted authority of prohibition that prohibition does not prohibit, that prohibition is hypocrisy, a sham, unenforceable as a law, and after all, nothing but a moral slavery. "Broken-Down Politicians." A few days later the august senate of the United States passed by a vote of 55 to 32 the Sheppard bill to make the District of Columbia and the capital of the nation as dry as the city of Portland. It is claimed by the high priests of this temporary wave of emotion created by the well-paid preachers of the Anti-Saloon League that they control the votes in the house to concur in the action of the senate, and that the bill will find its way to the desk of the president, and upon CORSETS?—MRS. LEE SAYS THEY'RE WORSE THAN RUMI A dispatch from Indianapolis (Ind.) to the Toledo (O.) Blade, says: Of three evils—the corset, white plague and whisky—the corset is the greatest. This is the declaration of Mrs. Anna Lee, who has drafted for introduction in the Indiana legislature a bill prohibiting the manufacture of corsets. "There is more tuberculosis in children of corset deformed mothers than in whisky drinking fathers," she declared yesterday. "Intoxicants have been in general use for centuries; tubercular children were never known until the corset was invented. Thousands of deformed children are the result of the wearing of corsets by mothers." ```markdown ``` PRICE $1.00 A YEAks Life e Lynch Mob! Kentucky risked his life before Circuit Judge Charles Bush, agro prisoner to be lynched, mob 'a chance to lynch the ' before he would let another lynched. From Times Democrrt METHODS AND PROHIBITION His Referendum Vote On Sheppard and Points To Failure of Anti-Portland, Maine his action the eye of the nation will be focussed. As we have already pointed out, the refusal to submit the proposed law to a referendum of the people of the District of Columbia is a direct stab at the very principle upon which prohibition is founded, or is supposed to be founded, and that majority rule. In this case the fanatics who are playing this game are afraid to submit this question to the people, who are the most directly concerned. They are to have something crammed down their throats which they have not applied for and which the majority of them do not desire. The very fact that the prohibitionists refuse to allow the question to go to a popular vote is proof that they know that the people themselves would reject it. Thirty thousand of them, mostly business people and real estate owners, petitioned congress not to enact this drastic legislation. The hope now lies in President Wilson, who is the president of all the people, and not the president exclusively for the "dry" spots of the nation, that he will impose his veto and send the message back to congress that when it forwards him a bill which will provide for a referendum vote and acknowledge the justice and right of "home rule" that he will approve of it. "MARYLAND, MY MARYLAND." Senator Martine Finds Why U. S. Senators Rarely Drive South. [Washington Dispatch in New York Tribune] "Why is it that senators, starting out for a ride in their automobiles, invariably drive into Maryland and not into Virginia?" inquired Senator Martine of New Jersey during the debate yesterday on a motion affecting the automobile license charged to be assessed against Marylanders. "I have been giving this subject deep thought during this debate, hearing so many references to persons from the District driving into Maryland and hearing nothing about other states. Suddenly the reason has occurred to me. Maryland is wet. Virginia is dry. Oh, blessed Maryland, home of good roads, good whisky and beautiful women!" ```markdown ``` From Times Democrit Wanted 500 Agents At Once Dudly's P Wanted at Class Fa Pianos, g refunded. Will buy a where in th Harnes notice. 116 So. M ok NEW ```markdown ``` Dudly's Polish makes old harness look NI Wanted at once 500 agents to sell Dudly's H Class Fair Leather Polish for Auto. 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Dudly's Polish makes old Autos look NEW It is said that liquor is kills people, so do automotol goods, ropes and a hund articles we could mentic newspapers to be prohibit lishing ads for all these publishing of advertisem a matter of business as respectfully suggest that tionist attend to his ow let the newspaper man PROHIBITION OF LIQUOR NOTICES FLAYED BY EDITOR Let them stop the man anything detrimental to race and the newspaper in their power to help trouble with the average that he always starts reform the other fellow The only way we will hibition in this coup opinion, is by having drinking intoxicating beers. If Drink Is a Curse, So Is the Automobile and Canned Goods Declares Ely (Minn.) Miner Which Advises "Drys" to Attend to Their Own Affairs BILLY SUNDAY,THE More and more the ways becomes Billy evangelist. Heretofore content to take the las as his share of the Now, like an astute demanding "first" me press, of Buffalo, when present delivering tells of his