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•-•--..*»•?• WED., JAN. 21, 1931 PLATTSBURGH DAILY PRESS PAGE FIVE PERSONAL MENTION Thomas Tobin and Ronald Sul- ivan of Oadyville are spending ipveral days in Utica on a- busi- less trip. it JOHN'S HIGHWAY TO MONTREAL OPEN L. B. Jones, U. S. deputy collec- tor of customs, in charge at Rouses point, stated last evening that the 'oad to Montreal which was closed >y the storm Monday was opened igain and in good condition, the jlows having opened the road up ride. HJNTING, FISHING DAIRYMEN PLAN ALBANY MEETING GENEVA. N. Y., Jan. 20.—In- terest in the fifty-fourth annual meeting of the New York State Dairymen's Association to be held in Albany, January 22 and 23, will CONGRESS GETS WICKERSHAM COMMISSION REPORT (Continued from Page 1) this point,\ adding, however, that center around topics of concern to I \ this l s done afc the P ric e o f nulli- fication to that extent.\ A recom- the dairy farmer, the distributor of dairy products, and the dairy manu facturer, according to a statement issued by the Secretary of the As- sociation, Dr. G. J. Hucker, bacte- riologist at the Experiment Station here. An invitation has been issued to dairy farmers; milk, cream, but- ter, and ice cream distributors; and to others interested in dairy- mendation was made for: \Removal of the anomalous pro- visions in Section 29, National Pro- hibition Act, as to cider and fruit juices by making some uniform pro vision for a fixed alcoholic con- tent.\ It is under section 29 that grape concentrate concerns are selling TOP DIXIE SPORTS ing to attend the sessions of the tbeir P r °duct. Association, it is stated, and fur- \ wh y home wine making should ATLANTA, Ga,, (IP) — Those vhose tastes lean to the dog and ;un, rod and reel outnumber by ar any other class of sportsmen n Dixie. Cronston Williams, secretary- nanager of the Southern Newspa- ler Publishers' association, con- tacted a survey of 14 southern itates, and here's what he found: \ OIln j on Hunters and fishermen, 4,420,876. Baseball followers, 2,426,372. Football fans, 1,218,184; Golf lovers, 908,640. Tennis devotees, 363456. ther details regarding the meetings | can be obtained from the Secre- . tary. The Experiment Station and the College of Agriculture at Ithaca are uniting in a Joint publication and j information exhibit in which special attention will be gven to the dairy work of these two insti- tutions. The meetings and exhibits will be located in the Hotel Dewitt The states covered by the sur- ey were Alabama, Arkansas, Flor- Frominent Speakers on Program The forenoon of the first day of the meeting will be given over to a discussion of dairy work under way at the College of Agriculture at Ithaca, by Dr. J. M. Sherman; a talk on milk bottle- exchanges , „ and their problems, by E. D. Lich-1 ,1, Missouri, North Carolina, Okla- t ^ flf g ft ^ 0 J able public' opinion to such an ex- - ***^S rt C3A1lrl % V I- m«n1f *^ #* nint^V l ««*.*.*% A i J _.• J_ _ A. _ A . J 2 t — J-1 _ — — - 1 ~_ J . _ . be lawful while home-brewing of beer and home-distilling of spirits are not, why home wine making for home use is less reprehensible than making the same wine outside the home for home use, and why it should be penal to make wine commercially for use in homes, and not penal to make in huge quan- tities the material for wine making and set up an elaborate selling cam paign for disposing of them, is not apparent.\ In explaining its medicinal re- commendation the commission said: \We are satisfied that in several particulars the causes of resent- ment on the part of tjhe medical against a favor- loma, South Carolina, Pexas and Virginia. Tennessee, the Cheddar cheese situation in ( [New York, by H. S. Sweetland of tent as to outweigh the advantages to enforcement.\ „.._, ,_. t I Cuba; and a study of methods of I The commission hit out strenu- ALBANY, (/P)-New York state's measuri the efflcienc y 0 { the sa .