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™ OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1929 PACE THIRTEE! oa © Look Upon This Picture oi PRAISES OUR LIQUOR SYSTEM Seem | " USA. Bostgny "a oer oy, : ol burch, Weer 23rd fi he ork Gy, ust retumed from pbs tour throu San ads tos his t e tof tha Doni liquor iy, 1 follows! "1 have $ dua come back fhrom where 1 saw modi- (2 Ibition. I have never en In init of the present merican system of prow bition: ° geshre, Is entire! J t00| Lo LA Sand 8, o ig oantly em to be less god fy t han the nited States, In fact, since t stb removing of prohibl- { DRUNKENNESS IN SAN FRANCISCO BREAKS ALL RECORDS San Francisco, July 24.Are posts for drunkenness in San Francisco duriog the lant fiscal +] broke all records since Records of the Police Depart ment made public to- A show 13,236 persons were he ola tonication, The Humhet | 0 rests for Intoxication | was 3497, There has abi an annual increase since then, Toronto Telogram--~July 25, 1906, SAYS U.S, WET AS OCEAN BED Father ha S ugh Takes a Slam A country which accepted pro- hibition that it might become drigr than the Sahara, and which " in reality etter than the bed of the ocean", whi i) wrote the 18th amendment ib the world might gine u ation, and Ww Ra the Mdmir- it export | dock ong the anadian wi der to oN wo. it with the liquor wiieh ih 0 the opnon Rew Foho the opinion ather A, formerly of the Bor ! pow ties, and now regtor of the I 4 rch of the Little Flower, the trolt, holds. re | United States and prohibition, | Border Cites Ster--june 4, 1928 "NEw YORK IN 1928 HAD BIG INCREASE IN MAJOR CRIMES New ¥Y Mah 15 ssloner FARE py i poe AR in aan wr id 33 perseay | burg RR bs The increase in murders a your, and an nema SUS per at. for ir Sauk 4 an in convictions, Twente Doty Star--=Mar. 15. 1920 5 nw JM, 38. jv J Prohi ition in the U.S. As told from day to day by the Press of North America vii rygndn there, it seams to be 8 much ther country e My STS FOR NKENNES UBLED SINCE us PROMISHIOM New York, Dec, 26 ME - survey by the py League, made public to-day, # that police Rds in 3 eilles show that arrests for ins tonieation rose from 235,612 in 1920 to § 10) 369 in 1927, Toronto Dally Star--Dea, 26, 1924. Toronto Dally Star-slesi 25, 1929, ; 14 DEATHS FROM ALCOHOLISM IN NEW YORK OVER HOLIDAY New York, Dee, 27,~(AP)s Fourteen deaths from sleohe! ism since Vriday were reported by! po lice to-day, while 65 per ni are receiving treatment in the alcoholic wards of the sity | hospitals, Hospital officials sald this number is not abnormal and that the majority of cases are dugito drinking excessive quantities of liquer rather than wood aleahel, Toronto Mail and Empires » prea th TP UNITED STATES IS NO PARADISE UNDER DRY LAWE British Labor Delegates Hear of Speak Easies, Home Brewing and Flourishing Crime Belfast, Ireland, Sept, 4--W, Li Rooney, delegate of American sheet metal workers to the British Trades Union Congress here, warned British workers to-day against statements that saloons have been eliminated and the lives of the American Ratly changed by the | Veintend Act "Crime dl flourished to such an extent an since the pas sage of the Volstead Act", he said, "Speaks caries have be: come numerous and millions of homes converted into breweries and distilleries," Toronto Telogram--S8ept, 4, 1920 RASKOB RAPS U.S. DRY LAW Nation Periled, States Financial Chief of General Motors Detroit, Tune 4~John T. Ras koh, chairman of the Finance Committee of the General Mot» ors Corporation, bitterly at tacked prohibition, demanded | modification of the federal dry laws and expressed the belief that both major parties Jrould dodge the issue in the coming presidential campaign, In » Jot- ter to P, H, Callahan, wealthy dy Pa Damacsati Jo or of 8 8, Ky, The letter was made ily yesterday by Mr, Raskob, "The menace of prohibitory laws is the spirit of intolerance underlying their sdoption and this Is hound to result in rebel- lion", Mr. Raskoh wrote, "My whole desire and effort is to iA to bring my fellow citizens bac into the atmosphere that gave hirth te our constitution=-an atmosphere of brotherly