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a2 4 PERSUADING POWER OF PRESS DOUBTED Williamstown Speakers Dis- parage Written Word as Great Opinion Moulder. By the Associated Press. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., July 31. —Denying the assertion yesterday of Arthur Draper, assistant editor of the New York Herald-Tribune that the press Is the greatest influence in melding public opinion, Sir Frederick Whyts, first president of the Indian legislative assembly, maintained today that radio and the platform are equally potent. Speaking before the Institute of Politics, he declared that radio in par- ticular, through its frcedom from business influence, might be an un- mitigated benefit in promoting inter- mational understanding, where the press would fail because of the high concentration-of ownership in it. Admits Opinion Factor. He acknowledged that public opinion was a powerful factor in determining the course of cvents, citing the British coal strike settlemocnt as the most outstanding evidence of the fact. The strike was defeated, he said, not by the government, but by the working of a public opinion that seized upon the one salient fact that the strike was an illegitimate effort to influence the politics of the country. Concentraticn of ncwspaper owner- ship, he held, might be barmful to international relations, since it limited the scope of expression of public opinion, and he belittled press in- fluence in intexnal political matters by citing the numerous cases when s has fought solidly the that the voters have ovei Whelmingly indorsed. German Also Dubious. Dr. Moritz J. Bonn of the Uni- wersity of Berlin also questioned the power of the press. Public opinion is changed by industrial groups, he said, and these groups are not being influenced by their newspapers but by their professional leaders. Dr. Leo S Rowe, director general elect of the Pan-American Union. held that governments can do little In the developement of closer inter- national understanding, and that the power of the press of the United States and Latin America was aug- mented to a position of supreme im- portance in the affairs of the West- ern Hemisphere. W. B. Welles, London correspond- ent for the Herald-Tribune, declared sthat the ‘Irish revolution was made by newspapermen, and that it was settled by public opinion and the pressure brought to bear by the press, r the American press. MYSTERIOUS WIRE GIVES IMPETUS TO HALL-MILLS PROBE Upper, left to right: Capt. John J. Lamb, State police; Maj. Mark Kimbes lice; County llemllvs Jaseph Hanlon, Preseeutor Francis Bergen, Capt. Harry Sergt. Richard Burke, Jersey City police, and Lieut. William Coughlin, State pelice. Lamb, Walsh and Burk rested Mrs. Hall after an investigation Lower, left: Arthur S. Riebl, who bara To together. Right: home early in the morning. 1, maid, who it is alleged telephoned Mrs. Hall on William Phillips, who in the previeus investigat| maes v themselves and others. says his ~fe w>3 paid to withhold kno ht of the murder § is alleged to have seen Mrs. Hall returning RLD w ring, actg sageriatendeat Suae po W Ive ar- of the murders. Center: Bar- mmlhluduu'.l& TREASURY 70 TAX ALL ILLCT LIQUOR 62 Assessors Added to Care for Difficult Task—Cut in Expenses Seen. By the Associated Press. The Government's new weapon against illicit liquor--taxation—was ordered into operation yesterday by the Treasury. s Instructions were issued to prohibi- tion administrators regarding the form of taxes and penalties which — | may be assessed against liquor manu- New Brunswick, home with fri and relatives to comfort her. She had been confined for 4) following | her arrest Wednesday. sShe is charged | with the two murders. During the day she was visited by sisters of her husband. The | ouri no longer congregated on | her lawn, and the windows were and blinds raised The $15,000 laase soon. Hotel Man Now Dead. Warren F. < Harding said she related her rience on her return to Manville, where she resided at that time, died | about & vear ago, it was reporied ay| the Asbestos Hotel, Manville, of which he was manager. Mr. Francis’ dauner is dead, and his on!y known uyving relative is a brother who lives in Brooklyn. It was mot known at the hotel whether Mr. Francis had | told his brother of Mrs! Harding's experience. | County Detective Hanlon denied re- | eeipts of a message from Mrs. Hard- | ing. Mrs. Jane Gibson, farmer woman, who lives near the spot where the bodies of Mr. Hall and Mrs. Mills were found, and who told authorities she was an evewlitness of the mur- ders, never was sure of the number of automobiles she saw in the road near the crab apple tree under which the bodies lay. Her testimony was that she had come up the road astride her mule Jenny unexpectedly, to see the mur- derers at their tasks. She had been following & wagon that she thought contained corn stolen from her cribs. Besides the car with the extinguished. headlights, she sald, there was an- other, the lights of which furnished the illumination by