Evening Star Newspaper, April 13, 1926, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, BLANTON RENEWS ATTAGK ON FENNING Dr. Fowler, Appearing as Witness, Warned to Enforce Gilbert Act in Entirety. District Commissioner I'rederick A X and tration we attack by Repre Demo Texa: during & toduay fore the judic ubcommittee House District_ committe Dr. W, C Ith off lanton forced an admis IFowler that he had from the District O 1o carry out fully a 28 in regard to sentative I of the th> District stand. Mr. ion from Dr. owler. er, Wi the ports of social 4 attention to x school physi- Dr. . Blanton then ca the case of Dr. Wilson. clan, recently replaced by Adams, Mr. Blanton then read from a book- Jet containing a speech by Dr. W. A, White, superintendent of St. Iliza- beth's Hospis celebration of Dr. Adams’ birthday, in which D led attacks made upon him by membe gress and said that Dr the first to come to his defens Oratory Winners I proffer assistance. mg the t that celebration, ) Blanto name of Frederick A, F Mr. Blanton atic Wilson's remoy pointment with the ter had shown kindness to D= Whit Against Publishing Names. When Dr. Fowler é set. Mr. Blanton ght, inje found | nning. | deavor the latter “have He then | rht governm 3 that some Dis- warned -Dr. Fowler trict officia) mi; get him in thel same way, and I am going tu defend you from the same thing.” A | few minutes later Mr. ton warned Dr. Fowler, “if you don't enforce that Gilbert law, we are going to get you.” Dr. Fowler explained -that Com- missioner Fenning was not a member of the Board of Commissioners when the Gilbert act went into effect, but that representing the Medical Society of the District, he had appeared at hearings before the Commissioners and the Commissioners had ruled in favor of enforcement of the act with the exception of requiring names of sufferers as provided in the law. AMr. Blanton also stated that he had “a letter from the Medical Society of Washington stating that the Com- who annuled the Gilber s paid attorney for the med soci ty who didn't like the law and so Cemmissioner Fenning annuled it - Representative Gilbert, Democrat, Kentueky, in commenting upon Mr. Blanton's mode of attack, referred to Commissioner Fenning “such an intolerant administrator. Calis Fenning Unethical. Alr. Blanton representatives of ad ome {in hands opposing a epresentative of od Judgment Later in the hearing commented that the Medical clel here h unclean bill on which a paid the physi ns had as District Commisst * and he said the chief officer of t ociety had admitted that Mr. Fenning un- ethical.” Represe: tive Demo- ecrat, Noi (o agreed with Mr. Blanton and sald Mr. Fen- ning had commerciali: it sion and that it for Mr. without s the Medical ain declared that Mr. but id he had confidenc: these rlendid entiemen (re- ferring to representatives of the Medi- cal Society) will get rid of this oc Hammer, torney for Blanton enning “did rman of the Medi- Soclety of the District, protested vigorously against the imputation that the doctors had come be: mittee with unc ha SEATIN(;‘.V 0;8TEEK » OPENS 10WA FIGHT FOR NOMINATION ore the com- (Continued from. First P orship, which would be brought bout by unseating Mr. Brookhart d#nd seating himself. He replied: “Senator Cummins will have no dif- lt %n: the situation as to the Iowa sen- ulty in defeating Mr. Brookhart at Mr. Cummins will be elected. If Brookhart will be two Demo- from the State.” arty Lines Broken. ! i Sixteen Republicans joined with Democrats in voting (o ygseat Senator Brookhart Nine Democrats, 31 #nd the one Farmer-L woted for the Republic tp retain his seat { The roll call follows: Tor seating Steck: s—Butler, Dale, Deneen, , Goff, Greene, Harreld, 1, Phipps, Robinson of diana, Sackett, Warren, Watson and Weller—16. Democrats e primari Republicans bor Senator n insurzent Bavard sruce, Car 15, Fletcher, erry, <. Harris, Harrison, Hef- 1fn, Jones of New Mexico, Kendrick, ing, MecKellar, Mavfield, Neel Qverman, Pittman, Robinson of Ar Ansas, Sheppard, Simmons, Smith, Swanson, Trammell Total, Br Jand, —Bingham. Borah, Cam- Couzens, Curtis, Edge, azier, Gooding, Hale, How I, Johnson, Jones of Washington, Follette, Lenroot, McMaster, Mc- Nary, Metcalf, Moses, Norbeck, Nor- s, Nye, Oddie, Pepper, Pine, Reed Pennsylvania, Smoot, Stanfield, flliams and Willis—31. Democrats—Ashurst, rris, Ransdell, Reed of Missouri, ephens, Walsh and Wheeler—9. Farmer-Labor—Shipstead—1. Total, 41. Pairs were announced as follows McKinley for with Fess aga!ns for __with _Schall _agains