Appleton Post-Crescent (Newspaper) - February 24, 1923, Appleton, Wisconsin THE WEATHER Partly not much change in CITY EDITION THK DAILY POST ESTABLISHED IMU EVENING CRESCENT FIVE O'CLOCK FEBRUARY 24, 1923 FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE THREE CENTS Will Never Anti Saloon Try To Prove HARDING GIVES HIS OPINION Parched Face Fight In Con- State Legislatures And High Court By DAVID LAWRENCE Copyright 1923 by 'the Post Pub. Co. is the fifth of a series of seven dispatches written after an exhaustive study of the prohibition question in which President Prohibition Commissioner Roy Assistant Attorney General Wayne B. Wheeler of the Capt. Stayton of the National Association Opposed to Prohibition and other leaders submitted to private interviews with the writer and gave their candid opinions on law ment and the Many people who have no desire whatsoever to see the saloon or hard whisky come back to legalized sale in America have dered why prohibitionists object to light wines and beer and what are the chances for such a modification of existing law as to permit beverages of move alcoholic content than one- half of one per cent to be The question is not a bit It is simply two-sided and only way to determine for yourself what the probable outcome will be Is to examine the arguments of sides and make up your mind which is the more plausible estimate of future American OPINIONS ARE DIVIDED Wheeler of the Anti Saloon league can pile high obstacles which he is confident will prevent Capt. H. Stayton of the Association Opposed io lion those obstacles with a wavo or the hand and predicts that American can swing in one direction as rapidly as they swung in But what are the points of ment and examine the platform of Capt. organization in by the vo one who jj financial in the liquor ness can become a Here arc the main and light wines but no saloons long as prohibition irent and the Volstead act are the law of the they should be Thus far there is absolute f merit between the wet and dry The Anti Saloon league has succeeded in winning from the other side the concession that the loon was an evil and should not be permitted to come The two sides begin to diverge when 1ho next the Association Opposed to Prohibition is 31 reads as it is the right of all who believe in real In self self restraint and the forco of moral suasion to work for the modification of TOO Volstead art goes too further than the federal amendment should be modified now to conform to the liquor should be con- trolled but should be controlled but should have no place in our Federal which ought to contain only the framework of government the great fundamental principles L acknowledged of all men and no t er a subject of T Capt. Stayton is mild-mannered man who starts out by denouncing the men who controlled the liquor traffic saying they brought on ex- treme prohibition through their loons and political He does not in the least condone the or other violators of the He too stands for law But while preaching obedience to the Capt. Stayton sees a spread disregard of the He feels that the laws of the land are wed but when they touch personal each individual will decide for kimself what he shall about it. The of such answers Mr. Wheeler of the Anti Saloon would be anarchy for if every person in made his own law the ture of law and order would There's a naive which comes from Capt. Stayton ana his It is that Ing vice as contrasted with laws touching crime hard to because they are related so closely to the laws are will and no anarchy Such are the opposing thoughts pn the subject of obeying laws relating to personal The Anti Saloon league thinks all law stands on the same footing and should be sly the argue that man nature will always make a dead letter of laws which restrict personal Then there's the argument that the Fifteenth amendment relating to Negro suffrage isn't obeyed in the i thus affording a precedent for w disobeying the ment to the federal constitution in The Anti Saloon league leaders draw a distinction between the Eighteenth declaring that the amendments which were imposed after the Civil war were whereas the on page READY TO DEAL DEATH BLOW TO SHIP DILL Adjutant General Will Ask For For Next Two Years By Press adjutant general is preparing to go before the joint com- on finance of the legislature Tuesday and ask an appropriation of from the state for support of the National guard during the next two 4 This members of the com- say will meet with their dis- They declare that a appropriation for the two year period should be sufficient and expressed the opinion that such an amount will be recommended in their when ed to the With Governor Senator Follette and majority of the senate opposed to abolition of the National sponsoring the move to do away the organization have practically given up hope of their They now look for a greatly reduced Figures laid before the finance com- members Saturday show that Wisconsin's National guard cost the state in 1921-23 and will cost in 1922-23. in addition to the expenditures totalling nearly Appropriation requests arc for the next two Three Women Companions Are Released Five Male leagues Are Held New York Nicky ly convicted in Washington in con- with a bond after figuring in many New Tork episodes of high was out on bail Saturday after his latest arrest Friday night with E. M. rupt broker and four other men on charges of grand No charges were placed against three women arrested with the men They were released after having been The six men released on bail each owed their arrest to the discovery in the possession of one of their number1 of a traveling bag filled with miscellaneous the police they were unable to Investigation was being made of an alleged brokerage