change in ods, as follows: The attempt of prohibition forces to censor newspapers by prohibiting them from advertising liquor, is given an editorial broadside by the Ely (Minn.) Miner, which says: Some one overzealous in the interests of prohibition has a grand scheme to further the cause by prohibiting newspapers from publishing advertisements of liquor or beer, and propose to put a bill through congress to that effect. While the bill shows that the proibls believe in the efficacy of advertising, it also goes to show that in order to keep from getting horned, they propose cutting off the bull's tail. From a casual viewpoint it seems that the newspaper should have the right to run its own business insofar as the running does not conflict with the laws of the land. If it is legal, and the laws say it is, to manufacture beer and liquor, why should it be illegal to advertise the same. Besides, what do the sponsors of the bill offer the newspapers to offset the so-called sustained by depriving them of the advertising revenue. "Billy Sunday anno last night. Prefacing church of the day, Su had no complaint to Buffalo people were the expense account, collections were ver "I regret,' he sal shove the collection noses before I pr when a town or o churches must gus will pay the entire penses, every cent They must get all first day's collection to pay the first day that town.—New Y graph. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION The Cimeter is the only Republican paper in the City of Muskogee. The daily-Phoenix is sometimes Republican and sometimes independent but at the present time it claims to be independent, such a changing is not worth three whoops in h—1 to any political party and yet Bixby, its editor, got rich at the Republican pie counter. What base ingratitude. No Quinine That Does Not Affect The Nose because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE is better than ordinary Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor ringing in head. Remember the full name and look for the signature of R. W. GROVE. 250 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION In the District Court of Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma: Viola Brown, Plaintiff, vs. No. 5504 Harry Brown, Defendant The defendant Harry Brown, will take notice that he has been sued in the above named Court by the plaintiff, Viola Brown, for Divorce for Desertion and that un- less he answer the partition of the plaintiff, Viola Brown, on or before the 12th day of March, 1917 the allegations set forth in said petition will be taken as confessed and judgment rendered accordingly In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said District Court this the 23rd day of January, 1917. By Tom L. Fuller, Deputy, Clerk. Geo. W. Parker, Attorney for Plaintiff. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION. In the District Court of Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma: Neter Foutch Defendant. The defendant Netter Foutch, will take NOTICE that she has been sued in the above named Court by the plaintiff, II. Foutch, for Divorce, by reason of Desertion and that unless she answer the petition of the plaintiff, H Foutch on or before the 5 day of March, 1917, the allegations set forth in said petition will be taken as confessed and judgment rendered accordingly. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said District Court this the 19 day of January, 1917 C. H. Shaffer, Court Clerk, By Tom L. Fuller Deputy Clerk Geo. W. Parker, Attorney-for Plaintiff. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION. In the Superior Court yf Muskogee County, Oklahoma. No. 6540. Lula Washington, Vs. Phillip Washington Defendant. The defendant, Phillip Washington will take notice that he has been sued in the above named Court by the Plaintiff, Lula Washington for Divorce, and that unless he answer the petition filed by the Plaintiff alleging asseroin and gross neglect of duty on or before the 23rd day of March 1917 the allegations contained in said petition will be taken as true and confessed and judgement rendered accordingly. In Witness Whereof, I have set my hand as Clerk of said Court and affixed the seal thereof, this the 3rd day of February 1917. C.H. Shaffer, Court Clerk By E. A. Hill, B. M. Hatton, Attoney-for Plaintiff. IT'S EASY SAILING! ANTI- SALOOT LEAGUE PROHIBITION TERRITORY CONFISCATION WITHOUT COMPENSATION PROHIBITION FOR OTHERS AS A WOMAN SEES IT Rheta Childe Dorr, Writing in the New York Evening Mail, Declare Men Who Vote "Dry" Do Not Want Law To Apply To Themselves A woman writer for the New York Evening Mail, Rheta Childe Dorr, sums up the entire history of prohibition, in a few words. She writes: Nation-wide prohibition, we are told, will be realized in the United States within ten years. State after state has "gone dry," until nearly half the country is within the prohibition ranks. Whether a federal prohibition amendment is passed or not, it is said, the saloon will