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MONDAY, MAY 29, 1933.
OVER THE
TOP WITH
THE "WETS"
THOUSANDS WELCOME
"BEERO HOUR"
CHICAGO
CELEBRATIONS
New York President Roosevelt in Washington "It is the morning after the and to Al Smith in New York. The lines on which the new night before" in many big cities ed in by the breweries at the last "Special drivers are being call text-books are to be written are]
tor cars
forcibly explained, It is the in America." Writes a Special moment to man the lorries. In the period from 1914 to 1933 which is Correspondent of the London railway sidings special refrigera to be revised, and in future Ger Evening Standard.........
awaited the release of man children will be taught that
While Milwaukee the Burton- trains with steam already up, and legal beer. They were attached to Germany defended herself: herol cally against the aggression of the on-Trent of the United States and as midnight sounded they started. whole world, that German Jews the birthplace in the "good old off on their journeys through the and Marxists betrayed the Vater days" of the slogan, "The Beer country." land and caused its humiliation,
Wistful Contrast.
and that by patriotic self-sacrifice that Made Milwaukee Famous”— and military discipline the Nazis was celebrating the legalised ́re- have given Germany a new birth caissance of beer, I talked on the the scenes I had been watching la
and a new freedom.
In wistful contrast to the galely In Milwaukee and Chicago were
Special attention is to be paid to telephone to a friend in that city. New York, where the brewers had the heroes of the national awaken These were his impressions of the decided not to send out any of the Ing. Specifically mentioned in the revelry:
new legal beer until six o'clock this |Ministerial order are SchlageterBeero Hour has just struck morning (11 a.m. in London). A Horst Wessel, Hifler, and Hin Citizens, many thousands strong, driving rain poured down on the denburg!
have formed huge, processions in city. It was just another ordinary Germany's War Memorial.
the streets. They are marching on night in New York,
unmanage the breweries, singing at the top Fearing large and Germany has many war memork of their voices.
lable crowds, the police had taken als, of which perhaps the most "The breweries are ready for special precautions, and large famous is the monument at Tan-them. They are giving beer away. forces of extra officers were sent nenberg. She has, however, noth-Se a wild scramble is taking place last night to the "Bright Lights" ing to compare with the Cenotaph for any vessel capable of holding section of Broadway to regulate the
Herr Hitler is now to rectify the brew. this omission. His Government
has decided that the Reich must
"People are rushing to the
have both a national war shrine flowing spigots with empty bottles Commissioner, just as the late and annual commemoration and even with tin cans that once ever, made up for the brewers' de-
ал
¡contained tomatoes.
of
in
of
crowds. But there were no un- ruly crowds, and the police stood back and enjoyed their ease.
The bootlegging fraternity, how- Sir William Robertson rose from service.
The question of a suitable site The main thoroughfare, Wiskers found no difficulty in secur ficiency, and determined New Yor a cavalry trooper to the leader- Hong Kong, Monday, May 25, 1933, ship of the General Staff. Lord is being keenly discussed. Some cousin-avenue, is jammed with
ing all the beer they wanted Trenchard personally would wel¡Germana favour Berlin.
Others thousands
people. In the come such men. Still, there want an island on the Rhine, which brewery district revelry is reach-the city's speakeasies. Some dis- London Police Problems. seems no reason, except the long-has always been the symbol of Gering frenzy pitch. Yelling crowds Pensed all their "needle" been, a
standing tradition, All Britishers are proud of Metropolitan Police alone should ordinary suggestion is, Bad Berka, lorries. Lorries containing liquor
why the man patriotism. The most extra are impeding the passage of beer Bangster brew, to firstcomers for
nothing. the London Metropolitan Police be restricted to its own lower in the Thuringian forest, once the are being escorted through the elaborate gesture
One such institution, with whose patience, courtesy, and ranks for its supply of brains, home of the early Teuton tribes. streets to the taverns by poliec poured a barrel of "near beer" in- of contempt. skill in handling crowds and especially when the new condi- There will be one significant dif- motor and motor-cycle squads to the gutter. The spectacle street traffic are unsurpassed by tions of modern life make far ference between the German war with sirens screaming. any other police in the world. greater demanda upon its intel-commemoration services and those
janybody except Federal Prohibi- "Zero hour midnight -was tion agents throwing even Many none the less recognise that ligence an defficiency. Lord of other nations. The Nazis bave re scrupulously
"near the century-old force sorely needs Trenchard is clearly convinced jected the proposal of a
observed by the beer" away was to bizarre that a modernising, and the belief finds that the existing system needs Minutes Silence," not because they ed. Within nine minutes of mid-police at last found occupation.
