| Show DETROIT RilED V BY LIQUOR OR LAW LAV LA V County Districts r in iii Legislative c Battle By HARVEY ANDERSON Special Correspondent of The Examiner Copyright 1927 Consolidated Press Association DETROIT March Match When 26 the Michigan state senate passed a abill abill abill bill this week to put bootleggers In jail Instead ot of fining them It aroused a loud wall of ot protest In not Detroit not because DetroIt loves bootleggers but because the voto ote represents another victory for the tho country district In the In Increasingly bitter struggle between urban and rural Michigan Detroit has come to regard her her- herself herself her Belt self as a splendid young oung Pro Pro- Prometheus Pr Prometheus bound by chains of o roy roy- royat royal al at domination on account of ot the failure of o the state legislature to reapportion the senate and assembly districts The align align- alignment alignment ment between city and country In Michigan Is of o 0 more than local Interest as It epitomizes a clash of political and economic forces which I has developed In every sec section cities tion of ot America where great have arisen Judges public officials and bus bus- busIness business iness mess men were ere quick to attack the Lennon bill providing a min mm- minimum sentence of one year ear in lu jail lalland and a minimum tine fino of o for persons convicted of o selling liquor Its a play lay to the gallery said Judge John G Stone of o the Ue Wayne county circuit court Un Un der Iler this law I predict that the majority will wilt be found not found not guilty and the prosecutions will tall fall tallot oCt ott This bill bm Is going to make It hard for tor prosecuting attorneys said Ormond F Hunt limit of othe the circuit court I I predict that justice will not bring on convictions convictions convictions V JAILS FILLED NOW Sheriff Edward F Stein com corn complained complained bitterly that his jail couldn't possibly stand the strain It It Is crowded to capacity now said lie he In the debate on the bill Sen See Senator Senator ator Albert J S Engel Ensel of ot L ke City said there were blind pigs In Detroit and denounced Mayor John W IV Smith of o this city The mayor retorted that Engel was wasa ti a small town politician politician intoxicated Intoxicated with his own verbosity Engels Engel's blind bUnd pig figures were taken from a 0 recent survey surrey A Asocial Asocial Asocial social worker here told this cor- cor correspondent cor correspondent respondent that the Detroit so- so social socia so social cia cial ag agencies estimate the speak speak- speakeasies speakeasies speakeasies at about The range of conjectures seems to bo be about the same as that t t on the o In Henry Henr- Fords Ford's new car A stranger may make his own ticket on either ticket Certain It Is that the specifications for alley beer and details details- of ot the method of needling V It with yeast are sub subjects on In which Detroit Is widely and minutely informed Of course liquor enforcement Is 15 entirely an adventitious Issue In this country city row but It to cusses the battle on a sit sit- which wilch virtually every eveT big city In America WINS WINS FAME Detroit was once called and was later christ christ- cued Ka Row It survived this ran up n a population of ot 1 1 16 citizens Sn In Who ho In fn America gave Ty Cobb to the world brought In Ossip Gabril to conduct Its symphony orchestra shot up upa upa ura a forest of ot skyscrapers and planted a a branch this bank bank this Is Ig lithe nie on truth on each and every coo corner ncr ner where there had once been beena beera a saloon So with virtually one half of othe the population of o the state stale and eighth ancone-eighth one eighth of ot the representation In the state legislature Its It s Is s tilt fill filled filled ed with tho the self pity of o an unhappy un un- un unhappy happy hogtied Gulliver roped an and l hog hog- tied by the of the cow counties Wayne county that county that Is Detroit Detroi pays pays about 40 per er cent of ot the th I automobile gas and weight taxes Last Thursday a new gas and weight law Jaw was formulated by bithe bythe the state legislature calling ng for fora fora toia a three-cent three gas tax with I no change In the weight or license laws This seemed harmless Iii 11 It ft was I discovered that the tho country districts would have a big abig bulge over over ver Detroit in the ro ro- ro turns of ot the taxes to coun- coun counties ties counties Detroit Detroit automobile agen eke cles rushed their reserve resene forces to Lansing Lansing- POPULAR Thus In one way or other oilIer the outlying counties keep Detroit on the jump So far tar its efforts In retaliation leave have had hall little effect One Interesting symptom I Is the steadily Increasing popularity of n H L In Detroit |
