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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1920)
BIG INCREASE IN PAPER MONEY UNCLE SAM AS A HUNTER AND TRAPPER World’s Supply Is Seven Times What It Was in 1914 . FIGURES ARE ILLUMINATING Statistics G ive an Idea o f Inflation of W o rld ’s C u rre n c y — C en tra l P ow ers W o rst O ff— Increase M ostly in B eligerent Countries. The government, In aid o f the farmers who suffer greatly from Hit* depredations o f wild unlinuhi that destroy (crops and live stock, now employs between 400 and 500 professional hunters und trappers. One o f them is her« shown with his month's catch in Idaho. f " .................................. ................ .. Clever Tricks of Bootleggers _________ # Maine Variety Have Many Dodges to Fool the Federal Agents. FOUNTAIN SYRINGES USED "W a lk in g Speakeasies” A re the H a r d est to Catch— L iq u o r Is Cached in O dd Places by Itin era n t Venders. Buffalo, N. Y.— John M. Evans, who says he has had years o f experience In enforcing the prohibitory laws in the state o f Maine, stopped off in Buffalo, says the Courier of that city, for a few hours and related some Interesting methods of conducting the liquor business under strict enforce ment. Mr. Evans told o f many ways of handling “ wet” goods used by “ boot leggers,” hut not one of the hundreds with whom lie lias come In contact ever used n bootleg ns n depository fo r his stock in trade. "W h ile the name still sticks to In dividuals who defy the liquor law out side o f regular saloons and kitchen barrooms, the bootleg full o f booze censed to be when the high boots with ¡loose tops went out of style. W as Ea sy to Get Booze. "Up to the time o f the passage of the Webb law by tile federal govern ment a few years ngo,” Mr. Evans sakl, “ providing for the labelling of all ‘wet’ goods handled by express companies and other common carriers, it Was a comparatively easy matter to gel a plentiful supply o f liquor from Boston wholesalers, and even after that most of tlie bootleggers mnnnged Ito smuggle in by water or nutomoblle, (and ttiere were some who concocted a mixture out o f alcohol, water, burnt |sugur and a dasli of tabasco, which it hey passed off on many an unsuspect in g victim. "T lie hardest bird we ever had to iconteml with was putting out booze for years. W e knew he was doing !t, ■but we could not get the goods on him, land It was a long time before we got ¡him, even after we were wise to his ¡system. Tills was his system : i “ At night lie would load his over coat up with pints, half-pints and oc casionally n quart. These he would plant, one in a pile of clapboards In a lumber yard, another In n junk pile and still another under n doorstep or In a rubbish barrel in an nlley. The next day his customers would come to him, pay him for their purchase, and he would direct them to the near est plant. “ We began to be suspicious o f him (after a woman reported seeing a man (remove a bottle from the muzzle of ¡one o f the two historic cannon thnt (guard the Soldiers' monument. Final- fly we trailed him at night, watched ¡ldin sow his crop, hnrvested It and Then placed him under nrrest. Strangers “ N ot W an ted.” "W e were unable to get a conviction against him, although the fellow was ¡not working and hail no visible means ¡of support. It was not until we caught him napping with a couple o f stool ; pigeons that we dually convicted him. In order for the system to work out well the bootlegger must be well ae- j — | AND HE LOOKS HAPPY $ * t * , J i J * J * J » — Berlin. — Herman textbooks hereafter will lie minus the for- merly Inevitable pictures o f the kaiser and his predecessors on the Prussian throne, as a result o f an order by the minister of education, who also rules out all anecdotes of the Hohensollerns “ which might serve only to glorl- fy the dynssty and foster the inonarchistlc Idea In the minds o f the pupils." ♦ • * • * * ................................. This religious fanatic o f India has J an Idea that by making himself uncom • fortable in this world he w ill have l things soft In the next. Ills sent Is a * I bonrd dotted with spikes upon which ! he has sentenced himself to stay * awhile, partly as a penance, purity to , ! convince the l>elievers thnt a holy man J Is Insensible to the things that are < extremely painful to the average per J son. lie must have convinced himself # ns well, for even a stoic would balk J at smiling In such an U 'intertable 0 place. __ * * t J quainted with his customers and have their conddence in n large degree. “ Another popular method o f dis pensing the hard stuff was through a couple o f fountain syringes, suspend ed from the shoulders one In front and one on the back. They would dll a flask or serve by the drink as desired. “ When things begin to get too hot for the pocket peddlers,” Mr. Evans continued, “ they solicit business and j dll each order one at a time by taking the customers’ money, going to the hide and returning with the goods. I doubt If there Is