The evening world. Newspaper, January 24, 1922, Page 4

\ | » “tempest in a tea pot'’ by a recent . vbservation ward in the Kngs County 4 Ce tie ALK MINISTER fj URGES CRUSADE 10 AL DRY LAW —— ‘Aboit Time Respectable Peo- pl& Assert Rights, Says = Rev. Mr. Werner. i DISRESPECT FOSTERED. All Laws Feeling Effect of Countless Violations, : He Declares. ‘ioe ial to The ing World.) NORWALK, Jan. “] think the time ims come when respectable peo- ple who belleve there is @ legitimate use fap-liquor should ret together and by systematic effort and co-operation work either for a repeal or a revision of the Prohibition Law," says the Rev. J, Benton Werner, for nineteen years» rector of Grace Episcopal Chureb of this place. Mr. Werner has stirred up a local sermon’ on the Eighteenth Amend- ment. “A ‘person either believes in the law or he does not," the rector told The Evening World representative who called on him. “If he believes in it. ft is his duty to work as hard as he can to have it enforced, but if he does ‘hot believe in it, instead uf giorying in the shame of a land which cannot enforce its law it ts hits duty to work against it. In working against it he should keep it under protest, or if he has not sufficient ‘courage break it in protest. “Things bring forth after their own kind. If enough of our eminently re- spect people felt the danger to personal liberty sufficiently to go to jail instead of paying the rum runner to take the risk for them it would) help some. “We have made the sale of liquor jm crime where a very respectable |” minonty, to say the least, do not be- lieve ft a sin. It is time and labor thrown away to pass laws which do not have moral indorsement. We have cast out the demon rum and he has wandered up and down in dry places Béeking rest and finding none, and we must watch out that he does not cotme back, as in the parable, bringifig other spirits with him and our “condition be worse than the first." 2° y great mistake was that in sta for the amendment no effort was at the same time to create @ conseience for it. But it is now a part uf the basic law of the land and as is entitled to as much respect and port as any other. You can- not disturb one stone of the wall with- cout bringing 't all down. If we go on cultivating contempt for this law we ‘will en@ up by not having respect for any law, tely there is a way pro- changing laws which «cem fo need it, and those who believe that the bition Law is unwise sculd with » common sense and suber a it do all in their power t. con- vince persuade a major put of the people of the need of a chanxe."" The+rector does not advocate re- moving all public restraint in tre use ot ligtior, but would license the cing Under his scheme, any man who to buy liquor would ave fo sectire a license from the Stete. In support of his scheme he points ut how many things now atw li- eensed, These include hunting, fish- ing, péddling, and even runniag an automobile, and, said the clergyman wita d smile in closing, ‘if a man abuses. the privilege of running an autombbile, if he gets too careless anc bumpa_into other people, they take his li away from him, but f have not of a law prohibiting the man ture and sale of automobiles." ove Beas Re a WIFE’s MIND A BLANK, BULL WIRES TO FATHER & ‘Two Will Reach Ridgewood To- Day With Their Daughter. Word has been received from A. H. Bull of, Ridgewood, N, J., teller in the Harrinfah National Sank, that he will arrive fn Ridgewood with Mrs. Bull late ‘his affernoon, The telegram was to hhis wife's father and stated Mrs. Bull's mind appeared to be blank. It further tated “thelr seven-,ear-old daughter ‘who is with them 1s well. Mrs, Bull disappeared Dec. 31, with her datghter. Following the return of Waiph Costa, seventeen, who drove her €« Hoboken and then went himself to Montreal, she turned up after three ‘weeks of wandering, at the home of Dr. ‘Oscar Heywood, near Mount Gilead, N. ©. Dr. Heywood informed her husband she wap there. Mr. Bull went South to ‘oring her back, oo WAR AVIATOR, HYSTERICAL, AT- TACKS HIS WIFE, Andrew Walsh, at one time an em- pPiiyee of the District Attorney's of- fice in Kings County, was sent to the Hospital to-day, Walsh, who was an @vaitor during the war, was sepa- rated from his wife. Last December he hit her on the head