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Vol. 8 No. 30 'DRY' RIDER ILL-TIMED PROHIBITION NOW WOULD HAVE SERIOUS EFFECT ON COUNTRY MILLIONS INVESTED Would Be Lost, Many Thousands Deprived of Their Means o Livelihood, Stores Rendered Vacant, While Transportation Companies Will Lose Valuable Freight The Buffalo Commercial, under the caption, "An Ill-Timed Rider," sees serious result in the hasty adoption of prohibition as is proposed in the "dry" amendment to the Food Control Bill; It is unfortunate that the Barkley amendment forbidding the use of food-stuffs in the manufacture of malt and spirituous liquors was forced upon the House while it had under consideration the food control bill. It was hasty legislation in that no matter how obnoxious the liquor industry may be to many people, it is a legitimate business, and under the sanction of the law men have put millions of dollars into it and are entitled to protection. Suddenly to forbid the manufacture of all alcoholic beverages—for this is what the amendment amounts to—will precipitate a sharp dislocation of economic conditions. Millions of dollars of invested capital will be made useless, thousands of men employed in various lines of the liquor industry will be thrown out of employment. Transportation companies will lose valuable freight; owners of places where liquor is dispensed will find their stores vacant. Breweries and distilleries all over the country will go into idleness before they have a chance to adjust themselves to the new order. But above all, if this food control measure becomes a law in its present shape, the Government of the United States will lose an annual revenue computed at nearly or quite a half billion dollars, or else this sum must be made up by taxing other forms of production less able to carry the burden. Changes Character of Bill. In its present form the bill giving the administration power to regulate the production and disposal of food supplies becomes an out-and-out prohibition measure. Its character is entirely changed, the main provision becoming subordinate to the prohibition of the manufacture of intoxicants. And this action was taken without any mandate from the people. The orderly course of procedure is wholly reversed. A law that should come from a change in the constitution is forced upon the country by a House rider after only hasty and unintelligent consideration. The nation is embarked upon a new course of domestic policy without counting the cost and without measuring the disaster it may bring. Prohibition must stand by itself. To bring it about by incorporating a tricky amendment in a measure of quite a different character is imposing upon the people something that they have not demanded in any fair and above-board campaign. The Commercial is not arguing now against prohibition as a national policy, but it is protesting against an unfair method of forcing it upon the country. If it is deemed advisable to prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating drinks, the orderly course of procedure is by constitutional amendment. "It should stand or fall upon its own merits," as the New York World so pertinently says, "in fair and open discussion, and not seek a stranglehold upon a measure which may mean our defeat or victory in the world war." The Commercial trusts that the Senate will act with better appreciation of the situation and better understanding of the effect that this ill-timed and crude rider, wholly unerg mane to the title of the proposed act, will have upon economic conditions.—Buffalo Commercial. The Muskogee Cimeter. SAYS SHERI FS WINK AT MOONSHINE STILL From the New York American is taken the following on moonshining in "dry" Georgia: E. C. Yellowley, internal revenue agent in charge of the Atlanta district, charges that county sheriffs do not co-operate with revenue agents in running down moonshiners. All too often the moonshiner is protected by the county officials. In those counties where federal revenue agents have the co-operation of the sheriff and his deputies moonshining is almost unknown. In other counties, where the local officials wink at the illicit manufacture of whisky, moonshine stills are running almost night and day. Mr. Yellowley declares some sheeriff laugh at requests of the revenue officers for assistance. "There are some counties where the Federal officers will go five miles out of their way in order to avoid being seen by the county officers," said Mr. Yellowley. "There are forty different state laws being violated by moonshiners, yet action is taken only by the government, based solely on the revenue enactment." JUSTICE DEMANDS A FAIR PAYMENT The New York Morning Telegraph declares editorially for the compensation of the liquor dealers for losses caused by the enactment of prohibition laws. An editorial in that paper says: The United States, through its law makers, seems to be rushing toward prohibition, at least as far as whiskey is concerned. But what of the men who have enormous sums invested in the business of distilling? And what of the banks which have advanced money on whiskey stock and the wholesale dealers whose warehouses are filled with barrels of whiskey? Justice demands