"WETS" AND "DRYS"

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 96, 24 April 1926, Page 9

"WETS" AND "DRYS"

CASE FOR PROHIBITION.

A GENERAL'S EVIDENCE

BUM RUNNING UNPROFITABLE

(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyr'ffßtJ (Received 12 noon.) WASHINGTON, April 23. Xhe judicial committee of the Senate ■-rhicb is inquiring into the working of the Volstead law, again called Mr. Dever, Mayor of Chicago. Mr. Dever criticised some of the judges who do not believe in prohibition, and said that in those sections where the people do not believe in the law even the judges refuse to enforce it. This is the case in certain sections of Chicago, and there no man can be elected if he favours the Volstead Act. Mr. Dever complained that prohibibition is a too absorbing topic. He said the attention of the people is engrossed morning, noon, and night. It is almost impossible to give good government when everyone is immersed in this question. It takes too much of our time. General Lincoln Andrews, chief executive officer for prohibition, in a further testimony, stated that satisfactory application of the law could not be fully effective until Congress adopted the strong legislation he had proposed. He claimed that the coastguard had made liquor running unprofitable. He hoped that the illegal manufacture of liquor would also be made unprofitable (A. and N.Z.)