be put out of every one of the states before long. West Virginia went dry this year, and around Christmas time, according to press dispatches, the express companies doing business in the state were so swamped with packages of alcoholic drinks that all other traffic for a time, was held up. As for Kansas, which has been dry for years, it adds importantly to the revenues of the neighboring state of Missouri by a steady patronage of liquor exporting establishments. Comment on the "dry" state of Georgia, the voters of It works (1) well. "How do you like prohibition?" a citizen of Seattle was asked. "Splendidly," was the reply. "The law allows us to import a definite amount each month. So much whisky, so much wine, so much beer; a generous amount as far as ordinary drinkers are concerned." THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION 【Morning Telegraph, N. Y. City.】 No reformer is recognized as a great "success" until his annual revenue exceeds $5,000. But there are a lot of real decent preachers of the Gospel who can't collect $500 a year. Calling His Bluff. [Decatur (ill.) Labor World.] The Webb Kenyon law, which prohibits the shipping of beer, wines and liquors into prohibition states has been upheld by the United States Supreme Court. Good for the Supreme Court. The "dry" hypocrite who preaches prohibition and has a decanter on the sideboard and a case in the cellar, will have to be honest. He will have to quit talking and voting "dry" or do without his stimulants. [New York American.] If Bryan's advocacy had the same effect on moral issues that it had on political issues all the evangelists in the country will be needed for uplift work? If people will vote as they drink, there will not be such a hue and cry for prohibition. [Luke McLuke, Cincinnati Enquirer.] If some of the Reformers had their way there would be a law compelling us to come into the world fully clothed. The Original Dry State. [Syracuse (N. V.) Standard.] Maine isn't interested in the Webb-Kenyon bill, having discovered how to be probation and still get plenty of drink without sending out after it. West Virginia went dry this year, and around Christmas time, according to press dispatches, the express companies doing business in the state were so swamped with packages of alcoholic drinks that all other traffic for a time, was held up. As for Kansas, which has been dry for years, it adds importantly to the revenues of the neighboring state of Missouri by a steady patronage of liquor exporting establishments. Comment on the "dry" state of Georgia, the voters of which demand prohibition for the District of Columbia, is superfluous. There are so many open saloons in that state that no one even pretends that the law is enforced. What is one to think except that the men who votes for prohibition really want it for every one except themselves? "SAVE THE GIRL" IN DRY PORTLAND The Portland Oregonian tells how Prohibition works in "dry" Oregon; The Women's Prohibition Club recently opened hostilities on business men who allow their young women employees to go to the express office to get the employer's monthly shipments of liquor, and a worse war will be waged on those who use their stenographer's name to get more than their legal share. Stenographers who appear for packages may be watched. "I have reason to believe," said Mrs. Ada Unruh, who presided, "that many of the young women are asked by their employers for the use of their names. Of course, the man pays for it, but we should take some action." It was insinuated that many girls who would not think of getting liquor for themselves are frightened into it by the danger of the loss of their positions. Distriet Attorney Evans will be notified of the club's action and consulted as to how the women may best act. Another thing to be investigated will be the American Temperature Association, which Mrs. Unruh said was but a part of "the meshes of the Ilior interests' not throughout the country." They will inquire why, for how much and for what sort of work the Portland branch has advertised for women employed in the "female help wanted" columns of the local newspapers. REVENUE IS BIG FACTOR SOLONS WILL HESITATE BEFORE ADOPTING PROHIBITION NEEDS THE CASH Government Can Ill Afford To Lose Money From Liquor Sources As It Is In Poor Financial Condition, According To Congressman Fitzgerald Congress will consider long before indorsing prohibition, declares Arthur W. Dunn, Washington correspondent of the Memphis (Tenn.) Herald. The present financial condition of the federal treasury gives added importance to the quarter-billion dollar internal revenue derived each year from the liquor industry. A Financial Question. The following opinion was expressed in the dispatch: Even if it were possible to pass nation-wide prohibition laws at the present time and enforce them it is doubtful whether the financial condition of the government might not cause men in control to hesitate about taking such a step. The