|°usly at the failure of the federal anntag pea crop for 1930 consist- n - mUk Iegmtions o f the sta{9| prohibition forces to entrap the d of 75,768,000 pounds raised on 4,440 acres of planted land, ac- ordlng to the department of agri- ulture and markets. The value of ZI? t $2,349,000. In 1929, farmers raised 9,360,000 pounds for canning on 2,800 acres, and sold their crop or $1,181,000. DANOE Come on out to Beekman Grange lall Thursday evening and enjoy inother old-fashioned dance lome folks. with real leaders of the bootlegging busi- ness. \It is common knowledge, and a general source of dissatisfaction with enforcement of the National Prohibition Act, that the big oper- ators of head men in the traffic are rarely caught,\ said the report. \Those who are found distilling, or transporting, or selling, are merely employes. Behind them are the heads of an organization, supplying BreTding 7^\hei7'w°iU be'de\-j ^cwital, makingJhe^plans, and 1 scribed by Dr. A. C. Dahlberg of bf Dr. J. D. Brew, of the State De- partment of Health at Albany. The important no-lesion reactor problem in the tuberculosis era- dication campaign in this State will be discussed by Dr. W. A. Ha- gan of the State Veterinary College at Ithaca on the afternoon of Jan- uary 22, while Dr. J. C. Harden- bergh of Plainsboro, New Jersey, will describe the methods used in I from adv the State Experiment Station at • o catch them calls for a much enevaT while \m:\u.\Boni\ot the M S her *n» o f enforcement organ- 1 College of Agriculture at Ithaca lzation and a U S her and more ex \ 1 perienced type of agents than have been available in the past.\ INDIVIDUATREPORTS OF COMMISSIONERS I will complete the afternoon program I wit ha talk on marketing milk and cream. On Friday, January 23, attention will be given to the matter of quali- ty in cream for ice cream and cream | cheese making and to the activi- I ties of State agencies with refer- • ence to the inspection of milk and I cream, particularly in regard to products brought in from outside the state. iuildin§ STURDY BODIES Little bodies need plenty of Jood, nourishing food to grow s'.rnng and sturdy. Give them . ir glass of orange juice each •norning and follow through with \ZO vitamin breakfast A college baseball league com- I'Osed of Mercer, Gtbrgia, Ogle- thorpe, Georgia Tech, Florida and \ Auburn, has been formed in At- DANCE Come on out to Beekman Grange Hall Thursday evening and enjoy food, with plenty of milk.' ano ther old-fashioned dance with Here is a combination they llom e lolk s adv. will thrive on because it sup- — plies an abundance of vita-; _^_^^__. mins and minerals as well as protein and carbohydrates. \ZO\ is composed of crisp, crunchy morsels of wheat and barley enriched by Savita yeast extract. Package 15c. A Battle Creek Sanitarium Health Food Myers & Belden Batteries Rentals and Charging Rex Service Garage Ccr. So. PlaW & Elizabeth Sts. Tel 1196 WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. Here are the individual views of members of the Wickersham com- mission: Newton D. Baker Newton D. Baker, of Cleveland, Secretary of War in the Wilson cabinet. The full text of Ml'. Baker's statement follows: \In my opinion the eighteenth amendment should be repealed and the whole question of policy and enforcement with regard to intoxi- cating liquors remitted to the states. forcement and which, in my opin- ion, can be modified only slightly by improvements in administra- tion, tend to undermine not only respect for law but more fundamen- tal conceptions of personal integ- rity and decency. For these rea- sons, I am one of the members of the commission who favor an im- mediate attempt at change. As I still hope that federal regulation of the liquor traffic may prove more effective than that of the states, I favor revision of the amendment rather than its repeal.\ William S. Kenyon William S. Kenyon, of Iowa\ judge of the Eighth District, Unit- ed States Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Kenyon favored a further trial of the dry laws and if they were demonstrated a fiailuije, a modification of the E ighteenth Amendment and placing the power In congress to deal fully with the subject. \In the meantime, the feeling of the people on the subject should be registered on repeal of the Eight- eenth Amendment in the manner suggested herein,\ he said. His plan for a referendum for the proposal of an amendment to the constitution to repeal the Eight eenth Amendment and the provi- sion by congress that it be ratified by state conventions to which dele- gates would be elected. Judge Kenyon argued that prohi- bition Bad never had a fair trial. He enumerated as reasons, that en- forcement first was in the hands of the treasury, \skilled in finance but not in law enforcement;\ the part politics played before enforce- ment bureau appointments were put under civil service, and cor- ruption which he said permitted speakeasies to operate 'and other traffic in liquor. with industrial alcohol and smug- gling. Breaking up the operation of stills, the manufacture of home brew, beer and wine, and their dis- tribution, he said, would require \many thousands of enforcement officers.