"Two breweries, but no time was wast-large crowd gathered and the very definite confirmation in Lord tightening up in more ways than dislike the idea in itself, but be night striking happy customers Trenchard's first report. The
one. He finds that far too many cause it is an Allies' Institution. virtual creator of the Royal Airmen, even of the higher ranks, Force, Lord Trenchard is justly are employed "on gratuity" out reputed for his organising ability of official hours by private per- and his knowledge of men, and sons. The custom is of long his criticisms of the system standing and is very remunera which he found on his appoint-tive to the men, but the Commis- TEACHER: What can we pre-from the bottling room with a case end. ment as Commissioner must re-stoner naturally regards it assume from the fact that men's of beer and tossed the full bottles ceive serious attention. It is improper and indefensible. Noi brains are larger than the brains to the waiting crowd. Pande- good to know that steps are to be other police force in the world CO-ED: That it is more a ques- scrambled. At taken to give early effect to his permits its men to serve private main recommendations. He goes employers under such conditions. tion of quantity than quality." to the root of the matter when Wherever, outside London, police he observes that the police are are lent for private work, they HIS ONLY CHANCE not recruited sufficiently from perform it as a regular duty, and "My wife is stubborn. I would tops of motorcars and joining in brewerics have already gone out of.
business. the class of youths who have at the police force, not the men, like to see her to do what I tell community singing of 'Sweet tended a secondary school. The receives payment. In comment-her, just for once.”
| Adeline,' America's favourite senti-
were proportion of such recruits is ing on the prodigious waste of "Then pick up a
"persuaded" by gangster heavy vase, mental ballad "-
methods İrising. but, contrary to
to take a last-minute de- wide-policemen's time in routine work aim at her head and tell her to
Chicago Revelries.
livery of bootleg beer at the old spread reports, it is even now that could be done more simply duck.”.
Then I rang up a Chicage friend prices. Most of this beer they only a third of the number en- and cheaply, the Commissiptier rolled, and over four-fifths of the notes, with a surprise that the FORCED TO SUFFER
who gave me the following plc-have given away. 20,000 men in the force have had public will share, the unforeseen
ture of the revelries in that city: A few' bootleggers have been "What is the name of that selec- no more then an elementary consequences of the Police Act of tion your daughter sang" asked in real Chicago fashion, even to jest prices ever-quoted, but the beer "They are welcoming beer bere disposing of their beer at the low- education. When we couple this 1919. The Police Federation the music-loving guest.
the firing of blank cartridges from was of the poorest quality, ⠀
Your Daily Smile
WOMAN'S WIT.
¡of women?
*
•
Apart from bootleg beer New were saying 'Same again."
York was compelled to celebrate "Within half an hour every cafelon doubtful whisky and gin. But and tavern in the down-town' area am told that "there will be a was well supplied with beer. hot time in the old town to-night,”.
"In one brewery a man rushed an exceptionally hilarious week-
monium
Speakeasy Sidelights. Here ure some sidelights on the followed as the people situation as it affects the bootleg-
another brewery crowds stormed the storehouse and ging industry: seized half a dozen cases.
Some speakeasies are, without "Citizens are climbing to
bootleg beer as many bootlegging
the
Other speakeasy proprietors
fact with the rigid rule laid down with its conference and its com- "That wasn't a selection, replied revolvers. The shots are being Scores of speakeasy proprietors by Sir Robert Peel in 1829 that mittees and its branch boards the father. "It was forced on us." welcomed with hilarity. What a con- have obtained licences to sell beer all higher ranks up to that of and their committees, seems to superintendent must be filled by have become a very expensive promotion from
.
