Many Evils
Of Prohibition
Evident; Maddox
Increase in Number of
Arrests Is Shown by
National Statistics
By WILLIAM P. MADDOX
Mundus vult decipi—the world
loves to be deceived.
Stark and vivid is this truth and
nowhere is it more strikingly mani
fested than in this present regime
of unprohibiting prohibition. For
more than eight years the nation
has submitted itself to a great social
experiment, trying to achieve sob
riety and temperance through the
most drastic restrictive measures
which could be conceived.
Each successive year we have been
tc.ld by its ardent advocates that
these twelve months would show a
marked improvement in enforce
ment. These sincere and optimistic
jnophecies have been belied upon
each occasion by the facts. Prohibi
tion Commissioner Doran reports
that 65,000 persons were arrested
in 1927 charged with violation of
the national prohibition act, an in
crease of 1000 over the previous
year. A report for the country’s
thirteen largest cities shows that
245.000 wore arrested for drunken
ness in 1925, as compared with only
92.000 in 1920, the first year of pro
hibition. And we are now drawing
$28,000,000 a year from the national
treasury in the most Courageous, the
most frantic and apparently tho most
futile effort to enforce any law
which has ever appeared upon our
statute books.
Evidence Everywhere
Facts> though indisputable, may
nevertheless not be so forcibly im
pressive as one’s personal experi
ence. One looks around—in homes,
in hotels, on trains, in restaurants,
on. tlie streets, in colleges—every
v here one sees evidence. There is
probably not a community in the
country where those familiar with
the locality and in search of drink,
cannot get it. The stuff is bad,
much of it a]most poijonou^ and
this increases the evil, because peo
ple insist upon imbibing it. The
ginger ale industry has gone ahead
bj leaps and bounds, not because it
is being used as a substitute for al
cohol but because it is necessary to
palliate the taste of bad gin. The
law is not regarded as other laws;
those who violate it are not looked
upon as criminals. The public con
dones infractions; it enjoys them.
Iieeently on a Southern Pacific pas
senger train, men were pouring gin
into their ginger ales ordered in the
cafe car and no one paid any atten
tion, except some who glanced some
what enviously because the day was
hot.
People Avoid Facts
But are these things publicly ac
knowledged? No, decidedly no, and
there lies the significance of the
Latin dictum. These things are done
and seen in private but must not
be talkod about in public. Editors,
statesmen, politicians, judges, all
those in public authority, scrupul
ously avoid facing the facts. Every
state in the union lias its pious edi
torials written by those who join in
a drink whenever possible; the na
tional congress contains scores of
dry-voting members who have tlicir
own supplies aud these facts are at
tested, always in private, by those
familiar with Washington. If the :
personal pronoun may be excused,
I have seen federal judges take their
drinks in clubs one night and sen
tence prohibition violators to jail the
next. As a newspaper man, I have j
seen police stations where good
eli inks call be secured. These eon-j
ditions are not peculiar to the east, !
where I observed them, but^ accord- j
ing to those who should know, are
to be found in this state also. The
law is breeding us a nation of rank
hypocrites. If every man and wo
man in Oregon who has ever broken
the prohibition acts would acknow- i
ledge that fact, if the masks could
be torn from their faces and the do- j
ception exposed, the general con-,
steniation in seeing distinguished!
and prominent men everywhere in
such guise of naked truth would be
unbelieveable. But no, discretion is
urged upon them, and the law is thus
paid a full and generous quota of lip
service.
Here is a gigantic fraud being
perpetrated upon the American peo
ple and it$ evil face grows more
twisted and sinister each year. Its
high priests are editors and states
men, who know the truth and are
afraid to print it; ministers of the
gospel, who probably are sincerely
unaware of reality and live in their
private voids; club and church wo
men who don’t know what their hus
bands and sons are doing half the
time; and big business men, always
assured of their own cocktails, but
who believe it gives them sober
workmen and more dollars.
And they are wrong who hold that
opponents of prohibition are slaves
of the liquor traffic, personally dip
somaniac, conspiring to ruin the
youtlnof the land in immorality and
debauchery. The truth is that the
present regime comes closer to doing
this. Nor do these opponents prefer
the open saloon. We are not asking
for that back. There are other, san
er, more reasonable and practically
more successful alternatives, and
some of these will be discussed here
next week.
Roof of New Men’s
Hall Near Completion
Eight weeks ago today the first
concrete was poured into the forms
of the Oregon men’s new dormitory.
The roof is now being constructed
over the huge concrete structure.
Monday the asbestos shingles will
be put on.
According to Superintendent
Ratty, brick work will begin within
a few days. The first truckload of
facing stone to be used with the
brick at windows and corners ar
rived Thursday evening. About 52
yards of concrete remain to bo
poured out of a total of several
thousand, and this is for a floor
on the north wing and for pipe tun
nels in the basement. The pouring
job almost completed, the biggest
worry is over. Every effort to speed
up this part of the contracts was
made and continuous shifts were run
during a great deal of the time. A
crew of 75 men for the three shifts,
kept up a continuous stream of con
crete from the long, swinging trough
on parts of the structure so that no
’aulkkffpl.Sj aods
thus milch time was saved.
