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GRANITE FALLS, Minn., Feb. 14.—
Prohibition has reduced the prison
population of this country and great
ly increased the church membership,
according to Andrew J. Volstead, for
mer Minnesota congressman and fa
ther of the prohibition enforcement
RCt.
‘‘Under the old rule of affairs,' Mr.
Volstead recently wrote a personal
friend, "the saloon never obeyed au>
law, while now, despite our increas
ed population, there are fewer pris
oners, there are fewer pails, by sever
al thousand, than before."
“There has been a decided increase
in the church membership sinre the
eighteenth amendment became a law.
The average length of life has been
increased three years; people are sav
ing money and buying homes; slums
in the cities are no more; gone are
the ribald songs and foul stories.
“There is no constant violation of
the prohibition law, generally known,
which goes unpunished. It is unfor
tunate that certain large newspapers
labor to encourage resistance to law
enforcement. Nothing is perhaps bet
ter calculated to effect that purpose
than to extol the alleged high char
acter of those who are breaking the
law.
“That prohibition cannot be enforc
ed; that the difficulties are funda
mental and inherent in the character
rf the legislation and the nature of
die people, is not only clearly dis- j
proved by- our experience in the pro-1
hibition states, but by what we have
accomplished under national prohi
bition.
“Public opinion, reflected in more
drastic and adequate punishments, is
growing stronger and the organiza
tion for enforcement is steadily im
proving and becoming more effective.”
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AMERICAN RADIO PENETRATES
WHERE BRITISH CANT BE HEARD
LONDON, Feb. 14.—American ra
dio broadcasting stations as a gen
eral rule have a greater radius of
transmission than British stations of
the same power, according to a sail
orman correspondent of the Daily
Mail.
During the last year the Mail’s cor
respondent has made six voyages to
the Mediterranean from the United
States and has consistently listened
in on each voyage on his home-made
set of four tubes. He was able to
pick up Pittsburg, Springfield, Mass.,
and New York the whole way across
the Atlantic to Gibraltar, and on one
occasion got Pittsburg while in a
port on the east coast of Spain. Num
erous other American stations were ,
picked up at distances as great as |
2,500 miles on two tubes, with good j
results, but when using four tubes !
the correspondent was seldom able ■
to pick up British stations at distanc- j
es of 1,000 miles.
Wm. Marconi in London opened a
recent radio exposition in New York 1
by pressing a button and causing a
radio wave to throw a switch to il
luminate a large American flag. Then !
through a loud speaker he congratu
lated the American people in their
rapid strides in radio.
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Rugged Athlete Aged 52
Says He Won’t Slow Up
LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 14.—James
W. “Bill” Lundy, 52 years old, be
lieves he ranks well toward the top of
active l oot ball players today.
Lundy, who is assistant sergeant
at-arms in the state House of Repre
sentatives, plays with his home town
giid team and last season was not
pulled out of the game either Dy in
jury or coach. He was a member
of the House two years ago and ac
cepted appointment this session ‘to
be with the old crowd.”
At Sargent, Neb., where Lundy is
a resident and owns a farm and pow
er station, his achievements on the
football field, the baseball diamond
and in the hemped ring have gained
him prominence. For four years,
during the time his son, Albro, ptay
ed with the high school team, the fa
ther played with the town team op
posite his son. Later the younger
Lundy joined his father’s team, play
ing center. Albro took up wrestling
at the University of Nebraska here.
The elder Lundy weighs 212 pounds
but it has not hindered his offensive
power. ‘ Next season I will be better
than ever,” lie said. “Each morning
I take setting-up ex<?\iss and it. the
sprit g 1 start preparing fo: the foot
ball season.
Mrs. D. C. Creed of England brot
a coffin with her on her visit to Amer
ica for use in case she died at sea,
as her husband did several years ago.
He was buried in the deep but Mrs.
Creed wants to rest in British soil.
Sir Leonard Rogers, a British phy
sician, declares that tuberculosis will
be entirely eradicated within 25 years.
His new remedy, a sodium salt ob
tained from the codfish, is said to he
astonishing in its cures, and it can be
e manufactured so cheaply as to place
it within the reach of all.
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of Los Angeles Fone Girl
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14.—Daily
conferences held after business hours
in Los Angeles mount up into the
thousands, according to N. R. Pow
ley and De Nevers, Southern Califor
nia Telephone officials, who say that
around five o’clock every evening
several thousand business men call
up and inform their wives that they
can’t get home to dinner usually be
cause of a “conference.”
“During the brief period between
4:45 and 5:10 p. m., the telephone
girls handle more calls a minute than
at any other time during the day,”
! said Mr. Powley. “The bulk of them
are men calling up their wives about
not being able to get home to dinner.”
Various other factors that make the
traffic in telephone calls jump and
cause switchboards to light up like
the proverbial Christmas tree, said
Mr. De Nevers, are fires, explosions'
and radio announcers requesting list
eners-in to call “and let us know how
you hear us.” If a day opens with
clear weather and rain comes up later
the number of phone calls increase
unbelievably, the officials said. Every
body seems to be calling up to can
cel engagements or to rent taxicabs.
Checking over the 1,750,000 calls a
day the telephone operators say that
the popular notion is correct, men
cannot compete with women in lon£
conversations.
Carl Enna, son of a Kansas City
railroad laborer, graduated from
ward school with high honors at the
age of 9 and is a high school fresh
man at 10.
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BEDFORD, Ind., Feb. 13—That the
flimsy schoolhouse, like the hickorj
stick of the Three-R days, is drifting
into obscurity, is indicated in a sur
vey made by the Indiana Limestone
Quarrymen’s association, which shows
j that last year more than $225,000,000
was spent in replacing antiquated
school buildings with materials of a
permanent nature.
Reports to the association said that
a far greater number of school build
ings were replaced than remodeled,
and that contracts already awarded
give promise of 1925 exceeding the pre
vious year in volume of school build
ing construction.
Miss Eleanor Clifton, head coach of
Smith College rowing crews is said
to be the only woman in the world
to hold such a position.
For boring holes in the walls o;
his hotel room to peep at othei
guests, Charles Duray of St. Louis
was sent to jail.
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