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i now. Two PR01IT1 NOW $225,000,000 Loss in Revenue Is Four Billion; Expense Steadily Rising; 250,000 Men Required WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. Prohibition already has cost the government bi excess of $225,000,000 and resulted in a loss of revenue of more than tour billion dollars, with the annual cost mounting until even the most hardened statisticians in the employ pi Uncle Sam will make no guess as io what it will cost ten years from On the basis of annual expenditures in all departments engaged in the enforcement of the Volstead act and the Eighteenth amendment it is con servativelv estimated that the tre railing cost is $25,000,000 a year to keep the country "dry." Even witn these huge expenditures, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, in charge oi en forcement, goes no farther than to fay that the law "increasingly ei lecuve.

5,000,000 for Salaries Prohibition is becoming the domi fiant activity of the government, and his is easily seen by a comparison of Its cost with other activities. The 'State Department, with all of its in operations, costs $16,000,. a year. The Department of Com. 'raerce costs $30,000,000: Labor, $8,626,.

(525; Justice, $24,000,000 and one third of this is lor prohioition en "forcement. I 'The most conservative guess as to the number of men engaged in the work and their annual salaries is by King of Utah, who estimated V'that the greater part of the time of public officials of all kinds vvitii salaries ui d.uuiauuu a yetu, was bemg devoted to the enforcement of "prohibition." Moreover, the annual cost of prohi 'b'ition does not take into considera tion the capital invested in coast guard equipment, it does not talce into the number of ships that the navy has turned over to the cotst guard. And it does not include the work of the Department of Justice, the costs in the federal and 'Estate courts, witness fees and other "important adjuncts to making the nation "dry." Four Billion Tax Loss The loss in revenue from excise taxes is based on the 1919 collections of $365,211,252 on distilled spirits and $117,830,602 on fermented liquors, making a total of $483,050,854. On ihis basis the amount would easily pass the four billion mark for the intervening years. The cost of prohibition is based on 'figures from the house committee on appropriations for the prohibition service and the coast guard.

The steadily mounting cost is seen from the fact that in 1920 the appropriation for the prohibition service was 53,750,000 and that in 1927 the amount rore to $10,635,685. The 1928 appropriation was considerably over $12, 000,000. The rise is seen from figures for intervening years, as follows: 1921, 1922, $7,500,000: 1923, .9 1924, 1925, $11, 341,770: 1926, $11,000,000. Figures for the coast guard as reported by the house appropriations committee, without taking into consideration the invested capital, are: 1924, operating expenses, $1,692, 100; 1924 25, additional vessels transferred from the navy, 1925, operating expenses, 1926, operating expenses, 1926 27, additional vessels and alterations to vessels transferred from the navy, 1927, operating ex lenses, $14,560,011. Would Create Work According to figures given the subcommittee of the senate judiciary committee in 1926 by Representative William S.

Vare, who was later elected to the senate and refused a seat, "Modihcation of the Volstead act to permit sale of beer would restore an industry in which there was an investment of $792,914,000, prior to 1920. It would put to work in the beverage plants alone over 66.000 workers, including many thousands of others who would be employed in the making of boxes, crowns, labels, and the like. "It would create a market for mate ials estimated at $123,685,489 annually. It would open the market for tarm products which 13 years ago had a value of $87,520,287, or more than the total farm production of the states of Vermont, Rhode Island and Delaware." OBSERVE ALL SAINTS' DAY TOMORROW With special services In Catholic and Episcopal churches of Reading, All Saints' day will be observed tomorrow. Special masses will be suit in the Catholic churches.

Episcopal congregations will mark the day with the celebration of holy at morning devotions. A communion service will be conducted at St. Ksu nanas Episcopal church. Sixth vw. below Spruce street, by the Rev.

K. 'ICines, rector in charge, at 7 and 1 1 a. m. THE WEATHER F.ASTEKV PENNSYLVANIA Iitcraiting cloudiness and warmer followed by rain Wednesday; Thursday showers. TJ.

0. WEATHER BUREAU OFFICE, Reading, October 30, 1928. 8 A.M. 12 Noon. 8 P.M..

Barometer Sea level 30.55 30.54 30.52 Temperature Dry bulb 34 41 40 Wet bulb 31 35 36 Precipitation, 0 0 Humidity, pet 71 48 67 Wind direction S.W. N.E. S.E. Velocity 3 4 3 Weather conditions. Clear PCl'dy PCl'dy Highest temperature 47, at 3.15 p.

m. Lowest temperature 32, at 7 a. m. Average temperature 40, which is 9 de grnes below normal. Same date last year: Highest 59; lowest 43; weather clear.

Highest and lowest temperatures for this date on record are 73 in 1912 and 28 In 1910. Excess In temperature since Oct. 1st, 102 degrees. Precipitation for 24 hours ending 8 p. 0, which Is .11 below normal.

Deficiency In precipitation since Oct. 1st, 1.33 inches. Excess in precipitation since Jan. 1st, 3 63 Inches. STANDING OF THE CREWS Crews: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6.