Wernald, Blease, Dill, Papering and Painting Very Reasonable Prices o ipeonvenience. * Experiencad warkmen. o store of eliability. ~Established 1010 Phone Main 7422 and 3713 | ment with the La EDWIN S. RUCKER 1210 H Street N.W. ik ' (0. is¢ 453 TOURTH VL NY.C\H e R e AR s KEYSTANE Upper: Lenore 'fhomas, winner at Washington and Lee High Shool, Ar- lington County, Va. Center: Mary Kane, representative of St. Cecilia’s Academ Dudley C. tive of Brandywine, Md. Aist, representa- High School. du Pont for with Shortridge against; Underwood for ~with Wadsworth against. I0WA LEADERS ELATED. Hot Fight in Coming Primaries May Give Democrats New Chance. DES MOINES, Towa, April 13 (). — The Senate’s decision in seating Dan- iel F. Steck, promises an unusually hard campaign in this State for the Republican senatorial nomination in the June primary Mr. Brookhart, having previously announced if u: seated he would enter the primary as an opponent of Senator A. B. Cummin It also most active in one of the gns heretofore made by the Democrats in this State, in the hope that they may gain stili another Senate seat through the ex- pected spiit in Republican ranks. The decision was hailed by lar” Republican leaders not only for the Democrats, but for the Repul an organization as well, ce the State central committee has four years or more actively Brook! t, declaring crinpaign that he divorced himself from the party by his de- nunciation ot President Coolidge and Vice President Dawes and, his align- ollette cause. The fight between Brookhart and party leaders dates as far back as the Bull Moose movement in 1912, In Iowa he was the subject of wide- spread criticism _ because of h speeches on the condition of the farm- ers. Those who opposed the Senator's views contended that the adverse pub- lic given Iowa by Brookhart had a large bearing upon the State’s credit and business in general and was close- Iy linked with the depression of the past few Senato Brookhart also created a stir when he returned from abroad early in his Senate service and advo- ted recognition by the United States Russia. 4 for fought the last of LOS ANGELES TAKES AIR. Dirigible Leaves Hangar for Flight Around Lakehurst Today. LAKEHURST, N. J., April 13 (#).— The dirigible Los Angeles was taken | ar this morning in prep-‘i from h aration fc loss of the After sev mast she diate vicini her first flight since the henandoah last Fall. al hours at the mooring s to cruise in this imme- , returning before night. BACKS DR RIéHAfibSON. Congress Heights Association In- dorses Him for Education Board. Indorsenient of Dr president of the Cons Citizens' Association, © on the Bourd of Edue; last night at a meeting tion. The meeting also indorsed Newcomb, a member of the tion. as a candidate for membes on the proposed board of publ fare. The Kenilworth Citizen soclation also indorsed Mr. - comb for membership on this board. Continuance of the Citizens' Ad- Council was indorsed in an- other resolution adopted by the asso- clation. Announcement was made at the meeting that a portion of Wilson Park, Anacostia, been obtained for use as a playground. 12, Richardson, Heights rembership of the associa- E. in Chevy Chase” New | HOMES ChevyChase Crest, D. C. Charming exteriors, artistically designed to meet the insistent de- mand for distinctiveness, and the interiors are appointed perfectly 10 match the exteriors. them tomorrow. Dri out Comn. Ave. to Chevy Chase Circle east on_ West- ern Ave. to signs directing you to “The Loveliest Spot in Chevy Chase." Terrell & Little, Inc. 1206 18th St Main 3285 Evening Phones 2503-4 Adams 3215-W during | m was voted | for ja: VIRGINIA GRL, 12, ORATORY WINNER Lenore Thomas of Clarendon Sets Unusual Record for National Contest. Lenore Thomas, 12-year-old pupil in the Washington Lee High School at Ballsion, Va., the youngest pacticipant on record to win a school champion- ship in the Nationa! Oratorical Con- test in any school in the entire coun- try, was adjudged champion in the | school finals held in the school audi Monday night. As the school's orator, Miss Thomas will nt her institution in the Vir- kinia District finals which will be held April 20 in the auditorium of the Alexandria High School. The oratorical honor won vouthful pupil comprises but cident in the unusual school of the little Clarendon girl. Not a prodigy in any respect, Lenore has advanced so rapidly and steadily in her school courses that she is a egular pupil in the tenth grade. She is sald to be equally good in all lines of classroom work. The