"A Notable Exception"

It was 1926 and Prohibition was still being enforced. Apparently, E.S. Gaddis, Acting Superintendent of something or other had written a previous letter to the editor of the Advertiser complaining about the lack of adherence to the Volstead Law on the four islands he had visited while making his rounds of the 5 big islands. However, after visiting Molokai, the last island on his rounds, he praised Kalaupapa as the "near Sahara dry spot of all the Hawaiian Territory".

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What was the "Volstead Law"?

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