Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 139, Hammond, Lake County, 28 November 1916 — Page 8

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THE TIMES. Tiiesdav. Nov. 28. 1916

BUSCH OUTLINES HIS PHOGRAM TO COUNTERACT

PROHIBITION MOVEMENT

Declares He Has Requested Governor-Elect Gardner to Have Excise Laws Strictly Enforced Would Take Bars Out of Saloons, Use Only-Tables.

ST. tOUIB. Mo.. Nov. J7. In an Interview with, a Po"t-Dipatcn reporter today. Augrust A. Buach, president and principal owner of the AnheuserBusch Brewing: Association, outlined a comprehensive program for counteracting: the prohibition sentiment which has grown so rapidly in recent years that territorially 85 per cent of the United State Is dry by prohibitory or local option laws, and 48 per cent of the population lives in dry territory. He suggested: 1. A strict enforcement by state authorities of all excise laws. I. . The establishment throughout the country of the German saloon system. Which permits only beers, light wines and temperance drinks to be sold in dramshops. 3. Co-operation by brewers with the state authorities to put out of business every saloon keeper who does not obey the excise laws. 4. Abolition of treating In saloons, to discourage drinking to excess. k. Discontinuance of bars in saloons, all service to be given at tables, at which customers will be Beated. Oae Rehear 6rer. "I have "but one request upon Governor-elect Frederick D. Gardner," Busch said to the reporter. "That is tnis: If the new governor wishes to do me the greatest possible favor he will appoint the strictest Excise Commissioner he can find a Commissioner who will enforce the excise laws to the letter "and tolerate no violation of them." "To what do you attribute the growth of the prohibition sentiment?" the reporter asked. "To the violation of the law by saloons." he answered. Unquestionably the prohibition sentiment Is directed against the saloon. Not all saloons violate the law. but the law-abiding saloon-keeper Is the victim of the lawviolating saloon-keeper. "A liberal Excise Commissioner one Who does not enforce the law strictly does more harm to the brewing Interests than one who rigidly enforces the law. We want the law enforced. Some time ago I wrote a letter to Excise Commissioner Rumsey to that effect." Busch turned to his flies and withdrew a copy of the letter, dated March 39. 1916, in which he said with reference to the agitation at that time for the enforcement or the excise laws: "There are two aides to this question and our own observation prompts us to say that you should be sustained In any effort to correct conditions. "We make no question that the responsibility for the correction rests, in a large part, with this business itself. The law alone cannot do It As an official you are put to the proof, and you must often be hampered by technicalities. On the other hand, we cannot do It without your guidance. "We are persuaded, however, by cooperation. better result can be obtatnd. E'ery dlsreputabje aoon should be closed.' Whenever your authority is Insufficient to discontinue sueh a ealoon we are prepared to act ,pon your Judgment. If you will say to us that a ealoon which is our customer hernia, in the lntre.t ! public peace or welfare, be closed we will withdraw whatever support It may derive from us. We do not ask you to take any responsibility beyond suggesting what should be done. We will take the responsibility of the decision. Inasmuch as the police department must be conversant with .conditions, we snail be glad to have you confer with that department In order that no -..Hii.hm,nt. that In the Judgment

