Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 28, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1927 — Page 5

JUNE 13,1927

PINGHQT BARES WEAK POINT IN LIQUOHTTACK Proves of Little Value, Because Business Might Be Hurt. Article s.—Gevernor Pinchot lets a little light in—but not a whole lot results—Andrews clashes with Blair and Mellon decides like a Solomon. BY RAY T. TUCKER Gifford Pinchot, then governor of Pennsylvania, was the bad boy who blew the lid off the industrial alcohol situation. Speaking at the "crisis convention” of the Anti-Saloon League at Chicago, Pinchot charged that the government had failed to use its jnost formidable weapon. The control of the alcohol permit system, he declared, was the first line of defense against this particu-: lar form of violation, which jvas of tremendous proportions. The failure to adopt it, he charged, was due to the influence of Republican politicians in Secretary Mellon's home jcity of Pittsburgh and his home Btate of Pennsylvania, where most pf the alcohol plants were located. Mellon Acts Promptly Pinchot further declared that many Pennsylvania alcohol com'panies controlled by men known to have violated the law still were reviving permits to manufacture and .sell alcohol. ' Though Secretary Mellon scoffed at his rival’s charges, the administration acted immediately. Pinchot’s address was made on Nov. 9. On Nov. 18, a sweeping Treasury order revoked all alcohol permits as of Dec. 31, 1925, and required that holders thereafter should renew them annually and at the discretion of the Treasury. This was the weapon to which Pinchot had referred. It provided a complete check-up on every manufacturer, user and distributor of industrial alcohol. But on the following day this order was modified so that, as a prohibition weapon, it lost all its edge. It was made applicable in its amended form only to alcohol plants, bonded warehouses and denaturing concerns. Two Schools of Thought The modifying order was signed by Secretary Mellon and David H. Blair, Internal Revenue Commissioner. It was concurred in by Andrews. These two orders and the men sponsoring them embody two schools of thought in the Treasury regarding government control of the industrial alcohol industry. The two views are irreconcilable, but as long as that held by Mellon dominates, there is little hope of prohibition enforcement. Secretary Mellon and Commissioner Blair take the position that ([legitimate business must not suffer F or be embarrassed by drastic regulations. Extreme • prohibitionists and their representatives insist that enforcement of the dry law is the paramount consideration. Because of his radical attitude, Commissioner Haynes repeatedly clashed with Commissioner Blair. Blair’s attitude was that of the politico-business man, Haynes’ that of the fanatic. Mellon Plays Solomon The same controversy raged between Andrews and Blair when the former took office, even though Andrews’ view was more moderate than Haynes’. He did not adopt the Haynes attitude, but he did insist that enforcement would be impossible unless he were given com,plete and absolute jurisidiction over the industrial alcohol problem. Blair demanded that the control remain in the International Revenue Bureau, where it always had been. The dispute was laid before Secretary Mellon. He proved a veritable Solomon; he supported Andrews’ claim to jurisdiction, but continued to adhere to the Blair view of "business first.” The dilemma will continue as long as prohibition remains law, no matter who administers it.

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Authorities See Good in Liquor as Medicine

Were the Governor and attorney general of Indiana justified in breaking the laws of their State to get alcoholic liquor for members of their family, who were ill? What does science think of their stand? <■ Here’s the second of a series of four articles written for 'lhe Times, giving the unbaised opinion of the world’s greatest medial authorities. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of ths American Medical Association and of Hvgeia, the Health Magazine. In Edinburgh, Scotland, forty years ago, the average cost a patient for the use of alcohol beverages in the treatment of disease was $10.75. List year the average cost for this purpose was appproximately 10 cents. In 1900 every patient admitted to the large hospitals of London received on an average of nineteen tablespoons of brandy as part of the treatment, whereas in 1925 the figure was estimated as three tablespoons. Obviously this is a marked decline in the general belief as to the importance of alcohol in the treatment of disease. Nevertheless, Lord Dawson, one of the chief - physicians to the London hospital, is convinced that it has definite value when taken in proper quantities at proper times and by people whom it suited. He considered its action on the nervous system benefiicent and useful. Dixon Tells of Alcohol Effects Dr. W. E. Dixon, a leading British pharmacologist, says that three important facts about alcohol might be regarded as established: 1. That it is rapidly absorbed from the stomach and the intestines into the tissues, and that it can be re-