which she saw the murderers’ faces. Beyond this, she told authorities, they said, she thought there was a third car, a road- ster. The roadster was parked on Easten avenue near De Russey's lane, she thought. Every Bit of Data Sought. At the time of the first investiga- tion detectives said they were anxious to get information from any one who might have knowledge of this road- ster's occupants. Although the statements of Mrs. Gibson, to which have been the statements of Mrs. Harding, that there were men at the scene of the erime, only one person,. and that a woman, has been directly charged with the murders. That woman is Mrs. Hall. Mrs. Gibson said ‘she had recognized two men she saw, one of them holding a. revolver that flashed in the night. ARREST AROUSES PUBLIC. New Brunswick Indignant at Haste . of Prosecutor Bérgen. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J, July 31.—Public indignation ever the mid- night arrest of Mrs. Hall and her being jailed without being indieted is aroused to a high pitch. It was sald when Presecutor Bergen drew up the warrant at 10 o'clock at night he had no idea it would be served at once, but the prosecutor would not explain why the warrant even was made out at such a late hour and in such apparent haste. State troepers in Somerville today examined a youth of about 20, dress- ed in farm ciothes, and a man around 60, who wore oV , and was said to live mear ¥reehold. Their names were not made public. Down in Old Point Comfort, Va., detectives were searching for another material witness. He was the man originally reported as a friend of Peter Tumuity, the Hall ehauffeur, and it was suggested might have driven one of the family cars. It was reported he enlisted in the Army. SAW NO WOMAN AT SCENE. MILWAUKEE, Wis., July 81 (®).— Mre. Howard Harding, who today tele. graphed Sheriff Joseph Hanlen eof Somerpet Cousty. N. J., that she | facturers and others under the new revenue law and the prohibition act. Just how -the liquor is to be traced back to the manufacturers and proof of their liability established is not clear. hut 62 “assessors” have been added to the staff for that work. Expeets to Save Money. The taxation drive is in line with Assistant Secretary Andrews’ padicy lof concentrating on the sources of fl- licit spirits, and he believes the results will more than justify the effort. He told Congress at the last session that he expected to collect enough from liquor taxes to materially reduce ap- propriations for prohibition enforce- ment. The instructions issued to prohibi- tion administrators yesterday point ount that domble and triple taxes on illicit lignor can be assessed as penal- ties. . Tax Ts $6.10 a Gallon. Under the new revenue law the di- vect tax is $6.40 a proof gallon on all distilled spirits diverted to beverage use, and $6 a barrel on beer con- taining more than one half of one per cent of alcohol, sold for heverage con- sumption. A special tax of $1.000 is levied on any verson carrying on the business of a brewer, distiller, whole- sale liquor dealer, retail liquor dealer or manufacturer of stills. All of these assessments are in addi- tion to thé regular stamp taxes which are required under the revenue law on all distilled liquor, wine and beer. Most of the new staff of 62 assessors will be assigned as deputy revenue col- lectors, and will work with the Fed- eral district attorneys. information which might lead to the solution of the Hall-Mills murder mys- tery, deelined to be interviewed late today. She said her story was only for the sheriff, to whom she had com- municated everything of importance. Mrs. Harding said verification of what she had told the sheriff might be had from Warren F. Francis, man- ager of the Asbestos Hotel at Man- ville, N. J., in September, 1924. She told him the story of being accosted by a man, at a spot which she de- seribes as near the place where the bodies or Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills were found. _ It was not until Mrs. Hall was re- drrested recently that it occurred to her that the information she has :nlxhl be useful in selviag the mys- ery. The idéntity of the man who ac- costed her has not been made known by Mrs. Harding, except that sh had since seen a photograph publlshe; in connmection with the case which appeared to be that of the man who talked to her. “After. the man stopped me and warned me not to relate anything I had seen,” Mrs. Harding said, “I drove away. I saw three men. I am posi- tive that there was no woman. I heard one of the men say fwmethlng about ‘parishioner.’ “I am positive that the man who stepped out into the road is a prom- inent factor in the case. Mrs. Hall was not there.” Mrs. Harding, before her marriage here two years ago was Miss Virginia de Leon, a soeial worker at the Johns Manville Co. plant at Manville, N. J. On the night of the murder, she said she had driven an official of the firm from Manville to Newark, and on_her return, driving alone, lost her way. When agcosted she was driving slowly along a side road near New Brunswiek. BODIES MAY BE EXHUMED. NEW YORK, July 31 (®.,—The bodies of the Rev. Dr. Edward W. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills, mur- dered in September, 1922, at New Brynswick, N. J., will be exhumed, it was learned today from a supposedly authoritative source. The. action was said to have been decided upon as one of the first steps iin the new investigation of the erime. A searching inquiry will be made int the eonduet of first investigation ‘of the murder four years ago, officials nadgeid MELLETT KILLING SOLUTION NEARER (Continued from First Page.) next Wednesday. Mr. Roach has been assigned to the acting chief's office by Mayor S. M. Swartz, at the request of a committee of business men who brought him here to look into the Canton situation. The mayor's order of assignment said Roach is to “investigate the murder of Don lellett and its contributing causes. LETTER PRODUCES CLUE. Gives Detectives Tips on Whereabouts of McDermott's Pals. CLEVELAND, July 31 ®.—A letter found in a torn recess of a battered suitcase in a Summer cottage at Brady Lake, in Portage County, may mark the end of the trafl for the flight of “‘Red” Patrick Eugene McDermott, sought as chiet of the slayers of Don R. Mellett, Canton newspaper editor. The letter, uncovered in » raid early today by Captains of Deteetives Em- mett Potts and Joseph Sweeney was the ‘first hint as to the whereabouts of any of the fugitive's outof-town friends and resulted in a wire to police @t Perth Amboy, N. J., by Detective Inspector Cody on the theory that McDermott was likely in hiding there. McDermott received a portion of the $750 which is alleged to have been promised him to “get” the Canton publisher, Detective Captains Potts and Sweeney declared today. The officers’ announcement came after an tnvestigation of McDermott's movements since the slaying. They declare that MeDermott was here on the afternoon of the Mellett slaying, and that he made trips to Akron and Massillon, Ohio, to get the money before going to Pittsburgh. Potts and Sweeney say they re- ceived theiwr information from a com- panion ef McDermott. They were told, they declare, that McDermott left Cleveland for Pittsburgh Wednes- day, after failing to get the money in Akron and Massillon the day before. He was accompanied to the two Ohio cities by a girl and the youth who gave the detectives their information. The detectives learned that McDer- ‘mott paid $108 to clear up a bad check that he had issued. This was done, they believe, because he feared the claimant might report the matter to the police, reveal his hiding place and cause cemplications that might even- tually result in his being linked with the Canton assassination. BOSTON WANTS PSILIAS. Seeks Mellett Case Suspect on Feloni- ous Shooting Charge. PITTSBURGH, July 31 (P).—George Psilias, alias “George the Greek,” who has been questioned by deteetives in connection with the slaying of Don R. Mellett, Canton publisher, is wanted in Boston. Two Boston detectives who arrived here today to serve war- rants on Psilias said he was charged with felonious shooting and assault and battery, the result of an attempted robbery there on May 9, 1920. Psilias took refuge in the Allegheny County jail several days ago in an ef- fort to frustrate what his attorney termed a plot by private detectives to “kidnap” his client and take him to Ohio in connection with the Mellett case. Psilias was remanded to jail after a bondsman had withdrawn bail, posted some time ‘age on an assault charge. The Boston detectives said Psilias would be arrested and extradiction proceedings started the minute he !!?find from jail. e warrants charged Psilias and a companion thot two men in a Beston coffec house. ¢ LSS LOVE OF JOHN.R. LOVE LANDS HiM IN TOILS Baltimore Youth Misrepresented Wife’'s Age, Father-in-Law Charges, Asking Arrest. The matrimonial bark of John R. Sihect, Hardiomare, M. b b e ; ore, Md.. s‘""fidmh Wwhich had been ves ly and Scrivener to the Monumental City and a,rn‘:::d the youth on the complaint of his wife's father, James McKillop, that the boy had represented the age of m %ughtor as 21 years when she is Love brought his wife, then Theresa McKillop, to this city on June 3 fol. lowing a courtship of many months. The McKillops are second-door nelgh- bors of the Loves in Baltimore living at 2029 Hollins street. Police say he went to the courthouse and obtained a lcense on the assertion that Miss | Killop was 21 years and the pair were married here on the same day. No explanation was given the police why Mr. MeKillop waited two months before he decided to swear out a war- rant for his young sor-n-law's-ar- INQUIRY PROMISED INTO CRABBING WAR Virginia Official, Lacking Confirmation, Believes Shooting lustified. By the Associated Press. NEWPORT NEWS, Va., July 31— Col. Harry R. Honston, head of the Virginia commission of fisheries, has no official report concerning the alleg- ed renewal of hostilities between Maryland crabbers and the Virginia patrol boat Marguerite. “I