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PKOBLEM OF PROHIBITION |
By JAMES R. LITTLE
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What is the Problem of Pro
hibition—or, at least, the prob
lem which prohibition, as a na
tional edict, has produced? That
there is a problem is evident.
“ Where there is so much smoke
there must he fire.” The agita
tation that has existed during
the past six or seven years, that
exists now, and the increased
Intensity of it as time goes on,
mean something. They mean a
lot. The results accruing from
die 18th. Amendment and the
Volstead Act are either good or
bad. It is not enough to say
that results, from an economic
view, ere good—and that may be
questioned. We must ask, what
are the results from the stand
point of good morals? That is
what counts. The economic side
is nil as compared with that of
good morals. The mainten
ance of good morals is vital to
civilization itself. To preserve
good morals we call into requisi
tion the laws of nature (God’s
Laws) and the Civil is made by
man. The most vital of these
laws are God’s Laws because
they are fundamental. They are
the basis of all law. Any thing
which tends to undermine the
1 iws of God, the fundamentals
is not only bad but vicious. Mur
der, theft, arson, perjury, etc.
are crimes against God and arc
prohibited by His direct com
mandment.
It is notorious that during th.
past several years the above
named crimes have flourished
and grown in this country as1
| never before in our history.
I They have grown to such pro
portions that a great cry ha:
;arisen for something to be done
Vo arrest their progress. “The
! crime wave” as it affects our
I country is a situa tion. Big boot
; 'eggers constituting the nucle
ins of on organization, backed by
millions of money, embracing
v ithin its arms of protection ev
ery foim of crime—murder, ar
son, theft, perjury and graft.
And this organization is so great
Jas to defy the local and govern
ment officials of this country.
And this identical situation is
| found in every city of our land.
| Tlie passage of, and attempt
I to enforce, a civil law prohibi
tion has brought in its wake a
situation which threatens the
j break-down of the very funda
mentals—the basic laws—the
; laws of Gocl, Himself, in a weak
| effort to support a Civil Law, a
| man-made law., Shall we, the
American people, jeopardize the
l fundamental lav/s, the laws of
God in support of a questionable
.Civil Law?
i Without doubt, the edict of
j Prohibition has produced a prob
I iem of gigantic proportions. And
I do not think that President
| Hoover, has any vital concep
tion of the Problem of Prohibi
tion. Any person, any time, if
i
he lias the money, can buy li
quor in this country. Every
I ,
crossroad village has its steam
ling stills and bootlegger booze
I have been in 50 bootlegger
i joints in this city, (Seattle) and
j J could easily visit 50 more—and
jnot half try if I got money to
J spend for the booze,
j Do the authorities know oi
: these conditions? They certain
ly must. Most of these joints
are wide open to you, if you have
|the money to spend. Then, is
I prohibition a success? I wil
1 i say no. Counting blindpigs oi
, (“speakeasies” I know there arc
| more of these places operating
here than there were saloons ir
the old clays before Prohibition
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SOMETHING TO LAUGH AT
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Prohibition Administrator Cam*
bell of New York -City, has jus
removed the fifteen numbers o
his staff who were assigned t<
watch the New York breweries
They have probably all beei
drunk continuously since gettin
the assignment and perhaps
grabbed a few grand apiece for!
locking the other way. He an
nounces that he is selecting fif- S
teen other picked men who will, j
no doubt, stay drunk for a few
months and also collect their
hit and then he will appoint fif
teen more, and so on and so on,
and the beer will remain good as
ever, or bad as ever, so what the
h—! But what a racket it is!
KOCK-A-FELLER INFLUENCE
I have been watching the
trend of American industrial af
fairs, recently and have noticed
that in every labor disturbance
involving a contest for a decent
living condition, fair wage and
the right to organize, labor has
always met the pitiless opposi
tion cf the Rockefeller inter
ests. There is no corner of Am
erica that one time or other has
not felt the crushing force of
Rockefeller dollars and despite
all the Bible-reading and alms
giving of its owners, it bids fair
to become the greatest threat
to this form of government.
LAWYERS HAVE BEST GRAFT
Former Comptroller Craig, who
represented New York City in
.lie fight against an increased
subway fare has filed a suit for
a fee of $350,000, and a member
of his profession will, of course,
decide the case. That legal
racket beats burglary and boot
legging to death and is so much
safer.
.“WE STILL GET ROBBED”. .
By Vera L Connolly
In “Good Housekeeping
All day we had been rushing
by motor through the awful
igrandeur of the New Mexico De
sert. Overhead, like a glittering
! r.owl, arched the blue sky.
Against it in the West hung in
credible masses of flaming cloud,
rne heavens were ablaze.
Gradutlly the sunset faded.