sufficient trust In one’s fellow man for this system to work out successfully in a city the size o f Buffalo. "W e have picked up men with a considerable stock o f booze on their persons while to nil appearances It did not seem possible thnt the indi vidual could have more than a dusk or so. “ In the days before the form-dttlng clothes, when long coats and peg-top trousers were In style, many a suit was tailored with huge pockets In the trousers, and sometimes Inside the coat under the arms. “ The blind tiger, so popular In the South, was never used much in Mnlne. Its only recommendation is thnt It o f fers more or less safety In selling to strangers. You put your money through n small opening In a wall and out through the opening comes a drink. Beer W as T o o B u lk y. "The methods used by saloon keep ers to keep out o f the clutches o f the law were almost os numerous ns those o f bootlegging. The drst step o f the saloon keeper when the lid was clamped down was to eliminate beer and ale all together, as it was too bulky to handle In the event o f a raid. In those days near-beer was a much despised and little known article In Maine. But when the district at torney haled all snloon keepers who possessed a United Stntes license be fore the grand Jury and fnttened the county’s treasury by about $500 a head, they began to take more kindly to near-beer, as it proved an alibi for the federal tax. “ In dry spells some saloons would sell only by the bottle to those they knew very well, while others would \ German Textbooks Bar j * Kaiser’s Whole Family ; * J ---- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- %%%««««%%%«%%%«%%«%«%^ t j Engineer Refused \ to Spoil This ‘‘Lie” \ 0 J 0 \ 0 J 1 J J , J 0 \ 0 *0 0 J J t J 0 Pinehurst, N. C.— The defer- ence paid to golf here is itnpres- sive. Miss M etcalf Keating o f the Agawam Hunt club, hooked her drive to the railroad tracks near the club house just as a trnln was coming along. The engineer, leaning out o f the cab window, saw the ball come to rest between the rails, saw it perch itself upon an ideal but precarious tee in the form o f a tiny pile o f cinders, grasped the situation and the airbrake control at the same time and brought the train to a sudden stop. The passengers may have been slightly shaken up in the proc- ess, but Miss K eating’s lie was not disturbed. The train waited until a good recovery shot had been played and then resumed its Journey northward to less considerate climes. * * ‘ J « J 0 J • \ * \ * 0 J 0 J * J • 0 * # J 0 New Y'ork.— The world’s paper mon ey Is now seven times the amount It was in 1914, while the gold supply, back o f the paper, has increased less Ilian one-half In the five years since the war started. This comparison conveys a faint idea o f the inflation of the world’s currency, which econo mists reckon as one o f the chief caus es of skyrocketing prices and high cost o f living. The 700 per cent Jump In pnper money, too, Is exclusive o f the issues of currency by the bolshevlst govern ment o f Russia, which has kept the printing presses turning out shlnplas- ters by the bale. The situation Is brought right down to date by the sta tistical department of the National City bank o f New York, which has just issued world figures to the be ginning o f 1920. The tables are Il luminating. When the war started In 1914, thir ty principal countries o f the world had. In round numbers, about $7,000,- 000,000 o f paper currency. At the armistice It had Jumped to about $40,- 000,000,000, or more than five times as high. Since the armistice It has gone up to about $51,000,000,000. This is outside the $34,000,000,000 which. It Is estimated, the bolshevlst government has Industriously turned out. $2,000,000,000 More Gold Reserve. Meanwhile what was happening to the gold reserves back o f the notes In the thirty countries? In 1914 they amounted, roughly, to $5,000,000,000. They are now about $7,000,000,000. Notes have thus increased more than 700 per cent and gold less than 50 per cent. Back In 1914 the ratio o f gold re serves to outstanding notes In the thir ty countries were 70 per cent. By the time o f the armistice It had fallen to 18.4 per cent, while last Christmas time It had dropped still lower to 13.7 per cent. The allies, so the tables o f the Na tional City bank show, taken as a group at the sfart o f the war, had $3,763,000,000 o f gold and $4,900,000,- 000 o f paper. At Its finish they had $5,217,000,000 of gold and $25,000,000,- 000 o f paper, and now they have of gold $5,071,000,000 and of paper $29,- BARONESS ROMANO AVEZZANO Newlyweds Lo t in Dense a aine Woods Lenox, Mass, a story o f how Mr. and Mrs. Ailelbert I. Newton were lost in tlie northern waste o f the Maine uoods and wander ed about for lour days without shelter or fo o d was revealed In a letter received here from Mr. Newton. The Newtons were married In Exeter, N. H. Both loving the wilds, they went Into the Maine woods for their honeymoon. From a camp they started for a walk and lost their way. They were without a