lave which spells tolerance and keen respect for ourselves, for each other, for our laws, institutions, and above sll, respect for our God, our liberty and our free: dom, "No one ean survey or stud the results of the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead law during the past nine years without coming to the conclu sion that their administration has been a complete failure," Border Cities Star~June 4, 1928 ALL DUE TO . YOLSTEAD United States Insane Hospitals Penal and Corrective Institutiens More Crowd. od Than Ever Before "That Is entirely attributable to the Volstead Act", sald George 1, Allen of Connecticut, secretary of the State Execu- tive Association, and director of a corrective school for hoys, Mr, Allen is one of the several prison executives now In Tor ronto for the convention, Interviewed, Mr, Allen ple tured the astounding increase in erime and described the burden om the ta id as far out of rtion res before tion lod nte foree, A (1 3 sceount of this immense bur. den that Mr. Allen considers the the Volstead ot will event fo vealed by the efforts of t oe o have to bear that hy Toronto Telogram~Sept, 20, 1929, SOURCE SOUGHT OF LIQUOR THAT TOOK 34 LIVES | Grand to Probe Spach Gr Alcohol Cases at New York New York, Oct, 10-=With the list of dead from alcoholic pols soning at 3M, autopsies showin 18 due to wood alcohol, city an Federal authorities to-day re newed their efforts to ferret out the source of supply of the poison guar, United States At- torney, Charles H, Tuttle, an nounced that he would present what evidence he had obtained to the Federal Grand Jury, now In session, and on his recom- mendation, a special Grand Jury to handle only polson liquor deaths was called i Monday, One possible source of the olson fi uor was disclosed by § M, ay of Cranford, N.J., who told police that a drum of a shipment of wood alcohol to his firm had been tapped at Syracuse and a AR amount of the liquid stolen, Toronto Telegram--Oct, 10, 1928, DRINKING IN UNITED STATES IS INCREASING Charts and Tables Show » Startling Growth of Intemperancs Washin on, As, 13.=That consumption intoxicating liquor and IAW cp in the United States Is steadily in- creasing is shown by a report of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment prepar- ed after the year's research into all available indexes on the sub- ject, Charts and tables, sum- marizing facts as to deaths from ATLANTIC RING IN SIX MONTHS GAINED $2,000,000 BY LIQUOJ and Gives Names of Directors | Netsbook Picked Up ln Great Raid Reveals Detail Dieldends Ducared Woekis of From 7 a 53, Por Com alcoholism, aleoholic Insanit and scute alcoholic patients | public hospitals, arrests fo) drunkenness and other gauge are givin to support conclusion reached, A comparison of con ditions In England and Wale and the United States show that where temperance is gain ing In the foreign countries it is losing here, Welland Tribune--Aug, 15, 1929 DRY LAW "CURSE!" HOPES U.S. WILL EMULATE CANAD/ New York Rector, Addressing Police, Favors Adoption of "Some Sane Law" New York, Oct, 18.~Police Chaplain John Armstrong Wade, speaking at the annual police service at the Cathedral of St John the Divine, sald prohibi tion had been a curse to the na: tion, and advocated the adoption of a control system similar to that in operation in Canada, Referring to the late Bishop David H, Greer, Chaplain Wade continued: "A late whose body lies buried under these very stones, once sald; 'if prohibition ever comes, it will » the worst curse 'that ever vis ited this nation,' T was an ad: Bishop, gl vocate of Prambition then, and I did not believe him, but now that the curse is upon us I se that he was right, In its tral of graft, bribery, extortion erime and hypocrisy it ha brought the most ignoble, con ditiahs this country has eve know "We had hoped it would abol ish the saloon, but for ever saloon jt brought ten vile places, We believed that unde prohibition our boys and girl would grow up without knowin; the temptation that ruined s many In tHe past, but to-da: rls and boys drink as the never drank +i Pray Go the saloon may never com: | back, but