LAW ENFORCMENT.
LIQUOR IN UNITED STATES. (United Press Association—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, March 25. Mr G. W. Wickersham (ex-Attorney-General of the United States) asserted that ho favours a modification of Ihe Jones Act, due to the opinion that effective, enforcement would never be accomplished by placing extreme penalties on minor violators. He told the Senate Judiciary Committee, in testimony just published, that the Jones Act covered offences "indiscriminately under the classification of felonies with the exception of possession and maintaining a nuisance." This, he stated, was contrary to what he regarded as "a sound legislative policy." He added: "I do not think you can ever enforce laws -more effectively by putting extreme penalties on minor violations. The ' dry ' laws could be measurably enforced, although human appetite was widespread."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 140, 26 March 1930, Page 5
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