Engineers: Brown, Ritter, Hiester, Adams. Levine, Hahn, Fidler. Firemen: McLoud, Eveland, Olsch leger, Heler, Rauenzahn, Pauley, Jore. Btoudt, Murphy. Brakemen: Douorherty.

Wike, Warmkes'el, Moyer, Tobias, Rhein, Erickson, Regar, Oottschall. TIMES PHONE 6101 THE READING TIMES, READING, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 3 1 1928 TIMES PHONE 6101 Vahderbilts to Cruise World Hunting Fish Mrs. W. K. Vanderbllt MIAMI BEACH, Oct.

30. W. K. Vanderbilt, millionaire sportsman, will celebrate his fiftieth birthday by realizing the ambition of a lifetime. He and Mrs.

Vanderbllt will leave November 16 on a cruise around the world. The cruise will have a scientific aspect as rare fish will be collected for Vanderbilt's Long Island museum. STOTESBURY HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT Philadelphia Banker Taken to Hospital; Car Wrecked PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 30 UP) Ed ward T. Stotesbury, president of urexei and company and widely Known DanKer and financier, was mjuicu in ail uuiuuiuuiie collision in Fairmount park.

The ex tent of his injuries was not revealed, hospital authorities refusing all formation except to say he was not seriously hurt. btotesbury car. driven bv a chaui feur, collided with one said to have been driven by James Sanders, a Negro. Both automobiles were wrecked. CHEST CLINIC HELD AT BETHANY HOME With ight physicians and kix nurses in attendance, state chest, heart and cancer clinics were held at Bethany Orphans' home, Womels dorf, yesterday.

Thirty five persons, most of them children from the home, attended the chest clinic and lo persons were examined at the heart clinic. No cancer cases were examined. Dr. Walter Bertolet. Dr.

S. B. Hertzog and Dr. Robert Alexander, Reading, and Dr. D.

T. Hunt, West Reading, were among the attending physicians. Two state nurses and the staff of the Reading Tuberculosis association were present. Similar clinics will be held today at Haag's hall, Shartlesville. REPUBLICANS HEAR STATE SENATOR TALK State Senator Horace W.

Schantz of Lehigh county was nrinciual speaker at a Republican rally at Boyertown last night. Charles J. Esterly, candidate for congress, James E. Norton, candidate to succeed him self as state senator, Clifford Landis. assembly candidate, Wayne High, Thomas C.

Seidel, county chairman, and Mrs. DeGroot of Allentown also spoke. i Esterly, Norton, Landis, High and Seidel alse spoke at a meeting at Friedensburg. EARLY MORNING FIRE Responding to a still alarm from the Reading Lumber company, Ninth fend Robeson streets, early this morning, the Marion fire company extinguished a small blaze in the offices of (he building. Assistant Fire Chief O'Brien estimated the damage at about $50.

Balsa Is the lightest wood known, weighing only seven pounds per cubic foot. 1 RAIL WAGE BOOS! APPROVED BY BOARD Coolidge Receives Report Rep" ommending Raise for 66,000 Western Workers WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 of wages for 66,000 employes of western railroads were recommended to President Coolidge today by an emergency board, headed by James R. Garfield, appointed to investigate a controversy which has threatened a strike in the territory. The board, whose findings will go to the railroad executives and unions concerned, suggested an alternative method of awarding th3 wage increase and recommended that the rririiHnnni nnv be eranted retro actively, effective May 1, 1928.

In explaining its nncungs, wie oomu suggested that a six and one half fnr conductors. brakemen, yardmen, flagmen, and baggagemen in. western leniuaj would be justified, if put into effect onw chonuf In the nresent rules governing service. At trie same time me rtuuuua nave tendered a seven and one half per nvt inorno YWVuMPfl that tliB unions concerned will agree to the elimination oi wage conunui eie iinrir th of trains with double engines and which limit the tonnage of freight allowed on a single train. All West Koaas invoivea Tf mac! cnotTPsfprt in the renort that urr nmnnsniH for a six and one half percent increase without change spvpn and one half percent increase with elimination of the ruies menwoneu wwuiu uc mitted to the railroad employes for oio.fin hr Viallnt.

and that the carriers should abide by the decision. In addition, the board suggested that the provision of an agreement between railroad executives and union chiefs made in Washington, under which individual carriers were to be given power to negotiate rule changes as to limits of tonnage on trades, use of double engines ana otner, should be put into effect. All of the railroads in the western district, operating about 138.000 miles of line, are involved in the dispute. WESTERN ELECTRIC BUILDS IN BALTIMORE BALTIMORE, 'Oct. 30 (JP) The Western Electric company will build a $15,000,000 plant employing 1,200 people in Baltimore, W.

F. Hosford, vice president of the company, announced today at a meeting of. the Baltimore Association of Commerce in Southern hotel. The new plant is to be' for manufacture of parts for the Bell Telephone company, it was stated. Most of the labor to be employed in the new establishment is to be obtained in Baltimore, Hosford said, although many of the company's skilled mechanics will be brought here from other Western Electric plants.