\ Frank J. Locscli Frank J. Loesch, prominent Chi- cago attorney. Loesch urged revision but not re- peal of the eighteenth amendment. Loesch said a \strong reason\ why he favored immediate steps toward revision was in order to de- stroy \the murderous, criminal or- ganizations flourishing over the seek a national enforced gpneral total abstinence. \Federal control of what had be- come a nation-wide traffic, and abolition of the saloon are great steps forward which should be maintained. - * \It requires an unwarranted lack of faith in American political in- genuity to assume that no such forms of control may be worked out. Mr. Anderson has proposed a well thought out plan, based on study of systems of liquor control and their operation. His plan de- serves careful consideration as to the best and most complete which has been brought to our attention. ditions may well be the next for- ward step.\ country upon the enormous profits T n i s w some like plan for adapt- made in bootleg liquor traffic.\ | ing national contool t0 Iocal oon . The attorney said gangsters had grown audacious because of then- long immunity from prosecution and did not hesitate to seek to make bargains with law enforcing officers, or even with judges. I \Those organizations of murder- ers and arch criminals can only be Henry W. Anderson Henry W. Anderson of Richmond Va. Anderson, in urging revision of the Eighteenth Amendment to per- profits are taken from liquor them.\ he said. \So long as the eighteenth amendment remains in its present rigid form the nations, the states, the municipalities, the individual citizen are helpless to get out of reach of their poisonous breaths and slimy tentacles. \If not soon crushed those crim- inal organizations may become as they are now seeking to become, super-governments and so beyond the reach of the ordinary processes of law,\ George W. Wickcrsham George W. Wickersham, chairman of the commission and former at- torney general. He said: \I have signed the re- not concur in the view that the existing system be given a further trial. He said the abolition of the sa- loon was the greatest step ever taken in this country looking to control of liquor but that \we are in grave danger of losing all that has been gained.\ The Virginian added that the effort to make all the people total abstainers, ran counter to funda- mental social and economic prin- ciples that \are beyond the control of government.\ \The fruitless efforts at enforce\- ment are creating public disregard not only for this law but for all port of the commission, although, | laws '\ ne sald - \Public corruption as is probably inevitable when' through the purchase of official (eleven people of different anteced- ents and temperaments endeavor to agree upon a' contentious subject, it protection for this illegal traffic is widespread and notorious.\ Anderson said that the enor- is more or less of a compromise of mo«s revenues, \estimated at from varying opinions. 1! * \' two to three billion dollars per an- \I can not believe that an ex- num,\ gave criminals weapons periment of such far reaching and which enabled them not only to momentous consequence as this of continue their business but to or- Public sentiment against the laws naWonal prohibItlon should be i ganlze and develop .. othe r Unes ot had been stimulated, he said, by i abandcmed af ter ,. eve n years Cl£ | criminal activity to an extent which abuses of search and seizure P«H such imperfect enforcement and \ threatens social and economic se- cesses and the entrapment of wit cesses and the entrapment of wit- nesses. Present methods, he argued, would tend to alleviate some of this irritation. In giving his views on the plan on]y Qf reoJ , ganization ' ourity.\ j and to promote the doctrine of temperance the possibility for na- tionwide prohibition would be rend ercd a reasonable actuality. \Mr. Anderson has presented in his statement a plan for control under the proposed revision of the amendment, which is the result of careful and scientific thought and seems to meet the necessities of the situation more adequately than any other that has been so far suggested. ' ' \Though the Eighteenth Amend- ment has not produced all that some may have dreamed it might, yet the fact should not be over- looked that it has marked a long step forward. It is now time to LEADING NEWSPAPERS ONREPORT (Continued from Page 1! on Congress and upon the country of the Wickersham pronouncement, intended by a high-minded presid- ent to be a guide and counsellor, can be only a matter of specula- tion. Congress cannot fall to read, however, that at heart the over- take the \next step \in toe same di- i whelming majority are convinced rection. To stand still now would \ aMt - tlle P resen t ri S° ro \ s ^ stem te mean final loss of all that has been j unacceptable and must be modified, so far gained.