that these men who have engaged in a legitimate business and paid large revenues into the cashbox of the country should receive from this Government the value of their properties and their goods. A great industry will be wiped out, and it is fair to pay the price. FORMER COP TO PRISON This dispatch from Fort Smith to the Arkansas Gazette shows how "dry" Arkansas is: "The booze traffic received a jolt here today when a jury found Pete Condit, former police officer, guilty on two counts and sentenced him to serve two years in prison. Shortly afterward Jim Bonner pleaded guilty in two cases. "Both Condit and Bonner have long been identified with the boot'egging ring here, according to officers." BANKERS PROTEST That the adoption of the amendment to the food bill, prohibiting the use of grains in the manufacture of malt beverages would retard municipal improvements, destroy practically $65,000,000 in brewing and malting property, cause 2,000 saloon properties to be vacated, effect about 75,000 workmen and persons dependent upon them; cause a loss of a fortune in taxes; decrease rentals and depreciate the value of properties in Milwaukee, were contained in protests forwarded to Washington from this city on Thursday. The messages were sent to President Wilson, Vice President Marshall, Speaker Champ Clark, Senators LaFollette and Husting, Congressmen Cary and Stafford, and the committee on agriculture. The protests were from the Milwaukee common council, from bankers, merchants, heads of industrial concerns and religious bodies. Bankers among others expressed disapproval of the proposition now be fore congress. A flood of telegrams were sent to Washington, voicing this protest. Some expressed themselves in interviews. All were to the same tenor, that the passage of an act which would mean the destruction of so much industrial property would be a great injustice, and congress should consider well before taking such a "To legislative these great inustries out of business without just compensation would be a great injustice," said Fred Vogel, Jr., president of the First National bank. "A majority of the people of the country have the right to say what they want, and the minority must submit, but they should consider these vast industries, which have grown up in the country. They have some rights. If such a law is to be passed, the government should compensate them for the loss they will sustain."—Milwaukee Sentinel. TO URGE TAX EXEMPTIONS Barbers Complain Against More Wartime Burdens. A plea for exemption from war tax on alcohol and a request that it be not classified with the whisky industry will be contained in petitions to the United States Senate Ways and Means Committee from the Cincinnati Barbers' Supply Dealers' Club, which held meeting at the Grand Hotel. "Use of alcohol lotions by barbers' supply dealers, with the proposed war tax of $2.20 added to the present price of alcohol, $3.61 a gallon, would be prohibitive," said Bernard D Vry, Evansville, Ind., National President of the Barber Supply Dealers of America, who presided at the meeting. Representatives from Columbus, O.; Atlanta, Ga., and other cities attended the meeting. The question of exemption will be discussed at the national meeting to be held in Chicago August 15. M. L. Taylor is president of the Cincinnati Barber Supply Dealers' Club.—Cincinnati Enquirer. The Administration in Washington, in times of war, is entitled to the support and co-operation of every American citizen, but when those who are charged with representing the people so far forget the right of their constituents to free enjoyment of personal liberty, an guaranteed by the Constitution, then it is time for the people to unite in their protests of such dastardly and cowardly legislation. It is dastardly and cowardly because the provision has been attached to a wartime measure, and, as such, will receive support when under other conditions it would utterly fail. It shows the lack of partiotism on the part of the dry advocates. Provide Compensation. If prohibition is the only salvation for our country and we must have it, then let us adopt such a measure in the regular way without tacking a prohibition rider to a war-time measure, and let the prohibition amendment provide for just compensation to those who would be injured by such legislation. Confiscation without compensation does not meet with popular approval. It is un-American. Senator Johnson of California recently stated that in our efforts to overthrow the monarchies of Europe we should be certain that we are not building one for ourselves. There was more truth than can be measured in that utterance. It is to be hoped that the Administration and the members of the House and Senate will heed the warning. MORE LIKE 216,000 DRY LOBBY- ISTS. Prohibition polled only 216,000 votes at the last election, but it seems to have sent 216,000 Senators and Representatives to Congress. 