The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 14, 1922, Page 2

It'S TOASTED one extra process whioh gives a dellotous flavor bg heey | Invalics m Children Food-Drink for Al! Ay.ce Offic: ot io Pow- tevis being baked for you by master bakers in your town. ‘AsE grocers or neighbor- | @ne to try. Why bake at lome?— you'll agree that you don’t need to when you taste the pie they're making with de- Sun-Maid Raisi i 3 = Bank 1D AVE. AND PIKE ST. ONE ¢ CLEAR j CALL ANNOUNCEMENT We believe we have the finest little house of its size in the country. Our policy in pictures is to back the best pictures. Owing to the high of their pictures man; admission to be not less are sure you want to see the best, so our price WOOLLEY THEATERS CO. wins will be 15¢. ie Bootlegging More Details on the Trade Here. What a Booze Dealer’s Profits Are. Ordinarily Gets About $25 a Day. “Legitimates” Not Millionaires. (Editor's Note: This is the fourth of a series of articles on the boot legging industry in Seattle. It is not « fanciful talo—tt is a plain, matter, of statement as made to a reporter for The Star by one of the prin cipal “retailers” in Seattle, The reader must bear in mind that it Is the story of the beotlegger, told from his own viewpoint, and that The Star | does not In any way subscribe to many of his views, * * &® BY JOHN DOE, M. D. (As Related to Robert Bastien Bermann) There's a lot of hokum in circulation about the boot- legger and his supposedly fabulous profits, but that’s all any of it is—just hokum. ‘There was a time, of course, when we were able to clean up pretty back in 1919 and 1920, when the business wasn’t organi and we soaked the drinking public all we could. On New Year's day, 1920, I remember, a man woke me up }to get a bottle of Scotch—he was just winding up a big “party.” I soaked him 25 bucks, cold. Well, if you can get that much money for your liquor you'll make big money—but | you can’t, not any more. | Two things contribute to the low prices in vogue today. First, we found out that we were killing that goose with the ‘actually stopped drinking—almost. light to a certain extent, but competition is what keeps the | price down. Two years ago, you know, com. paratively few people knew a bootleg \ger and @ good telephone number | was a highly cherished possession Today, on the other hand, you can hardly walk down the street without encountering two or three men in the | business in every block. {. This strenuous competition has had its inevitable result. Your drink | ing man today knows possibly half a dozen men who'D deliver good stuff [to him. Well, if one of these retail ers tries to hold him up—he won't | stand for tt; that’s all, He'll call up} | somebody else. So we have to keep | our prices down in order to keep our | | trade. | Of course, there are certain para sites in the profeaston—men without honer or ethice—who do clean up, I'll | aieouee them Jater, But, an far as the legitimate retailer la concerned—well, he's no militonatre. business, and this makes it harder for him when he happens to get knocked over jit seems kind of funny to tell them |how we run our business—but just in case there's anyone reading this who believes that the Volstead act ts | & riotous success I'll sketeh it briefly As T said before, it's exclusively a telephone business. Customers are Rot encouraged to come to our office and we never have a drop to drink there anything that's suspicious, Our stock on hand be cached away within less than two min- utes’ walk at a place with which we have no apparent connection —so that they won't get us if the cops knock it ever some time, It wouldn't do to be too specific about this eache—because I'd hate to deprive Roy Lyle, the prohibition 4 | rector, of his favorite little job of Ho makes a living—a living. | trying to find tt. One of the most But he's not # profiteer and he's the | common forms of caches, however— hardest working man in seven states, | not mine, by the way—is to rent a ‘The bootlegger’s day, hotel reom under an assumed name knew, isn’t governed by any 18°4 simply keep your liquor there rules. Hoe and I are down Whenever we get a call, one of w union at | Will step over to the and take out Just as much as iv required and deliver it In the car, while the other sticks around the office We have a tty nice calling Ust—between to aod 300 names and « majority of these buy about one quart a week, on the average. That just about takes care of what we ficure on selling as a rule—se all we have to do most of the time is sit around the office and wait for calls, | Sometimes, tho, we'll run into a stretch of bad buxiness—and then we have to go and drum up a little bust. Ress. A funmy thing about this drinking 0 is the fact that @ man may not have the slightest idea in the world