\ Judge Paul J. McCormick Baltimore Sun—Taking the re- port as a whole, the public is not Judge Paul J. McCormick, of Los i™\- as * *\\\'• \\f ' '\\ \ \ \' „„•„]„„ TT« ™i,i. vel 'y far from the sorting place. Angeles. Ha said: \The outstanding avhievement of the Eighteenth amendment has been the abolition of the legalized open saloon in the United States. Social and economic benefits to the people have resulted and it is this proven gain in our social organ- ization that has justified the ex- periment of national prohibition. \I am unable to find that there has been any further general moral improvement shown. It has been so clearly -established that contempor- aneously with national prohibition there has been developed such a widespread spirit of lawlessness, hypocrisy and unprecedented dis- respect for authority that in fan*-! The Kansas City Star—\The re- port of the president's law enforce ment commission has settled noth- ing.\ . , Madison (Wis.) Capital Times — \Three blind men examined an e!:- phant, and each came back with different report. Eleven persons on 111 Wickersham commission exaroin |ed a camel and each came back wit ha different report. \The report of the throe men on the elephant cost the public noth- ing. The report of the eleven on the camel cost the public $500,000.\ \The moral is that the only thing can agree on is the tremendous we ca ngree e t ness and candor it must be stated increase in cos t of disagreement.\ that in the final analysis of con-i ditions now, no other national, moral improvement can be credit- The Galvesto n, Tex.. News —\An call to action jmpee ed to prohibition. Nevertheless, the Priends o f prohibition will be mak- gain should not te jeopardized un- ing a erave mistake if they are til it has bten demonstrated after lulled into Eecui . it y by the majority • the fairest possible trial that the repor t which, while nominally fa- experiment is completed and has i vora bi e to the dry cause, is so vi- proven to be a failure. tiated by individual reservations as \The evidence has raised the, to be practically meaningless. Only doubt in my mind as to whether Uiree o f ^ e eleven commissioners the enforeeability of this law has show in {heir individual reports 1 ' been conclusively determined. : ' real confidence in the enforce- \My study of the systems of li- • ability of prohibition as now con- quor control in other countries ani stituted.\ of plans that have been submitted the of the earlier period. The older; under such conditions, he said, and generation very largely has for-j the situation demanded some de- gotten and the young never knew \ finite and constructive relief. 'Confidence in the integrity and gofcfcen ^ the young neycr for government control advanced the eyU Qf the sa]oon anfl fche ^ Oonfidence ln the integrity a by Colonel Anderson, Kenyon said rod}ng influence on politicS i totll I capacity of government is shaken,\ it reflected in part the Bratt Sys it reflected in part the Bratt Sys- tern of Sweden, and was \based in part on a paternalism which would be rather odious to citizens ol this of the ponents of the prohibition change is made. William I. Grubb iWlliam I. Grubb, of Birming- that the licensed sajoon never again be restored. Tt is because I see no | the Up the Chimney Is that where your coal goes Call for one of our Heating Engineers Exclusive Plattsbureh Retailerr of D. & H. Coal. PHONES 262 - 263 \If for practical reasons, imme- diate repeal be thought unattain- able, a submission of the amend- ment suggested in the report of the commission would test the present sentiment of the country and, if amendment were adopted, would accomplish the double result of re- moving an arbitrary and inflexible police regulation from the constitu- tion, where it seems to me it should never have been put, and of giving Congress the power to adapt fed- eral legislation o nthe subject, from time to time, to