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FIVE AND TEN
Five years and $10,000. The new amendment to the
Volstead Act is summarized in current aptness of Amer
ican slang, “Five and Ten.”* Proponents of prohibition
declare themselves elated by having statutory enactment
making felons of those who disagree with them. The law
of search and seizure has been so thoroughly established
by the court decisions of the last few years, even the most
fanatical of prohibitionists accepted the interpretation of
constitutional provisions which have protectedan d
guarded the sancitity of private homes.
We think it very evident that citizens will not ratify
criminal prosecutions based and predicated upon illegal
and unjustifiable searches, upon entrapments, upon ex
penditures of government money in the purchase of out
lawed liquor by groups of enforcement agents, also
universally condemn the actions of paid spies, informers
and agents w’ho themselves have so recklessly, wantonly,
and even criminally, endeavored to bring about convic
tions under the Volstead Act. Reports of habitual perjury
in the making of affidavits upon which to base search
'warrants do not tend to add respect for the law or for
its enforcement.
Public opinion will soon formulate as to the wisdom
and necessity of the recent legislation, and just so far as
public opinion will permit, and no further, will the law
pertaining to felonies be ratified.
Is a citizen who purchases intoxicating liquor, and
who does not disclose such fact, subject to prosecution
for concealing the commission of felony? Must such a
citizen exercise a right given him, and arrest a vendor of
liquid refreshment instanter, without warrant? Or, shall
the person making the sale, at once arrest the purchaser
for the unlawful and felonious possession of alleged in
toxicants (the word alleged is used advisedly) and thereby
endeavor to secure immunity from prosecution as a deal
er of intoxicating liquor?.
Should the friends of the prohibition law be engaged
in making friends for the law, instead of enemies?
We submit further experimentation by the vast horde
of federal employes, avowedly put into office to aid
in the enforcement of one, and of only one of our anal
statutes, is dangerous to the extreme to the continued
life of the nation. From the standpoint of society as a
whole, unrestrained traffic in intoxicating liquor is fatal
to the moral fibre of our youth.
But is it fair, is it right, is it necessary and is it
expedient as a matter of national concern to classify as
felonies, violations of the law apparently direct toward
the accomplishment of a social and moral reform?
The answer, undoubtedly, rests with the years to
come.
Even though the most stupendous grant of power
ever delegated is now reposed in federal judges to render
sentences of “Five and Ten,” in their discretion, will the
citizens who constitute juries forget that this nation was
created by those who refused to surrender their beliefs
in social, political, religious, and personal right.
We wonder if the cause of temperance has really ad
vanced by the recent law
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HIT. RUN DRIVERS
TAKE TOLL OF 14
ON PACIFIC COASI
THIRTY INJURED OVER WEEK
END; ONE DRIVER ARRESTED
SAN FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, April 15, </P)
—In a riot of careening cars and
crashing glass the screams of vic
tims of hit and run drivers con
spired with railroad crossing and
wet pavements to take a toll of 14
dead and 30 injured in automobile
accidents on the coast during the
week end.
Five were killed in central Cali
fornia by three hit and run drivers.
An 18-year-old youth was arrested
and charged with murder. Others
are sought for three killed in Wash
ington.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 15, (JP) ,
—Detailed reports received by the
State Department of Agriculture
indicate that California incurred a |
crop damage of $55,000,000 from ;
frosts during the last few days. {
While northern counties suffered
most, virtually every section of the
state was affected.
NO COMPROMISE HR
SETTLEMENT THIS CNSE
SEATTLE, * April 15, (/*>)—'There
will be absolutely “no compromise
or settlement” of the suit filed here
by H. H. Clark, Seattle minister,
asking $50,000 from Mrs. Minnie E.
Kennedy, mother of Aimee Semple
McPherson, Los Angeles Taberna
cle evangelist, for alleged breach of
promise, John S. Robinson, Seattle
attorney retained to defend the
suit, emphatically declared.
NEEDS CAPITAL
The Koyukuk mining district,
which has been one of the most
consistent producers of placer gold
in Alaska, must have capital to in
sure continued production, in the
opinion of Sam Dubin, whose busi
ness it is to keep the residents of
that remote section of the terri
tory supplied with provisions and
other necessities.
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