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SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED AT THIS OFFICE --- NEGRO STATE FAIR MUSKOGEE To the Negro Public of Oklahoma, Greeting: A few of the leading members of our race got together in the city of Muskogee during the month of May, 1917, and formed an organization to be known as the Co-operative Negro Farmers and Industrial State Fair Association. This Fair Association aims to represent the progress, wealth and varied industris engaged in by the Negroes in the state of Oklahoma. These ideas and forms for the State Fair Association for our people were first given impetus in the demonstration held in Muskogee by the Negro Business League on the last visit of our distinguished citizen, Booker T. Washington, to the state of Oklahoma. That is the first date in the history of our lives that we realized what the Negro in a small section of our state was doing. This idea has been kept alive in our mind until it took different shape in the form of a Negro State Fair Association. In this Fair Association, which belongs exclusively to our people, we propose to show to the world what the Oklahoma Negro is capable of doing and to this end we have fixed the 4th day of September, 1917, for the beginning of this fair. The fair will be opened at the State Fair Ground in the city of Muskogee, in Muskogee County, at 10 A. M., and will end on the 9th day of September, 1917. There will be exhibited some of the finest stock that can be grown in the United States by our people. There will be farm products of all kinds, there will be machinery, and in fact an exposition of every conceivable industry in which the Negro is engaged. There is no state in the Union where the Negro owns as much real property, and good real property as he does in the state of Oklahoma. Some of the best Negro blood in the United States may be found in the state of Oklahoma, and we say unhesitatingly that there is no other state in the Union that can give an exhibition of the various industries in the way as can our people in the state of Oklahoma. At the same time the National Negro Baptist Association of the United States will hold its annual session in the city of Muskogee. There will be from out the state and from all over the United States an aggregation of Negroes of not less that twenty thousand people. These people who come to Oklahoma and view this fair in which the Negroes of Oklahoma will display their wares, will carry away with them the news of what our people are really doing. It means that other people of our race will be induced to come to good Oklahoma. It means that more money will be brought to the state of Oklahoma. The several Expositions that have been given by the different countries of the world were but Fairs on a larger scale, and they served to advertise the business to the world of the countries that gave these Expositions. What is true of the World's Fairs or Expositions is true also of the State Fairs. Our farmers get a chance to exchange ideas with their brother farmers, and get a chance to see what the other fellow is doing, and at the same time they show the other fellow what they are doing. The stockman gets a chance to exhibit his stock to the other stockmen, the mechanic his machinery, the poultryman his poultry, and the women folks their fine needle work. There will be premiums given for the best of every industry that is exhibited at this fair. Over $3,500.00 will be given away absolutely free in premiums. This will be the greatest fair ever exhibited by Negroes in the United States. The Fair Association has been organized and incorporated under the laws of the state of Oklahoma, with a capital stock of $25,000.00 in shares of $1.00 per share. Every Negro in the state of Oklahoma is invited to become a stockholder. Even if he purchases one share, the dividend from this immense undertaking will more than pay you for what you have invested. The men who are at the head of this fair are men of our own color and are men who stand among your people. J. Coody Johnson of Wewoka, Okla., is President of the Fair Association. There is probably no Negro in the state of Oklahoma, or elsewhere, who is more widely known than Colonel J. Coody Johnson, the lawyer, stockman and financier. He is the organizer and originator of the famous Black Panther Oil & Gas Company, one of the richest corporations in the state of Oklahoma. Dr. R. H. Waterford of Muskogee, is Vice President. He is the leading physician in Oklahoma, a man of excellent habits and full of energy. T. J. Elliot of Muskogee is Treasurer of the Fair Association. Mr. Elliot is the Negro merchant prince of Oklahoma. He owns a number of stores, his principal store being in Muskogee, and is, without a doubt, the finest Negro Dry Goods, Ladies' and Gents' Furnishing store in the United States. W. H. Twine, an attorney at law and a great race man, is Secretary of this company. Mr. Twine has been in the state of Oklahoma since 1891. He livse in Muskogee and has a lucrative practice in his profession as lawyer. He owns several tracts of oil bearing land and is an all around good fellow. Mr. T. H. Traylor of Oklahoma City, is a member of the board of directors. Mr. Traylor is truly the biggest and best known Negro in Western Oklahoma, and owns some very valuable property, also several brick buildings and an elegant home in Oklahoma City, the capital of Oklahoma. Mr. O. W. Gurley is a leading Negro business man