the realities of the situation as they may develop. \I have signed the report of the commission because it is a fair find- ing of the facts disclosed to us by such evidence as was available, and j because it is clear that so long as. repair the mistakes j The country is growing restive) to the commission to supplant pres- William Allen White, in the Em- ent conditions in the United States poria, Kane., Gazette—The Wicker- leaves me in doubt as to whether sham report is a breakdown of the any of them would be adaptable to theory that there is political wis- our diversified, populous and ex- dom in experts, tensive nation or to the hetsro-; \To Wickersham means to go generous aspect of its people. The around and around honestly, ear- plan developed by Mr. Anderson nestly. intelligently and get no and presented in his statement where.\ seems to me to be the best, and if \Governments and people are Jed further trial prohibition is not en- and educated by leaders with defi- fcrceable I Should favor ear j-us nite convictions, not by inquiring consideration of this system. I be- gruops with many ideas, lieve that the experience in one of \WickerEhaming is not pussy- the states of the dispensary sys- footing. It is not ducking or dodg- tem has demonstrated the insuffi- ing but it i sa word which might ciency of such a solution as a na- well denote the futility of counsel, strategy and pure logic before a It public crisis.\ and national, of the organized he said. \It is no time for tamper- liquor interests. But the tradition ing with this problem. A definite of that rotteness still lingers, even, solution is demanded.\ Kenneth Mackintosh ^ ,. _..,. Kenneth Mackintosh, former fully studied,\ however if any ButetanMaUy aU o f whom assert OWef Just ice of the state of Wash- op-, law, must ington. 1 He said: escape \It is not to be wondered at ham, Federal Judge of the North-' m i( . g r€tum ^ any of the prac . that £ailure marked the first years ticable alternatives to prohibition, • of the effort to enforce the Eight- ern District of Alabama. | \My reasons for thinking that tha( . j unJte with my c(fll e agu es eenth Amendment by inefficient prohibition under the amendment in agreement that the Eighteenth and violent means, with an inex- is entitled to a further trial are Amendment must not be repealed perienced personnel suffering from two fold,\ he said. \The first is an{J i diflel . in g ^th some of them, I political and other interference and that it is an experiment which has haye ^^ forced t Q 0OncIude that by at t em pting to exceed the scope not been completed, and has not a further trial shou]d te made of - Qf practical fed e ral authority, yet had a fair trial, and the sec- fche enforceabiuty o £ the Bighteentli' \Since the introduction of civil °\i iSfch ^ . n ° , Sat . iSfaCtOry 1 .! Ub : 'Amendment under the present or- service and especially since ths ganization, with the help of the transfer of enforcement to the de- recommended improvements. * * \ partment of justice and the plac- stitute for it has been presented or shown to exist.\ He agreed that law enforcement \I think that if a proposed amend ing of it under the direction of in- ment to the constitution simply re-. telligeiit and earnest officials, sub- or satisfactory \and do not war- aI i the Eightee nth Amendment' stantial progress has been made in vanf ire /«nnnniianr>a iinlooc o ' , were to be passed by the requisite some respects. majorities in both houses of con-1 \And while the majority of this rant its continuance unless a change is probable within a reason- able time.\ |gress and submitted to the states, commission think that even with \Improvement in the machinery!,^ fee ^wered by conventions further increase and raising of one will riot accomplish satis-, oa ,, ed £o r the purpose in each state _ standal . ds in personnel and added factory enforcement,\ he said. \It| th e delegates to te chosen m an equipment reasonable satisfactory will require also a favorable change l fl year and the conventions t0 be enforcement can not be attained in in the attitude of the public to- L, d m ft yeM whfin there is n o V iew of the opposition thereto in ^TJ^^^ltTt^jTll !Presidential election, we should the populous centers of the coun- have intelligent discussions of the try, and that the Eighteenth Amend question and a result which would ment therefore can not become na- reflect the sober informed and de- ' tionally effective, yet those hold- liberate opinion of the people. Such] ing this view recognize that some tional institution. \Absolute repeal is unwise. would in my opinion reopen the \We can not Wickersham oui- saloon. This would be a backward wives out of this situation.