Show quor q DeLuges n All S e 0 Of N a Wide Open A f Politics to Blame BlaIne I. I for Conditions F BY N. N E. E A. A SERVICE Copyright 1921 by N. N E. E A. A Service Un United ted States theoretically dry by legislation is fl flooded oded 1 liquor To does prohibition fail to prohibit I 7 Ir I To r has as prohibition enforcement broken down 7 is is s responsible I 7 be done about it 7 tics cs is the one big single reason for the Rum Bum Deluge ery ry y and corruption aie contributing evils and causes Buti But i influence fluence mostly having nothing to do with cash graft is that hat has made enforcement a national joke pan can can buy booze anywhere in the United States good liquor liquor bottled in bond liquor out of government bonded es s an and the e Deadly product facetiously known in W Wash Wash- ush- ush i i tion he headquarters as bo bottled in inA A barn liquor l T the five tive kinds o of liquor ad dc liquor From Bahama al anada da Mexico and Cuba d d Legally Legally Imported Jm Great Britain Held Held In warehouses warehouses warehouse ne liquor liquor Illicitly Illicitly distilled rural districts id dr d' d liquor liquor Alcohol Alcohol and colter col col- ter made by cellar chem chem- ion enforcement last year t federal deral government appropriation for the pres pres- ending June 30 1922 Is 7 7 states tates counties and cities t immense sums in addition enforce the law spite o of this tremendous r the lack o of money money lack lack o of it efficient e enforcement or- or orth th that t Is to blame for or tail fail ev event nt violations o of Ill uch was smuggled in last jy knows but it is estimated o of gallons nit system Is the key to the through which pour im- im the domestic brands medicinal purposes and the from alcohol are b being forged faked and Issued Influence totaling 2 2375 g gallons o of liquors and wl wines S caine came In twenty wenty times as much as lrI ending ir rending ending June 30 30 1920 and andIce and andIce Ice Ce as much as In 1919 bead bea bed be be- ad a d prohibition us lue ue o of liquor Imported last 0 At bootleg prices sumers at least W profit for tor the theUs Us authorized to make 11 It- medicinal purposes number in n the entire country In Inthey they icy y made 7 gallons e years year's withdrawals of ot om Dm warehouses warehouses-on on permits totaled lI lEand nd bogus totaled bogus is os Except for tor t the te e small that lit actually was used for purposes and sold at fair I was sold at boot- boot rand fand cost consumers about 07 Ot he te lew cost estimates fig fig- quart Bootleg liquor lIquor- bad ad- ad actually costs from 5 luart uart l how much doctored sold Figure It our gallons of alcohol drawn from warehouses on oniSt onist ont t year Permits were is- is 5 use f for r legal les ses s. s but much of 01 it was wast t whisky ALLONS AY o of liquor were stol stol- Government re- re gallons lost on acl ac- ac leakage evaporation and andin l Hn in warehouses in a single if warehouses are aret l en n at liquor i it t They are paid millars' millars mil mil- for guarding yta a year lIars lars worth o of liquor Sent ment agents' agents maximum pay ear running Into millions have red ed td them Some have taken ily ly Iy a few have been prose- prose orea ores have been discharged they were under susi sus- sus a uise se reasons But Bute political i hy ny y for incorruptible e stood tood egger who made a written says he has made thirteen months He says to 10 boodle to fixers for tor tore 3 e o ot of liquor he ho sold bodle odle is paid largely to poTS po- po frs TS s not to agents agent MEN iMEN iEN IN RUM TRADE Pare are in the bootlegging and andIng Ing business Out o of every I ng Involve Ceases twenty-five twenty caseS women In n one year JIved ved Smuggled liquor comes from than anywhere else Islands Ci Savannah are chief hootch coast cities get it It too Her ther and small ships bIg from a. a gator at Miami found engaged InrIg in ining rot f craft openly owned ing the British rIg from miles away five tv-five internal reve- reve agents nent ent help- help rand custom men are has only two government water One Onetis in these utters tub that makes is a leaky The other at Sa- Sa ran in hour knots an hour four makes Lakes to tove craft cr t make fifteen an hour ve knots center t largest there bring f- f fRum Rum Bunt runners across the river lo of liquor r ada lada da every night ED D FOR TION ION have their fix Ix- truon runners un are their slush funds They protection mutual for fellows are rarely caught doesn't who runner I 1 rum urn know the tho ropes is the fellow arrested No one big rum ring exists There aro are many rings comparatively small as regards the whole countr country yet each doing a business running annually annual ly into millions o of dollars Crime at the bottom and political corruption at the top put the booze trusts across Millions are aro spent in payments payment o of fines so bootleggers and rum runners can start over again Few Jail sentences sentences sentences sen sen- have been imposed A Washington lobbyist says You Youcan Youcan Youcan can do more with a quart of booze than with anything else Booze in Itself is not looked upon as graft It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is regarded In much the same light as tho the old custom o of accepting a cigar TRAFFIC IN PERMITS Traffic In fraudulent permits for tor withdrawal o of liquor and alcohol from warehouses Is heavy The standard price paid for tor obtaining a permit Is 1 1 to 2 per case o of liquor Rubber stamp signatures indorsed by a mere written initial are used on permits In Washington in New York and many other states Counterfeiting Counterfeit Counterfeit- ing a rubber stamp signature Is is easy Forged labels and revenue stamps are ae made by the thousands by crimInals criminals crim crim- who find it easier and more lu lucrative lucrative lucrative lu- lu than counterfeiting money With these bogun labels and stam stamps s the country Is flooded with colored alcohol and other concoctions disguised disguised dis dis- dis- dis guised as bottled In bond liquor Effectiveness of enforcement can be gauged everywhere by the price of bootleg whisky A low price means enforcement is not effective The Continued on page 2 1 If 1 Continued from page 1 I. I price east of the Mississippi has never been lower since prohibition began than now Disappearance of evidence makes court convictions difficult Bonds are easy to get and bootleggers have been ben known to walk out of the courtroom and sell sel liquor to pay their fines Millions of dollars dollars' dolar worth of ot liquor seized by police by state and arid county officials and by federal have mysteriously disappeared Chief of ot Police Fitzmorris of ot Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago cage said that half hal of the Chicago po police police po- po lice force was in the booze booe business New Yorks York's corporate counsel found 97 per cent of ot all al liquor cases so faulty that conviction was impossible CRIMES DU DUE TO BOOTLEG I Petty PettI crime has has decreased under Pett prohibition I But Insurance companies last last year paid out twelve times as much for burglary losses and four kind and nd a half halt halftimes halftimes times as a much for embezzlement losses a as ten years ago Big outstanding crimes which are I traceable to booze parties Include the Hamon murder In Oklahoma Elwell I murder in New York Kenn Kennedy mur mur- der In Los Ls Angeles McGannon n n affair In Cleveland Arbuckl Arbuckle Arbuckle tragedy in San Francisco ard the arid the Al Stein Stel tragedy In Los Angeles Bootlegging g and rum running Is a abig abig big business Bu enforcement nt spend most of the time arresting sma malI mal retailers or raiding small smal stills stis Traffic from the fhe Bahama Islands i iso Isso is isso so profitable that last year more mor than registry vessels were transferred to British Brish j Eleven prohibition agents have been i killed kled since July 1920 The Te actual I death toll among bootleggers and rum rumrunners runners and police is many tUnes time that tat You can buy ay kind of booze you want want even even Imported champagne champagne-at champage-at champage a to 50 a case You can have i it i delivered to your home or office In some cities patrol wagons wagons' have been Used to deliver delver booze |