PROHIBITION IN AMERICA.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17634, 11 December 1922, Page 8

PROHIBITION IN AMERICA.

* ENFORCING THE LAW. PRESIDENT HARDING'S DECLARATION. (By Caole—Press Association—Copyrigiht.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received December 10th. S£ p.m.) WASHINGTON, December 8. In his message to Congress President Harding emphatically called on the nation to uphold the Prohibition AmendVment. Declaring that the conditions relating to the enforcement of the law savoured of a nation-wide scandal, he denounced those who would break down the Prohibition law as breeding contempt for the law, which would ultimately destroy the Republic. He asserted that the Prohibition enforcement problem was the most demoralising factor in American public life. The President predicted that the Prohibition amendment would never be repealed. He intended to call a conference of State Governors to work out deifinite policies for administering the law. LIQUOR FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES. MEDICAL ASSOCIATION'S REQtTEST. (Received December 10th, 11.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, December 9. The American Medical Association, which recently approved of the use of whisky medicinally, has asked Mr A. W. Mellon, Secretary of Commerce, to permit a physician to prescribe more 1 than one pint of whisky per patient every ten days. It hae also asked the Government to arrange for chemists' shops to be supplied with bonded liquors exclusively, as a guard against inferior deleterious liquor which hitherto physicians have ofttimes only been able to obtain, none other being available save through purchase from illicit sources. Mr Mellon promised to take the matter into consideration.