The plumbing job, sublet to A. L.
Williamson, is proceeding during
other operations, and will probably
be much speeded up, especially in
the kitchen wing, by time of com
pletion of the concrete pouring.
Household Arts Group
Will Serve Tea Today
The combined efforts of the cook
ing classes under the direction of
Miss Lilian Tingle, the sowing class
es headed, by Miss Margaret Daigh,
and the homo planning classes head
ed by Mrs. Dorothy Fish, will be
put forth to make the household arts
tea this afternoon a success.
From 2:30 to 5:30 tea and wafers,
made by the cooking classes, will bo
served to the visiting mothers on
the campus. An exhibition of the
ejpthes made by the sewing classes
will bo shown during this time in a
room that has been specially decor
ated for the purpose. The decorat
ing work lias been done by the home
planning classes, who have made
Miss Tingle’s office into a charming
room with Japanese blue as the pre
dominating color. New drapes have
been made. The furniture has been
repainted and even the upholstering
has been redone for the occasion.
The department has issued an in
vitation to all of the students and
their mothers, and to the faculty.
Aggie Men Engage in
Log Bucking Contest
OBEQON STATE COLLEGE, Cor
vallis, May 11—(PIP)—Four for
estry students took part in a log
bucking contest at a Forum luncheon
and before the Portland chamber of
commerce. The boys were dressed
in regulation lumbermen’s clothes
and sawed Douglas fir logs. None
of the contestants was less than six
feet in height, and they ranged in
weight from 190 to 220 pounds.
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Play Chosen by
Drama Students
‘Alice in Wonderland’ To
Be Given This Term
“Alice in Wonderland,” written
by Lewis Carrol, has been selected
tor presentation by the speaking
voice class of the drama department.
The date of presentation has not
been decided, bnt the play will prob
ably be given the latter part of this
term at Guild theatre.
This will be the second undertak
ing of the beginning class in drama,
for the past year. “Spoon River
Anthology,” by Edgar Lee Masters,
was given last term.
Harriet Hawkins, an experienced
student in the department, is taking
(barge of the class and its produc
tion, since Miss Wilbur, drama di
rector, will be busy with rehearsals
and plans for the commencement
play, “Midsummer Night’s Dream,”
which is to be given June S on the
mill race.
Miss Wilbur will supervise the
direction of “Alice in Wonderland,”
with Miss Hawkins carrying out the
rehearsals and class work.
She has chosen Mrs. Burton Harri
son’s dramatization of the play.
During Miss Wilbur’s third year at
Cornell, she staged “Alice in Won
derland” as the junior class play.
Several times she has used her own
interpretation of the play, but due
to the amount of work to bo done
and the short time that is left to do
it, Miss Wilbur selected Mrs. Harri
son’s dramatization.
Some time ago the play was sold
to an American man for '$75 000 af
ter the English author had refused
a $70,000 offer from some museum.
Gamma Alpha Chi Elects:
Mary Catherine Johnson
Ina Tremblay
Edith Lake
Margaret Underwood.
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Japanese Dolls Visit
C.ampus; Messengers
Of Eastern Goodwill
How do you do dear college folk,
How do you do we say;
How would you like to skip your
class
And play with us today?
The Japanese dolls which visited
us recently might have expressed
the above, had not the manufactur
ers forgotten and closed their
mouths in a silence which is to last
forever. However, in spite of this j
drawback, these charming dolls
brought with them a great deal of
friendship and good will from the
little Japanese children across the
seas. They were sent in recognition
of the American dolls which we
sent to Japana several years ago.
Each doll brought with her a
complete wardrobe—parasols, chests
of drawers and above all, her own
individual vanity case. The dolls
are very valuable in showing the
character dress of Japan, each wear
ing the traditional three kimonas
and accessories.
This is all very interesting, but
rather one-sided as not a single rep
resentative of the masculine element
made appearance.
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Mrs. Hugh T. Mitchelmore, Ashland;
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Play in Recital
Piano Professor To Present
Program Monday
Mrs. Jano Tliacher, professor of
music at the University, is giving a
piano recital Monday evening, May
14, in the school of music auditor
ium, at 8:15 o’clock. Mrs. Tliacher,
who is a pianist of exceptional abil
ity, studied in Vienna with the re
nowned Polish instructor, Lesehet
izky, who also taught Paderewski,
Friedman and Bloomfield Zeisler.
The program presented Monday
night is the same program that Mrs.
Thacher will present at Cornell Uni
versity in New York, June 5.
The program is:
Pastorale . Scarlatti
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Butterflies . Couperin
Rigaudon .Raff (an old dance) '
The Nightingale . Liszt
Funerailles . Liszt
(upon the occasion
of Chopin’s death)
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The White Peacock-.-Charles Griffes ’
Viennese Dance.... Friedman-Gaetner ]
Reflections in the water.Debussy ]
Cubana .Manuel de Falla
Etude . Glazounow |
Two Preludes . Chopin
Nocturne in G Major. Chopin
Etude Op. 25-No. 7. Chopin
Etude Op. 10-No. 12. Chopin
Scherzo in C Sharp Minor.... Chopin
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