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...Prohibition issue, however, is by no means so easily disposed of. By no means every Pennsylvanian is a Smedley Butler in his attitude toward the Volstead Act. Indeed it is Philadelphia which gave Representative Vare most of his support. The race was heralded beforehand as the first direct expression of popular opinion since the recent airing of views in Washington, and, three-cornered as it was, it seems inevitable that some of Mr. Vare's political prestige is recruited from the wet faction...
...gentleman thus tacitly found guilty was Colonel Alexander S. Williams, U.S.M.C., against whom Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler, until recently Chief of the Philadelphia police force, lodged charges of drunkenness. General Butler, who had been a guest at Colonel Williams' home, swore that later that evening he had been drunk in public at a hotel to which the party had gone. The defense produced witnesses who said the Colonel was not drunk, and offered medical evidence to show that he might have staggered because of illness. The Colonel did not testify in his own behalf...
...sooner has the gay countess moved the sympathies of some, the antipathies of others--and herself from Ellis Island than that rather noisy and erstwhile citizen of Philadelphia, Smedley Butler, returns to the printed page. His morals are far above those of the countess. She could not brook a lie; he cannot--brook a drink. And when, with courtesy and the savoir faire of the "old school" a gentleman and colonel serves cocktails at a dinner party in his honor, Smedley blushes and rushes to the duty of having him reprimanded by the higher powers. All this...
...vigor of his hypocrisy some preacher can halo another saint. For America in the glory of legalized morality has forgotten the spiritual depths as well as the heights which must be the experience of man. The rigors of reality cannot exist--they must be diluted by the discretion of Smedley Butlers, good men, indeed but never saints. For as has been recently stated not far from Harvard Yard--to be a saint one must have been a sinner. Yet all of this does not prevent the colonel from suffering the moral malignments of his superiors. The honored rights of host...
...soldier is General Smedley D. Butler of the Marines, the fighting police commissioner whom Mayor Kendrick found two years ago. He served as police commissioner for a year under leave of absence from the Marines. Then President Coolidge reluctantly extended his leave for another year?saying however that on Dec. 31, 1925, General Butler must return to the Marines. As the given date approached, it appeared that General Butler would leave Philadelphia. Mayor Kendrick announced that General Butler's assistant, George W. Elliott, would head Philadelphia's police. Last week General Butler changed his mind. He suddenly resigned his commission...