Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1928, Page 41

SEABROOK SCHOOL How Dry Is Wet Canada? || gow GoES T0 RITCHIE crimental stage, just as it is in prac- | ¢ . Flcally every other country of the world, | Senator Bruce Takes Up Plea for provinces havinz government control| No one of good sense will deny that| |the enforcement of the present liquor | : € Reopening and Arrangements | zinger reached an_altitude of 8.830 spend approximately $160,000,000 a yeer |y, "o he United States is fraught| a#racti?jgl/lgys Heari By e Sssnoiated Hiean, meters, equal to 28962 feet. He car- for liquor, an average of $16 per capita. | with great diffculties and grave abuses. | Are Planned for Hearing. DESSAU, Germany, September 15— | ried 1,102 pounds of ballast in his ma- ls NO | In a year the sales of beer in Quebec |but the remedy for the situation will| = e THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON. D. €. SEPTEMBER 16, 1928—PART 2.7 5 ; » : :flh useful l;ad of 2,204 pounds, today } Bishop Cannon to Spgak_ | night after an executive meeting of thi GERMAN FLYER BETTERS bettered that mark by 5000 feet, but | special Dispateh o The Star. | organization, that arrangements hav| | OWN ALTITUDE MARK [ carried only half as much load. ALEXANDRIA, Va., September 15 _}?flcn completed for a Democratic rally | Junkers Pilot Repeats Yesterday's | equal to about as m;mf. degrees below | Curtis Democratic Club announced last ! non of Richmond as the speaker. % o zero Fahrenheit. His clothing and in- | Feat and Reaches Higher struments were covered with ice. | Level. it was announced that Herr Schin- | e (Continued from Third Page) SAY ““BAYER ASPIRIN” and INSIST! Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for ” Colds MEXICO JOINS IN PACT. Pain " . y - . | chine, which is of the same type as the The Junkers' pilot, Schinzinger, for | ¢ 22 4 e 4 u S U ! increased 1.(;03,000 gz;lln:ls. '!l;kemt fihe}?m be !ouwld in the adoption rO{x By | Special Dispatch to The Star. whom yesterday his emplovers claimed “’"L‘I,’é‘ F)‘:;l:aul(]'i‘vr !((:rd!‘ll'w X;‘l} I availability of beer, and strong beer, has | tem certainly no more successful wher f5s sl 3 "% | Hucnefcld and Pt fir: BSTITU E e o tma i fius ¢ aea | Ttwhse freentcied Sand Ncersalnly, TIOE e e bt et ooV, nio | mavocie ailitude records of 33 06R It ea t: 10 ek cromnOR B Atlantic. | liouor™ is indicated by the report of the |less adapted to our needs. The MEre | aro’Gohting to reopen the school, closed FOR | British Columbia Liquor Board, show- | cursory contemplation of the situation | by order of the county board of educa- . |ing an increase of 50 per cent in the |that would result if the government of | tion have presented their case to Gov. | cales of whisky, spirits, etc., since the | the State of New York or the State of | Ritchie through Senator William Cabell Zn grfla opening of beer parlors. The Quebec |New Jersey werc to engag in the opera- | Bryce, The school, closed by the board L Liquor Commission report for 1924-25 | tion of distilleries and brewerics and | i the interest of efficiency. was merged showed an increase of 32,000 gallons in | the sale of their products is sufficient | with the Lanham School. Patrons claim [4 Zczency | sales of hard spirits. to bring nstant comviction hat such &t was closed without e being con- | plan holds nn solution of the liquor | sulted. | Sanrbabe e AR SO | problem. | "'The committee of patrons appointed 7. / | In Saskatchewan the government| With liquor manufactured and avail- | to workfor a hearing before the gov- his Is the H liquer board reported a 33 per cent in- | able én ;'ewb?'n{k. ‘;cultgi fl)‘ y d;_v sm‘l:; ernor, and which comprises George e c . crease in “hard liquor” sales in two | nearby be able to effectively enforce its| Weed, sr.; Blair H. Riggles and Mrs. 113 2 | years. In the same province arrests for | prohibition laws? S. R. Whedbee. has asked Represent- en eason 01 [II}[[I)[S' | drunkenncss increased 125 per cent in| _Would officials and employes of the ative Stephen W. Gambrill of the fifth | eight months, and its liquor board re- | State-owned or controlled "distilleries | Maryland _congressional _district _and | i ported an increase of 111 per cent in \nm‘i Ha\[mé ln:f}"s be m{surr_\:pu'zledl?ntd | william Keys, Burton Ford.‘G’uy Beall, If your home needs painting to help battle | boctleaging. The Alberta Liquor Board | untempted by the opportunity lute | Henry Morris and Kent Mullikin, mem- i e i ol c | stated that its greatest problem was|and divert “legal liquor” or to substi- pers of the Legislature, to accompany a winter w eatho}. this is ccr_talp]) the time to | “moonshine” in the country districts, | tute ‘(‘gflaxn:r. , lllegitimate, ~ untaxed, dv-lvchauorfl hm Anrmpnu.;1 to see Gov. do the job. Fall weather i 1de31 for paint- |and the British Columbia Liquor Board | smusgled liquor? Ritchie if he grants a_hearing. State . isfaction is assured if you... Eave as its opinion that as much liquor | Would it require any less of an| Senator L. G. Sasscer, County Commis- ing, and satisfaction is assured if 3 s sold by bootleggers as is sold in the | “army” than at present to prevent leak- | sioners George W. Waters, jr.; Theodore | gcvernment, stores. | age of liquor from 15 or 20 wet States | Middleton, Harry Bowen and Duvall > % @ These statements of fact are made | to_the remainder of the States? and J. Enos Ray. former chairman of l I “/,{ s l ] P mt without any refleation whatover on | Would those who own present man- | the State Tax Commission, also have kY% ureo 1 OIIg aini cither the policy of the Canadian gov- | ufacturing facilities vield to the State | been asked. rmme! o v | governments e opportunity for profit " . e . 