Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 June 1922 — Page 8
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HOTELS PLEAD FORBOOZELAW ENFORCEMENT Economic View Taken by Association on Issue. SALES FLAGRANT Special to Indiana Dally Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger By RICHARD SPILLANE. PHILADELPHIA, June 9.—Declaring the sale of liquor In New York not only Is open, flagrant and brazen but also Increasing, the members of the hotel association of that city have appealed to President Harding, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General and the prohibition commissioner to enforce the prohibition law. Such an appeal from such an organisation must bring action. Nothing more sweeping has come from a businesa body since the enactment of the Volstead law. The men say they obey the law and, because of that fact they suffer heavy loss, much of their restaurant patronage going to establishments where liquor Is easily obtainable. Conditions are intolerable. Bootlegging Is common and. although the law provides effective machinery for correcting the evil the law is not enforced. SEE BELOW SCR FACE SIGNIFICANT ACTION. Persons without prejudice on the liquor question may gee In the action of the hotel association members more than appears on the surface. If prohibition becomes real it will be through the additional strength given to the moral force by economic pressure. With all due respect to the Hotel Association's declaration of its personal virtue its members have not lived up to the letter and spirit of the prohibition law. It Is common knowledge that for any large gathering In certain hotels you could have a private bar. You would have to provide the booze but the hotel would rent to you the rooms for the preparation of the drinks and furnish the men to mix the drinks, the glasses and all the accessories. The charges for such private bar rooms and service were about all the traffic would bear. That, however, is not peculiar to New York. It Is true of other cities. Every one at all informed knows that when the hotel association of New York says * * the proprietors of our hotels • • • have been and are conscientiously obeying the letter and spirit of the • • • law * • *” it indulges in buncombe. / But that is beside the question. This Nation has a prohibition law. A law not enforced brings law into contempt. There is vigorous opposition to the prohibition law. That is natural, for it would change a habit or custom rooted iu the ages. Economic forces hastened prohibition. The South voted for prohibition not for the white man but the regro. It wanted to increase the working capacity of the negro by keeping liquor from him. The war. too. hastened prohibi'ion. Need of the greatest working capacity of labor forced action that otherwise might he slow In coming. Not a few men favor prohibition for others while wanting the grea'est of license in regard to liquor for themselves. That is the worst feature In the situation. It has led many persons to take pride in and boast of violation of the law. The demand on the Prescient should be considered for what it v-ally is: whollyeconomic and in no yense moral. The hotel people the country over formerly had large profit fi;oin the bar. With its abolition they suffered loss of revenue. That was bad enough, but when restaurants found it qftsy to evade the law and. in so doing, attract custom that formerly went to the hotel restaurants, the hotel people had additional loss. Now the hide
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i people seek relief. But what’s to become | of them if the restaurant also is stripped of patrons'? It U the money nerve of the hotel man not the moral one that Is hurt. Possibly the hotel men are correct in their statement that “it is a matter of common knowledge that under the national prohibition law the illegal traffic in restaurants is actually Increasing," but some fair observers doubt it. Unquestionably there still is much evasion of the prohibition law, but compared with Its observance this evasion is not really great. RARE SIGHT ON PUBLIC STREETS. Any person who wants to guage the prohibition law for what it Is must hark back eight or ten years and compare conditions then with what they are today. Now it is a rare sight a man drunk on-the streets. Eight or ten years ago it was common. The saloon, the foulest Institution in all America, Is gone. Men may have their "private stocks” today but those who have them must pay a staggering price for the liquor they purchase and gradually, the cost is taking the edge off their thirsts. The “home brew" is with us, but it is fading. Generally speaking it is poor stuff and does not satisfy. Prohibitionists no doubt will rejoice over the hotel mens’ appeal for prohibition. That is natural. But they should understand that the i basis of this appeal ia wholly economic. \ The more the economic pressure ia felt in the hotel line and in all other lines the more the prohibition law will become , effective.—Copyright, 1922, by Public ; Ledger Company. GREASES ROAD FOR SPITE. GARY, June 9.—Toby Flentye, a farmer near Schererville, objected to unotorlsts speeding past bis house. So he poured melted grease over the roadway and all had to slow down.
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FILE ANSWER TO OBJECTION OF COMMISSION Steel Companies Say Agency Has No Right to Control Merger. Special to Indiana Dally Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON, June 9.—Formal answer to the Federal trade commission’s objection against the proposed merger of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation and the Lackawanna Steel Company has.been tiled with the commission. The answer contends the commission has no Jurisdiction over the transaction alleged in the complaint, on the ground "the complaint falls to state facts sufficient to constitute a violation" of the act creating the body or a violation of any other law. The respondents insist the merger would not be an unfair method of competition and that the complaint ‘‘ls not in the public interest." Counsel for the two steel concerns, after a conference with Attorney General Daugherty, asked the commission to advance the date of the hearing, set for July 24, o as to permit rapid completion of the combination, if allowed. No decision was reached on the request. The attorney general, by direction of the Senate, 1* conducting a separate investigation of the merger program. The attorneys assured the commission, as they had told Mr. Daugherty, the companies would not attempt to proceed with their plans until both Government agencies had sanctioned it, aeknowledg-
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Ing their anticipation of a restraining order Mom the commission or steps for an injunction by the Department of Justice should they attempt to close the transaction. AUSTRIA NEARS BRINK OF RUIN; TALKS MANDATE Economic Smash Hourly Expected by Officials of Dejected Nation. VIENNA, June 9.—Austria's financial and economic smash Is expected hourly, according to gloomy pictures of the future painted today by Austrian officials. The monthly deficit is said to be about 78,000,000.000 kronen. (The normal prewar value of the Austrian kronen was 20 cents, but it is now worth 7 cents, one thousand kronen in American money.) According to reports from Prague, the Supreme Council has applied to Czechoslovakia to be prepared to take over a provisional mandate foi Austria until all the powers that signed the treaty of St. Germain can consult as to^ further steps. Two final courses will be considered: 1. That the signatories of the St. Germain treaty hold a mandate Jointly. 2. That the mandate be taken over by Italy. It is believed that collapse of Austria will bring about revision of the St. Germain treaty. Officials of the Viennese government admit themselves helpless. They say the treasury is empty ; the country’s credit is dead, the factories are closed down and the people are unable to meet their taxes.
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