compass and fo l lowed n moose trail which led them away from all human habi tation. Unable to locate their camp or a cabin they passed three nights out of doors, subsisting on dried berries. Finally they came out on a stream and followed It to a hunting lodge. ment was the other way, their gold In creasing faster than their currency. The ratio rose from 44.3 per cent In 191 1 to 59.9 per cent last December. From 1914 to last December the ra tio o f gold reserve to currency notes, the tables show, fe ll in France from 62 per cent to 9.6; in Great Britain from 134 to 22.9 per cent; in Italy from 70 per cent to 7.5; In the United States from 99.6 per cent to 52.3. W hile world paper currency was In creasing seven-fold national debts, represented by bonds and other prom ises to pay, rose from $40,000,000,000 to $260,000,000,000 ; hank deposits and the use of checks and other circulat ing media made a corresponding ad vance, while meantime gold produc tion fell off from $460,000,000 a year in 1914 to $350,000.000 in 1919. The statisticians say that the most Baroness Ronmno Avezzano, the w ife o f the new Italian ambassador who recently arrived In this country, was form erly Miss Marie Jaequelln Taylor, daughter of the late Mortimer Taylor o f St. Louis, and Mrs. Fred erick Clark o f Staten Island. astonishing, not to say incomprehen sible, feature In the world's finances has been the inflation occurring In the year follow ing the armistice. U n d e r Same Nam e 1,000 Ye a rs. London.— In preparing the papers for n transfer o f the license o f the “ King and Tinker" at Enfield, search of the records showed that the place had been run under the same name as a public house fo r more than 1,000 years, making it perhaps the old est Inn in England. LOOK OUT FOR POISON IN FOOD sell only by the drink, going on the basis that liquor In a man’s system could not be produced as evidence. In the latter places the saloon keeper usually kept a pitcher full of booze talner, sign o f gas, or any evidence under the bar handy to the sink. Sev o f decomposition whatever, should be eral convictions were obtained In discarded. such cases, however. The combina T ra c e Poisonous Food. tion o f finding a whisky glass, the The department o f agriculture has odor o f liquor and the presence o f a used every possible effort nnd gone to drunk or two In the bar room being the limit o f Its legal authority to re sufficient to convince the Judge. move all dangerous foods from the “ The wiser ones would have two market by seizure under the food nnd pitchers, one on each side o f the sink, drugs act, sny the officials. Each time one full o f ammonia and one full of 000 , 000 , 000 . B otulin us Poison R esponsible fo r F a when botulinus poisoning has occurred whisky. One sweep o f the arm would The central powers— Germany, Aus talities— N o Method of P reservin g food inspectors have traee<f through dump them both Into the sink. The tria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey— the channels of commerce the batch Food Found T h a t E lim in ates odor o f the ammonia would prevent went into the war with $600,000,000 o f from which the poisonous food came Occasional Spoiled Package. the odor o f whisky to be noticeable gold and $1,200,000,000 o f paper. At nnd have used all measures under and the contents o f the sink could be the armistice they had $686,000,000 o f Washington.— Botulinus poisoning, the law to remove It from the market. analyzed only as spirits o f ammonia. gold and $12,305,0000.000 o f paper, which recently killed six In one fam Samples from all other brands put “ A ll the sqloons In the state were while now their paper has gone up to ily in New York, Is caused by eat out by the packer have been examined. tilled with ingenious ’hides,’ most of $18,771,000,000. ing spoiled food Infected with the ba Since the law authorizes seizure in which defied detection. When a ‘hide’ T o reduce It to percentages, the ra cillus botulinus, say the officials of such cases only when the foods are was discovered It was generally the tio o f gold to paper at the stnrt o f the the bureau o f chemistry, United States actually found to be decomposed or result o f some disgruntled employee war w as: Allies, 76.6 per cent; cen department o f agriculture, who have to contain poisonous Ingredients, since giving the thing away. They range tral powers, 49.7 per cent. At the ar Investigated this nnd other poisoning only an occasional package In millions in cnpnclty from ’hides’ large enough mistice the ratio w as: Allies, 20.9 cases In connection with the enforce is Infected with bacillus botulinus, to hold a half-pint close to the bar per cen t; central powers, 3.5 per cent. ment of the food and drugs act. In nnd since It Is physically possible to Itself to false cellar walls behind At the outset o f 1920 the ratio stood: the New York case death was caused open and examine but a comparatively which ten barrels might be concealed. Allies, 17.1 per ct n t; central powers, by botulinus poison in ripe olives. few