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The New Immorality T is confidently predicted that after ten years of Prohibition, the American public will have lost its taste for alcohol as a beverage. There is also no doubt that the automobile will soon have planted the horse and other draft The practice of Birth sup- animals. Cor:rol will likewise reduce the number of our children to the point where there will be only .000031416 of a child to every paid official of the Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Children. The question therefore presents itself: What is to become of those paid officials, —not only of the S. P. C. C. but also of the Anti-Saloon League and of the numer- ous Humane Societie: Are all these no longer to be forced into industries already over- crowded and underpaid? Not if they can help it, and there is nothing in the this rseful citizens political and economic history of country to justify the belief that they are not going to help it, either. In fact. you can bet your entire holding of Liberty Bonds that no paid official of the present law enforcement machinery, private, will permit the annulment of a national vice to stand between him and his salary. Once a paid official, always a paid official. Let us therefore glimpse into the future public or By MONTAGUE GLASS and ascertain just how the law may be enforced so as to continue in office this large body of ultimate consumers, and at the same time carry out in spirit the in- tention of the late Henry Bergh, Commo- dore Elbridge T. Gerry, and of course, the Rev. William H. Anderson,—if he is Rev. Extract from the Los Angeles Times- Examiner of January 19th, 194 RS, EDNA MAY GARFINKLE, sometimes known as the “Woman Pussyfoot Johnson” and an officer of the Anti-Saloon League, was the complainant in Judge Watson W. Watson’s court this morn- ing against Roderick J. Zimmermann, 23, moving picture actor, and Warren Harding Cohen, 21, a drug clerk. The defendant, Cohen, was charged with dispensing a heaping tablespoonful of Bromo-Glos- shubler without a doctor's prescription, in violation of Section 26 of the Constitution of the United States prohibiting the con- sumption of headache remedies, and the defendant, Zimmermann, charged with being an accessory before the fact. Cohen testified that the defendant, Zim- mermann, told him he had procured a was prescription but had left it in his other pants and would bring it round that afters noon. Zimmermann, when put on the stand, admitted that he had told Cohen he had procured a prescription. When asked by Prosecutor Cottongin why he had taken this illegal means of obtaining a headache “I'M SORRY, GENTLEMEN, BUT JUST NOW, WHEN WE'RE TRYING IN EVERY WAY TO CUT DOWN EXPENSES—" remedy, the defendant said he had a head- ache at the time. Both defendants were found guilty and received sentences of from one to fifteen years. They were taken to San Quentin this morning. Extract from the Detroit Press (formerty the Detrolt Free Press) of July Ist, 1950: ADISLAW PRDWRSKY of 4366328 Woodward Avenue was arraigne:| be- fore Police Justice Patrick M. Rosenthal in the goth District Municipal Court vester- day upon complaint of Officer Moses F. X. Saulpaugh of the S.P.C. A. The otticer testified that he was standing on the corner of Woodward Avenue and East Sogth Street when his attention was called to the defendant by Miss Elizabeth Black- well Jones, Treasurer of the local branch of the S. P.C. A. Prdwrsky, the officer said, had been previously: warned about driving his four-cylinder touring car with more than five passengers. The touring car was laboring painfully and_ hitting on only three cylinders. Evidence was also given of a former conviction for cruclty to a runabout by operating it with The defendant was found guilty and sentenced to ten days in the City Prison with costs the emergency brake on. Extract from the Cyprus ‘Pennsylvania’ Register of April Ist, 1931 OBERT L. S, TAGLIALATELA, 34. a short story writer, was tried-in the Court of General Sessions in and for the County of Pennypacker for endangering the morals of his grandfather, Fitzgerald M. Taglialatela, by taking him into a place where a theatrical performance was taking place within the meaning of the statute known as An Act to Prevent Cruelty to Children. Officer George J. Citron, of the Pennsylvania Society for the Preve of Cruelty to Children, gave evidence, and in support of the charge testified that the elder Taglialatela was ninety-four (94) years of age, an orphan and in his sccond childhood. He was committed to the Leake and Watts Orphan Asylum. The defend- ant, his grandson, was sentenced by the Court to eight months’ imprisonment at hard labor in the Pennypacker County Penitentiary, and a fine of one hundred dol- lars together with costs and disbursements. “JO man is so bad that he couldn't be worse,” said the Optimist. “He might have been twins,” suggested the Pessimist. comicbooks.com