condition of the federal finances, according to Chairman Fitzgerald of the house appropriation committee, is such as might prevent any legislation which will cut off the revenue, although it has no effect whatever upon the demand of congress for additional appropriations, nor has it in any way stopped the onward sweep of extravagance in government expenditures. The two hundred and fifty millions received from liquor taxes and licenses can ill be spared from the government revenues at the present time. SAYS SIN LIES ONLY IN EXCESS Bishop Daniel Tuttle Is Against Prohibition and Local Option The following dispatch is from St. Louis (Mo.) to the Cincinnati Times-Star: Bishop Daniel S. Tuttle of the Episcopal Diocese of St. Louis, in a message to the people on the occasion of his eightieth birthday, said: "Prohibition, as I understand it, deems it a sin to make liquor or to sell liquor. It does not seem to me that a sin lies THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION Wanna Drive All To Drink? [New York Times]! Prohibition in West Virginia renders it impossible to get enough men to work the coal mines. Mr. Eryan might go down there and lend a hand. We Give it Up. Why Is it that when a man receives a good waltop at the hands of his political party and is turned down when he seeks a nomination, he sufficent is an Evil Thing and goes over to the Prohibition ranks? No Wonder He Wants New Deal. Bryan will quit trying and will turn his attention to moral issues. Now having tition problems and any economic problem years he may be pardoned for to switch his efforts. DECATUR (ILL.) LABOR WORLD WALLOPS THE AGITATORS War On Cigarettes Is Latest—Editor Tells Them To Go Down and Help the Poor To Rise, If They Want To Do Good Another reform move has taken hold of Decatur. This time it is the cigarette, and the Ministerial Association is backing a paid reformer in starting more trouble by making an effort to take another personal right away from the citizens of this city. The Ministerial Association might better let the paid cigarette reformer go her way. They would accomplish more by an effort to learn what conditions exist in Decatur that cause a mother to solicit men, for a fourteen-year-old daughter. The Ministerial Association is in print every few weeks as backing some reform move brought to us by some reformer who is paid for the work. They are ready at all times to preach sermons on fanatic reform movements, but there isn't one of them who will go out among the poor, illiterate people of this city to study conditions and find a remedy to better them morally or financially. If the ministers of this city were sincere in this work. If, instead of promoting "forced reform" on the community as a whole, they would visit the needy and the illiterate and make an honest effort to help them they might consider themselves worth while. If the ministers indulged in this kind of Christian work, it might have been possible for them to save the little fourteen-year-old girl from the ravages of eighteen or twenty men in two days. It might have been possible for them to show the mother and the aunt of that little girl that right way to live. And if they had, the city of Decatur would be saved a stain end to none in Illinois and the little girl, and the mother, and the aunt probably would be good citizens, living a virtuous life instead of on the way to the penitentiary. Copy "Billy" Sunday. But the ministers of Decatur don't want practical work. They preach sensational, reform sermons of the Billy Sunday style, so they can get scare heads in Decatur's deceitful daily papers. Now they have taken on the task, to help a paid reformer, of saving the boys from cigarette smoking, and we wish to say, that if a boy's parents can't keep him from smoking cigarettes, the Ministerial Association and Dr. Dora Martin, the paid reformer of the Anti-Cigarette League, stands but little chance of doing much for him. The face is, we have good laws in this state governing the sale of tobacco and cigarettes to boys. See that the law is enforced and we will have no use for Dr. Dora Martin and her fake Anti-Cigarette League. The local ministers can better utilize their time looking into the moral and physical conditions of the illiterate people of this city. Let the parents take care of their cigarette smoking boys.