with a ham- mer. Dr. Sylvester R, Leahy, who ex- amined Walsh, said he was suffering rom hysterical psychosis, Walsh was ed in Flatbush Court to-day ree of assault with intent to on Kilt, Phe case was continued until ¥eb. 7 to allow the inquiry into bis | mental condition. BOPGERS PAY $7,500 FOR NEW PLAYER. ‘The Brooklyn National League Club terday announced it had bought YOUTH, 18, SHOOTS MOTHER AND TURNS _GUNON POLICEMAN Meant to Kill Whole Family —Mother Refuses to Press Charge. Tn pursuance of a threat to kill the entire family because he did not think life worth living, William Berman. eighteen, this morning shot his mother, Ida, in their home, No. 444 Powell Street, Brooklyn, causing a superficial wound in her left breast. Another bullet went wild. When the youth was arraigned in the New Jersey Avenue Court, Mrs. Berman refused to press any charge, so Patrolman Unger of the Browns- ville Station, whom he threatened with the revolver and who arrested him, charged him with violation of | the Sullivan Law and on this he was held in $2,500 bail for Special ses- sions, Mrs. Berman explained to Magis- trate Ellperin that five years ago her son's head wns injured in an automo- bile accident and it was thought for a time that he had become deranged, but he apparently recovered and be- enme normal. For about a month he had been out of work, she said, and 1 mr ae fused a he bought a revolver and box of cart- ridges. | When his mother awakened him {this morning he met her with a re- volver and sald: “It's best that you and f get out of s world. Lite isn't worth living. I'm goin gto shoot the entire family.” With that he fired two shots at he As Mrs, Bi fell with the it one of her three j wound tn her and they hastened to the house, They found young Berman in the kitchen and as soon as Unger entered he was confronted with a levelled re- volver and a command to "Stand!" Instead he leaped at the youth and took the pistol from him, Mrs. Berman was taken to the Brownsville Station, where her woun! was dressed by a surgeon from St Mary's Hospital, Then she went to court. ictal WATER FOR PALESTINE CONCEDED BY FRENCH Would Fix Bound = to Inclade Yarmuk and Litany Rivers, PARIS, Jan, 23 (Jewish Telegraphic Agency).—A satisfactory settlement of the northern frontier for Palestine {a reported to have been reached be- tween Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Preat- dent of the World Zionist Organiza- tion, and Gen, Gouraud, High Com- missioner for Syria. Paleatine’s needs of the waters of the Yarmuk and Litany Rivers tn northern Palestine, which have been included within the Syrian boundar- jes, Is understood to have formed the ‘|AUTO THIEF GETS children, Rose, ran out after the elder Ber . who had just left the house, | She caught him and told him of the| shooting, He called Patrolman Unger | 15 YEARS IN PRISON Merlo Indicted Three Times; Twice While Out on Bail—Gets Severest Sentence. The severest sentence that has been inflicted on a stealer of automobiles since that form of theft became pop- ular with the criminal classes sent Robert Merlo, a young man, to Sing ng Prison for a term of from twelve and a half to fifteen years to-day. Merlo ts one of eleven men under in- dictment for repeatedly stealing auto- ‘Their cases were taken up by the District Attorney for quick dis- posal after they had gathered dust in the office for a year or more. Merlo was indicted for stealing an automobile on Nov. 22, 1920, A se- curity company furnished a ball bond and Merlo went on his way. He was indicted again for stealing an auto- mobile on April 18, 1921, and, again furnished bail, On July 26, 1921, he was Indicted for stealing an automo- bile and was released on bail. The case of Merlo and ten others were called to the attention of the publie by The Evening World in Oc- tober, and most of the men were rounded up. Merlo pleaded guilty in the Court @ Generel Sessions to the 1920 Indictment, stood trial on the April, 1921, indictment and was con- victed. Judge Crain sent him to prison for mobiles. basis of Dr, Welzmann's representa- yesterday he asked her for money. The 75 cents she offered him he r at Thirtp-fourth Street tions to which . Gouraud, on be- half of France. OB. Altman & Cn. 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