have heard nothing except what I saw in the Bal- timore papers.” Mr. Houston said, “and I am Molined to believe the re- port an exaggeration. Had theére been serfous trouble I feel confident that the captain of the Marguerite would have let me know."” Mr. Houston does not believe that the Marguerite fired on the Maryland crabbers without cause, as char; a dispatch from Crisfleld. * our men used their guns I feel certain that they believed they had every right to do sd,” he added. Mr. Houlton and other members of the commission expect to make an in- vestigation of the latest trouble re- ported. The commissioner sald a few days ago he was afraid the trouble was not at an end, the Maryland crab- bers for several years having come down in Virginia waters to. take a peeler crab which rises at the mouth of a ereek near Smith Island, and usually disappears before reaching the Maryland boundary lne. The Virginia laws prohibit the tak- ing of crabs and other shellfish in Vir- &gt waters by any persons other than citizens of the Old Dominion. JURY MAZE POINTS TO JAM IN COURT BEFORE SETTLEMENT (Continued from First Page.) who is forced to put it up again. The chances are, according to vraious of- ficials of the court, that the Govern- ment would not brininup these cases again, being more than satisfied to look after the new ones. It was two days ago that'Mr. Emer- son issued his. challenge, declaring that inasmuch that Congress, on July 3, speeified that the jury service should be lenthened to three months and should be chosen 10 days before the first of July, 10 days before the first of October, and so om, it was illegal for the jury commission to call any one for jury except on the dates mentioned by Congress. As it was impossible for a jury to be chosen 10 days before the first of July, when C&nzrels did not pass the amendment uhtil July 3, the commis- sion had a jury impaneled July 5 for two weeks and another July 19 for the same period of time. Mr. O'Leary, drguing for the Gov- ernment, contended at the héaring be- fore Judge Hitt thatl the action of Congress did not repeal any law, merely amended it, and that its intent was to have the jury go on as in the past uatil it was® possible to impanel one under the new law. Mr. Emerson stated that intent could not be read into the law which was clear in itself and lacked any ambiguity. He cited the Clark case of 1901, which, he declared, “to be on all fours” with the present situatiom. At the conclusion of the hearing, briefs were ordered submitted by the court, and the signified the inten-. :w‘::\x to give his opinion early this Tn the meantime the jufy is still ex- cused without pay. MRS. SCOTT DEFIES PLEA TO DISCONTINUE FAST |*it Wil ‘Engage New Doctor, Says ‘Wife of Condemned Slayer, on 21st Day Without Food. Special Dispatch, to The Star. DETROIT, July 31~—Heedless of her physician’s warning that serious consequences might follow, Mrs. Cathe- rine Scott, now on the twenty-first day of her fast at the New Detroit ouse, sald today that she intends to continue it indefinitely. Mrs. Scott announces through manager that ghe fntends to engage a new physician. urpose of the fast is The avowed to raise funds for the defense of her wsband, Russell Seott, under sentence of death in Tilinois, and to care for.her three children. Mrs. ‘Scott said to- day she is making just enough money e pay sxpeass R4 or t was given out today as 100 pounds and her physical condition AUGUST 1, IBANKRUPTCY LAW ADDITIONS LISTED Accountants’ Institute Ex- plains Steps Taken to * Curb Swindles. Greater protection to business men from losses caused by dishonest bankruptcles will result from amend. ments to the national bankruptey act by the last Congress, accord- ing to the American Inatitute of Ac- | countants, which has published a bulletin outlining the changes and the reason for them. . “Need of a bankruptey law is uni- versally recognized,” the accountants | say, “Business men, however, re- | belled against the misuse of the law by business crooks, who, under the cloak of a statute intended to protect the unfortunate, have succeeded in stealing increasingly large sums by fraudulent bankruptcies and by con- cealment of assets. These business eriminals have brought even the law itself into disrepute. Complaints against the law ‘before it was amended, according to the ac- countants, were that it did not pre- vent the making of collusive peti- tions, filed by friendly or fictitious | creditors at the request of or on be- half of the debtor; allowed fraudu- lent compositions, by which some creditora were preferred over others: permitted easy discharges from bank- ruptcy, regardless of flagrant viola- tions ‘of the bankruptcy act; its orim- inal * provisions were not adequate and there was a lack of prosecutio delays were entailed in settling estates, and in some cases costs of adminigtration were excessive. ‘The accountants belleve that nearly all of these defects will be corrected by the amendments and by the new general orders in bankruptcy