—Decatur (ill.) Labor World. This is from the Des Moines Tribune, in "dry" town: Rosa Copola, 30 years old, and her three children are named as the defendants in a charge of selling liquor contrary to law, filed by Booze Chief Ab Day. Internal Revenue Agent Saye CountyAuthoritiesWill Not Cooperate With Federal Sleuths Argument Against National Prohibition in This Story The Louisville Courier-Journal has this to say about Dry Georgia: An Internal Revenue agent who is assigned to duty in Georgia says that it is impossible to catch moonshiners in some of the counties because the county officers will not co-operate with Federal agents, but on the contrary protect the makers of whisky. In such counties moonshine stills are running night and day. Federal officers must avoid county officers if they would nourish a hope of detecting proprietors of illicit stills. The situation is familiar in other States. The local "still house," as it is called, can not be abolished by legislative enactment, as the large licensed and regulated distilleries might be. It can be hidden, behind the brush and behind the coattails of sympathetic sheriffs, and must be found before it can be closed or destroyed. It is a simple, cheap outfit which can be replaced and put again into operation when the backs of officers are turned. The reputable distillery, operates under the law, and pays its part toward the expenses of the state and county governments; contributing to the schools, the roads and to occasional enterprises planned for the public benefit, may be put off of the map by the making of a law. It is not going to slink in the woods with the fox, but row in the ground with the woodchuck or "fix" the county officers with par of the proceeds of its business. There' an end of distilling as a large business when there's an end of its legalize distillery, but the obscure neighbor whisky factory may continue The elements entering into the make up of whisky are home-grown are easily secured. A sympathetic neighbor, even where the county officers are austere and incorruptible acts as a network of protective alarms for the moonshiner. Where laws have been passed, polish bookmaking at race track and where there has been an effort to enforce the laws, public gambling on races has ended, but the conceal more deadly down-town, all the year, room has not been closed. The races were ended in some states. The avenues derived from them we stopped. The breeding of horses we discouraged. It legitimate enterprise has dealt a hard blow, but the bookmakers continued to fatten on the door of the police and the folly of ticker in gambling places which post holds on races all the way from Wing to Kingston. Where the abolishment of distillers contemplated the question for the sincere advocate of the uplift to consider is not whether distillers and labor owners can be put out of business, but whether the making and sifting of intoxicants can be ended by putting the distillers out of business, sacrificing upon the altar of social welfare the substantial revenues which arise from a legalized and regular wholesale and retail distribution of toxicants. The little local "still house" is large and a known quantity, in equation of the secker for true universal temperance, or the advice of universal abatement. ll THE TRUE MEANING OF TEMPERANCE. “TEMPERANCE—The state or quality of being temperate; the spirit and practice of Rational Self control; Habitual Moderation. Self festraint In the conduct of one's life or business; suppression of any tendency to passionate action} @aimness; patience; as, the course of Washington showed wisdom and temperance.”—Definition of the word “Temperance” In Funk and Wagnalle New Standard Dictionary | Of the Englieh Language. TOBACCO HIT BY DRY BILL TAADE AROUSED ‘The danger to the Tobacco Industry | that lurks behind the prohibition movement is pointed out by the Greensboro, N. C., Daily News, in a @ispatch from Washington, D. C. To- bacco growers throughout the entire Bouth, the News says, are worrled ‘over the methods resorted to by the “Arya,” and are aroused over the sit: ation, realizing, at last, that the same people who are waging war on liquor ‘are equally determined to abolish to- acco. Speaking of the movement for national prohibition, the Times de- clares: Here is what is worrying everyone who has any interest in tobacco: Bhould the Anti-Saloon League be suc- @eneful, the Federal Government will Jose at least $300,000,000 cach year which it now receives from taxes, pen- alties and otherwive from liquor deal- ers, This deficit must be made up some way and the tobacco people Rave a strong suspicion that they are to be mado the “Koat.” ‘A $30,000,000 Deficit, Each yoar finds Congress appropri- ‘ating more money than it did the year Before, All of those fine battleships which Secretary of (he Navy Daniels Urged Congress to build, costing mil- Yons of dollars; the thousands of troops the war department urged Con- Gress to provide for, also cost barrels ef gold dollars. ‘Therefore, (he pres: eat Administration faces a deficit this year of something like $800,000,000 and the ond is not yet in sight, With nation-wide prohibition there Would be another deficit of $300,000,- 000 and the tobacco people fear they will be asked to bear the brunt of this fos. This would force the manufac: turers to boost the price of cigarettes and cigars with the consequent result that people would stop using them and & slump in the price of tobacco would follow with great loss to the great in Gustry now constituting a great part ef North Carolina. They'd Pay the Taxes. One tobacco man declared today that