of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Mr. Gurley is reputed to be worth anywhere from $75,000 to $150,000. He is a successful business man and one of the boys that came up from the grass roots. Mr. John W. Simmons, retired merchant of Coweta, Oklahoma, who is now giving his individual attention to his vast real estate holdings and fine stock raising is another member of the board of directors. Mr. Simmons is a native born Creek Negro with very limited advantages, but has crept up step by step through the darkness and the maze of a business career while others were asleep. It can be truly said of him "that he was climbing upward through the night." The other member of the board of directors is the Hon. Robert Emmett Stewart. Mr. Stewart is an attorney at law of one of the best firms of Negro lawyers in the state of Oklahoma and in fact a firm of lawyers that stand second to none among our people in the United States. He is a member of the firm of Brown and Stewart, of Muskogee. Mr. Stewart is a man of considerable means. The firm of Brown and Stewart probably do the largest business for Negroes, and represent more wealthy Negroes than any firm of lawyers of our nationality in the United States. It is safe to say that their clientele runs up into the millions. Mr. Stewart is the gentleman who cares for the legal end of this Fair Association, and we can safely say that there is no danger with such men as these at the head of this Fair Association, that it well ever go to the rocks either for lack of funds or by improper management. Don't forget the date, Sept. 4th at 10 A. M., city of Muskogee, Oklahoma. Lasts until the 9th of Sept. Any further information that you may desire about this Fair or the purchase of stock, we cheerfully refer you to Dr. R. H. Waterford, First Vice President and General Manager, at 200 1-2 South 2nd St., Muskogee, Okla. 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R. NEW TIME CARD Train No. 1 For Tulsa, and Wichita, depart ..... 8:00 a. m. Train No. *7 (Motor) for Tulsa, depart, ..... 12:01 p. m. Train No. 5 For Tulsa and Pawhuska, depart, ..... 5:10 p. m. Train No. 3 From Ft. Smith arrive, ..... 7:30 p. m. Train No. 2 From Tulsa and Wichita, arrive, ..... 6:15 p. m. Train No. 4 For Ft. Smith depart, ..... 7:45 a. m. Train No. 2 For Ft. Smith depart, ..... 6:80 p. m. Train No. 7 From Ft. Smith arrive, ..... 11:45 a. m. Train No. *8 From Tulsa (Motor) arrive ..... 9:45 p. m. Train No. 6 From Pawhuska and Tulsa, arrive ..... 10:40 a. m. *Daily, except Sunday For further information. Phone PBX 4260 Muskogee, Oklahoma. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES. DR. Z. H. BASS, Chairman, A. C. PERDUE, Sec. E. N. GUILLORY, J. T. GIVENS, DR. F. McPHAUL, E. A. KING, S. W. CLEMMONS, J. W. WESLEY, J. H. LAKE, H. F. FOUTCH, NELSON SMITH, DR. E. T. EUTLER, L. N. FINLEY, MRS. A. E. JEFFERSON, Treas COMMITTEE ON DECORATION. W. M. RAGSDALE, Chalmura, W. STEWART, A. O. EDMONS, J. T. MARCH, LONNIE BRADLEY, COMMITTEE ON PROGRAM E. N. GUILLORY, S. W. CLEMMONS, MRS. I. H. ANDERSON. COMMITTEE ON MUSIC. J. H. WARD, JAS. YOUNG, EARL GREEN, MRS. IZELLA McCALPIN, A. C. BRISTOW, F. I. SMITH. Board Members. Mrs. C. A. Gilmore, Oklahoma City. Mrs. Lottie Satchel, N. Muskogee, Okla. Mrs. M. Lathan, Tulsa, Okla. Mrs. A. N. Benson, Grant, Okla. Mrs. E. Marina, Okmulgee, Okla. Mrs. M. M. J. Carr, State Missionary. 212 N. 2nd illers Hulley R. R. ME CARD mita, depart ... 8:00 a. m. depart, 12:01 p. m. uka, depart, 5:10 p. m. arrive, 7:30 p. m. mita, arrive, 6:15 p. m. depart, 7:45 a. m. depart, 6:30 p. m. arrive, 11:45 a. m. arrive 9:45 p. m. uilaa, arrive ... 10:40 a. m. Uskogee, Oklahoma. Excelsior T. No. 107 Wilburton. Meets 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month. Mrs. Della Parker, W. P. Mrs. Fannie Cherry, W. S. Crystal White L. No. 33, Alumna. Meets 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month. I. W. Carwile, W. M. N. H. Washington, W. S. Mabell L. No. 49, Mabell. 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SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED AT THIS OFFICE PALMER'S SKIN WHITENER WASHES DARK, BROWN or Sallow Skin Whites Good for Pimples and Rough Skin Get the Original and Gentle Made Only by JACOBS' PHARMACY ATLANTA, GA. 25c Delivered AGENTS WANTED. Write Five Terms. W. H. Twine ..... Editor P. R. Price ..... Associate Editor W. H. Twine, Jr. ..... Manager R. H. Twine ..... Collector THE N. A. C. W. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION The Cimeter is the only Republican paper in the City of Muskogee. The early Phoenix is sometimes Republican and sometimes independent but at the present time it claims to be inde- pendent, such a changing is not worth three whoops in h—l to any political party and yet Bixby, its editor, got rich at the Republican pie counter. What base ingratiude. It is always easy to find where the Cimeter stands on any subject. We always make our fight in the open and whole sometimes we may be wrong, yet you always known which way our musket is pointed. Some fellows are cussing us about our stand in the Langston matter but it is plain we have not given any one the double- Rev. U. S. Mingo, is a great revivalist and is now making a tour of the state of Louisiana and other southern states representing the Muskogee Cimber the best newspaper in the Southw. at. Whatever information is desired about Oklahoma and her Negro towns can be gained by interview with Rev. Mingo. He will be through your town and community and he will tell you the truth about Oklahoma, about farms and city property. See him if you are interested in Oklahoma. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION. In the District Court in and for Muskogee County. State of Oklahoma. Nettie Crawford, Plaintiff. YB. Edgar Crawford. Defendant. No. 5751. Said defendant, Edgar Crawford, will take notice that he has been sued in the above named court by the above named plaintiff, upon the ground of abandonment and that he must answer the petition of plaintiff filed therein on or before the 14th day of July, 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 Court Clerk of Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma, and affixed the seal thereof, this 1st day of June, 1917. J. H. GAINES, Court Clerk. (Seal) By JOHN ZUFALL, Deputy. A. G. W. SANGO, Attorney for Plaintiff. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION. In the District Court in and for Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma. E. M. Dennis, Plaintiff, vs. No. 5750. Mamie Dennis, Defendant Eald defendant, Mamie Dennis, will take notice that she has been sued in the above named court by the above named plaintiff, upon the ground of abandonment; and that she must answer the petition of plaintiff filed therein on or before the 14th day of July, 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 Court Clerk of Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma, and affixed the seal thereof this 1st day of June, 1917. J. H. GAINES, (Seal) Court Clerk. By JOHN ZUFALL, Deputy. A. G. W. SANGO, Attorney for Plaintiff. A resolution recommending to the courts that they permit no indictments returned by the grand jury on bootlegging charges to be changed to misdemeanors and offenders fined instead of being sentenced to the penitentiary has been adopted by the Pulaski county grand jury. Members of the grand jury say that because bootlegging is a felony the charge should not be reduced after an indictment has been returned. To permit the change of a felony to a misdemeanor in bootlegging cases would only license the bootleggers and encourage them to continue their illicit business, members of the grand jury say. A violation of the state-wide prohibition law is punishable only by a year's imprisonment in the penitentiary and the accused can not be relieved of the sentence by payment of a fine. Members of the grand jury say that their attention has been called to cases where a bootlegging charge has been reduced to a misdemeanor and the accused given a fine with no sentence. If the resolution is put into effect, members of the grand jury say that a year's imprisonment will be given each bootleger who is convicted.—Arkansas Gazette. COUNSEL CANDIDATE CHARACTER COWITH VOLLATION LUFFER LAUF COWITH VOLLATION LUFFER LAUF The following from the Rocky Mountain News shows that the "dry" law is still being frequently violated in Denver: Frank Gyllensten, candidate from the Ninth District for a place on the city council, was so busy looking after his campaign interests yesterday morning that he did not have time to go to trial in the county court on a bootlegging charge. In deference to the wishes of Gyllensten, formerly a saloonkeeper at Thirty-eighth and Walnut streets, the court postponed his case until after election. Gyllensten is charged with selling liquor to a couple of friends. GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR GIVE ME DEATH! PATRICK HENRY 1776 GIVE US PROHIBITION, LET THE WAR FOR LIBERTY WAIT! Tom DEAN While the rest of the nation is doing its patriotic duty, the "drya" are blocking the military program of Congress by clamoring for national prohibition. Their small intellects seem unable to grasp the fact that the imperative need of America just now is a united people, united in the cause of liberty. While the rest of the nation is doing its patriotic duty, the "drya" are blocking the military program of Congress by clamoring for national prohibition. Their small intellects seem unable to grasp the fact that the imperative need of America just now is a united people, united in the cause of liberty. PROHIBITION WOULD UPSET NATIONAL WAR PROGRAM Dry Legislation Will Destroy Future Revenue of $500,000,060 and Necessitate Drastic and Sweeping Changes in the Living Systems of Many States Advocates of prohibition have seized avidly upon the war as a pretext to advance their cause. They are putting this matter up to the Congress and the people as a patriotic move. They are appealing to the heart rather than to the head. They may not realize just what they are trying to do. They may be entirely sincere in seizing upon this critical time to plant their own seed of hysterics in the fertile soil of emotionalism induced by the spirit of the moment. They may be acting in all honesty. Most of them no doubt are. But they are overlooking the most essential point. They urge prohibition is a war measure. Let's