of buying a bottle—but when the bottlegger drops in and of- fers to cut 60 cents off the usual Price, why, nine cases out of 10, he'll decide he wants a bottle If we can’t get rid of our excess Uquor In this way, we are forced to go on the “curb exchange.” This ts i ? j if i i E i i ; i a i 1 i | z £ 8 z uf iF fk i b= 3e8 33 i [; 1 z Ht i g take and I ® day. of big Saturday nights I've or cases—and some Ye less. But day in day out will average three cases eet! it at varying prices—ac- to who our quetomer is and he’s duging. A single & steady customer $7.50 A comparative stranger has 99 or $10, On lots of three! or more I generally cut the) to about $7 each and, by the I sell at $80. is makes an avernge of §8 that @ get for each bottle. Therefore average daily receipts are around Haut is exchange just like the one in New York. except that liquor is the corff Modity, Instead of stocks The “curb exchange” tw situated on one of the quieter downtown streets and looke just like any other street of ite type in the city Two or three hotels, a restaurant, gome cigar shope and a taxi stand ~nothing unusual there. Rut you can buy on that street anything from a thimbleful of whisky for 60 cents up to a “normal” caro of 160 cases of assorted jiduors and wines. The bootieggers deal - with each other just as bankers may deal in New York exchange. One bank, you know, will be i u gees fu? 23 lot of money—sure! But look we have to spend. the first place there ts the cost the liquor—$210, if we figure on a case. Then we have to write | 95 = day for the automobile; $5 for office expenses; $2 a day protection—we allp the policeman the beat $50 2 month In cash to that nobody gets gay with us! 15 a day for our “contingency fund,” $1 @ day Interest on our invest- it. sE>E 38 Pasa “Se, 2333* a g MARY | money. But to be successful he has to have thousands and thousands of dollars tied up all the time in his again in another special— Now Showing— John M. Stahl’s Great Picture Starring Milton Sills Henry B. Walthall Claire Windsor producers demand the an Fifteen Cents. We What a tenderly | golden eggs—because prices were %o high that the public! That made us see the) mueh | So many people deal with us that | just what the name tmpliee—e curb! THE SEAT LOSES AGAIN IN. GASSMAN FIGHT | Mayor Can’t Get 7 Months’ Trial for Nominee Refusing to ask reconsideration by the city counell of its re Cart 8. Gaseman for superintendent of streets and sewers, the finance | committee turned a deaf ear to a per | sonal appeal from Mayor Brown and left the matter a» before Brown urged that Gaseman be giv jen a fair trial In the position, on con dition that he be fired if he fatls to make good The finance committes voted | recommend to the eounct! that the appotntment of Willlam B, Bell, Mayor Brown's latest nominee to the office of atrects and sewers superin tendent, be rejected, 'WOMAN, 58, | DISAPPEARS were searching Saturday Betty Seigier, 6, 721 Pike st, who myster- lounly disappeared from her home two days ago. Relatives f that the missing woman, who is sald to have been in ordinary health, may have met with foul play, Nhe ts described as 5 feet, 7 Inches tall, weighing 160 pounds, with light compléxion and gray hair, At the time of her disap. pearance she wore agen, & brown coat Anyone learning of her where- abouts is requested to notify M. | Greenfield, a son-indaw, 721 Pike et, phone Main 4090. to | Poltee |for Mra. | right. Thie keeps the market in a nicely liquid state, and protects the boot |lexger from being forced to hold [hin stock too tong. That's one thing that none of us do-—we don't like to have whisky on hand « minute longer than necessary and we're often willing even to take a loos In preference to holding 4 few cases an extra day. That may sound like poor bust Nese—but that extra day may stand between me and McNeil) Ixiand, Thus far I have devoted myself |to the legitimate bootieggers. To morrow I will take up the more sinister figures in the business. 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MEAR UNION Children Twenty Cents | If reparations come to naught, and the economic collapse | tion of | TLE STAR Gov. Cox says: The French have settled down to the stern realization of a grave situation. They are a.remarkable peo- ple, but misunderstood in some quarters, act @ | | of Germany would mean that very thing, then France would face one of the darkest hours of her history. oe oe If I were making a prediction, it would be that if more | stressful times come and the existing regime is turned out, | Albert Thomas will be a leader in the reforming of politics. | Sas aii BY JAMES M. COX, many now Ex-Governor of Ohio, remind you At the aame time they} that since the war ended, the people of met| the call of the govern and} exchanged ten billions