"WETS" AND "DRYS."

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 95, 23 April 1926, Page 7

"WETS" AND "DRYS."

CASE FOR PROHIBITION. WHY ARRESTS INCREASE. ENCOURAGING RESULTS. (By Cat>le.—Press Association.—Copyright.) '...--*". (Received 1.30 p.m.) ■••'. "■'■: ._ WASHINGTON, April -22.. -' Mr. E. C. Dinwiddle, superintendent of tbe National Temperance Bureau, testifying before the Judiciary Committee.of the Senate, stated that nobody contended there had been complete enforcement of prohibition, yet the .results were encouraging. * ' - . Mr.' Dinwiddie claimed that .the representatives of the liquor interests berate the Volstead law on the ground that it deprive)? people of personal liberty, and in the same breath say they can get all tlie liquor tbey want* anywhere because the law is not enforced. Mr. Pat Murphy, a former bartender in Kentucky, testifying to the bad conditions uinder the old saloon system, said he had seen man after man shot and killed'going over the borders of tbe States, but under prohibition they had better conditions and better officials than ever before. Arrests for drunkenness had increased since prohibition because nobody was ever arrested for drunkenness in the [days of .saloons. Mr. Deyer, Mayor of Chicago, denied lhat stills were operating witb the knowledge of Chicago police, and declared the authorities were doing everything possible to clean up the city with considerable effect.—(A? and N.Z.)