business which the according to police intended to open in with customers to be drawn from the middle RESTORED TO LIFE NAMES AGAIN Nine Civilians Shot Dead Since Poilus Entered Ruhr President Takes Hand In Up Com- farm credits the principal features of the Capper Strong measures was com- Saturday by the house ing Chairman McFadden said it would formally to the house and taken up for passage Tho chairman a had been worked out which he believed would pass the house with little The Chairman would set up a inter- credit organization as an ad- 1o the federal farm loan ing system but with its assets Jy independent of the parent per of the intermediate system would be eligible for rediscount nl Federal hanks Washington Harding's influence had been brought to bear Saturday to the farm credits legislation in the from the dan of the bitter fight among publican leaders over the inclusion of the passed by tho It was made known that the dent had taken a hand in the situation urging Republican house managers to effect a from German that black troops of the Colonial regiment had been sent recently to Wilbert and are officially denied by the It was alleged were being quartered in ate colonial had appeared on the streets in these Steps to forestall sabotage way workers have been taken by who assert that striking employes have been in- by the German government to hinder the French and Belgians by cutting water and electris Statistics made public by the mans show that nine have been shot dead and 13 seriously wounded since the occupation Arrests and deportations several a New Tork jewelry was robbed of un- set diamonds which he valued at 000 by two armed men in an elevator in a downtown building Saturday Hart said his concern has offices at 87 New Tork The robbers threw Eugene the elevator operator from the cage at the sixth he told the police and with Hart a mounted several floors higher in the building at 130 North They stopped the elevator and menacing him with their took his pouch of. dia- Hart said and left him on an upper Willing To Consider Candidacy For President In 1924- Oscar W. Un- derwood of Democratic floor leader in the may again be a candidate for the Democratic He has informed friends that after bis return from j rope he will give careful and i thorough consideration to many gestions to enter the wee for the 1024 nomination of Ms The position of who sailed Friday night from for was outlined in H letter of Feb. 2, to W. M. of the Alabama house of after adoption by the Alabama lature of a resolution urging that ator Underwood permit his name tp go before the Democratic national con- next 30 ATTEND SECTIONAL MEETING OF TEACHERS About 30 of rural schools were present at the tional meeting held in circuit court chambers of the courthouse Saturday The sessions were to con- all of the teachers came a great but made the trip by train as the roads were RECOVER 18 BODIES Kansas bodies were recovered from the ruins of the rooming house which was destroyed by fire FIND MAN NOT GUILTY IN DEATH OF MARSHAL jury in circuit court at Alma returned a verdict atv noon finding Knoa not guilty of John city marshal of in a saloon quarrel at Alma on Nov. 12. APPOINTED Richard was nominated to be States marshal for the dis- of Freed Forgives Men Who Jailed Him By Associated Press citizenship re- stored and no longer slayer in eyes of the Clarence Leroy 29, freed Friday of a crime he did not and for which he served five months in the Ohio at Columbus Saturday with his ever faithful bride of seven months In their apartment in Cincinnati made plans for the McKinney said he holds no malice against those who figured in his life sentence for the murder of Policeman Emery shot to death here 14, 3922. The injustice done McKinney was righted through the admission of Louis 20, that he committed tho is now serving a life Santa all but spoken by a man whose heart had stopped but who was restored temporarily to consciousness by artificial convicted hanged Friday at the state penitentiary at according to a story told by Chief Justice of the California Supreme court and published here The kept for several but giving all the appearance of death every time the artificial respiration was suspended was Earl Donnelly's fellow convict .at Moose was stabbed in the prison mess During he returned to when artificial respiration was applied he was asked if a tender did He strained himself for a time giving a word which sounded like Donnelly was acting as a cell tender at the BUI FIRES Organizations Will Be Formed To Promote Vote For Two Structures Two organizations are about to be formed on the basis of the bridge one in favor of the and bridges and one in tion to The question of whether the common council shall proceed with its bridge building de- by the voters of Appleton in a referendum on primary election March 20. The objective of the organization to bo launched is to influence the voters who have not yet made up their minds on the question at issue if convince those who of op- open to Leaders of the advocates of the bridge arc even now said to he rallying and a. meeting is expected to be called within a. very few days to lay the plans for the referendum Efforts will be made to keep tho bridge question out of politics and not link it with aldermanic candidates any it jj who have been prominent in- the imitation for this A newspaper before the people the benefits of the bridge to bo the line of The contrary which will receive considerable support from resident of the Fourth will be conducted on a different A committee is in process of organization that will prepare circular letters to be directed to all the electors in A house to house canvass will also be New Tork Saturday shiveringly faced a biting northwest wind