ENCOURAGING.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18674, 24 April 1926, Page 15

ENCOURAGING.

—•— PROHIBITION IN U.S.A. INTERESTING EVIDENCE. <B* CABLE—tafcilß ABiOCftttOK-^-CbCTBIGriT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z CABLE ASSOCIATION,) WASHINGTON, April 22. Superintendent tHnwiddie, of the National Temperance Bureau, testified before the Senate Committee that no one contended there had been a complete enforcement oi Prohibition, yet the results were encouraging. He claimed that the beer and liquor interests denounced the law on the ground that it tffetyrivfti them of personal liberty, and in the same breath they say they can get all they want anywhere, because the law is not enforced. Patrick Murphy, a bar-tender, testified that conditions were bad under the old saloon system. "I have seen man after man get killed going over the bordet States, but we have better conditions and better officials now than ever before. The arrests for drunkenness have increased since Prohibition, because nobody was ever arrested for drunkenness in the days of the saloons." Mayor Dover, of Chicago, denied that stilts were operating with the knowledge of the police. .He declared that the police were doing everything po4sibl& t<> clean up the city, with considerable effect.