let us adopt some san: law, like our neighber en the north, that will remove these in tolerable conditions." Tovento Telegram~Cut, 18, 1929 Same "Horrible Examples" Under Prohibition New York's crime record for 1928 showed increases over 1927 as follows: 21.9 per cent. in murders and manslaughter; 29.5 per cent. in assault and robbery cases; 19.5 per cent. in felonious assault cases. Does that show that crime tends to decrease under Prohibi- tion? Sonar Peoria, Il, Mareh § y- Tracing a labyrinth of Wich formed the basis for cocks ivi others eriticajly * | Aare not expected tel live, are under treatmient Heels homes and In suffering intense agony fifteen persons i 2 i to eh persona blind of the twenty-five, tn iy hospital { and: Wisgey City, near from | Hikby Tt was purchased by Wo WR source of the poisoned slsohol| 1 § will escape blindness or i \ ats were made yes: the police drive re- in 3,000 bootleggers shut- g down, The polson was dia the latter part of last through Peoria and the a: of Washington, Ver week trails, police and federal officers| the poison, Physicians hald out | nearly two score persons, to-day joined in a hunt for the "VOTE little hope that the affected per-| Toronto Dally Star, Mer, 5 1929, Philadelphia, under Prohibition, spends over $40,000,000 a year for liquor. fore pro- hibition it had 1,700 saloons, now it has 1,185 open bar-rooms and 13,000 speakeasies. Combined returns from 388 U.S, cities show that arrests for intoxication rose from 235, 612 in 1920, when prohibition came into force, to 567,369 in 1927. POLICE CHIEF ASKS RETURN OF SALOONS Cleveland Official Says Prohibition Is Cause of Crime Police Chief Jacob Graul of Cleve an ardent dry has ent on prohi- { CONSE bition and now tavors net only the return of the saloon, but of old-fashioned whisky, The chief doesn't advocate the brass-railed bar where the im: biber quaffed coplously behind drawn curtains and munched luscious free-lunch, but one where "the world can see what's going on." Graul's views on prohibition | see were altered by crime condi: tlons. Never before, he says, hav there been so much crime nor has it been so widespread, He attributes the inerease solely te liquor and bootlegging and says he will persist in hi belle regardless of the attitud of "the powers-that-be." Graul , , , wants it under stood that he ds atill a 'ny, wm will remain one. Me iy mere' a retura Wh ATI For a Liquor Law that the People Can Respect RIO ) | RE {at 7801 New York, NY. Oct, 17. | Operating all "the way down th Atlantic seaboard from Main to the Virginia Capes, the Hoy tle rum-smuggling syndicatd whose extensive properties her and in New Jersey were raide last night, made profits of $2 000,000 in six months, federal of ficlals revealed to day, Toronto Mall and Bmpive ise "i pn of, f SENATE JEERS VOLSTEAD FARCI US. Wets and Drys Almost Reach Agreement 4 Is Non-Enforceable Now Fifty Bootleggers Where There Was One Saloon Washington, D.C, Jan, 18+ (Above is hsilline from news Wom [rf A in London Free Press of f {INCREASE IN ARRESTS UNDER U.S. DRY LAW Washington, Dee, 9.~An im crease of 22,267 convictions of vielators of the dry laws duri the year was reported to Con gress yesterday, Convictions Ip the fiscal year 1928 Poyhered S881, of which 15793 we given Jall sentences, In the pres vious year there were 36,544 persons convicted, of whom 11, 18 received jail sentences, London Free Press--Dee, 10, 1934 SEIZE DRUGGIST AFTER 16 DIE OF | POISON LIQUOR Isa Elicy 6 Malince io Soule to Society dade Cl Philadelphia, Jan, 23. Pohe¢ to-day continued to track do the source of a cheap, Joissnouy bootleg liquor, known in the un. derworld and among down- and- outers as "am ET WASHINGTON | NOT S0 GOOD, POLICE SHOW Washington, jan. 2mBithe iy an i hy 3 nature he losing its peal o ina or the police here have bers mach more ive, acto oe annual re Rau dont of Police (ITTY ot t made pu © states "it hing th tn officers made 11 more aad in arrests were Io intrapie from 94, res for dl tot - Lior the t view L] wo p JF ivious, § RE | i hoe p | FRANK L. MASON Liberal:Conservative Amociation of Ontrln, Beda? WY, To Si 4 "