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Any dependable Heating Con- tractor will obiain and install the National Jacketed Boiler, also Aero, the National Radia- tor, for you. You'll like them now—and in years to come, you'll like them better. highly efficient basis. There is less of judicial technicality and delay than in the United States, and in criminal cases the prosccutions are speedy and result in a very high proportion of convictions. There is nothing, therefore, in the Canadian legal or judicial system which would give any encouragement to the violation of the laws placing the liquor business under government manage- ment. In fact, the dispensary system | has had much more propitious circum- | stances for a fair trial in Canada than it could have in the United States, with our more cumbersome legal procedure |and with our 49 different systems of jurisprudence. | Many Convictions. | Let us examine a little more evidence of the “success” of Canadian govern- ment control or ownership of the liquor business. In 1925 in British Columbia, with the province acting as liquor | dealer, there were 2,505 convictions for liguor’ violations, compared with 896 when the province was dry in 1920. Quebec, with a government liquor board in charge of sales, had 1,043 cases of illegal sales in one year, compared with cases under partial prohibition in 1920. In its report for the year 1924-25 the Quebec Liquor Commission reports that there were nearly 5,000 complaints against bootleggers and their establish- ments. The official report states: “Even while we are convinced that we are able to hinder to a great extent the activities of bootleggers, as well as of ‘blind pigs,’ or illicit resorts, it does not appear possible to completely sup- press them. * * * Notwithstanding our efforts, we are well aware that these illicit resorts still exist and that we shall never succeed in permanently closing up sucn places.” Such are the results of a system recommended as a “model” to our 48 States! As to Respect for Law. Two sentences in the report of the liquor control board of British Co- lumbia for 1927 throw a dazzling light on the question whether respect for “law” is promoted by government sale of intoxicants: “The amending act of 1927 made provision for stores being kept open in the evening in cities with a population of more than 25,000. This change was approved by the Legislature to counter- act Jllegal activities where illicit selling takes place after the government stores are closed.” The history of government regula- tions and laws in Canada is an i:ter- esting record of the failure of “‘reason- able regulation” of the liquor traffic. ‘The province of Ontario, for instance, experimented with “alcoholic content,” just as it is now proposed that the Con- gress of the United States and the State Legislatures shall do. Ontario’s experi- ment was 4.4 per cent beer—and it sat- isfied no one. Now “hard liquor” is sold under government board control. In other provinces the alcoholic content of beer has been increased from 2.51 per cent to 6, 8, 10 and even 12 per cent; wine from 6.95 per cent to 15 per cent and more. Closing hours of government liquor stores have been extended from 7 to 10 p.m., yet bootlegging sales after hours persist. The testimony of Hon. W. E. Raney, attorney general of the province of On- tario from 1919 to 1923, before a com- mittee of the United States Senate, brought out this illuminating commen- tary on the effectiveness of government dispensation of liquor: “At the annual meeting of the Li- censed Victualers' Association of Mon- treal * * * it was decided to ask the Quebec liquor commission authori- ties to solicit the help of the municipal police in order to put a stop to the clandestine and illicit sale of intoxi- cants in different parts of Montreal.” Bootleggers Get Profits. Evidently bootleggers were taking the | profits out of legal sale of beer! The Border Cities Star, published -in Ontario, Canada, reports as recently as June 1, 1928, that a check-up of gov- ernmental permits and sales of liquor showed a falling off in business for the government liquor stores, which was at- tributed to “exceptionally large ship- ments of British Columbia liquor” com- ing to Canadian border exporters osten- sibly for smuggling into the United States, but which was “short-circuited” back into Canada without paying the | excise tax. More than six months after govern- ment-controlled beer parlors were opened in British Columbia the Van- couver Sun stated editorially that *“boot- | leggers are almost as thick in Van- |couver as corner candy stores. * * * | How can sensible citizens expeet a high |standard of morality to obtain in greater Vaucouver when greater Van- couver is honeycombed with bootleggers and road houses that specialize in an all-night trade?” Graft and Corruption. Has government sale of liquor in Canada_eliminated graft and corrup- {tion? The cstimony of R. P. Sparks, | head of the Canadian Commercial Pro- tective Association, is that the customs service of Canada has been demoralized land corrupted. The men who in the | beginning merely bootlegged liqudt from Canada to the United States and vice versa, and from one province to an- | other of Canada, soon found additional source for profit in smuggling silks and other high-duty merchandise into Can- ada through connivance with customs employes. The royal commission, pre- vicusly referred to, investigated charges | that $200,000,000 worth of merchandise of law generally in Canada is on a|by and temperance and “protect our chi | dren’s morals”? | ~ Would the man or woman who craves | hard liquor at midnight be satisfied to | wait until the Government beer parlor reopened at 8 or 9 in the morning? 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