Washington:Lee final contest was marked aiso by the staging of an attractive entertainment program which, combined with the unusual in- terest. aroused among the pupils and by this n in career | faculty of the school and in the com- munities of Ballston and Clarendon, ! attracted a large audience which dis- played the keenest | event. the Vocal selections by Miss Louise Gill and piano solos by Taylor Jenkins were attractive features of the program. Two Named Alternates. Alternate honors in the contest were accorded Eleanor Beck and Eliz- abeth Mason. Other speakers were Charlotte Hagan, Harold Harbaugh, Charles Hohein and Irene King. The contest was presided over by J. Foster, faculty committee chalrman, and the judges consisted of Freder: fek P. Myers of the American Uni- versity Law School, Charles M. Joyce of Washington and S. P. Vanderslice, the school prineipal. The nearest approach to the youth- ful winner at this school in the mat- ter of age Is reported from California in 1923 when Harry D. Smith, a 13-year-old pupil of the Bakersfield High School, worked his way to the State finalg, which were held in Los Angeles. A Cecilia’s Academy will be repre- sented in the private and parochial group of schools in the District of Columbla which will compete he national contest by Mary Kane. Miss Kane was awarded this honor by the' faculty committee hav- ing the contest in charge and will carry the colors of her school in the nal contest among institutions in this group in Gonzaga College audi- torium .on April 22. The test will take place on the day named, begin- ning at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. ‘Winner Is Senior. Second honors in the contest at St. Cecilia’s went to Lygla Winningder, who was named as alternate. ~The contest was open to pupils of the junfor and senfor classes, and was under the supervision of a_faculty committee headed by Sister Kathryn Marie. The winner is a member of e senior class. e Brandywine High School, at- Brandywine, Md., will be represented by Dudley C. Alst, who lives at Cheltenham, Md. The contestant from this school has shown unusual atercst in the work of the contest, devoting his entire time and energles not imperatively demanded by his reg, ular school activities to the cause of! the contest. He 4s now working hdrd in improving his effort and his de- livery and is hopeful of victory in the Maryland district finals, which will be held in the auditorium of the Hyattsville High School April 21. He is’ 16 years old and his subject is “The Constitution.” TRth the public high school pupils of the District having the entire Zaster week as a holiday period, the progress of the contest in the private and parochial schools and of the Maryland and Virginia schools has Dbeen more marked of late. With the resumption of sessions of the public high schools Monday, advancement in this group is likely to be rapid. The finals in the Central High School will be held next Friday, and other elimin- ation tests will be held in various District high schools before the end of the week. Judges for Semi-Final Meeting. The judges for the national semi- final meeting, to be held in Kansas City on May 14, will be: John Ham- mill, Governor of Iowa; Gilbert N. Hitchcock, former United States Sen- ator from Nebraska; F. Dumont Smith, chalrman of the citizenship committee of the American Bar As- sociation; Charles E. Matson, member of the American Bar Assoclation citi- zenship committee; J. A. Van Osdol, chairman of the committee on consti- tutional education of the Indiana Bar Assoclation, The winner ‘of the meeting at Kan- sas Clty will compete in the national finals at Washington June 4 as one of the seven natlonal finalists, and as will automatically secure as his prize a trip abroad. All seven of the national finalists will be taken on this Furopean trip without regard to thelr relative ratings in the national finals. e Interest in A German has combined a one- string violin and an aluminum horn orchestras. DRINKING TUESDAY, —_— D VICE IN MINE DISTRICT PICTURED BY PRIEST said, young girls, 13 to 14 years of age, go out joy-riding with boys, and they expect the boys to bring liquor with them. Immorality among the young, he said, is increasing greatly. “Prohibition has made itself very attractive to the youngsters,” said the witness. “They want to know all about liquor. “Road houses are on the increase. Young girls go there now who never went to such houses before.” During the first year of prohibition, Father Kasaczun told the committee, the moonshine