Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1923, Page 3

DRYS UNDISHAYED | ‘BY JUDGE'S RULING Believe Supreme Court Will | Reverse Decision on Un- limited Prescriptions. T WY DAVID LAWRENCE. Disappointments from the direction ot New York are not discouraging the prohibition enforcement office of the federal government. ©f Judge Knox that the prov the Volstead act regulating @mount of intoxicunts a phys may preseribe is unconstitutional is the second from the Empire state in a forthight, coming as it does ©on the h of the action of the state legislature in repealing the Mullin- Gage enforcement But Trohibition takes a philosoph view of the wituation and doesn’'t believe for a moment that the Supreme Court of th United ates will uphold the opinion of Judge Knox Would Wreek Enforeement. smmissioner Hiynes “If that decision were upheld,” said Mr. Haynes today, “it would wreck Jaw enforcement wreck the effort to stop (he drug traflic “impair the > Jaws on the W law doe 2 e state permit the prescripti ~ertain quantity of alcohol attempts to regulate iption ws forbiddinz pl would go powers not Kravention of the f\uli:rd Constitution. Doctors Oppose Alcohol. in pro- Judge ained exhaus, 1hjo The expectation, however. Dibition circles here is t opinion will not be "'his view the sus based upon given essional con the ttees held before the ment use ot medical pv is conduc Nolot smallc passed and they would no with vhn had sc'rmn Yiqu of the commiun What id ored to their vers cheap: S L AN D \,\I\L Coavy, ALEXANDRIA, FioteeTin Roof Polt int _can. Rich, —ot any deseription promptly and capably looked after by the “Ironclad roofers.” Call us up. Main 14, IRONCLAD Heatmg T Winter approdelis Plants & Repairs | wisdom by having Biggs do | your_job Now. The Bxggs Engmeenhg Co. ed. et the roof Amine your roof and submit to you their esti- mate. Reasonable prices. All work guaranteed. Grafton&Son,Inc., Joofing_Experts of 35 years ROOF EXPERTS Repairing and Painting. Estimates cheerfully furnished free. R. K. FERGUSON Inc, Roofing Deat . 1114 9th FLOORS Printing Service HIP" (v\'{Al’E HIGH PRICED PRINTER, BYRON S. 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The mo public health, which h for a generation, been bitterly fought by one school of medicine, which the domination of the government machinery by another school of medicine. has also been linked up with those religious sects which are opposed to the use of medicines Should_the Supreme Court render ment for a department of s been agitated fears ants or drugs. the enfor ad law provisions al permits, but the un- 58 escriptions ¥ related to the lives of thous inds of people in the interim, and, as a rule, cases of this kind get precedence on the cadendar of the Judiciary. MAIL GFTS BREAK $30,000 for Relief Work Is Predicted. PEACE SHATTERED SUD- MENDOUS SWIPE (CHINESE CONTEMPT The controversy | vt will be made to have the | “ARMY'S” RECORD, Early Success of Drive for| - THE - EVENING - STAR, WASHINGTON, —By GLUYAS WILLIAMS. WIFE GQOAY\ED BY TERRIFIC ON TABLE LAYS GROUNDWON( TRVING O KEEP FOR GOOD CASE o STIPF NECK BY KES A TRE- FOR WHITES GROWS Foreign Intervention Unlikely in View of Government’s Shaky Seat. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Alfred Sze. Chinese minister to | the United States, who has returned hington after a prolonged at Peking, makes no attempt minimize the gravity of the -up” of the Shanghai-Peking ex- press, but it is now the consensus of both American and Chinese author- ities at Washington that the episode sporadic one and altogether un- to provoke serious conse- | quences. It is well within the range of possibility there may be others like it. sooner or later. Conditions throughout China are chaos in nate. s are emormous, the govern authority re, and old- law and or- der has vanished to a deplorable ex- tent. Dr. to Action Improbable. fore intervention to deal, e on anything like | scale of the er expedition wholly Improbable. Rut Over 14 Million Visitors | Will be hioce June during Shrine week make, your city beautiful e 200k wonk doat Palntmg and Papenng now, With the arrival today of what i said to be the largest number of| voluntary contributions ever received by the Salvation Army of the District | of Columbia in any campaign for funds, the early success of this year's drive was predicted by Chairman Rudolph Jose of the finance committee. charitable people of Washington to mail in their contributions has thus ar been most encouraging,” Mr. Jose said. “The largest contribution in $250. The smallest was a 50-cent piece In a coin_ holder without any clue to the sender. The other gift aried in size between these twc ums, but the bulk wero checks for %5 and $10 he added. According the report of last Army ithin the Tt is for the carrying on of and other phases of its work that the army is now seeking to raise $30,000. report s that Christmas were given to 3,000 worthy and that 900 (‘hllr\ren were, The to’ amp, ments are now being entertained 310 mothers and childre Chairman Jose asks that all co: tributions to the fund be sent direct to army headquarters, at 607 E street northwest. DENBY TO SPEAK MAY 16 an | BEFORE MANUFACTURERS Delegates From Many States Will Attend Conference in New York. Secretary of the Denby has accepted an invitation to speak be- fore a conference of the National A ciation of Manufacturers at_ the dorf Astoria Hotel, New York on May 16. John E. Edgerton, jdent of the association, called the conference, which will be in ses- {sion May 14, 15 and 16. dele: will attend: Alabama, California, lorado, Connecticut, _Delaware, orgia, Tllinois, Indiana, Towa, Kan- Kentucky, Louislana, Massachu- Maine, Michigan, 'Mississippi, Minnesota, New New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Virginia, Vermgnt, Wis- consin and Washington. s i DRYS BACK ANDERSON. New York Anti-Saloon League Re- Elects Officers. NEW YORK, May 10.