and the promised lowest of. the coal almost empty Tho temperature early Saturday was less than 10 degress above and the weather bureau officials declared it was due to go So acute the shortage largely through inability of tug men to bring coal from New Jersey because of ice blocked that Fuel Administrator Goethals had the city on a fuel Lawrence Man Takes Place Of Dr. Davies At Sunday Evening Forum Another sudden change in gram for the People's Forum was made necessary Saturday morning when Dr. Samuel chairman of the program received word from Chicago that Dr. Ozora speaker for Sunday evening's ing in Lawrence Memorial will be unable to Dr. tele- gram gave no reason for failing to keep his engagement Dr. O head of the de- of at was prevailed upon to take Dr. Dr. Kinsman will dis- cuss the income tax law now before the Wisconsin The rence college man is of present Wisconsin tax law and is an authority on matters of He has a. careful study of the measures before ture and it is hoped that a capacity house will hear his The address will begin at 8 o'clock and will bo preceded by a brief musical The Lawrence College Mens Glee Hub will make its first of the year at the forum The club is ever before and has been ready for its spring tour since early in the first The club is under the direction of Prof. Carl Waterman and the ment Paul L Democrats failed to indorse Ford for the 1024 presidential but will give the manufacturer their support the proper time according to Charles leader of the faction that urged the ment before the state con- vention here Failing of an out and out ment the Ford adherents put through a resolution lauding him for tremendous influence for good the economic and political affairs of the Threatens To Fire Hired cial Who Is Seeking Special Legislation By Associated Press general attempt by ernor Blaine to curb lobbying on the part of department heads of the state and their employes was disclosed following the information that three heads of education bodies had been called to the executive offices for questioning during the past Among those already called is an tive state official who went into office with the governor on Jan. 1. The three officials to appear in an- swer to a summons declared Saturday that not censured by the governor but were merely asked by him to cooperate with the executive in trying to stop promiscuous It is learned on good authority that the activities of women connected with the Progressive association has an- the Their stand was influential in causing the assembly to pass the calling for ition of the guard which Governor Blaine State officials point out that the statutes of Wisconsin arc specific in their provision that persons connected the government may personally approach legislators or pear before committees in the interest of They that the governor is given no authority to this either among or state Governor Blaine is known to have told those who before him on his call that he had asked the resignation or one state Vp to the present time the resignation has not been of- Upon his recovery from au attack of grippe that is confining him to the governor is expected to summon state department heads before him in an effort to obtain their cooperation In stopping certain lobby activities that he Discover Year Old Harem Of Ur Moon God By Associated Press walls believed to have been erected 36 centuries before the Christian era have been ered among the ruins recently un- earthed at the Chaldean cording to a Bagdad dispatch to the The correspondent quotes C. leader of the archaeological as saying that ruins comprise the temple of the Moon God and his part of which was brought to light in 1918. The eries in that uncovered the bachelor quarters of the while the ruins now found are believed to have been his A fragment of a stone vase has been dug out upon which there is a of the moon and his goddess receiving the adoration of The ing is believed to have been done 2.000 years before The excavators also discovered in the inner room of the temple some jewelry of the period of Nebuchadnezzar who rebuilt the shrine in the sixth B. carefully preserving the original alabaster vases and in- scribed door sockets have been found One of the latter the inscription SENATOR JONES President Refuses To Withdraw People To Judge BULLETIN The tion shipping again was brought before the senate preparatory to the dealing of death blow to it on 1 The News In Brief Salt prices ad- 40 cents a 100 making the new price to jobbers per T. dent of the Dail in a letter to Kerry irregulars who expressed appreciation of their than score of were captured by Free State who raided various parts of the Washington Secretary Mellon asked congress for an appropriation of for construction and re- pair of marine hospitals and Port vey and were sentenced to serve ten years prison after be- ing convicted by a military court on charges of kidnaping the field finance officer and robbing the post pay car of on Jan. 30. McCarthy shot and killed a rival bor leader in a gun fight last was exonerated by a which found McCarthy self Colonel Francis C. Marshall and Lieutenant C. C. L. army ins wince they Calif. 