The hush oi twilight descended.
| in a world of terrible, still
I beauty we were the only moving
|objects. Yet one had no sense
of aioneness. For the desert was
peopled with strange shapes.
They thronged about us—jagg-J
ed, precipitous buttes tortured
into fantastic forfs by centuries
of wind and sun.
At last we were on the Navajo
Reservation. We began to come
upon evidences of human life
Flocks of sheep. And here and
there a solitary Navajo hut—
"hogan”—made of logs and mud,
j with a fire blazing before it.
Presently the Navajos com
enced to pass us on horseback,
in twos and threes. Some were
shouting and driving their sheep.
Othrs -jogged along wearily with
bridles clinking.
The men wore shabby, soft
huecl blouses, silver belts, long
turquoise earings, and colored
bands around their heads. The
v omen were in faded velvet bas
aues of once-brilliant colors, 6
yard cotton skirts of contrasting
hues, and many strings of na
tive jewelry. Bizarre as gypsies
they were, yet dignified, as only
Indians are dignified. And even
inner was that of an oppressed
in the dusk we sensed their de
letion and their want. Their
dk heartened people. And in ev
tv 77 group were several who were
coughing, coughing, coughing.
Cm the desert in late summer!
The night settled more firmly
down. . Stars s prang out, like
the eyes of dead Indians of the
past gazing down bitterly on the
L sorrows of their descendants. On
the white man’s eternal, abom
inable game of robbing his red
brother!
For a hundred and fifty years
) we have been at it—this slow
: determined robbing of the Am
t erican Indian. It is the black
) blot on our record as a Nation
. And it is a crime not of the pasl
1 alone but of the immediate pre
l sent! There are stil 225,000 re
stricted Indians in this country,1
and they are being looted, it is
said, on a scale undreamed oi in |
the past. Rumors to this effect,
nad reached us on the Atlantic!
seaboard; and the editor of Good !
Housekeeping had sent me west1
to six different States, to talk to
the Indians themselves. That is
why I was on the Navajo Reser
vation that night.
Halting some of the home
ward-bound Navajos, we ex
changed chat with them there
in the early desert starlight, one
of our party acting as interpre
ter. We asked them how tin '■*
fared
They made disco.' aged re
plies. I can still see them sitting
mere, slouched forward on their
ponies, their dark faces lined
with patient endurance turned
toward us eagerly.
“We need more land.,” said one.
‘ We have not enough range for
our sheep.”
“But, first, we need water
holes,” urged another. “Our
lambs are dying. We will lose
many lambs this- year. Water
we must have.”
All agreed with this. There
was a chorus of “Ho!” meaning
“yes.”
“Maybe,” said an old man.
‘ the government will give us
tetter stock to build up our
uocks? Our sheep ara not good
We are poor. It is hard to live.”
(There are some 35,000 Navajos
and their total earnings amount
to less than $100 a year per per
son.)
“We have much sickness. We
need doctors. But the white
man bitterly between coughs.
We assured them that many
j ople do not care,” said a young’
great-hearted American men
and women who had heard any
thing about the Indian’s plight
did care.
Leaving this hope in their
hearts, we pushed on. There
vras a wrong being done the Na
vajos, greater even than lack o'
water or neglect of health. 11
was this we had come to heai
about.
Turning sharply from the
i?
main road at last, we drove up
the side of the hill, through a
grove cf stunted trees. We come
:<ut suddenly upon a little clear
ing where two hogans stood and
lwo Navajo families were so
journing. The Indians were mov
Inb about a small fire ad in and
cut of the hogans. On a rude
loom, set up out of doors, was a
iialf-fmished blanket. By the
light of a fire, an old silversmith
set hammering out silver jewel
ry from Mexican dollars.
In our party was one who
knew these Navajo families well,
ond we were ceremoniously
made welcome. Every man, wo
man and child arose and sol
emnly shook hands with each
one of us, Then we settled down
to talk.
As we did so the moon swam
up over the hill. And two young
men came driving the sheep
Lome, the lambs bleating as
they came. These sheep set
tled down beside us there on the
hillside, with many stirrings and
nuzzlings. An the two men join
ed us at the Lire. One of them
brought a bit of turquoise mat
rix and a homemade drill from a
be gan. Squatting, he began bus
ily to drill. He and his grand
father made silver and turquise
Jewelry to sell to the trader miles
away.
Tile old silversmith did most
of the talking. He told us, the
interpreter said, how the Nav.i
jos had been robbed and de
frauded by the white man for al
most three-quarters of a cen
tury. He spoke despairingly,
but apparently without a trace
of venom.
To be continued.
BREVITY
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..A recent item i:i TIME says:
“ The House of Representatives
met on Monday and adjourned
lor three days. They met again
and adjourned for three days.”
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good material for congressman.
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