Foreign Language Press Service

We should be celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Volstead Act, which was to improve mankind and to save them from sin. The law prohibits the manufacture, sale, transportation, ownership and use [sic] of intoxicating liquors. That this law did not become popular is only natural, because i

The thoroughbred American is very proud of his liberty and the democracy that insures the greatness of this country. How free are we? How democratic are we? A few examples can illustrate the untruth of these elegantly phrased slogans said to be the American spirit.

If the platform of Governor Smith would contain no other paragraph except the one in which he so obviously differs from Hoover's viewpoint on immigration, it would be more than enough to induce all self-conscious, upright, and thinking American-Hungarian citizens to vote for Al Smith.

Sadly, but without rancor, we concede the fact that Hoover won and Smith lost in the Presidential race. From a Hungarian point of view, this Presidential election was a lesson. We wished to jolt the laboring class of Hungarians out of their lethargic indifference, into which it has

Few American problems interest the Hungarian-Americans more than Prohibition. We are also aware of the fact that most of the Hungarian-Americans have a biased opinion of the character and political eminence of the late President Woodrow Wilson..... In 1919, Wilson vetoed the propose

The Independent German Women's Club Honors the Memory of the Well-Known Statesman. Personal Memories. A memorial celebration in honor of the 100th birthday of Carl Schurz was arranged yesterday, at the Palmer House, by the Independent German-American Women's Club. Mr. Leop

Doctor Gerson B. Levi, rabbi of Temple Isaiah-Israel and president of the Rabbinical Association of Chicago, yesterday denounced Prohibition before members of his congregation. "It must be admitted," he said, "that the enforcement of Prohibition during the last ten years proved an a

An intense religious idealism has a part in the formation of our national traditions. One feature of this is the fact that the country is essentially Protestant. So are the Greeks, yet every one of them who has lived here any length of time knows how hard it is to make Americans understand he

From London, we hear that Sir Ronald Lindsay, successor to Sir Esme Howard at the British legation in Washington, does not share his predecessor's views on prohibition. Sir Esme Howard was not a prohibitionist by conviction. The boisterous propaganda of the Anti-Saloon League and th

Since the adoption of the Volstead act the Government has the right to shoot the taxpayers. It is officially admitted that a hundred, and eighty-four otherwise useful citizens have bitten the dust. Senator Tydings of Maryland, who takes keen delight in investigating this branch of t

For many years our authorities have shown that along with immigration we are also confronted with considerable emigration. The strangers coming to our hospitable shores do not always find matters conforming to their expectations. Many return to their fatherlands, rich in experience but defici

F. C. Billard, commander of the Coast Guard, declares in his annual report: "There is no alternative; the rumrunner must be eradicated. It can be done, and the Coast Guard can accomplish it if sufficient funds are available." These and similar assertions are standard phrases, and ha

The Census Bureau of Washington has published some very interesting and instructive figures about police costs in American cities. In the preparation of this highly important work, only cities with a population of thirty thousand and over have been considered. The figures first considered ref

Under ordinary circumstances, we would not devote an editorial to the discussion of a senatorial nomination in the East, since such nominations are not of national importance. However, the nomination last week of Dwight Morrow, American Ambassador to Mexico, for senator on the Repub

Upon an invitation extended by Mr. J. Russell Forgan, a number of gentlemen assembled at the Bismarck Hotel yesterday afternoon for a debate. Present were the Messrs. Karl Eitel, Ernest Kruetgen, Bernard DeVry, Reinhold Oeschler, Ernest Roepler, Hermann Wollenberger, Dr. Kobalter, Consul Gene

John E. Hesse is a well known business-man of Chicago. His personal qualifications entitle him to be honored and respected. He is a conscientious leader, is well acquainted with the needs of the people and is a judge of public opinion, therefore undoubtedly, well qualified to represent the in

The results of the election which took place November 4, show that the American electorate has changed its mind since the presidential election in 1928, when the Republican party won a decisive victory. Hoover was elected by an overwhelming majority, and the voters gave the Republicans a wide

An American who had recently arrived from the United States entered an aristocratic bar a few days ago in the after-midnight hours and asked the waiter for a cocktail. "Impossible, sir," answered the waiter, who happened to speak a little English. "Well, then, give me whis

The fiscal year ending June 30, showed that prohibition was highly successful--in a certain sense--during the past twelve months. There were 6,833,000 gallons of liquor confiscated throughout the United States, of which 545,024 were found in the area of the Seventh Federal District, in which

As every rational and sensible individual knows and admits, it was big business that put over Prohibition on an unsuspecting public suffering under a war hysteria, and that it was aided and abetted by every branch of the fanatical, corrupt, and reactionary elements in politics, re