MENACE TO SOCIETY

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 19, 23 January 1926, Page 6

MENACE TO SOCIETY

AMERICAN BOOTLEGGER

ADULT DISOBEDIENCE TO LAW.

SETS EVIL EXAMPLE TO YOUTH.

(UMTID TOKIS AMOCUTIO*—MmiOBT.) («s;iuiiii.K§ir uiuro oitu umcutioi,)

(Beceived 23rd January, 9 a.m.)

NEW YOBK, 22nd January.

General Andrews, the oflieer in charge of the Federal Prohibition Enforcement Organisation, addressing a number of prominent citizens, cited numerous cases of demoralisation, following the enforcement of the Volstead Act, of which he doubted whether the results were beneficial. "Prohibition," he said, "has wiped out the source of liquor supply, bift not the demand, so there has sprung up a new source of supply, called the bootlegger. The bootlegger is represented in Court by the best legal talent. He is rich beyond the dfeamg of avarice, because of the price you pay him. He bribe* and corrupts Government agents. I don't mean just policemen; I mean all the way up and down. You are financing a very real menace to society in not obeying the law." Personally, General Andrews advocated the determination of the true state of affairs by a scientific and statistical congressional investigation. Mr. E. pulton Cutting, the financier, who presided, urged obedience to the law until it wai repealed. This indifference to enforcement," he said, "is gravely perilous. The subterranean practice of hidden disobedience and the questionable expedients employed to avoid exposure menace the virility of American life."

In the meantime, Dr. Jackson, State Commissioner of Education, addressing the New Jersey school officials, at Atlantic City, stated that the pupils of the schools and colleges of the United States were drinking proportionately as much liquor, as adults. For this he blamed the example s«t by the adults.