of properly constituted authority. Is a

twenty or thirty drinks are consumed. The treating system ought to be prohibited. 'I am spending $125,000 to build a Deutsche wlrtschaft at Gravois and Morganford roads to demonstrate that an institution at which only beer, fight wines and temperance drinks are served can be made a success. I am going to call this the Bevo Mill. It is to be constructed piflndiailly f varl-colored stone, most of which, with my own hands, I gathered from my place the Grant Farm. 'There will" be no bar In this establishment. There will be a hign-class cafe, which I have engaged Henry Diets, former chef and manager of Faust's, to conduct for me. All drinks will be served at tables. Busch is building a $3,000,000 plant fronting on Broadway, Immediately east of the main brewery establishment, which will be used exclusively for the manufacture of Bevo, the new temperance drink he has put on the market. Ho was asked If he was manufacturing the temperance drink in anticipation of prohibition In Missouri. "No," he sad. "I conceived the idea that the people wanted a beverage containing less alcohol than beer contains. There is 4 per cent of alcohol in beer, and less than one-fourth of 1 per cent In Bevo. I think the real remedy for the drink question is education. By education all the evils of drinking will be gradually eliminated. If I forbade my children from drinking, they probably would develop a strong desire for it and get it anyway. WaraU( to Cafe Owners. "My father was very strict with me about smoking. Every time he met me he would smell my breath to see whether I had been' smoking. The result was that I used to take his cigars and hide myself away and smoke until I was satisfied. Now my family can have anything in the world it wants in the drink line, and I do not think there Is a family In America where there is less drinking." During the past few days Busch has published advertisements in St. Louis newspapers warning cafe proprietors and ealoon keepers that the brewery would refuse to sell Its products to those who sell strong drinks on Sundays under the guise of Bevo. "At some place," he said, in explanation of the advertisement, "a Bevo bottle, which in no wise resembles a beer bottle, has been set on tables as a blind. Then all kinds of drinks were served. To an observer it would appear that Bevo was being served, and that there was no violation of the law. "We will not tolerate these practices. There must be no use of our products to evade the law. "If any saloons who are customers of this brewery are violating or evading the law we do not know It. If any committee of citizens Interested In the enforcement of the law will point out to me any saloon that Is not obeying the law, I will do everything I can do to close It. I want this business in which I am interested to stand for morality." "Havi you ever considered what use will be made of your properties If a prohibitory amendment should be voted or law enacted In this state?" "As time goes on the sentiment of the people changes. I want to say that If this organisation with which I am connected is forced to go out of the brewing business in St.' Louis, It will be here and I will be here as a factor in something else. Of course. I think It would be & sad world where such harmless stimulants as beer and Bevo

menace to society, may be overlooked." could not be sold, but our great plant AsalBt Trwnmg gystesa. ' here. In which about $70,000,000 has Busch said that this letter, written been Invested, would be wonderfully long before the November election, at well suited for an ammunition factory, which six states were added to the such as the United States will have dry column, correctly defined the attl- need of in carrying out its plan of tude of his Institution toward the en- preparedness, or it could be converted forcement of the excise laws. Into the greatest meat packing estab"It Is my belief that the ultimate lishment in the world." outcome of the prohibition sentiment' Xeed e-f Meeting IMaee. in this country will be the establish-' "Do you think. Mr. BusMi, that there ment of the German saloon system." will come a time when the people will Busch continued. "In Germany saloons tire of prohibition and permit the sale sell only beer, light wines and tern- of' beverages for consumption In the perance drinks. There are no bars and home, but not In the saloon?" no treating. Many of the evils of, ..T ao n&t . ex-pect auch conditions." drink are attributable to the treating ne saId ..As T 8aid before x think the habit. A man goes into a saloon to get gaioon wIth the bar eliminated and the ' . - u meets a friend, - uiu.j

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Take a glass of Salts if your Back hurts or Bladder troubles you.

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not be objectionable. I think that is the solution of the question. I do not think the middle-man's club should be taken away from him. Tnere ought to be a place where people can meet, exchange views and be served with light beverages. People would not care to transfer this sort of pleasures to their homes. There ought to be an Institution peculiarly for such purposes. "And now," added Busch. in conclusion of the interview, "If I had before me a convention of the brewers of the United States, I should Bay to them that If they wanted to render the greatest .possible service to their own

interests they would insist upon the

regularjy can maKe a misuse ciuuivcuirni ui me aramsnop flushing theVldneys occasionally, says j laws and co-operate with he proper a well-known authority. Meat forma ; authorities in closing every saloon that yrlc acfd which excites the kjdneys, has not been conducted strictly acthey become over-worked from th-i cording to these laws."