SACRED HEART CLASS OF 63 TO GRADUATE High School Commencement Next Sunday Afternoon. Sixty-three graduates of the Sacred Heart High School will receive diplomas at annual commencement exercises of the school next Sunday afternoon in Sacred Heart Church. The Rev. Didacus Gruenholz will deliver the commencement address and present diplomas. The graduates: Classical Course. George Crumbo Charles Llmberger Gertrude Gehrtng Catherine Monahan Nellie Hollcraft Vincent Obergfell Gertrude Hornberger Alma Scherrer Helen Hueber Margaret Seal Florence Johannes August Spttznagel Agnes Kiefer John Sullivan Leo Krlner Edwin Teagardln Beatrice Lauber Corlnne Wehlage Louise Lauck Commercial Course. Robert Armstrong Margaret Maloney Ada Bauman Martin Lynch Atoyslus Benedick Cecilia Quinn Fiances Buckley Marie Nfes Helen Collier Mary J. Newman Genevieve Clements Charlotte Renner Catherine Dant Ruth Reckley Marie Dietz Mary Rlegel Dolores Dietz Cecilia Ryan Anna Fischer Veronica Saul Teresa Fischer George Schmalz Grace Gedig Loretta Schott Elvin Gottemoeller Mary Schroeder John Hornberger Marie Schutte Rosemary Hornberger Rosemary Seyfried Margaret Krlech Elizabeth Thuer Frances Klann Marcella Wagner Lucille Klrschner Mary Wellenkamp Catherine Link Catherine Wheatley Rosemary Lark Patricia Walrhaye. Clara Lang Rosemary Wuensch Alberta Millikan Dorothy Wyss

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SOOT POURS ON CITIES Seven Carloads Daily Dumped on 300,000 Municipality. Btj Times Boecial CHICAGO, June • 13.—More than seven carloads of coal soot are dumped daily on the residents of every average American city of 300,000 population, says W. W. Williams, president of the Williams Institute of Heat Research, of Bloomington, 111., an institution devoted to the study of fuel and combustion problems. "Coal on an average Is used with only 60 per cent efficiency,” said Williams. “Ten to 20 percent of every ton goes up the chimney as soot, unbelievable as the figure may seem.” TRAMPLED BY HORSES Bu Times Soecial ANDERSON, Ind., June 13. Three horses he was leading from the field became frightened and broke away, trampling Frank Robinett, 65, a farmer, near here. His injuries are serious.

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ONE KILLED, 12 INJURED, TOLL OVERWEEK-END Driver Slated for Manslaughter, Others for Vagrancies. Week-end accidents killed one and injured twelve, police report. George Head. 35, of 528 E. Market St., was killed when a rented car in which he was riding wiih five others crashed into a car driven by Miss Ethel Huston, 238 E. Pratt St., at Emerson Ave. and Thirty-Eighth St., and turned over. Lester Brown, Noble and Michigan Sts., driver of the car which Head was riding, was charged witn manslaughter, drunken operating, and drunkenness. Other occupants, Vincent O’Connor, 45, of 301 N. New Jersey St., John Giltner, 38. of 415 N. Division St., Henry Stevens, 50, of 646 N. Pine St., and John Maher, 35, of 430 N. Meridian St., were slated for drunkeness and vagrancy. Brown and Maher were injured. Two pints of liquor were found in the car. Miss Huston was accompanied by Mrs. Maude Wichser, 31. of 141 W. Nineteenth St., and Marie Smith, Ft. Wayne. Neither was injured. Roy Vicerey, 16, of 4410 Schofield Ave., is in nty hospital with a fractured skull and internal injuries suffered when the car in which he was riding, driven by Marshall (Bud) Garriott, 17, of 5019 Sheldon St., turned over in Baltimore Ave.. Saturday afternoon. Garriott was arrested on charges of assault and battery and reckless driving. Garriott’s identification card was issued for a sedan belonging to William Prikett, 5019 Sheldon St., police report. Warwick Ripley, 76, of 362 Massachusetts Ave., attorney, chess