nation-wide prohibition would ean that cigars and cigarettes tha Bow sell for five cents would cost a Teast 25 cents under the additional tas burden which they believe Is sure te be imposed upon thom, They are won Goring, therefore, if the prohibitionist: Bad not better let well enough alon nd be satisfied with state-wide pro Bidition instead of nation-wide prohibi Won. North Carolina is well pleased wit @tate-wide prohibition, but there ar Bome pretty good political observer: who are willing to make a small be that the State would go wet If It wer Gefinitely known that none of the “fr water” could bo had in Washington o aay other place where the waytarin man could quench his thirst. ‘ THE DRUG HABIT Magistrate Simms declares that probibition increases the drug habit. se away liquor, says the Magistrate, from one accustomed to its use, and ‘the desire for stimulants of some sort Grives bim to drugs. Magistrate Simms has had a long experience on She bench and is a close observer of What comes before him, The atten- Gion of William Jennings Bryan, the eelf-constituted leader and high apos- Gle of prohibition, 1s respectfully call- 4 to this allegation —Town Topics, Mew York City. MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL ASSAILS “BILLY” SUNDAY CONFISCATION WITHOUT COMPENSATION m ("2 ¢ yet ) p - : by q y <q f mw Se és Pa A / \ y se } } S ts / j r : Y / C4 , oe ~t {ak pave eR ‘e YRIY ‘iF ey .: F LAWFUL f MWOPERTY peoretnearoy af | mel . , oe pee In the New York American appeared the following account of Rev. Joseph MeMahon's attack upon the methods of Billy Sunday, Prohibition etreus performer: “1 honestly doubt the sincerity of Dilly Sunday's motives. 1 question the worth of his conversions. The fact that he conducts the business of the Lord on a strictly business basis is, of course, his own affalr, But no one an call his mob psychology, oF his 9 ypnotic influence over vast crowds—real religion.” Hefore a fashionable audience of women, with a scattering of clergy, the Rev, Joseph H, MeMahon, pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes, Roman Gath- olic Church, yesterday gave his opin- fon of Billy Sunday and his work in no uncertain terms, Tho ballroom at Delmonico’s was crowded with atten: tive Hateners, ‘The occasion of the address was one of the mid-winter meetings conducted by the Catholle Library Association. Dr. McMahon sketched one of the revivallst's meetings, and sald: “Nothing can stop the stream of converts from hitting the sawdust trail under these circumstances, Fit teen hundred trained ushers are watch. ing thelr faces, waiting for ‘favorable symptoms.” So the mystery of con version ts accomplished.” Dr. McMahon explained that the un: usual and grotesque, as Billy Bunday emphasized them, were in large part the methods of groat revivalists of the Church in past ages. THE FUNNY SIDE ¢ @ OF FROFISITION Will Cause a feat Panie, Cd (New York American.) Some day the Honorable Senate will wake up and discover that that dis- trict prohibition law applies to boose in the Senate Office Building! For Film Fane and Flim Flame, {Cincinnatt Pont} Billy Sunday is booked solid for three years, say the newspapers. Billy and Charlie Chaplin are easily the leaders of the amusement world. Somebody's Trying To Be Funny. [New York Sun} ‘That a boom for Bryan for Pré@ident in 1920 has been started may not be surprising, but it is astonishing to have him’ put forward as a “logical candidate.” @ = 8our Grape Notes. (New York Telegraph.) See that Mr. Bryan has sounded a lot of new keynotes for the guidance of the Democratic party, Don't sound good. Retter have them yodled. Sunday Lives in Luxury. Father McMahon referred to St. Vin. cont Ferrer, a revivalist of the Fran eiscan Order, who in 1899 wandered through Europe with an organization similar to Sunday's preaching and making converts for the Church, He ‘then continued: “There is the contrast of the luxu- rious home which Sunday always establishes for himself in every city he visita as compared to the bleak austerity of the middle age mon ‘astories, Sunday takes his own cook with him, his valet and a mas seur to rub him after his sermon {s finished. He sponds his lelsuro at basoball games and in his automo bile, “St, Vincent Ferrer did not have trained ushers to take up his collee. tions, He had no financial status In ‘the credits of his day that totaled close to $800,000, the present Dun and Bradstreet rating of Billy Sunday 1 tell you it is not absurd to question ‘the motives of a religion which seems to hold nothing more tangible than the ‘mere gathering of money. “We can not quarrel with Billy Sunday over thd perfection of his ma chine, Our objections are much deep ‘er than that. I maintain that the Gos ‘pal of Sunday is not the Gospel o Christ, He destroys without building up. Those who are fed on his highly ‘spiced brand of religion, can not con tent themselves with the ordinary “commonplace services of their churel \after he has gone.” FIGURES FOR DRYS In 1916 the United States internal revenues from the tax on spirits and fermented Hquors amounted to $247, 452,642, ‘This little item, in the pres: ent and prospective condition of th ‘Treasury, should be of considerate Interest to the statesmen in Congre ’s, be they sincere believers in prohi rt tion or merely kecn-eyed watchers of the jumping of the cat, who favor national prohibition. Desperately searching for new sources of revenue, the Government is in no position to throw away this old and not offensive one.