made in the homes was not so well made, but the people have now learned how to make pretty good lquor. One Out of Five Not Making It. “I asked a member of my commit- tee, a miner, before I came here if it would be correct for me to say that e out of every five families in the :ommunity were making liquor to- " he said. “He replied to me that 1 would be correct to say that one out f every five families was not making liquor. He described conditions in homes where he had found mothers drunk and children of § or 7 doing the cook- ng. “Fatty Arbuckle parties take place at the Summer resorts on the lakes,” said Father Kasaczun. He said that they had been dgscribed to him by a nger brother. i ometimes the young people wear nothing at all and think nothing of it,”” he said. Young girls, he said, are leaving heme in some cases because their mothers and fathers drink. He told of the case of a boy who died in a hospital after his lcg had been ampu- tated because of an accident in the mines. The parents, he said, came to the hospital drunk. Family Life Corrupted. Prohibition, he sald, has corrupted family lite in the mining regions and it would be a blessing to the country it the Volstead act were modified. “I believe in regulation and am a supporter of temperance,” said Father Kasaczun. “Where does the liquor come from ich thesc people drink?” asked Julien Codman, attorney for the wet forces. i “Ninety per cent of it stills in the homes,” was !h:nr,:;ll\‘l.he Mr. Codman wanted to know if the suggestion made at the hearings by some of the witnesses that most of the liquor now used is made from alcohol obtained from denaturing plants, or from renatured alcohol was correct. Father Kasaczun sald it did not apply in his district. “Would the situation be improved if light wines and beer were permit- ted, asked Mr. Codman b ald the witness. Closing Saloons No Help. . Senator Harreld of Oklahoma, act- ing chalrman of the committee, asked if the situation would not be much improved if the 18 saloons and other places where liquor was sold in the town were closed. Father Kasaczun replied that he did not think it would make much difference, that the people would just make more liquor in the homes. Mr. Shirk, in explaining the survey made by tho Moderation League, Inc. on the matter of arrests for drunken: ness, criticized a statement made by Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League, before a House committee. In this statement, he said, Mr. Wheeler had said there were 500,000 less arrests sinCE na- tional prehibition. than in a similar period prior to prohibition. ““He took the years 1914 to 1917 and averaged up the arrests, and then took the years 1920-1922 and did the same,” d Mr. Shirk. “As a matter of fact, the figures for arrests for drunken- fess in 1923 went very much higher. ll;u:r T. Wheeler failed to mention a He said that the Moderation Leagu had been led to make Its survey be. cause of the startling figures for ar- rests for drunkenness published in 1924 by the World League Against Alcoholism. He sald his league had communicated with the police depart- ment of every city or town in the United States having u population of 5,000 or more. Increase Early in War. “The figures show that during 1914 and 1915, before the war boom got under way, the arrests for drunken- ness repained practically stationary he sald. During 1916 and 1917, war boom years, there was a perceptible increase—following the known rule that, other things being equal, drunk- enness increases with good times and decreases with hard times. “In 1918 and 1919 emergency war- time restrictions on_alcoholic liquors {far_short of bonedryness. however) A Directory of Service Before giving your order for Spring Household Repairs and Improvements, read the adver- tisements in The Star under classification of Recommended Service. Nearly every kind of service needed around the house is' represented here. 