+
YES. IT IS!
below, we can affair, inasmuch as all the meet-"They say kissing is dangerous." easily see where the system is at ings are held in official time, and "Yes, but isn't it wonderful fault. It is unfortunately true, are attended by many men whose you live through it?" as the Commissioner points out, travelling expenses are paid by that crime is increasing, more the State. Lord Trenchard may
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"Bar-tenders, smiling broadly;
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t.
Concert Raises Fund For Free School.
“As the blank cartridges give out, citizens start sounding motor
A variety performance in aid of horns and blowing deafening blasts the Free School and Sports and sirens are adding to the clamour. College of Arts and Commerce, has on whistles. Factory, and office Library Funds of the St. John's
robbery; and it is apparent from Police Act did not intend the the number of cases in which no public time absorbed in Federa- DENTIST: Very well-but what their arms and chests often cover- ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE arrests are made that the crim-tion business to sasume such do all the other boys with you ed with flecks of foam, are stand- inals are all too intelligent, L. fantastic proportions. Nor was want? then, offenders are cleverer now-it meant to usurp the functions
Ing behind the hundreds of bars adays the police should be, if not of the police chiefs to an extent They've each paid me a penny to two.
Oh, they're my pals and handing out the three-point- all well educated, at any rate so that cannot be good for the dis- see it done. guided by trained minds as to cipline of the force as a whole. make the chances of detection The Commissioner, while anxious less uneven. Lord Trenchard is that the public should be
FAME. plainly of opinion that under pre-very fully served by the force, is I was refused admission to the Indignant Actor: "Buch le fams sent conditions the higher ranks at the same time solicitous for cannot always be adequately fill-the welfare of the men under his theatre the other night until I told "A few moments after midnight held at the Princes Theatre ed by promoted constables: There command. With his Army andAnd who did you tell them you
them who I was." are not enough suitable men for Air Force, experience, he is un-were?" the vacancies. He would, there favourably impressed by the re- fore, have the Home Office con-lative lack of provision for games sider very seriously the question and sports and club rooms for of recruiting educated young men men off duty. The policeman for the officer posts. In the deserves his share of Buch com- Navy, Army, and Air Force, the forte and aids to physical well- Civil Service, and to a large ex-being as much as any servant of of gas masks are conducted for gas tent in Industry, the officers or the Crown, and Lord "Trenchard workers and Bremen by a German high officials and the rank and evidently means that he shall gas company.
ole are separately recruited, and have them The Commissioner
Facts You Did Not Know.
Courses of instruction in the use
OR
bottles sold were parading through those who had obtained the Drst Saturday afternoon.
The programme consisted of the streets, raising the bottles to
[songs, in the first half and pictures- their mouths. Others brought in the second half. The new Zen- mugs with them and ceremonious and Perpetual Forests, Ltd., lent an ly poured their liquor out before Trade Commissioner supplied the "Instructive film, The American
|fasting. It
"In the first few hours offer and Messrs.
"U.B. Army Air Corps Excercises”
Fox Films Corpora midnight the people of Chicago tion leat "Sunny Side Up." drank more than 300,000 cases Songs, were contributed by the and 10,000 barrels of beer, "In some bars beer is selling Chong, Madge Young, and J. and B. students, and by the Misses C.
Lord Trenchard, after a year and knows that stricter discipline and Friction rollers on a new safety for a price as low as Ave cents Lees and by Matars. C. See Kee, H. halfa experience of Scotland higher efficiency are not merely razor cause the blade to move (21⁄2d.) a glass. In others it is Yip, T. Kwok, and M. S. Phook Yard, holds that the same prin consistent with but dependent laterally to cut tough beards as it ten cenie. In exclusive restaur Miss Ruby Ma was the pianist, and ciple should be partially adopted upon the fullest care for the is moved over a face.
ants, and night clube aggiang - Andrew Chan and his Vagabonds In the Metropolitan Police. There welfare of the Individual con
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