—New York Times. “Prohibition Prohibits.” Minneapolis Labor Record } Johnny Whipple used to sell good Rye Until the County voted dry; And now the people come to buy Some booze thai tastes like Lewis lye, “Pronibitioa Prohibits.” They pay two dollars for a quart ‘That makes them fight and makes the snort, And makes them sleep to wake in court; But John should care he’s never short “Prohibition Prohibits.” Since he quit selling good old ale, He's busy raking in the kale And all his patrons go to jail; @ Yet still the boob reformers wall, “prohibition Prohibits.” TAKES BATH IN BEER IN MAINE a Gamat, e To prove how “wet,” Maine, the original “dry” state, la, read this account from Portland, to the New York American: “I'd heard of folk taking a bath in liquor, but | never saw it done before,” sald Deputy Sheriff Hunt, when ‘he returned from a liquor seizing expedition with the Deputy Mayor, after taking a keg of beer from the home of Michael Serenio of Hampshire street. ’ ‘The water had frozen in the pipes at the Serenio home and Mrs. Ser. enlo was buslly engaged In bathing the children In a pall of beer. The deputies selzed the Impromptu bath tub, its contents and a keg besides. Thie Is one of the freak develop- ments of *the State-wide enforce- ment of Malne’s liquor law. “ORY” DES MOINES Drunkenness Arrests Increase After lowa Capital Turns Prohibition : — e A dispatch from “dry” Des Moines, Ia., to the Chicago Tribune reads: Police department statistics made public today revealed that there were more arrests during 1916 for intoxica- tion than during 1915. Total arrests for drunkenness in 1916 were an- nounced by the department as 3,472. In 1915, which Included six “wet” months and six “dry” months, 2,956 persons were arrested charged with being intoxicated. Saloons were ban- ished from Des Moines six months be- fore statewide prohibition went Inte effect. e CONVALESCENTe FRENCH SOLDIF OS ‘ni oy t i RS er! & Ys aera Reg ee eee will RNR Ee nee atta? Ones oe (iets Maes a te as Dae > he 2 oe Pal ee i a lw 5 Bare AX ‘ ) Aes, , 2 ( 2 By ef bY b) we i L 2 c —s Fe E Ss y “ain? a Ma Fi Hy @ —Photo by Press Iilustrating Co., New York City, The French warriors in this pleture agreed that this was the beet part of being wounded and recovering—this party given by Baroness Fauqueux, for them, in her lovely garden adjoining her palace in Paree. Wine must be good for the sick, It was given freely to these happy convalescents. fl, (, 5 | | [ sabaaisgs e PROHIBITIONIST DENOUNCES THE PROPOSED SHEP- @ PARD LAW D. Clarence Gibboney, Head of Law and Order Society,Takes Stand for Compensation of Liquor Dealers and Referen- dum to People of Nation's Canital The Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch contained the following account of a prohibitionist’s attack upon the at- tempt to make the District of Colum: bia “dry” without referring tha bill to a vole of the people, and to do- prive tho liquor dealers of their prop- erty without compensation. Says the Dispateh: D. Clarence Gibboney, president of the Law aud Order Society of Philw delphia, sent to all meuibers of Cou- gress @ communteation in which hs deprecates the passage of a bill en- foreing prohibition upon the District of Columbia without the approval of a majority vote of the residents of that district. Mr, Gibboney has been the leading spirit in scores of raids in this city upon violators of the license ‘aw. In the last two years or so he has sev eral times advocated that the abrupt abolition of lquor selling by law amounts to confiscation, and tha‘ Mquor dealers should bo compensated if they are driven out of business, In his present address to member ot the National Congress he state: that while he fs interested in the abo lition of the liquor traffic, he wishe to see it done in the spirit of fair play He writes: Unparalleled in History. “There is about to come before th House of Representatives for a vote and therefore for your individual at proval or rejection, a proposal whic in principle and inevitable effect, { unparalleled in the history of our ns tlonal government. It designs to sut stitute paternalism for democracy the theory and practice of our nations conduct of individual or communit affairs, It contemplates desiroyin ‘oven the spirit of home rule with th fron hand of autocracy. “It proposes nothing else than complete reversal of the principles « Justice and freedom and self-gover ment under which we have lived an prospered and grown