ENFORCEMENT OF PROHIBITION.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19889, 28 March 1930, Page 13

ENFORCEMENT OF PROHIBITION.

NEW CANADIAN MEASURE

ESTIMATE OP ITS EFFECT.

(inn ted rasss associawox-bt nnrnrw TXLXGHAPH-yCOPXKIGOT.) (Received March 27th. 7.50 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Marvh 27. The enacting I.y the Canaduo Gwornment of the Liquor Clearance Lav may bring about the discard of bolder smuggling as being an important factor in Prohibition smuggling. This is the oninion of Treasury officials, cbo iut that while about the same Prohibition and Customs forces would be niintthr ed on the border after the BilPs jbo»snge until its actual effect was knwra. the officials anticipate that a material reduction in personnel will take plans later. Agents will be transferred te other parts of the countrv. ootaUr Chicago and New York, while tbe Mgoing coastguard rraft now ob the Great Lakes will be transferred to tbe North Atlantic rum blockade. Ob the theory that as soon as one Prohibit io:i problem is solved another springs up in its place, officials anticipate that Canadian rum smugglers will transfer their activities to the North Atlantic, with headquarters at St. Pierre. Miquelon, or tbe Bnbwim. since Canadian liquor could be cleared legally to those places and then «•> shipped to the United States

EVIDENCE AT EXQUIKY. WASHINGTON, March 36At the conclusion of the House of Representatives' "Dry" bearing?. Ifir J. J. Lentz, president of the AoMikaa Insurance Union, testified that hibition had cut d«*n the death rate. He said during the •*». years prior to Prohibition. 1914 to 1919, a survey of 77 insurance cat pnnies shewed that the ittottoa ef actual to expected mortality was from 60 to 63 per rent., but the average for 1931 to 1927 was only from 53 tao 34 per cent. Dr. F. S. Mcßride. general ?sp«wtendent of the Anti-SaUxin staged: Prohibition is a It is popular, and can be enforced. Tip! answer to this "Wet" fnefiajr vtl Mine speedy pnatetnteflt by into Hir ctf the President's progrtmy, -wilfc such appropriations as trill gh» PfciK hibition a chance.

Mr Drury. ex-Premier el stated that Government control M failed to reduce drinking. Oisj^ifc - .. bootlegging in Canada, control is not a. remedy. Elttlire m Pr trol is indeed impossible. The Aajji Saxon temperament will not tfand fef the inquisition necessary pritst* affairs to establish any eftihf# Mih trol," he said. He gave extensive sUtisty yurporting to show an Increase in laaMiM in Ontario-