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Drunkenness took an astonishing drop in those years. At the very tail end of 1919 the Volstead act went into effect. In 1920 there was a further drop in the number of arrests for drunkenness, but immedi- ately afterward in 1921 there was an enormous increase. This increase con- tinued in 1922 and later years with the result that by 1924 arrests for drunkenness rebounded just about to the pre-prohibition level. “To be exact, arrests for drunken- ness in 1914 in the 350 places from which figures were obtained were 506,737, dropped to 226,070 in 1920, and In 1924 rose to 498, The same rise occurred in 457 places, in- creasing from 258,974 in 1920°to 565, 6 in 1924." Quotes Harding Statement. The witness continued: “A noteworthy feature is that dur- ing the 1918-1919 restrictions (which amounted to semi-dryness, not bone dryness), there was an enormous de crease in drunkenness in spite of the business boom of those years, and that - thereafter, during the severe bone-dry years of the Volstead act, there was such an astonishing in- crease that drunkenness just about reached the level of the old saloon years by 1924 “One of the interesting things dis. closed by the survey is that while conditions in former ‘wet’ States are now about the same as in 1914, in former ‘dry’ States; i. e., States which had some form of a State pro- hibition or semi-prohibition law fore the eighteenth amendment was adopted, conditions are worse today under the bone-dry Volstead act thun they formerly were under their own State dry laws. President Harding sensed this condition shortly before his death, when he said in his Den- ver speech, in June, 1923: ‘It is a significant fact that some States which suecessfully enforced their own prohibition statutes before the eighteenth amendment was adopted have latterly gone backward in this regard.’ “Perhaps one reason for this great increase in drunkenness in the ‘dry’ States is that most of these so-called ‘dry’ States were not really so—but were, in the main, merely restrictive. It is not generally known that at the time the eighteenth amendment was ratified—January 16, 1919—only 6 States, containing 4.2 per cent of the population of the United States, were bone-dry by popular vote; 6 other States, with 7.6 per cent of the pop- ulation, were bone-dry hy legislative act, and 18 States, w .7 per csnt of the population, were wet. The remainir per cent of the neither wet nor steadian sense. State-wide restrictive laws, varying in degree, but which in all cases, while intending to abolish the saloon, af- forded some lawful method for cti- zens to obtain alcoholic beverages."” Says Drunken Drivers Increase. Mr. Shirk told the committee there had been a great increase in the num- ber of arrests of drunken drivers of motor vehicles in the prohibition years. This increase, he said, had been 354 per cent, while the increase population, dry in any Vol- They had various in the number of motor vehicles had | been only 132 per cent. “Drunken drivers 222 per cent faster than the automo- biles,” he said. He cited the number of arrests of drunken drivers in a number of cities, among them Washington. where, he sald, there were 53 arrests for drunk- en driving in 1918, and in 1924 this number had increased to 616, an in- crease of 1,062 per cent. Mr. Shirk read to the committee a letter he had received from the chief of police of Reading, Pa., declaring that there was more drinking by minors and young people thay ever before at private dances through the hip flask route, and that there had been instances of boys taken from school drunk. Asks for Repeal. Another letter he received from Martin F. Amorous of Marietta, Ga., who declared he personally favored the eighteenth amendment and would not change it, said that under the Fed. eral prohibition act conditions so far be- | 18 States, with 32.5 | | have increased APRIL 1926. as drinking was concerned had be- come very bad. The Volstead act had let loose a host of bootleggers and il- licit distilleries in the State. Liquor that cost about 50 cents a gallon to produce was sold for from §8 to $10 a gallon. "My solution of the matter is to repeal the Volstead act and let the States handle the matter of prohibi- tion enforcement,” he said. The last witness today was Mrs. Viola Anglin, deputy chief probation officer of the family courts of New City, who testifled that the pr hibition Jaw has not resulted in any decrease in the werk of that court in handling domestic relations work. Mr. Codman asked Mrs. Anglin what the conditions of family life are, par- tlcularly with regard to the morals of children, under prohibition. She replied that before prohibition there was much talk about the amount of good the law. would do in the fam fly court because of a belief that much of the family trouble was due to the use of alcohol. Wives Suffering More. le cases have not decreased, they iricreased,” the witness contin- “The only conclusion is that and children are suffering 13, have ued. wiv more Mrs. Anglin declared that men on probation are heavy drinkers and that occasionally they come boldly into court under the