promul- gated by the United States Supreme Court. Some of Provisions. Some of the high lights in the amendments are as follows: Collusive petitions—A new general order of the Supreme Court requires that petitioners in Involuntary cases. Wl clalms have been obtained by assignment, make affidavit as to the consideration pald for the assigned claima. As collusive petitions usually rest on assigned claims, it is hoped this new order will eliminate this evil. Solicitation of clatms by re- celvers or their attorneys is prohibited by another new general order of the Supreme Court, and another prohibits the employment by receivers and trustees of attorneys who ere in any way connected with the bankrupt. Denlal of allowi to attorneys for petitioning creditors is provided for in another general order, “if it shall ap- pear that the proceedings were Insti- tuted in collusion with the bankrupt or were not instituted in good faith." Fraudulent compositions—A section in the amended law provides for the payment. from the estate, of the ex- penses of creditors who investigate and successfully oppose confirmation of a composition. This mew section is intended to aid creditors who have reason to believe that compesitions offered aregnot fair, in that they do not disclose all the payments to be made by a debtor or bankrupt. Here- tofore creditors have been slow to investigate offers in composition, owing to the trouble and expense in- volved, with the result that many fraudulent compositions have been ac- cepted. A general order of the Su- n | preme Court requires creditors who walve participation in compositions to disclose under oath all agreements with the bankrupt, and to make affi- davit that no payment or promise of payment has been made, except such as are disclosed in the composition offer. Easy discharges—Hereafter if a bankrupt can be shown to have muti- lated, falsified or concealed any book or record, regardless of the intent of the act, a discharge may be refused. Likewise, if a bankrupt obtains credit or an extension of credit on a ma- {terfally false financial statement, whick is published through any ageney, a discharge may be refused. Likewise, if a bankrupt fails to ac- count satisfactorily for assets. he may be refused a discharge. An important amendment to this section is one which places on the bankrupt the burden of proving that he has not committed any of the acts which would act as an obstacle to his dis- 'cwm. Longer Prison Term. “Insufficient criminal provisions and lack of prosecution—Many of the amendments are aimed at' these de- fects. Offenses are more carefully defmed and several additional of- fenses are enumerated. The period of possible imprisonment - for viola- tions is increased from two years to five years, for a serfes of eight speci- fled acts, three of which are new. One of the three new punishable acts is the concealment or transfer of property of the debtor by an officer or agent of a person or corporation, prior to bankruptcy: another is the concealment, destruction, mutilation or falsification by any one of any record relating to the affairs of a bankrupt; the third is the withhold- ing by any one from the receiver or trustee of any record relating to the affairs of a bankrupt. The time in which prosecution of apparent of- fenders may be undertaken is ex- tended in the amended law frorn one year to three. An important amend- ment which it is hoped will stimulate prosecutions of bankruptey law vio. lators is one which makes it obliga. tory for referees to report to prose- cuting attorneys all ‘apparent viola- tions of the law that come to their notice. { - “Delays in Settling estates—Under the amended act, adjudication as a bankrupt and administration of the estate may not be delayed by the mere making of an offer in composi- tien, unless the court is satisfled the estate will not deterioriate. A uni- form time of 30 days for taking ap- peals is set, and the time for proving clajms is reduced from one year to six months. Costs Now Limited. “Costs of administration — No amendments to the bankruptcy act are ed to meet complaints of excesstve cost, but several of the new general orders of the Supreme Court put limitations on,expenditures from tes. “Other ~important amendments — Creditors’ communications to other creditors and to referees and trustees relating_to the affairs of a bankrupt are made privileged communications. “No more than one discharge from bankruptcy, regardless of ‘whether | the case is voluntary or involuntary, shall be granted within a period six years, Heretofore discharges in voluntary cases were limited to one in skx years; but there was no limit on discharges in involuntary casgs. “Payment of wages is given prior ity over payment of taxes. Shesta Mud Flow Increasing. ‘REDDING, Calif., July 31 (#).