o f the millions o f cans entering Most o f the saloons had large and 1.7 per cent. The olives remaining In the bottle In Interstate commerce. It Is beyond the small ’hides,’ the smaller ones being Increase in B elligerent C ountries. this case had an offensive odor. The power o f the authorities to protect filled up dally from the big one by For this rea Naturally most o f this Increase oc same condition was found In the food the public completely. the boss himself. “ Some o f the ‘hides' consist of tanks curred In tlie belligerent countries. in other cases investigated by the de son they emphasize the necessity for All spoiled food does not scrupulous care on the part of per set Inside o f hewed-out girders In the The ratio between gold and notes In partment. contain this poison, but any spoiled sons opening nnd serving foods to dis the twenty-three countries and col floor above. These were connected card anything which Is spoiled. In with a small pipe which generally onies which participated in the war food, even though the spoilage be products not obviously spoiled. If there ended In a little ‘office’ right off the fe ll from 71.3 per cent In July, 1914, slight, may contain It, nnd for this I bar. You would order a pint, the bar to 15.8 per cent In November, 1918, reason, sny the officials, all food show Is doubt In the recognition o f the odor, proper to the product, thorough cook tender would return to the ‘office,’ and to 11.2 last December. Among ing even the slightest unnatural odor, ing will remove the possibility o f dan close a door, remove a calendar from the eight principal neutrals the move- unnatural color, swelling o f the con- ger from botulism. I f spoilage Is ap the wall, behlud which was a little parent, destruction is recommended by disguised gnscock, from this he would the specialists. remove a cap and draw off the re M yste ry A b o u t It. quired amount. Other stores o f booze Nobody knows just how the bacil were kept In the tanks o f flush closets, lus botulinus gets into any particu which could be flushed from behind lar food. It has been found In arti the bar in case the searchers got too cles put up In the home by the care close and the evidence would go down ful housewife and In goods packed In the sewer. commercial establishments. It may "Some had their main ’hides,’ on be present In a few packages only o f adjoining property that would not be any lot. There Is no method, the offi covered by the search w arrant to cials say, by which the packers or which access was had by means of home canners can assure themselves secret doors and subterranean pas by casual examination before canning sages.” that the product does not contain the Beer Sold O penly. bacillus botulinus. “ What about 2.75 per cent beer?” I f the food was In all cases proper was nsked. ly sterilized and perfectly sealed, the “ Ever since 2.75 per cent beer was development o f the poison would be brewed." he replied, “ It has been on Impossible, but no method o f preserv sale openly In Maine. Fruit stores ing food has yet been found, the and small stands o f all kinds paid $25 specialists say, that eliminates the oc ter a federal license and put in a casional spoiled package. Failure to stock o f bottled beer, while the sa sterilize may not become apparent for loons sold the bottled and draught! weeks, or even months after the can- goods both. I f the saloons have a 1 | nlng of the article. I f signs o f spoil right to sell It because it Is non-in age have appeared when the can Is toxicating and If It Is non-intoxicat ' opened. It is clear warning that the ing I can't see the necessity o f carry product is no longer edible. There Is ing aa excessive tax. 1 can't see I no greater probability o f botulinus 1 what Is there to prevent soda foun- poisoning In olives than In many other 1 tains or anyone selling 2.75 beer nf-1 food products, either commercial or ! ter paying the federal tax o f $25. j domestic. Until this year It has been “ Prohibition In Maine for many j I more commonly found In string beans, years was a joke except ter occasional asparagus, and the like. It was orlglnnl- spasms o f enforcement Just before an ! ly found In sausage. It has been found election when the party In power j in cheese; it Is present sometimes figured thnt they needed votes or the j In stock food, such as moldy hay and county treasury needed money. It is Col. Thomas Tompllns recently acted as godfather at the christening of other kinds o f spoiled forage, bnt It an Interesting game to chase the evaders and I anticipate It will he seven children o f officers of the Seventh cavalry (Custer’s regiment) at Fort has never been found in the depart- even more so In the event o f nation-! Bliss, Texas. The bnhles were all named for Colonel Tompllns, who la here | ment Investigations In any kind o f 1 food that was not spoiled. seen with a few o f them. wide prohibition.” Federal Food Officials Warn Con sumers to Watch for Signs of Spoilage. RIPE OLIVES KILL SEVERAL GODFATHER TO SEVEN BABIES j