keep that in mind. What is a war measure? It can have only one basic meaning and that is this: A war measure is something that is adopted in the belief that it will play a part in winning the war. If prohibition will help win the war, then it would be worth while to consider prohibition with compensation to the industries affected. If prohibition will not help win the war let there be no prohibition. If prohibition will have a deterrent effect upon the activities that are calculated to win the war then the argument against prohibition is magnified to the nth power. Let us be calm. Let us look the facts fairly in the face. President Wilson has said, "The business now in hand is undramatic, practical and of scientific definiteness and precision." ? "Business as Usual." If it is to be that, the economic side of the liquor "question is the one of chief concern. It is no time to consider it from any other angle as a WAR MEASURE. "Pusiness as usual" is a national slogan. What would result in a business way if national prohibition should go into effect today? 1. It would destroy a present federal revenue of $250,000,000 and a future revenue of $500,000,000 almost immediately available, at a time when every dollar is needed for war purposes. 2. It would destroy state and municipal revenues, amounting at the present time to $100,000,000. 3. It would require immediate redrafting of the war revenue act, and the imposition of hundreds of millions of dollars of direct taxes upon the American business interests in addition to the heavy war burdens now imposed upon them. 4. It would require drastic and sweeping changes in the tax systems of many states and hundreds of cities, with heavy increases of taxation upon the lands, buildings and personality of the residents thereof. 5. It would cause the total and immediate destruction of business enterprises capitalized at more than a billion of dollars. 6. It would cause the sudden throwing upon the market of thousands of storerooms now profitably rented and immense losses to real estate investors in the way of decreased rentals and lowered property values. 7. it would produce complete paralysis of trade in many communi- ties, and its blighting effect would be felt throughout the whole country. left throughout the whole country. S. It would produce a feeling of anger, resentment, and dissatisfaction among millions of American working-men who have officially gone on record through their trades assemblies as opposed to such a step, and to whom a glass of beer has been a daily necessity, and upon whom our success in this war depends. Great Britain and other warring countries have preserved their brewing industries in order that their soldiers and workers may have an adequate allowance of their accustomed beverage. Does not the war itself demoralize business enough? Must we deliberately add to the unrest of the times? President Wilson says "no." He is on record as opposed to nation-wide prohibition as a war measure, whatever may be his opinion on the subject is a matter for debate and disposition at normal times. -Milwaukee Free Press. SENATE'S AFTER FOOD HOARDERS Under the caption, "Food-Hoarding a Felony," the New York World prints the following discussion of food monopoly which may throw light on the grain question now being debated by Congress: While the action of the Senate in making the hoarding of food for monopolistic purposes a felony signalizes a radical departure from recent legislation on the subject, it is simply a return to the principles of the common law. Under the names of forestalling, engrossing and regrating, all such practices were strictly forbidden and sternly punished. In Great Britain the old acts were repealed many years ago. In this country they have fallen into disuse. Before combination became so easy as it is today the operation of supply and demand served for a time as a fairly satisfactory regulator. We now have great chains of warehouses lining a dozen railroads, most of them under control of a few men with almost unlimited banking capital at their command. In all parts of the country vast cold storage plants, once hailed as a boon to humanity, now absorb and hold products that formerly found wider markets and passed at once into the hands of consumers. Opponents of this revival of the common law to meet an ancient abuse in new form have feared that it will be difficult to determine the difference between legitimate warehousing and boarding, but they are borrowing trouble. Courts and juries that are able to distinguish between murder, manslaughter and justifiable homicide will not err very often when they come to separate honest merchandisers from speculators and extortioners. AND IN "DRY" TOWN, TOO! Fairmont Sentinel: Sunday afternoon two little boys living on the north side procured liquor and became helplessly drunk. The shooflift has a line of information that he is holding pending the return of County Attorney Allen, whereupon sensational developments are expected. It is strange that such a terrible thing could happen in a "dry" and high moral town like Fairmont. Such a thing could not occur in a "wet" town like Mankato.