influence of liquor. She sald the probation officers.told her that from 100 to 150 stills can be found in each of their districts. She said they are not only in stores, but in tenement houses. “When you open the door to some of these tenements the first thing you get is a whiff of the odor of liguor of Mrs. Anglin declared. he sald probation officers do not fol- low these odors to their source be- cause they arg not prohibition en- | forcement agents. She said large num- of children live in these tene- ments and canot help knowing the stills are there and that the law is being violated. The committee adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Ridicules Dry Claims. enator lldwards of New Jersey, who was elected governor of that State several years ago on a promise to muke New Jersey “as wet as the Atlantic,” and who has introduced several bills to repeal or modify the Volstead act, made a statement to the Senate committee today, urging favorable action on his measures. The New Jersey Wenator ridiculed the assertions made by Assistant Sec- retary Andrews and United States Dis- trict Attorney Buckner of New York tot he effect that if it were possible to dry up the source of supply of alcohol, now obtained from denaturing plants for the bootleg business, the problem of prohibition enforcement would be largely solved. Senator Edwards said that the vast per cent of illicit liquor now consumed in this country comes from f{llegally operated stills in the homes of the people, or among the moonshiners. Senatr Edwards sald ““Since agitation for modification or repeal of the Volstead act was begun a great many alibis have been made by so-called “drys™ in their determined fight to legisiate morality into the body politic of America. ‘One of these alibis was sented by Assistant Secretary the Treasury Andrews, the bers pre- of field Gives 1,000 miles of super-lubrication before draining your crank case! Beware of Substitutes. At Good Dealers Everywhere. 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It is Mr. Andrews' contention that to this evil can be ascribed a major po tion of the breakdown of law enforc ment. “All the moonshine, produced by mil- lions of gallons, is solemnly ascribed to this leakags veritable red Her- ring to divert the attention of the pe ple from the real causes, the farm, mountain and home stills, where at lcast 991; per cent of the real trouble lies, and Mr. Mellon knows it and Mr. Lincoln C. Andrews knows it, and Mr. Wayne B. Wheeler knows it, and each and every normal, intelligent human being in the country knows it. “It 18 asserted as a fact by a majori- ty of the badgered officials that some 10,000,000 gallons of denatured alcohol are finding their way into the hands of bootleggers yearly. But no figures sub. stantfating this have ever emanated from the office of any responsible pro- hibition offical. “A shyster lawyer retained in a bad case 15 the only person I know of who would appreciate and admire the slick- ness and ease of accomplishment di plaved by this distinguished. but disin- genuous estimate. Consumption of Alcohol. “There are some 75 formulas for specially denatured alcohol listed by the commissioner of internal reve- nue, but more than 80 per cent of the production is in seven classificitions. “These seven consuming agencies use some 30,000,000 gallons, or ap- proximately 85 per cent of the total production of denatured alcohol. This leaves 35 per cent for illegal with- drawal purposes. “And I herewith charge that if there be any diversion of consequence it must be by the aid and consent of trusted officers In the United States. It is a fact so apparaent that further demonstration is unnecessary. “The drinking public of America to- day is making its own liquor and will continue to make and consume it just as long as the Volstead act is a part of the law of the land and officers of the law are permitted to connive and conspire with law violators for the money they are able to obtain from such 1llegal conspiracy. ) *“I herewith charge that'the framers of the Volstead act knew when they placed it upon the statute books of-the United States that it couid not be en forced and that it was forced dow: the throats of the American people at the behest of the Anti-Saloen League and other allied hypoeritical and blgoted bodies who are determined to promote crime and corruption in this country beneath the cloak of virtuous pretensions and holier-than-thou unc tions.” Turkish War Admiral Dies. 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