AID TO HEALTH.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18669, 19 April 1926, Page 9

AID TO HEALTH.

FftfKtißrnaN w vj. STJPJ*OBTBBB» CLAMS. (bt cuw—nasi k»ioaumm rcmamwij (ivsnuuur jjto 1.8. aims ABtocurtowJ (Received April Idth, &6 pjsj WASHINGTON, April 1«. 'fl)ry" wiineaees, testifying before the Senate Committee, daimed raocen for Prohibition. Dr. Haven, ©peaking for the Federal Council of Churches, declared that Prohibition had brought social and economic biasings. He asserted thai the "Wots" were acting for the brewer* m seeking a. modification of the lav. A former Health Commissioner of New York had declared that Prohibition h«<* aided health in the largest city of t*.* United States. There were fewer deaths from alcoholism in 19J1 whew liquor was not readily accessible than there were now. Mrs Green, a member of that Cleveland City Council, claimed that the law had reduced drunkenness, aided morality, decreased crime, and eneocraged children to right living. Mr Lee Beatty, a social worker, claimed that a former New York atom was now a dean and healthful oootniunity. due to Prohibition. Seven hundred and fifty churches, representing seventeen danonrinitioaa, presented a resolution pledging support for the tightening of tho present enforcement regulations. TREATY WITH BMTABf. OBSTACLE TO StRNrSUMt. Cssuna's Ttt,nmnl (Received April 18th, 5.6 p.*o WASHINGTON, April 16. State Department officials at* considering the question of propcang a> new liquor treaty with Great Britain. The Department's propoal n«• place another stumbling block in tb» path of the rum smugglers by aapp}a» menting the liquor treaty with Britain to prevent the exportation front *• British lata of liquor intended for H» Rum Bow. An informal oonfereooe. ban bet* W* between the State Department ajad British o&Vnab a* which tho grown*-, work; for aneh negotjatioaa wow Ml and if President OooUdge approv**, » is planned to eead a mwaion to La*> don to frame a treaty. It is believed that the administration n prepared to enter i*fc» t> >•* oiprocajl agreement wift Britain t» prohibit the exportatioii from the United States of any P 0 * 8 *«*»**•**• be contraband; by other G*»t|*taeijta. It ia slao understood that the Probiaafeion officials are soaking a» permitting Aw**** oOriale te seven ships in the British West Indjss. GttffMNPS EKPBSIBWCB. Uuaraisj**; *■» *•*• W** MWiiiaswt (Beoeived April 18*, U-fipJ** WASHINGTON, Afrit *. Mr W- 9»wsy, former Attorn* 0— oral, of Ontario, told tb* few* «g» mittoe that the Mtffrtm *» W* beer in Ontario had bew*» fritae. Jm Wets were dipetiafied beoanao it w» insufflraeflt, and' tip. "B!J? ,, •*■•■"* it due to ita weakening effect anepforwnent. Tio experiment wmm Canadian pwrrinoaa wrik «• "•■'J*" ment distribution of bard Injwar MM likewise, fallen into *«repn*n. H» charged Quebec with foatnring drWfc* ing habit* «roong the People, tnflw than then, Tho receoi noiioo invettigafeaa » Montreal feas retted ■",«'J;" t oonditiqns jn connexion wi* drinkiaf, prostitotion, and <h« ngpfotfen ? f crime and wrongdoing, OMPMnN» for rioUtioM of tti H»eotM Act «]p> ing ItlH numbered W in Britiab 0* umlri*, and m to QMt«v •* JE (JovorwPfwt cmtwlW, ▼■?■♦» yw ware «d* 100 in Oitario» »••• iPPf was Prohibition. Ba «id tt»* Mm* tob**! QMI popoUi*w bad www when the regnWiona had F**P«*** Prohibition. Professor Irving lister, *• fnw Ihtiversity afcoaomis*, said thax> fc»» hibrfcion bad eraatad a detot ****** ♦rnpng *• poU«(D> atnaefta, b«t M sftTfti «W United fitetei Wfl»M» dollars merely through inawafwj *w*»v irial enargy. Therefore It ab4*M to retained.