—Mankato (Minn.) Press. DRUNKS ARE NOISY AND LAND IN JAIL All This Happens In South Dakota, Well-Known Prohibition State Four drunks were slated for an appearance in the Municipal Court. Monday morning, but only three were able to greet the judge when they approached his bench. The fourth was still in such a condition when court opened that he was unable to utter the usual greeting, "Good morning, Judge!" Three of the men, Glen Carr, Henry Launge and A. J. Kemp, were arrested ed during the early morning hours when, it is said, they started a disturbance at the Morrison Hotel. In vain the night clerk plead with them to observe the peace, but when this failed he summoned the night officers who took the men to jail. Carr and Kemp, when arraigned on a charge of disturbing the peace, plead not guilty and furnished bond for $10 for their appearance. Launge was not in a condition to appear. Ed Zanger was arraigned on a charge of intoxication and plead guilty. He was fined $10, which he paid.—Aberdeen (S. D.) American. REVENUE AGENTS FIND "VARNISH" IS WHISKY An ingenious scheme to ship whisky into a "dry" state was discovered when federal officers recently seized 108 quart bottles labeled "varnish" or Pler 18 of the Merchants' and Miners Transportation Company on South Delaware avenue Harry Segal, a P. R. T. conductor, was arrested as the consignor of the shipment after a revenue agent tested one of the bottles and declared the "varnish" to be whisky. Segal was indicted yesterday by the federal grand jury for shipping in interstate commerce a misbranded article. Upon conviction the penalty is a fine of $500. Seventy-two quarts in the shipment were consigned to J. D. Grady, Savannah, and thirty-six quarts to D. Bandel, also of Savannah. These names were fictitious, it is declared, and the person for whom they were intended is a relative of Segal. Among other queer articles to ship whisky to prohibition territory recently detected was 250 feet of rubber hose which yielded a stream of "6-year-old" when a plug was removed from one end. A large box labeled "art glassware" also was found to be filled with masks of whisky. Philadelphia Inquirer. "DRYS" IN CONGRESS BALK PLAN OF ALLIES TO WIN WAR FOOD CONTROL BILL DESIGNED TO AID MANY NATIONS HELD UP BECAUSE OF SELFISH FIGHT FOR PROHIBITION OF LIQUOR Modern Piritans Scale Heights of Fanaticism by Trying to Prevent French and English Soldiers From Giving Rink to Americans at Front—Cut the Apron Strings! (By David Lawrence, Staff Correspondent of The Milwaukee Journal and The New York Evening Post.) Washington.—Champions of prohibition in congress may be absolutely right about the need for abolition of the liquor traffic, but they are playing a dangerous hand, dangerous to the welfare of the country in the long run, by the tactics they are pursuing. If the people of the United States really want prohibition, and a majority of both houses in congress want to vote for it, the measure can be passed on its merits and in detachment from the food administration bit. volved in prohibition. In fact, the difficulty today is that congress is failing to distinguish between prohibition as an ethical question and as a war measure, and the public opinion of the country is not crystalize! because the average man does not know whether prohibition is a military necessity or the device of the anti-liquor crusaders to win their point by indirect tactics. Great Britain and Russia proclaimed prohibition, to be sure, as a war measure, a circumstance that undoubtedly stimulated its advocates in this country, but the executive branch of our own government, the war department in particular, has not said a word to in Enough antagonism developed out of the prohibition fight the last congress to bill one of the most progressive measures ever introduced—reform of the federal juvenile. There was no opposition to the bill before the liquor act began. Vindictiveness doomed it by analogy. The same thing may happen in the present instance. Passage of the food administration bill is the most vital thing before congress. All nations of the world, our own allies as well as neutrals, are waiting for Herbert C. Hoover to regulate the world's food supply. He can not act until the food administration bill is a law. Delay Means Trouble. Having succeeded in tackling a prohibition rider on the food bill, that measure is now to be subjected to more debate and delay. It means new difficulties for Mr. Hoover later in the operation of the law. Mr. Hoover's effort has been to avoid a decision on the ethical questions in Philadelphia Body Opposed To That Feature of Federal Food Control Bill Although it recently indorsed the National Food Control Bill the Chamber of Commerce, through its Executive Committee recently announced its opposition to the prohibitory features of the measure. In a resolution the organization says the national necessities growing out of the war should not be made a pretext for promoting special measures which are not in conformity with public demands and the wisdom of which must be regarded as debatable. "To divide public sentiment at a time when it ought to be united, to delay an imperatively necessary piece of legislation in order to settle onland social or economic questions, is to die the