—The Anti- annual meeting re-elected officers and adopted resolutions declaring con- fidence in William H. Anderson, the ! state superintendent. The resolution also condemned “all effor! jeredit his wise leadershi; The treasurer's report showed cash receipts fiscal vear ended April 30, crease of $26,000 over the preceding year. _———— Sister Mary Dolores, of the Convent Merey, New York, has fifty years. of “The response to our appeal to the| this morning’s mail was a check for| s’ from the following states : loon League of New York at its| £ more than $279,000 for the | been a nun’ 12333 15th_ _Col. 1077 | | ELECTRIC | FIXTURES | Brass | Electric See us be- fore buying. We also wire L your house 717 12th St. N'W. FLAT TIRE? MAIN 500 LEETH BROTHERS Beautiful Bride Portraits $20.00 Dozen NDERWOOD ! NDERWOOD M. n 4400 Remington Cash Registers Manutactured by Remington CashRegisterCo.Inc. A MOTH MISSED HIS EYE ON MOTH OPENS HANDS TRIUMPH- ANTLY AND FINDS RE]’UQNS STILL A UTTLE NERVOUS TO NEWSPAPER. & MOTH PINALLY ALIGHTS ON ,EDGE GOF TRBLE HEARS DURING REST OF EVENING THAT IT'S ALL HIS. FPAULT I HIS DRESS SUIT INELS ARE AND TLANNELS ROINED (C) Wheeler Syn. fnc. itself. They are disinclined to aggra- precipita ie form of military intervention z6 returns to Washingtor se-tinted propheci vinced things in Ch ter, but not at once. Meantime ho depre &3 our authorities do, ribing exaggerated importance to the old-up’ air, Perhaps the v\hl h lln\ lawle: hold the white r vely recent more than four Traditionally, the life of son has been almost sacrosanct. It used to be that marauders would re- frain from assailing a community in p one white was known t ar that in any general melee nce might be done to him. The ern punishment inflicted upon Ch S a whole after the Boxer outbre magnified the awe in w race was held. With l!n the republio came a strange change. Banditry and brigandage prevailed in Chin but about of their devotees aping of wh persons was net only possible uld be carried out with comparat. immunity. Last summer the first If the color changes within a year we'll re- place the suit. action in | pr. | with no per- | ! wholesale attempts of that sort were made, when American and Scandi- navian missionaries in the central | provinces of Hunan and Hupei were attacked. Stern punitive measures | were promptly taken and accomplish- | ed their purpose before serious in- cldents occurred. In December, 1922, disrespect for | the sanctity 'of white foreigners reached its climax with the shooting of the American, Charles Coltman, on trumped-up charges by Chinese troops id in the presence of an American . That atrocity .rep- sented the zenith of effrontery and lled for drastic protests and de- mands from the United States gov- ernment. New Lawlessness. Last Sunday's affair typifies brand-new sort of Chinese lawles: ness against foreigners—the kidnap- | ing of a whole trainload of them, taken by force, as an act of highway- manship. No one acquainted with the abnormal state of affairs in China I wiling to predict that the ne stage of briganda different and p.-,n..m more form. Anarchy is in the air while the republio is undergoing its evolution ary convulsions. The central govern- Ment at Pekini for the moment 1n distracted. Rival tu-chuns (provin- clal military _governors) are insub- ordinate, rutiless and greedy for power. Until things at Peking and n the vast reaches of the old empire besin to shake down, nommales 1s fas o Largn numbers of the nds infesting the Chin lo are soldiers turncd 1 rovenue only. Thev r the colors of the .ocal ol brigand D. C. THURSDAY, waAY 16, g?fi As soon as the ghost ceases to walk, desertions and lawlessness ensue. Practice Banditry. Banditry thereupon is practiced as | a livelihood until by bribery in the | shape of resumed pzy or lucrative commissions in the tu-chun's arm highwaymen find it profitable to re sume the military calling. In a way therefore, there will be more or 1 continuous brigandage by organized bands of soldier-bandits until the cen- tral authority at Peking is strong €nough to control the p: situation for the republi army in the various provinces ruled by tu-chuns. Th B 1s hazarded in well in- formed Washington quarters that, in accord with certain known precedents, the pe: rpetrato h;‘;‘r the recent out- rage on the §gl ai- )'eklnz railway by * Hla- ires. ion bandits s tory . In 1913 in the besieged a to able number that ~ they smithere and relea threat was uu»onmmul m t cotion that the e Would open up & gap in their cord through which the bandits would be allowed to make their way ticed” if the captives w left . The invitation was acce; un- fled to parts unknown and the ent was closed. Doubtless the will be plenty 8f other comic opet experiences of the same sort before the pre old China is brought to an end. long as the pay roll is it, (Copyright, 1923.) 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