strain, get 'sluggish and fail to filter the waste and poisons from the blood, then we get sick. Nearly all rheumatism. hea4aches. liver trouble, nerv

ousness, disxiness. sleeplessness ana w p . urlpary disorders come from sluggish J CJVCTy 11111111 te COIH113 kidneys. ill 1 1 The moment you feel a dull ache In, virkpTi VOU dlSCOVPr th the kidneys or your back hurts or u'f YYUCU VUU U1Q the urine is cloudy, offensive, full of I . 1 1 .edlment. Irregular of passage or at j OSS Ol jeWeliy, pOCKC,

tended by a sensation oi m."""6. ; 1 11 .ating meat and get about ur ounc-. JQQ handbag. .f larf K.lta from any pharmacy; take

a ta'blesrpoonful in a glass of water before breakfast and In a few days your kidneys will act fine. This famous salts Is made from the acid of grape and lemon Juice, combined wjth lithla. and has been used for generations to flush and stimulate the kidneys, also to neutralise the acids In urine so It no longer causes Irritation, thus ending bladder weakness. Jadv Salts is inexpensive and cannot injure: makes a delightful effervescent Hthla-water drink which everyone should take now and then to keep the kidney clean and active and the blood pure, thereby avoiding serious kidney complications.. Adv.

Cf Telephone a "lost ad to this office. A want ad means an inquiry at every door in town. CfThe cost is trifling

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BY XUtOARET MASON. (Written for the United. Press.)

Oh! London's topsy turvy town They dim the lights when night comes down; The theaters but two nights play And give a daily matinee. And most the women that you meet Have all turned workmen in the street. The rich walk while the poor ride out. Ah! truly things are turned about.

LONDON, Nov. 10 (by mail). If you are afraid to go home in the dark these days you'd better not venture out after tea-time in London these days, or rather nights. Tou feel as if you had heen transported back into the medieval or more fittingly the dark ages when you step blinking like an owl into the

murky dimly lighted thoroughfares. I for one am glad that most of the theaters give daily matinees and but two night performances a week. It -a far from a cozy thing after the piny to be all alono in London In the dark and on the outside of a taxi looking In with absolutely no hope of being on the Inside looking out. The price of 'petrol is so high and the chauffeurs are so scarce that taxis at nightfall become as fleeting and elusive as bats a-wing. They whizz by you. deaf to your shouts and blind to your tears. Taxi drivers are now known as "haughties." so fantidious and particular have they become about their fares.

If they size you up and like your looks I even then you mustn't be too optimis

tic. They may not like your destination and refuse to take you after alL Indeed, sq1 near perfection do you have to be In appearance and address that It is really simpler and safer to begin your, walking right away. There are not many women driving taxis yet, but they are running elevators, acting as conductors on busses, cleaning streets, working in railway yards, running delivery wagons and working In munition factories. It is a curious thing that in all the manual strenuous and more virile work heretofore done by the men the women now excel, but those trying to replace the men In the finer seemingly more feminine arts of cooking, tailoring and hairdressing are but sorry substitutes for

the sterner Bex. As a leveller of aexes and classes the war is doing wonders that vtew with its horrors for a balancing result. Women are coming into their own as independent wage earners and the "Colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady" are rubbing elbows in the hospitals and munition factories. The rich and titled are working side by side with the poor and lowly. The pampered pets have given up their motors so the poor woumlerf Tommies may ride, and after the theater they, too, are forced often to hotfoot it home to the ancestral manse since the "haughties" are no respecters of either birth or breeding. Yes, times are dark and streets are dark in Ijondon, but there aA b.Kht spots. For, though it's Zeps that make London dark, London makes light of Zeps. Sometimes they make them alight and sometimes they make a light of them. When word arrives that Zeps are on the way there is some zest and thrill in staying up all night and up on a roof tov glimpse a huge flaming mass, pointed out by the silver fingers of the searchlights, that falls from the sky like a Gargantuan skyrocket set o t by an Intrepid young British airman. But bringing airships blazing out cf the clouds and women filling bombs instead of nursing bottles, and pedestrians blundering around like moles In the Stygian Btrcets are but commonplace. When it comes to turning all the clocks up an hour for summer and now back attain an hour for the winter sea

son, then it does seem going a bit to far. It's bo really unsettling for ones Bocial engagements, don't you know, ant for the life of her. Lady Diana can't renru-mber whether her date with Lor Percy is at five o'clock winter time or summer time. . Verily, tempting Fate it

.s nothing to Juggling Time. The two men whom it took to prronally adjust Big Ben's hands across lis startled face undoubtedly felt th ruth of this original aphorism, the lik; sf which I always have on tap on time.