7 to Fort was formally MURDERED ENGINEER LOST IN IS REPORT By Associated Press report that Karlo electrical slain Feb. 15 lost in a poker about two weeks he was killed and gave I. O. U.s to cover part of his losses under gation Saturday by The said to have been three lasted three three quarts of whiskey were said to have been drunk by the players before was Whether Remington re deemed his promissory notes with cash and if whether his failure to do so had any bearing on his was the point in which the de were SEISMOGRAPH REPORTS HEAVY EARTH SHOCKS By Associated Press heavy earth apparently centering in tho same as the tremendous quake that shook the Pacific on Feb. 8. was recorded early Saturday on the seismographs of Georgetown HARDING PREPARING PAPER FOR CONGRESS Washington ed Saturday in what WM an com- to detuned to indicate the sub- ject it will an im- portant and be for- warded niter all Information WM Statesman Served As dor To Russia And Austria gn e former States ambassador to died in a hospital here Saturday from Mr. Tower who has also been min ister to Austria Hungary and ambus sador to Russia before he was pointed to the diplomatic post died at 8-05 A. M. He was token lo the hospital on 9. Mr. who was not only as a diplomat and in his active days but was widely known in society here and lie was regarded as quite inherited a large for- tune largely accumulated in the an regions of MAN TRIES TO END LIFE Six Bandits Get After Binding Watchman Another Holdup By Associated Press cashier of the People's MAmt was by two robbers shortly he opened the bank Saturday according to reports received The robbers escaped in an automobile headed for LOOT TRUNK FACTORY masked forced an entrance to the Seward Trunk and factory here early hound and gagged the broke open the vault and escaped w Ith Washington Foundered on the rocks of filibuster waged by its senate opponents for nearly week the ad- ministration shipping may go down Saturday or possibly cling to the face until the first of next Again it may be left a derelict in the status of to die formally with tho adjournment of congress March 4. That it was a doomed cause was conceded by Republican ers who proposed the unanimous con- sent agreement by which the ering forces were permitting ation of other for the first two hours The latter the proposal as nn indication of among the ship porters along the fact that for first time in fne days they mitted the senate to Friday forcing a night The shipping measure may pass to its death on a motion to send it back to committee 01 displace with other Some of its opponents arrangement whereby would be left pending until ment of There were no indications that the was disposed to draw the the position of ident I larding was undri stood to that he would let the country pass judgement as to whether the bility lay for a failure uC Defeat of the later was conceded openly in tnc by Senator recognise I am said in promising cooperation to ruie a decisive not later than J. A. 5S. former proprietor of the Waukesha Hotel buffet and recently convicted on a charge of selling intoxicating himself with a revolver in the right temple Tate Friday and was in a condition in the pital troubles are believed to have been the cause for his act. served a short in jail rather than pay his fine And The Hearse Was Taken To The Hoosegow Michael Gleason and livan of the who are all friends of tho saw a black covered wagon they de- to stop and see who was They pulled up the station close to the got out and started into theh ouso to offer thy to the noticed one end of a protruding the doors of the which were closed but not a funny thing to have in an undertakers he remarked to his Rave a sharp but dropped the sack when he tue clinking of they've probably got the embalming fluid in Hart pulled open the Inside was a mass of up to tho roof of the Dragging out the the tives found SCO quarts pi By Associated Press C. er and former president and directing genius of the national Nonpartisan is the head of a new wide political farm movement which was launched by a group of 73 ers from twelve states at a meeting here Friday according to an announcement Saturday by leaders of the According to the the purpose of the new organization which is named the National liance is the stabilization of farm uct prices through ative control of acreage and ation of price and market information and Articles of the tion provide for an initiation fee of and thereafter dues of per Half of the fees go to local precinct unit half to the national The national committee of the new does not include any members from Wisconsin Cause Of Outbreak Cannot Be Found By Not Serious Three cases of typhoid have oped in three days and puzzled 'the attending physicians and the health The cases exist in different families all scattered throughout the The disease was contracted within since no members of the families have been out of the city Efforts to trace the cause havr proved The city water was both at the filtration plant and at the homes of the but the analysis proved the wa- ter to be entirely of All three families patronize different milk the milk was in each case found to be free of Other tests were made with the unsuccessful None of the is and Dr. C. health sures the people that there is no cause for FIRE persons were two seriously in jumping from the third floor of the ment house during a fire early others rushed into the street clad in night The building was destroyed with an loss of Mr. and Mrs. 71. G. tho most ly Injured struck a sidewalk when they under sentence to Leavenworth federal son tor four and to pay n. fine of for complicity in the 000 Dearborn station robbery in 1921. surrendered at the federal building GIRL WINS IN SUIT AGAINST DOCTOR Mathilda a student was awarded in a verdict returned In court Friday night and Saturday This is short of the amount asked by Miss Benkhardt against Dr. Justin L. staff physician in the hospital in which she was a Miss in her suit that tal dismissed her because she had preferred against the physician charges which she repeated in the Interesting Bits From Today's Want Ad Page A paper mill accountant can find a A farmer living ton wishes to buy a Holstein A man living on offering a cupboard for Several parties offering poultry and chicks for Some good bargains In cars arc being The real