\ step that I hope will never be taken by the United Statas. The open St. Louis Pest-Dispatch - \To saloon is the greatest enemy of give Congress control over the li- temperance and has been a chief wor business would be to make.it cause of much political corruption »• °°<*pit and explunge from our throughout the country in the past. P«»lic life every other considers These conditions should never be ' :lon ' revived. tion * * It is my belief that a solu- of this vexatious problem would be accelerated by ascertain- ing the majority sentiment of our Denver— \The food of Wickersham reports to tl of policy. This public attitude has never been upon the prohibition^ a national «* compromise document hibition enforcement efforts, yet sential. So long as the majority of 'the people do not observe it, the law is powerless to enforce it.\ * * '•' \So long as improvement con- tinues, the experiment cannot be considered completed, and should not be abandoned.\ Monte M. Lcmann Monte M. Lemann, a prominent the constitution and law remain as; New Orleans attorney. they now are, the recommendations Lemann, who did not sign the re- of the report should be carried out port, said he saw no alternative but | to aid the executive, charged with the duty of enforcement. \The efforts now being made to repeal of the amenment. But, he added, since he saw no 'hope of repeal by constitutional UILDING\ MATERIAL enforce the law are sincere and in- j me thods, \it seems to me to be the ' telligent and aided and supplement- du t y o j congress to make reason- ed, as recommended in the report,' ab i e efforts to enforce it, however a higher degree of effectiveness will g rave the doubts as to ultimate be certain to follow, but in my op- SUC cess.\ inion the problem is insoluble so | He concurred in recommendations long as it is permitted to require a f or increase of personnel in the nation-wide federal enforcement of various branches of enforcement. a police regulation, at variance Le ma nn held, also, that consist- with the settled habits and beliefs enC e demanded that fruit juices I of so large a part of our peo- and cldel . ^ put upon the same pies.\ basis as intoxicating liquors, and Ada L. Comstock | that several o t. ner changes should Ada L. Comstock, president of be made with rega j. d to mdust rial Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass. a i cohol and medicinal liquor. The full text of Miss Comstock's] | He found evils attached to fed- has been eral dispensary systems and pro- brought before the commission has | posed that if a government control convinced me that adequate en-; experiment were to be made it forcement of the eighteenth amend- : should be done by the individual ment and the national prohibition states rather than the federal gov- act is impossible without the sup- ernment. He said enforcement \is port of a much larger proportion of' and always has been inadequate\ our population than it now com- but that enforcement machinery mands. Moreover, the conditions might without disproportionate ex- which exist today in respect to en- pense be made adequate to cope statement follows: \The material which a procedure might remove the issue from party politics.\ Roscoe Found Roscoe Pound, Dean of Harvard Law School since 1916. He said: \As I interpret the evidence be- fore us, it established certain de- 'time must elapse before any re- vision of the amendment can take place and agree that during such time every effort should be made to secure such enforcement as is pos- sible. * If a general public senti- finite economic and social gains ment can be aroused throughout following national prohibition. But it established quite as clearly that these gains have come from clos- ing saloons rather than from the more ambitious program of com- plete and universal total abstin- ence to be enforced concurrently by national. and state. Thus the task is to conserve the gains while finding out how to eliminate the the nation for prohibition the law can be enforced as well as any other police law. This is a \con- summation devoutedly to be wish- ed\ and worked for. But if unat- tainable, nullification can not bs tolerated, we are to continue to have constitutional government. Such a condition means not govern ment but chaos. J.LH* fu^ d^.u^ ^» -•\ ~~\ tn , con tinuance. directly expressed through legal ULhc \ \'\ ; processes. It could be learned by! . . . direct submission of the repeal of tive evidence that his soil is lack- tr<3 Eighteenth Amendment thru ing in some of the elements of plant state conventions and under Ar-jfood. To obtain such evidence a tide V of the constitution. I favor I fruit grower should carry on a fer- and recommend such action. The tilizer experiment.