A VERY GOOD MAN

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11306, 4 September 1922, Page 6

A VERY GOOD MAN

HIS EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT PROHIBITIONIST FINED AND IMPRISONED FOR CONSPIRACY. THE JUDGE’S STRICTURES. NEW YORK, Alay 28. John T. Hettrick, author of the “code of practice” for use among contractors, and well-known anti-saloon leader, who oh Friday was found guilty with three other defendants of conspiracy in restraint of trade, was sentenced yesterday to pay a fine of 500 dollars, or to serve six months in the workhouse. Hettrick did not have that milch money with him in the courtroom when sentence was imposed by Supremo Court Justice Claude B. Alverson, and he had to send out to ® hank. The three other defendants, who received the same sentence, paid their fines immediately and left the courtroom. They were Charles G. Witherspoon, president of Baker, Smith and Co., Ntefunfitting contractors, and Alartin MeCue and John M. Tmhoff, walking delegates of Local 638 of Enterprise Association of Steamfitters and Plumbers.

“You were to blame as the originator of tho scheme,” said Justice Alverson in sentencing Hettrick. “You ought to have as an attorney, what you were doing. .You have already served time. It is my purpose, to, impose, a sentence which will act as a deterrent in similar situations.” Hettrick pot two years’ reformative treatment.—The “Now York Times,” Alay. 28th,, 1922. . THE HYPOCRISY OF AMERICA PUSSYFOOT JOHNSON”'ON WET SHUN ' THE POT CALLS THE KETTLE BLACK. „ ‘ . LONDON, July 8. On arrival at Liverpool in the Cunard liner “Scythia,” Pussyfoot Johnson told a “Daily Mail” reporter wily*, he had Srossedpthe Atlantic in a British wet ship" : father than in an American “dry” one. The American Shipping Board (a department of the Government), said Air Johnson, is openly defying the law irr hquor in American ship®. ut is nothing but a low-down bootlegging business. I knew the Cunarders were not dry, but they sell liquor according to British law and traditions.”—“Daily Mail,” July Bth, 1922. Wb do the same in New Zealand, where, by the grace of God, we will °°utmue Continuance and avoid the scandal, crime, and hypocrisy of prombition. ~ Published by arrangement. gso