—The mud flow from the glacier on Mount Shasta s increasing - in al 1926—PART Two-hundred-year-old erick, landscape architect of the tree at Nassau, Bahama Islands, and William A. Fred- Capitol, who is going to save it. CANADA, FIGHTING HUMANNATURE, (Continued from First Page.) Prohibition is still a big issue. The wind seems to be blowing wet and at the next election the opinion is that Ontario will return to liquor, through government control. Weak Beer Dissatisfies. At one time the theory was ad- vanced in Ontario that people didn't really want to get drunk, but they wanted to be able to sit around in public and drink light beer. This beer should contain only enough alcohol to make it palatable, but not enough to intoxicate. So the famous 4.4 beer was tried. But as soon as it was found that the beer wasn't intoxi- cating, it fell into disrepute. It was a total loss. A walitress in a Toronto hotel will refer to it disparagingly as “that four-point-four stuff" and rec- ommend buttermilk or iced tea. On every hand in Ontario one hears talk of bootleggers, of the rotten stuff they sell, of the high quality and desirabil- ity of prescription liquor, of the hip- pocket flask, of the boys and girls who drink and of the best and most efficient ways to elude the law. The people are not content to go home and quietly brew their beer or order their wines from a manufacturer. They are yelling for their liquor., And, boiled down, the only reason they want their liquor is because the gov- ernment has sald they can't have it In Ottawa the talk of prohibition is not so loud, for Hull lies across the border in wet Quebec. Liquor is 80 easy to get that stories of how one gets it pall and fall flat in the telling. A man with a bottle of Scotch is no longer a hero. A boot- legger, instead of being a social necessity, is looked upon with sus- picion. It Is not encumbent upon a man to accept every drink that is offered him, because he can pick and choose his time for drinking. In Ottawa there are no saloons. In Ottawa there are few drunks. Every- thing is clean and hustling and busi- nesslike in Ottawa. In Hull there are plenty of beer taverns, or beer saloons. In Hull there are dives and dirty, ill-lighted streets. But one should go easy in heaping blame on poor Hull. Imagine, if you ean, that Rosslyn, across the Key Bridge from ‘Washington, should suddenly go wet and open beer saloons and maintain stores for the sale of hard liquors. A mighty trek would begin from the District of Columbia, which/ would put the bridge to a real test, and overnight Rosslyn would become the mecca of thousands, who went there with the sole purpose of getting tight. And with this mighty caravan would come the camp followers, women of 11l fame, pickpockets, confidence men —the parasites who prey on mankind, and find the easiest pickings among those who are slightly pickled. Contrast Easy Then. ‘Washington, in contrast, would shine in heavenly splendor. It would be held up by prohibitionists as the perfect example of the glories of prohibition. But those whe went to Rosslyn would reply in fine and seer- ing scorn: “Make it so that we won't have to go to Rosslyn for our liquor. Instead of concentrating this safety valve in one little place, scatter it through town. Let us take our liquor home and share it with the family and you won't find us stocking up in a Rosslyn beer hall. Make it so that we can_have a drink when we want it, and we won’t rush to where we can get it whether we want it' or mnot. For we are going to have liquor despite what you think, And the harder you make it for us to get, the harder we are going to try to get it. And when we get it we are g to make it worth while.” And then we come to Montreal. Again the prohibition question has lost its flavor. If the subject is bréught up there are cries of despair, because people are sick and tired of talking about it. The newspapers no longer consider it as mews. The story of a nabbed bootlegger or the raid upon a “plind pig” is no longer interesting, and it is mercilessly cut to a stick. The sentiment has turned against the bootlegger and the blind pig. It is impossible to make heroes of them. The man who is seen drunk around a hotel or on the street, provided he looks otherwise respectable, is at once put down as a man from Ontario or a visiting American. The man who staggers out of a beer tavern in his working clothes is pitied rather than envied. Getting drunk is losing jts status as a fashionable ' ac- complishment. After a round of golf a man orders his Tom Collins or high- ball from the waiter, who serves it from @ _stock kept in his private locker. He no longer calls the waiter aside and winks at him and tips him | while the word goes out that Bill Jones has a quart of good stuff and is going to open it, so everybody rally ‘round. Drinking in Montreal. In Montreal the drys ‘keep up their sniping, and most- of it is almed at the government. The government has made, lfixw drinking respectable, they say. e government has taken liquor out of the saloon and transferred it to the home. But the rnment is supposed to represent fi’mn of the people. If the govern- ment up here in €anada does not meet the will of the people, it can be over~ thrown overnight. As