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(NEA Service. New York Bureau.) Herman Bernstein, editor of the Jewish Tribune, New York, whose $200,000 libel suit against Henry Ford is shortly to come to trial. He accuses the automotive autocrat of defaming him in his Dearborn Independent. player, received minor bruises when a car driven by Jacob Solotken, 38, of 51115 Washington Blvd., struck him as he was crossing Delaware St. at Massachusetts Ave., Saturday night. Others injured were: Flora Nichloff. 9, of 353 Douglas St.; Clyde Berry, 26. of 525 Berkley Rd.; Gertrude Steinfort, 24, Thirty-Fourth and School Sts.: Clinton Roberts, 26, Negro, Noblesville; Roy Couch, Y. M. C. A.; Emil Prokl, 1445 Olive St,; Richard Derry, 17, of 5726 Broadway Terrace, and Albert Lee, 42. Negro, 1010 N. Traub St. Virginia Byron, 10. and Josephine Byron, 7, both of 5283 Washburn Ave.; Allem Up, Robert Shamby and Marion Lacy of Winchester, and Martin Shins, Negro, 2321 N. Temple Ave,

PREP AWARDS MADE Money, Cup Prizes Awarded for Scholarship. Prizes have been awarded students at the Boys’ Preparatory School for accomplishments in the last year. In the Upper School, trustee prizes, first, $lO and second, $5, were awarded these boys: In English, John Modrall, first, and Beldon Daniels, second; French, William Hall, first, and Robert Sherwood, second; Latin, John Lasher, first, and Charles Smith, second; mathematics, Sam Adams, first, and Kurt Lieber, second; Spanish, Reily C. Adams Jr., first, and John Neuer, second. The .H. C. Adams scholarship trophy among letter men went to Kurt Lieber, and the Sutphin shield for best all-round boy was awarded to Ralph Heath. Members of the Fathers’ Club athletic committee awarded sweaters, blankets, gold footballs and baseballs to team members. In the Lower School awards were

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26 RECEIVE DIPLOMAS St. Agnes Academy Graduates Hear Bishop Chartrand. Twenty-six graduates received diplomas at the annual commencement exercises of St. Agnes Academy Sunday evening in the auditorium of Cathedral High School. Bishop Joseph Chartrand was the speaker. The graduates: Margaret. Barlow Mary Elizabeth Martha Barry Kemmer Marie Blackwell Frances Kotteman Dorothy Boyle Mary Lloyd Josepha Brennan Marjorie McDultee Dorothy Farley Josephine Madden Mary Fennell Helen Mayer Mary Louise Curran Adell® Meyer Marv Gladys Gibson Helen MltcheM Lucille Hayes Cathwtne Mr,n Helen Hegarty Marie Phillips Mary Josephine Edith Reed Keene Mildred Rosa Isabel Storch Eileen Shea A musical program was given.

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The “Spirit of St. Louis’! * WESTBOUND Lv. Indianapolis 8:02 A.M. Ar. St. Louis ' 1:35 P.M. 4EASTBOUND Lv. Indianapolis 5:40 P.M. Ar. Baltimore 11:47 A.M. Ar. No. Ar. New York w Y Hudson Terminal l' , .r-, r> i Penna. Station J 1-52 P.M. (,Standard Time)

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