\ Dr. Hedrick submission processes should be ar-1 then outlines a plan for such an ranged and timed so as to avoid ( experiment, and also describes,the, confusing the prohibition question i results of fertilizer tests carried on with party or other issues or cam- paigns.\ at the station. GIVES INFORMATION ON In another and more recent pub- j lication designated as Bulletin 518, I Dr. Hedrick summarizes twenty-five (years of testing of fertilizers in the APPLE FERTILIZERS statlon orchard in which he shows \ l 'that the fertilizers added to. this orchard gave little or no benefit in I increased yields or tree growth. GENEVA, N. Y., Jan. 20.—Sug- gesting that every fruit grower should make his own fertilizer test] eHre again, however, he points out that the same results would' not abuses and bad results which havs 1 \If such further effort is not developed in the past decade. * * * \ \ •* \Whiie making enforcement as effective as we may, so long as the amendment as it is remains the supreme law of the land, we should be at work to enable the funda- mental difficulties to be reached. productive of reasonable enforce- ment and observance and private and state cooperation, the revision of the Eighteenth Amendment should take the form of making it more flexible so that there can rest in the congress the power to meet changing conditions and differing This, it seems clear, can only be; situations in different localities, done by a revision of the amend- ment. It can be done only by so redrawing the amendment as, on the one hand, to preserve federal control and a chock upon bring- ing back of the saloon anywhere, and, on the other hand, allow of an effective control adapted to local conditions in places where, as things are at least, it is futile to '•• '' • The bartender has given place to the bootlegger, and the latter, with more cunning and cash than the former had, must not be allowed to succeed by reason of so- ciety confining itself to but one in- flexible way to thwart him. If the constitution made it 'pornible to deprive the bootlegger of his profits . . i Hutu iaie atxiLiv ICDLULS* WUUIU iiub to determine whether or not his follQ w ^ other orchard will respond to fertilizer . .. _,._ orchard will respond applications, Dr. U. P. Hedrick, Di- rector of the State Experiment Sta- tion here and for many years in charge of the Station fruit work, gives directions for laying out such tssts in a Station circular which may be obtained upon request. \If the trees are vigorous, are bearing well, and are making t>. fair amount of new wood each sea- son, they need no additional plant fooii,\ says Dr. Hedrick, \but if the trees are not in a healthful con dition, ths logical thing to do is to lock first to ihc drainage and tillage of the orchard and to the more expensive and less certain fertilizers afterward.\ Di'M-kibcs Station Tects \As a ln.st resnrt, lurtilizers ougfit hot to be used to rejuvenate treci unless the ownor has obtained po'i- fof the State. Just recently, H. B. Tukey, pomo- logist at the Experiment Station and at one time in charge of the fruit investigations conducted by the Station in the Hudson River' Valley, has issued a report on fer- • tilizer experiments with apples hVi the Hudson Valley. This report, to- gether with the bulletin by Dr. Hed rick can be had free of charge upon request to the station. SARATOGA SPRINGS, <#)—\Sa ratogo Springs—king of resorts— queen of Spas\ was adjudged the best of 1.500 slogans for that city '•\ submitted to a chamber of com- • mevee contest committee. The orl- \\ ginator was Lieut. William Craw- ford Eddy, U. S. N., son of the citi's mayor, William D. Eddy. SE AI- s outil his >und edly had ma- t to re- • le- Tes- luiry oeen ;heir an High, horn the :ourt hur- with der- -> be if ter the o be been, icide 5. how bout , on nors but oubt e to au- sent in- tho of cern girls I, as said •ders fork, the nett. rney iding •ding what ilude re- solu- nilar itors and •lday ssib- [axi- ,ther. were