far as drinking. | in the home is concerned—"It used to be the case that a man, after a day’s work, would stop into a saloon and buy a drink on his way home. Then he'd meet friends, and he would have to treat them and they'd treat him, anad pretty: soon the werd would go| around at home that ‘Father’s drunk children. Come on, let's not Today. this lsame man waits until he gets home if he wants his highball before dinner. And leave it to mother, she's not go- ing to let him drape himself over the and drink until he can't & wey to the dinner table.” tion seemed But the Quebec system at that is t the solution of this vexing b- , even in the eyes of many wets of hope to have a law Uttle ques- CALLS PROHIBITION A FAILURE e tion that the beer tavern is only a ~ | slightly modified saloon, and that the evils of the saloon are manifest in the beer tavern. ways finds a_minority who have su cumbed to the warning tingle pro- duced by the alcohol in ome bottle, and who have ordered more to watch that tingle grow. And when one mul- tiplies that small minority found drunk in one beer tavern by the 302 taverns in Montreal, there is a large total who get drunk every day, despite po- lice records which might indicate the contrary. Likely to Keep Beer. Montreal will probably cling to the beer tavern for a long time. The population of the city is counted at about 75 or 80 per cent French. The right of the Frenchman to sit aver a glass of wine or a bottle of beer lies close to his heart. A Frenchman can consume more time in making way with a hottle of beer or a glass of wine than the average American re- quires to dispose of a pint of whisky. The French Canadian possesses many of the characteristics of his fore- fathers in this land. He likes to sit and sip. b But if Ontario votes wet, it is un- likely that the Province will allow the beer tavern. And few can deny that the beer tavern is only an unsuccess- ful way of getting around the saloon. Few men like to drink in private; but most men like to drink with convi- vial friends, and one does not have to look far to find convivial friends in a tavern. The tavern encourages drinking. The sale of liquor for use in the home simply permits drinking. It offers few inducements. Ontario, in this respect, would fol- low the example of Maniteba, British Columbia and Saskatchewan. These Provinces, after trying prohibition for a while, adopted a system of allow- ing the purchase of beer, wine and whisky for use in the home or club. No public drinking places are allowed. Alberta alone has joined Quebec in allowing the tavern and beer selling restaurant, where beer or wine may be sold by the glass. Farmers Vote Dry. in Canada, a% in the United States, the rural districts have vated stead- fastly for prohibition. A number of causes are advanced for this attitude. The country folk, in the first place, as a group are mgre strongly bound to their churches than are those of the cities. In Quebec, for instance, where the rural population has voted for prohibition, the community re- volves about the parish priest. His flock do pretty much as he tells them to. And while the Catholic hierarchy in this district has never committed itself on the question of prohibition, the individual priests are counted in some communities as the most ardent prohibition workers, or it might be more -true to say, temperance work- ers. The story is told here of a vener- able bishop in.one of the communities near Montreal, who, when asked what he wanted for his birthday present, asked for abolition of the taverns and public drinking places in his jurisdic- tion, and the people gave it to him The tavern in a small town is a gath- ering place for the loafers. It is a burden for the community to support. If the farmer is busy, he doesn't have time to go and drink at the tavern. If he's not busy, he geases to be a pro- ducer and becomes a drone. In Quebec the farmer can procure his drink from a government store and have it de- livered at his home when he wants it. In the rural parts cf Ontario the poison tale goes forth from the wicked tongues of the wets that the farmers all have their own stills. This is probably an imaginative story told to explain the mysterious fact that the farmers vote dry. But the truth is that the farmer proba- bly cares little for the strong liquors or spirits and makes his own wine or buys it legally, or brews his own beer. It is not hard to understand why they hesitate to endorse a movement which might *bring the saloon back to town to draw away the hireq help and generaly provide a noisome root of infection for an otherwise law-abiding community. Comparisons in statistics concerning bank accounts, crime, illness, ruined homes and poverty might be cited here—as they are cited everywhere —to show that Ontario, under prohi- bitfon, is better off than Quebec, without. When liguor is not avail- able legally, much of the meney which would otherwise go for the purchase of liquor finds its way into channels which are deeper dug and more firmly protected