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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1923
Page
4
The News-Star extends a cordial welcome to delegates of the annual State Federation of Professional Women's Clubs in Monroe. The message extols women's social and political roles, praises their contributions, and wishes attendees a pleasant stay and fruitful results.
The Literary Digest notes President Harding warned that repealing New York prohibition enforcement could trigger a federal crackdown. Governor Al Smith approved a New York bill voiding state liquor traffic laws, shifting enforcement solely to federal authorities. Opinion pages debate whether the president has made prohibition a campaign issue.
The piece surveys mixed editorials on Prohibition and the Eighteenth Amendment. It quotes leaders and papers from Buffalo to Chicago praising or criticizing President Harding’s stance, urging strict enforcement and denouncing state evasion or nullification.
Chief Dominic Two Axe denounces U.S. policies on Indian lands demanding compensation and rejecting schools and hospitals as coercive meddling. He cites a June conference of Six Nations on the Onondaga reservation, arguing nations must mind their own business while others insist on guiding through aid and governance.
A witty column voices that prohibition hinders luxury living while marking the decline of hilltop schoolhouses and the rise of gasoline stations. It notes steel officials resisting shorter mill shifts, while officials enjoy an eight hour day on the golf links.
The Nth Commandment, likened to Humoresque, screens at the Lyceum with a department store girl who marries a clerk whose tubercular illness drives desperate money schemes. Niagara Falls scenery multiplies appeal as The Honeymoon, starring Constance Talmadge, tours the Saenger.
Byron Morgan wrote Racing Hearts for Agnes Ayres and Paul Powell directed. The Paramount picture, lauded as one of Miss Ayres finest, screens at the Suenger Theatre tomorrow as a top attraction in London. The near passage of the Lady Actor’s Liquor bill may delay enactment, with potential November implementation and a ban on sales to under eighteen.
A demonstration in Texas tested Weevilnip on boll weevils using two cages with treated cotton. A committee including W. E. Narvell J. L. Welch H. C. Neeley and J. W. Harris observed sixteen and eight live weevils, respectively, all but one dying by Monday morning. The crowd hosted by the test praised the remedy and syrup mixtures reportedly aid farmers.
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