of dollars tn} cash for thelr national bonds of an) equal ‘The actual distance we traveled by motor on the continent wan 4,600) |mittes, We made it a point to talk | with representatives of governmenta, the leaders of opposition parties, bankers, onomists and journalints We saw the peasant in his fields shopkeepers in villages and the in remote sections, We gained as beat we co the icting view-|the government that the bonds points of the victors and the van | would be redeemed with money re quished and left the continental situa |eeived from Ge rmany This recent | ton feeling that time would be neces-| debt added to the cost of the war} rary for a true perspective to take|oreates a burden under which the | form and shape | country staggering. In the equation, France plays an | important oop ibe putieeed deere | B enagctanenpe come pr | than any other nation. During the|"24 th® economio collapse of Gor-| Hiast Gays of tho war, it was a'com.|MAny would mean that very thing, | mon expression that France was bled |'*" Vrance would face one of white, She lost one million dewa,|{2@ @arkest hours of her history. | one out of every forty of her popula-| When public opinion amvumed the} pr a |form of bitter revenge, the wish YRENCH WANT more or less Droyale nt that PROTROTION The sobering The French have settled down to the stern realization of a grave situa tion. They are a remarkable people but misunderstood in some quarters. They have ® patriotiom that ts pressive. Their country has been in vaded many times. The burned child fears the fire and doubtless the French subconscious sense in more! France messures the existing pub: or lees controlling, because the fields opinion by what it was four) of this republic have run red with | years ago | blood for eighteen centuries, | ‘There t* some impatience mant-| Two things are uppermost in the|fextdd toward France in Buropean French mind, the repair of devas ;centers and it seems to baye wpread| tated §=provinces and protection|to America It grows out of two agninet invasion. When the repara-| th first, the belief that the! tions questions which overshadows | present attitude of France toward everything else now ts settled and the reparations is too unbending, and nations of the earth are assembled in| smeond, that too much of the pro- an enterprise against war, France| ceeds of the ten billion-dollar-bond will disarm. She asked at the peace |nale waa not used for the express table the right to occupy the east! purpose of repairing devastated bank of the Rhine as a matter of /territory, It should in all tairnems| Protection. She accepted instead of |he stated that the reparations terma| it the assurance of her two chief! ia pot represent the amount that allies, the United States and Great|was in the French mind at the} Britain, that they would join in MeAS | time of the peace conference. The ures of protection. The Baglish par | re.ponsibility for this ts not upon lament kept the faith, the Ameri Preach, ger ween ‘Ameen quae senate aid not ‘The peasants are the security of {OF that matter, But that will be munt The success of this enterprise which was quite astonishing by| it way to bankers, due in! some measure to the statement. of many be orushed |refiection has come The now thought fn the preservation eanential to te was mans France | of} France. | paychology of 1918 and 1919 different from what it t» now, ‘There tx some feeling | that the present administration in| is that Germany + The worldv France Is Facing Grave Situation, | | Says Cox; Darker Hours May Come jturned out, j realizes that war is a horrible thing France. They are sober thinking, in dustrious and frugal. The lures of the industrial centers do not take them from the soll In such relative numbers as in America. Their view. | point at the beginning of the summer in the matter of reparations was that after the war of 1870, they raised one billien dollars in two years’ time. | That amount is equivalent to about | sight billion dollars now. They ank | why it i» that Germany in four yearn has paid only one and one-half bil lion dollars, which reduced to the! lative values of fifty years ago would be only two hundred million, approximately. dealt with later. With rempect to the alleged mix of moneys derived from the recent sale of bonds, the truth in that many millions of dollars were expended for pensions. It tw also true that taxation Is not being tm- posed in France as in the other ailied countries in support of exist- ing burdens. | The item of pensions does not) belong in reparations, It was a| violation of the 14 points on which the armistice agreement rested. This t# the strongest point that) has been made against the treaty. | ‘The charge of broken faith re- use SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, COLON