against the changing tides and shifting sands. But are such figures really signifi- «The terms of Morris Plan: Loans_are simple and practical, In a beer tavern one '(llvl 0. TREEWIARD WOULD SAVECIAN Britain Engages Landscape Architect W. A. Frederick to Help Nassau’s {Kapok. William A. Frederick, \ lanscape architect of the Capitol, wilk embark this week on a unique life-saving journey to the Bahama Islands. Mr. Frederick, one of the:Govern- ment's leading horticulturists, has been requested by the British au- thorities governing those’ tropical islands to the life of a gigantic “gilk-cotton” or Kapok tree, which has been a landmark for more than 200 years in Nassau, capital of the Bahamas, The colonial government's request was made, however, before the re- cent West Indian hurricane desolated Nassau and other settlements of the romantic island group. Mr. Fred- erick in the meantime is anxiopsly awaiting word as to the fate of|the venerable tree, which stood inithe rear of the government building. Gets Leave of Absence. David Lynn, architect of the Cap- itol, has granted Mr. Frederick two weeks' leave for the mission, all ex- penses of which will be borne by the British colonial government. The imperative nature of that govern- ment’s request indicates the value which is placed by the Nassau au- thorities on its glant of the for- est, reputed to have been nt s: North Caroli tlon of American Independence. The tree, Mr. Frederick has been informed, has a-diameter at its base of 35 feet, and its imposing, gnarled branches have a spread of 160 feet Of recent years the old tree has shown signs of senility, and officials have become apprehensive lest it dle. Because of the tree's widespread nong tourists, island officials have used every means at their dis- posal 1o give the tree a new lease on life, but to no avail. As a last re- sort it was decided to appeal to American ingenuity for aid and ad- vice. Mr. Frederick has gained tion-wide reputation for his ¢ the many varieties of tr Capitol grounds, and, prior to that service, in the Fairmount Park tropical _conservatories in Philadel- phia. He is considered an outstand- ing authority on tropical trees. A majority of the trees in the Capitol grounds were transplanted from climes foreign to Washington, and through the excellent care they have received are flouriishing as weil here as in thelr native habitats. Will Inspect Others. While in the Bahamas Mr. Freder- ick will look over other trees in need of expert attention, and will render what further services he can in this connection. He expects to return to this country August 17. From his understanding of the situation, Mr. Frederick believes the Nassau tree may be saved from an early doom by proper treatment of | the soil from which it draws its nourishment. He will examine and test the soil and inspect the strue- ture of the tree itself, with a view to diognosing its trouble and preserib ing a remedy. Mr. Frederick says the history of the tree antedates Nassau's official records. Tradition has it that it was brought to_the Bahamas from North Carolina, but this story has been questioned, because of the fact that the kapok tree is not native to North America. It thrives, how ever, in Mexico, South America and the Philippines. It is of the deeldu- ous family, and its technlcal name is “Ceiba pentrandra” or “Erioden- dron.” a Na- Iture of in the FOUR OUTINGS PLANNED. Several Thousand Will Visit Ches- apeake Beach This Week. Four organizations will hold out- ings this week at Chesapeake Beach. Local, No. 140 of the National Federa- tion of Post Office Clerks will go to the resort Tuesday. W. Suter Reich- enback is in charge of arrangements. On the same day the employes of the Review and Herald Publishing Co. of Takoma Park, D. C., publishing plant of the Seventh-Day Adventists, a will hold their annual excursion the beach. R. W. Conard, superin- tendent of the plant,. will be in charge. Fifteen hundred are expected on the two outings. The Knights of Pythias will visit the resort Wednesday, carrying 1,500 excursionists. J. W. Cherry of 1363 Maryland avenue northeast, heads the arrangements committee. Forest Ledge, No. 41, Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Forestville, Md., will hold its annual excursion Thursday. Twe thousand Odd Fel- lows from Maryland, Virginia and the District are expected. Le Roy Pumph- rey of the Woedward Building, will be_in_charge. cant after all? Do they, count a great deal in determining whether people are satisfled or disgruntled under prohibition? A boy of 12 may be told that if he eats candy he will get sick. But if the boy wants candy .ne amount of emphasis on the di consequences will prevent him from eating it, and perhaps get- ting just as sick as he was told he would. The prohibitionists in Cand- da have found their greatest prob- lem in human nature. Human nature has defeated them. Changes in human nature are wreught through the years, not through the legisla< ture. 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