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THE PRESIDENT CAN ENFORCE THE LAW
We have laws enough, regulations enough, money enough,
nd men enough to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment—if they
vd a strong purpose to enforce behind then. Only determination
s lacking.
‘There is but one man who can supply the will to enforce on
ation-wide scale. That is the President of the United States.
Enforcement is hamstrung by politics. The President alone
strong enough to break the alliance between corrupt politics
nd the organized business of bootlegging.
Through its permit system, the Government exercises ex-
lusive jurisdiction over the manufacture, storage, distribution,
nd sale of alcohol in any form. Here is the heart of the problem.
Only the President can dominate it.
‘The Constitution is under attack at the point of the Bish
eenth Amendment. The President has taken oath to ‘preserve,
otect, and defend” it. The laws are disregarded. It is his Con-
titutional duty to “take care that the laws be faithfully exe-
uted. ” Is it unreasonable to expect him to do so?
The President can begin to enforce the Enghteenth Amend-
Th and the Volstead Act up to the level of other laws by de-
_claring publicly his determination to do-so; by announcing that he
will refuse to offer an appointment to his Cabinet or to any other
office to any one who is not a good enough American to obey the
Constitution; by giving public notice that so long as he is Presi-
ent violation of the 18th Amendment by any public servant will
carry with it immediate dismissal; and by announcing that Fed-
ral enforcement will be wholly divorced from politics.
Having thus notified the people that the Government takes
‘the Constitution seriously, let the President proceed to:
Call together in the White House the heads of the Bureau of
Prohibition and other Federal enforcement services, and notify
- in open meeting that they and their subordinates must not
wr dry but efficient, and that unless they begin to produce re--
2s within three months better men will take their places.
Call together in the White House all United States district
attorneys, and give them also notice to show results within three
months or get out.
~The known failure of enforcement in the City of Washing-
“ton has immensely encouraged ‘lawlessness ‘throughout the coun-
ry... Let the President give the Commissioners for the District
of Columbia notice to begin cleaning up at once, and make and
‘keep the District clean unde penalty of dismissal.
It will be objected that the President is already too heavily
burdened to undertake new tasks. The answer is that he has no
duty more essential than to defend the Constitution and enforce
the law. If something else must wait, then let it wait.
~~ When a President of the United States makes it his per-
‘sonal business to see that the Eightéenth Amendment is enforced,
and sticks to it, it will be enforced. AND NOT UNTIL THEN.
THE PRINCE OF WALES’ “AMERICAN FRIENDS”
“American friends of the Prince of Wales” have contributed
$100, 000 to the relief of the starving British coal miners.
Good! But, may we ask where those tender-hearted gentle- |
“men were concealed when appeals were being broadcasted for
starving miners in American coal fields?
They are represented as “greatly touched” by what the Prince
‘said about conditions in the stricken areas of South Wales and
y Durham.
- How about the “stricken areas”
Eastern Ohio and West Virginia?
It is a matter of common knowledge that thousands of Amer-
ican miners, their wives and little ones, have been suffering the
tortures of the damned in those sections.
Have the “American friends of the: Prince of Wales”
heard of the old adage that “charity begins at home’?
Perhaps, if we could get the names of the Prince’s “friends,”
we would find that at least a part of the money which enabled
~ them to make this “grand gesture” was filched from the pay en-
velopes of miners in our own “stricken areas.” Maybe that is
why the contributions are anonymous.
of Western Pennsylvania,
ever
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planting what weather conditions will | -
‘lation, which is held to be the key that)
| turned out that these predictions were
Aid For Farmer
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That the Farr in Pohtinl
in advance of
face his corps is held out as a near]
possibility by Dr. C. C. Abbott, sec-|
retary of the Smithsonian Institution. |
He believes that scien@e is on the eve
of a discovery that will enable it to!
duplicate the feat of Joseph when he
| predicted seven years of plenty and
| seven years of
famine in ancient
Egypt. :
What the future holds in the way |
‘of accurate long-range forecasting
was revealed by Dr. Abbot to a sub-|
committee on Appropriations when he)
explained what had already been ac-|
complished in the study of solar radi-
will unlock nature’s secret. |
Although this project has been un-|
der way only about sight years, in-|
formation, has been obtained which |
|| Dr. Abbott says enabled him to pre-|
dict well in advance that the early |
months of last-year would be unusual- |
ly cool and that the fall months would |
be warm. |
If available data should again be
verified in the period which has been
forecast, there is reason to believe |
that the practicability of long- range |
forecasting will be established, says | >
Dr. Abbott.
“There is a very perceptible hope |
that this sort of thing may lead to
forecasting weather conditions, either
favorable or unfavorable ' to the |
growth of crops, for seasons in ad- |
vance,” Dr. Abbott asserted.
“We are not ready as yet to make
public forecasts that such and such |
will be the condition of the summer
or winter, but I said to a few of my |
friends over a year ago that the]
weather for the summer and fall of
1928 would be thus and so, and it
correct. ~~ Whether similar tentative
forecasts will be verified another year
I do.not know.”
tO:
| according to Taw. Kindly
NOTICE!
Notice Torrens of
Dallas Township. ~All
taxes remaining unpaid
February 1st, 1929 become
delinquent after that date.
I will be obliged to collect
take care of this and avoid
additional cost.
JOHN A ANDERSON,
"Tax Collector,
Dallas Township.
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HENRY FORD’S NEW POLICY
~The other day Henry Ford announced a new policy which |
would put 30,000 men to work. He said it would take three months |
“to get things going.
Three days later 25,000 men were gathered around the Ford |
plant near Detroit, at the opening hour in the morning. They had |-
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come from all over the country, drawn by the magned of a chance
to get a job.
They stood there shivering in the snow and cold, stamping |
their feet to keep from freezing, waiting to be put at hard, mon- |
otonous work.
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Six hundred of them were taken into the plant that day. |
More were given jobs later.
We are told constantly that the country is prosperous. So it
is, in a way. More of our people have the comforts and even
some of the luxuries of life than ever before. By comparison with
‘the rest of the world, American prosperity is very great indeed.
But here are at least 25,000 men IN ONE CITY who have had
no share in that prosperity; and in most cases behind each of| |
those men is a woman, and perhaps two or three children, waiting |
‘at home to see whether “dad” gets a job.
In the light of these facts, our Prosperity would seem some-
at imperfect.
There is unemployment, not merely in the disorganized min-
and textile industries, but in other industries as well; and
ploy: ned is a Social and economic crime.
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