THE SMARTNESS OF SIMPLICITY. By Anabel Worthington.

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leading favorite at present, and as it m be made of a mere wisp of material and finished in a morning it will tempt in.n:y of us into making it. Front and back are entirely plain, wnb the closing in front, without a band, and with the neck quite open. Here there is a vIlar of moderate size of material contrasting with that of the rest of the waist. The same material is used for a cuff when the short "sleeve is used. In this waist we also find the desirable feature of the collar, which may be mime open or high by the adjustment of a button or two. , The pattern of this waist, No. 7.192. is cut in sizes 34 to 44 inches bust measure. Medium size requires 2V& yards of 36 inch material, with yard of contrasting gxds to trim. Trice of pattern, 10 cents.

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thing- must be snug and cozy and warm because it is going to be mighty cold mighty soon. PVERYBODY is prosperous now, too. And in times of prosperity w-e should add to the comforts and the luxuries of life so that in less fortunate days we will be happier.

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THIS big- Spiegel Sale is a won- f derful opportunity for you, K

ou will simply be amazed at the low prices that prevail in these times of high prices. And you will be eternally gTateful to the Giant Buyinfj Power that makes such buying possible. . CREDIT and Courtesy to ail. A few dollars cash is all you need. Come, buy liberally, pay leisurely.

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Three Great Thanksgiving Day Dining Room Specials

Here are three Half-Century Sale values worthy of Thm tabU has 45-inch top and extends to 6 feet. It is a reproduction of the William and Mary period and, from the standpoint of workmanship, styl and finish,

has no superior anywhere at this once. Think of t

a beautiful American walnut dining table for- $1.50 Cash, $1.50 Monthly

price. yiinK ot it $19.85

gracing the dining room of any home in the city. Beautiful American Walnut at the regular price of oak.

i ehatr match the table exactly. They have been given the same thorough care in manufacture and are

finished equally beautifully. The slip seats are covered

with genuine Spanish leather. You won't find many

opportunities greater than this one. They may be purchased singly for $335; the set of six at

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Thm buffet adds the necessary finishine touch to make

this outfit complete. Its French plate mirrors and bronze drawer-pulls make it a perfectly beautiful piece of furniture. This is our Fifty-first Thanksgiving of

prosperity and we want to share it with you by giving vou this buffet for $2 Cash, $2 Monthly,

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An Extra Room for Less" Money

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HOW often have you envied a friend the possession of one 'of these big. handsome, four-post beds? Now it's going to be your turn to get one, for we are offering a nunvber of these full size, mahogany iHCf

finish four-posters as a HaH-Century S . . J )

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THE money that you save in rent will pay for this handsome three-piece Kroehler Duofold suite. An extra bedroom and a three-piece set for your living room combined into one. And a great, big bargain offered you to celebrate our 51st birthday. Each place i solid oak throuihout. The upholstery is over steel springs and the covering is an excellent grade of leather fabric. The divan can be converted by a movement of the C A f f" hand into a comfortable, full size bed. (jet thia set and give yourself double value hy.rjll for thia price t

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IF you haven't a kitchen cabinet, come in tomorrow and get this big work saver for S2 Cah and tZ Monthly. You will find it a bii? help and OO Q C a big bargain. Ja-J.VO

Axminster Rugs, 9x12

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TAKE advantage ol this big Half-Century Sale and get yourself a beautiful new rug on easy credit terms. These Axminsters are certainly handsome, and you couldn't find hiffsrrr values anywhere. Come in and see them. (no CC The 9x12 size this week fct only WtiuiOO

Keep the House Warm

$26 'T HIS great, big, hindsome heater will warm three rooms easily. It is heavily nickeled, and the front and sides are fitted with mica windows. Get one here tomorrow and pay only IS Cash. I J Monthly, S26.95

ANE of these Bucks' Hot Blast heatera will fill your rooms with warmth and comfort. AM you need to get one is tl.$8 Cash, Sl.S Monthly. During this big sale we are selling them at only $14.95

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