ravi AL “THE SHEIK’S WIFE” A mighty photoplay, made in the Orient. A story that you will follow with breathless interest, spirit whieh animates the Waglish. One of these days the ledger must be balanced in revenues and disturne. | This will make a stormy | path for the administration that ree: | ognizes what must be done, end then courageously apply itself to the! tuk of doing it Students outside of France belleve that Caillaux will come back, ‘The average native laughs at the idea It we were making ® prediction, it would be that if more stressful times the existing regime t© Albert ‘Thomas will be a leader in the reforming of policies Ho ix a man under 60, a profound student of economic questions, and into his tremendous industry tn mixed the element of a constructive viston, | They are already thinking much bout him in the provinces, He was ninister of munitions during the war, | His popularity with labor enabled him to bring production to a high peak. I saw him at Geneva, where he ts in charge of the labor branch of | the league of nations, It is doubtful) whether anyone in the world knows | thelr own country invaded anothem! more about industrial and labor con. | Without the most unmistakable Justle ditions than he does, In politics he | feation, there would be not supporti | is m socialiet, but he requested at | % Military budgets the outset that we differentiate ax Thomas ays that the German gove between the nocialism of France and, *roment knew of this, and in the Germany and that of Amertea. early days of the war notices were Cs | posted everywhere, and particularly THOMAS BECOMING jin industrial centers, to the effect BIG FACTOR ¥ that the French troops had cromsed Thomas ts — progressive, but the| the frontier and invaded Germany, kind that buflds as he goes forward. | This brought about socialist support Preachment and performance with | of the war program in the relchetag, him go hand in hand, He realizes | Some time afterward the German so that it Is not only a matter of duty, | clalivts realized that they had been but of social order, that government | duped. They held a meeting, and the public needs with the| while there was no denial of misrepe changing conditions of the times and | resentation, part of them Inaisted | adjust iteelf to them. that since the war was on they would | One great international job, in his | have to neo it thru. judgment, is the accomplishment of | The other branch, however, insta moral disarmament, Ones the maan|ed on keeping the faith, and from that time on their support of the mile of the past, and peace tn a practical | itary budget ceased, Men of the and not a Utoplan thing of the fu-|type of Th in France and ture, governmental policies will be. | Mueller in Germany are reconstruct. come relf-adjustin, jing their lines and taking up the The working classes of Europe| work which they had scarcely start. were engaged in this movement just io in 1914 ments come and REMFMBER The Starting Date of This Stirring Dramat AMATEURS MONDAY NIGHT 7:30 and 9:30 penn hefore the war of 1914. A very rep.| (Copyrimht, 1992, by 8. %. A. Service) resentative meeting was held and the | ad delegates from several nations| Italy's problems and the agreed that they would not support | confronting Austria will be dealt witty any waritke enterprise, In brief, if by exGov. Cox in his next article, 4 Daye Onizt Starting Tomorrow FIRST SEATTLE SHOWING ‘The Wonder Woman of BONG STAGE fe generally admitted nd lunges and gave) nt ‘em punch that Obviously they proceed from falee| mains. Premiee, The Franco-Prussian war|now that it was a mistake both! lasted but a short time, and it teft/from the standpoint of ethice and/ no @isastrous effect on the economic|economics, 1 found no one who structure of the world, The condi.\attempted to defend it. tion of France at that time was| The French people have not re | quite different from that of ¢ sponded to taxation with the mame Thousands will hear her sing— other thousands will be unable to, But ALL y witness this most wonderful presentation. COME EARLY! “SURE YOU CAN DO IT ‘rattling good / yarn that'll set your | blood a-tingling and give you that go-get- knocks the world . for a tail- He could sell fig leaf costumes to Eskimos, and as a lover— well, rather! Mats. 25¢ Eves. and Sundays, 35c Says Herb—See what I did in CONFIDENCE’ The breezy story of a live wire who cracked Old Man Opportunity for a home run—and won a fortune and a girl—starring ERBERT AWLINSO THE HAND GLASS OF HISTORY SHOWING SAN FRANCISCO FIRE SCENES As seen by the camera man sixteen years ago —note the styles of by- gone days. ABBY” CENTURY COMEDY Liborius Hauptman’s Orchestra “Mignon” Overture And Walts Ballad by Malotte COLUMBI Second—Near Pike COMING: PRISCILLA DEAN in “UNDER TWO FLAGS”