strong as a pe ple and a nation. | refer to the bi now pending before Congress popular known as the prohibition law for tk District of Columbia. “The bill plans to place a certal number of citizens of this country r Aiding in sald District under the bs of @ prohibition which at least to part of that number, would mean pre perity confiscation ae well. Ass American citizen, and as one vital Interested In the advancement of re temperance and prohibition, | prote that Inherently, and from every vie point, and to every Intent and purpos quite aside from the legal questio and the financial Injustices Invoive thie Ie a proposition foreign to o form_of government.” STATE OR NATION? e A person may with the utmost con Gistency favor state-wide probibitior and at the same time oppose nation wide prohibtion. Tae frst place, the question of selling quor is one thai clearly comes within the prerogative ef state authority, eee Boek hes) ear ee ee ning her palace in Paree, Wine must rely tc these happy convalescents. @ accazted a bribe of $4,000 from the Biilingsteys last August. This, it is aileged, was at the time when the wayor entered a e>mapromiso with the Billingsleys, agree'>; to drop. all city cases pending against them and return certain valuable documen- tary evidence in his possession, @ Neckingham is a:leged by grand Jury witnesses to have accepted several substantial bribes from the Billings leys in furtherance of the alleged.con- spiracy, ard atso to have assisted them to obtain shipments of Mquor consigned to other persona, Tho police chief also is charged with entering a conspiracy with Mayor Gill and the Billingsleys by which the lat+ ter were to receive police pratection for thelr illicit businees. The federal chargo against Hodge is thet he consplred'with the Billingaleys and ether defendants to protect their Whisky shipmonts, turned therm out of Jail, without a guerd whenever it wan in his power, and Inter saw tolit that Hiouor seize? was returned to them, al. though it osteasibly had been confie cated, Wile Hodge Was Sherif | honge's stleged acts in behalt of the bootlegging ring, it 1s charged, were pevtormed while he was sherif™, The government charges that Hodges's greatest ure to the syndicate cawe when there was danger that Ser- ‘Kant Putnam would seize one of the ‘Bit Ingsteys’ shipments, At those times, it {8 alleged, the former sheriff, upon (the ringleager’s instructions, would -se've the Manor in order to savo it from Putnam und later cause It ‘> bo reterned, e ) Botween the three high officias and their minions the protection afforded tthe Bitlingsicys Is alleged to have , been #0 complete thet of the $60,000 _ Werth of liqvor the d.llingsieys admit having shipped tn, only one carlogd ‘was conflscatod by the pollee. And “this car, according to the government, twas vexed on 4 tip given direct to , Serge ant Putnam by a rival boot lezger. t “Tucktontotly, Putnam 1s deseribed by Logan BiVjngstey as tho only man of gauthor'ty on the police force that re. y fused graft money when approached. 1 Putnam, one of tho last witnesses -eolled by the grand jury before Satur. tlay's tudictmonis, were returned, {s y doclared to haye substantiated a large t part of tio Billingsleys’ story to the J sovernment : He is expected to prove an im sportant witness in the case, 3 Another sensational allegation by the federal authorities i that while a Mayor Gill at the time of the now y, famous compromise with the Billings lays declared that ho had put the Bil Mngsley out of business, they begat operating on a larger scale than eve! @ before the next day after the agree o; ment. p- Before the compromise it { n, charged, the Billingsleys received onl; is comparatively small amounts of liquor a- whereas, after the agreement and th b-alleged conspiracy was entered inte inthey immediately began shippini al whisky to Seattle in carload lots, y Troubled No More, is The government also sets up tha while the Billingsleys, at the instige ton of the city officials, were arrest orca a8 much as twenty-five times be fore the compromise, the police re mj ords fail to disclose a single arres since that time, iy ‘The case against Gilt, Beckinghar iy and Hodge is deemed to have feders NY jurisdiction because the shipments tt volved were in interstate commerc and the officials charged entered int im an alleged conspiracy to violate th '* federal laws. A" Government officers made it pla! * Saturday that the indictments agains ** the alleged higher-ups, while based o " tho testimony of the Billingsleys, wer ly returned only after thelr statement ! had been substantiated and corrobo st ated all along the line by scores ¢ MW witnesses ® “The clos.ng days of the federal ai M® thorities’ quest for the higher-ups { 4+ the big conspiracy brought one sens “" tion after another, tana thrills ran ing from alleged intimidation of go ernment witnosses to widely circulate Feports that threats had been ma¢ against District Attorney Clay Alle a eee oe Neem