BUILDING INCREASES DURING SEPTEMBER Increase in the estimated value of VM.nrffncr normlfe in in September, 1928, over the same month 01 iwzt, ana aecrease uic number of was announced vpsterdav bv the state department of labor and industry. In September, 1927, Reading had 203 permits valued at $508,415. Last mnnfVi fho iru hnH nnlv 192 nermlts. 1UU11U1 WV I but the building operations were valuea at or iiigxici than the previous September. Tho ripnrpasfi in building in Reading for the first nine months in 1928 over a similar penoa mi, however, is shown to be $845,180.

BR. R. K. LEINBACH ANNOUNCES THE REMOVAL OF 1HS DENTAL OFFICES FROM 824 PENN STREET TO 410 NORTH FIFTH ST. BEADING, PA.

Effective October 30th, Ui Tonight's the All hail lo Hallowe'en throw away your cares and mingle with the merry revelers on I'enn Street tonight King Karnival reigns' supreme. And just suggestion when you have paraded a while andfeel a bit hungry, look in the window at our 714 Pen it Street store. Those delicious FLAKYKRULLS will be made right before your eyes drop in for a box. Fresh and hot, tliey will just "hit the sMt." t' They sell ul 30c a doxen CHOFER Quality OAKERY A STORE NEAR YOUR HOME or DAILY SERVICE TO YOUR DOOR I I v. CLAIMS RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AT STAKE Democrat Speaks at Meeting In Birdsboro Warning his hearers that religious liberty Is being threatened in the current presidential campaign, Eoy Brownmiller, Pottsville, Democratic county commissioner of Schuylkill addressed a Democratic rally at Community hall, Birdsboro, 1 last night.

Dr. W. H. Arrimarrell was chairman of the meeting. Other speakers, were District Attorney OHver M.

Wolff, R. Rothermel, Oliver Lentz and, John E. Esterly. "Why do Republicans not warn you of the danger of voting for Waters, the Catholic Republican candidate for secretary of internal affairs?" Brownmiller asked. "Are only Democratic Catholics dangerous? If God is the common father of all, Is not every man my brother?" Smith's Cabinet Brownmiller pointed to the number of Catholics, Protesants and Jews in Governor Alfred E.

Smith's cabinet in New York, and to Catholic officials in Canada and Europe. Democratic meetings will be held on the following schedule, it was announced last night: Tonight, Bern ville; tomorrow night, St. Marks Reformed church, Greenwich and Ritter streets, and Temple fire hall; Friday, Ivy Leaf association and Red Men's hall, Reading; Shartlesville fire hall; Monday, Marion social hall, 1217 Moss st. DEATHS READING WALTER FOLGER, 62, former well known i Jiotelman of this city, died at his residence" at Dauphin, along the Susquehanna Trail above Harrisburg, yesterday morning from pneumonia. He conducted a hotel 'at Dauphin, which was known as Fol ger's inn since 1916.

In 1900, Mr. Folger became proprietor of the Lauer hotel, Fifth street near Court, which subsequently was know as Folger's cafe which he conducted until 1913. It was the headquarters of th sporting fraternity of Reading, Mr. Folger being much' interested in sports. He was a former manager of the Eagles baseball team and was boomed for the presidency of the Atlantic league in 1907.

He is survived by his widow, Ange kine formerly of Reading, and two sisters RAYMOND SKORASZEWSKI, 2, son of Chester and Agnes Skoras zewski, 4p9 S. Fourteenth died at the Homeopathic hospital as the result of burns received two weeks ago. With a brother the boy secured a box of matches and played with them, with the result that his clothing caught afire and he was badly burned. This condition improved, but pneumonia developed, causing death. He is survived by his parents and these brothers and sisters: Clara, Gertrude, Dorothy, Anna, Chester, Edward, and twin brothers, Frederick and Francis.

Funeral Director Gallman removed the remains to the home of his parents on South Fourteenth street. JUDSON T. SHINGLE, 71, died at his home, 1249 Greenwich after an illness of more than 18 months. Hcwas a retired Reading company employe, having been a mechanic for more vthan 56 years. He was a member of the Baptist denomination, the Knights of Malta and the P.

R. Relief association. Besides his wfdow Emma L. (Hoffman) Shingle, he is survived by six Judson, William, Florence Shingle, Emma, wife of Joseph Waughtel; Elizabeth, wife of Walter Schearer, all of this city; Rose, wife of Thomas Schaffer, Chester, two brothers, Keim Shingle, Chester, and Alfred Shingle, Ocean also 25 grandchildren and one great grandchild. LAURA A.

RIWSETT, 11, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Charles Riwsett, died at her home, 929 Birch early yesterday afternoon. She is survived by her parents and two sisters, Thel ma and Leona. Funeral, Director Cramp has charge. HARRISON DEETER, 72.

died at the County Home yesterday afternoon, a He is survived by one son, Emerson, and two grandchildren. He was a member of the P. O. S. of K.

G. and the Reformed denomination. Undertaker Lutz remove the body to his retaining rooms. BERKS AND VICINITY GEORGE W. GRUBER, 70, WOM ELSDORF, died at his' home from hemmorhages of the lungs.

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