hands of the government when they ought to be most free," the resolution continues. The commerce body in a statement declares it favors every measure to promote temperance in the use of intoxicating beverages, but believes in the following as fundamental principles: "First—That no advantage will result from prohibitory legislation, except in so far as it is supported by public opinion. "Second—That industries which have been long legalized by the government and which represent a trade which has been especially licensed by the government, should not be destroyed, or practically confiscated, without compensation for the resulting losses. "Third—That the consideration of measures relating or prohibiting the sale of beverages should be as far as possible removed from that of emergency measures growing out of the war. "Fourth—That no excise legislation should be enacted which does not consider carefully and provide a solution for the loss of employment of a great number of workmen, the injury to real estate values and the placing of new burdens of national, state and municipal taxation which may result therefrom."—Philadelphia Inquirer. IT'S SO EASY! Clarksville, Tenn.—John Dixon, proprietor of a soft drink stand about two miles from the city, was arrested on a charge of violating the "bone dry" law. About five quarts of liquor were found in his restaurant, it is charged. Louisville Course Journal. volved in prohibition. In fact, the difficulty today is that congress is falling to distinguish between prohibition as an ethical question and as a war measure, and the public opinion of the country is not crystalize it, because the average man does not know whether prohibition is a military necessity or the device of the antiblurious crusaders to win, their point by indirect tactics. Great Britain and Russia proclaimed prohibition, to be sure, as a war measure, a circumstance that undoubtedly stimulated its advocates in this country, but the executive branch of our own government, the war department in particular, has not said a word to indicate that abolition of sale of Mour to civilians is necessary to the sustenance of industrial energy or successful prosecution of the war. What the president ought to do is to appoint a commission of reputable men to discover the facts and report to him within two months whether the grain used in making alcohol is absolutely needed for the conservation of the nation's food supply. If it is, there can be no doubt about the support of the country for prohibition as a war measure, no matter how inconvenient or confiscatory the result, for this is a day of sacrifices, but should it be proved that the grain is not essential and that the nation will be well fed without the proposed abolition of liquor manufacture, then the question is purely ethical. As such it is not a war measure, but a domestic question, and the people should have an opportunity through their political parties to saw how the reform shall be best accomplished.—Millwaukee Journal. WE TOLD YOU SO! To the Editor of The World: As a common-sense American, I ask The New York World to lend the emphasis of publication in its columns to my humble reminder that there are today in the United States one and one-half millions of acres of the richest and most arable land withheld from food production, at this very time when our people are supposedly straining every effort to sustain our allies and prepare and maintain our own forces in a war that is so far from being a joke as indeed to involve our own and our children's prosperity and liberty. The usurstruct of these 1,500,000 acres is now being prostituted by the tobacco interests to their own profit and to the poisonous undermining of our national physique—as the designations of "tobacco heart," "nicotinic amblyopia" and "annurosis" on the records of the military and naval examining boards hear witness. The Government at Washington is struggling to solve the titanic problem of transportation at this time, and yet 5,000 railroad cars are kept out of useful traffic as an accessory for tobacco-addicted passengers. That is just one of innumerable additional aspects of the tobacco hole in our defenses. MAC LEVY. New York, June 23. LET'S BE HONEST When the food control bill was before the House of Representatives rabid prohibitionists tacked on the bone-dry clause, and then passed the whole measure with only five opposing votes. It might just as well have been tagged on a bill calling for the construction of half a dozen battleships. Senators will fight the prohibition measure because they evidently have given the matter more thought than did the Representatives. It may be necessary as a war measure to some time limit the manufacture of liquors which require grain, but if this is ever done it should come before the lawmakers as a separate bill. Let bone-dry prohibition be placed squarely before Congress without having it mixed up with any other measure. That is the only wise war and the courageous way to face the matter. About a third of a billion dollars revenue comes into the nation's war bags from distillers and brewers. The lawmakers will think a long time before they throw this away.—New York Morning Telegraph