Good Moral Character for Saloonist is Defined

Article taken from The Coshocton Morning Tribune, January 30, 1915

The state liquor license commission defined "good moral character" for the first time in a decision announced Friday morning in the case of Louise M. Dietel, of Portsmouth, for a renewal of a saloon license. The Scioto county commissioners rejected the application of Dietel and he appealed to the state commission. The county commissioners were upheld an Dietel is put out of the saloon business. In deciding the case the state commission was called up to define its meaning of the law as regards good moral character, and in its decision says: "A license who carries on his place of business in heedless disregard of the laws intended to regulate his conduct of that business, who conducts a noisy and disorderly place to the annoyance of the community, and is so intemperate in his conduct as to brutally, maliciously, and humanly assault a parton of his place in business, lacks the necessary character to entitle him a renewal of a license and is not a fit person to be entrusted with the same."