"A GREAT SUCCESS"

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 106, 6 May 1924, Page 7

"A GREAT SUCCESS"

PROHIBITION IN AMERICA

METHODIST BISHOP'S VERDICT.

(UNITED . PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIGIITO

(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) - ■ . , NEW YORK, 4th May.. The Board; of Bishops' address before the. American Methodist: Episcopal Communion at Springfield, Massachusetts, emphasised .the prediction^ that all" agitation to modify or repeal.the Prohibition' laws will fail, as formerly.. The bishops incidentally: advocated./ the: lifting of the ban on. dancing.i card,- playing; and theatre and circus-going, which hitherto had been forbidden. The address admits that the Prohibition laws are not pro.perly enforced, and . asks: "Does any thoughtful ■person'expect' otherwise in view of the fact Unit the liquor traffiewas legal for 150-years?": Prohibition lias become the permanent policy-of the American people, only two States are cot actively; supporting .the Eighteenth Amendment, and the best^ elements in those States feel: a natural humiliation. ." We:affirm that under all circumstances. the^Prohibitory law has. been a great success here, and tliero is as much prospect of- returning t 0 the practice of human slavery as to legal rum selling." ■ ° The address concluded with the observation that recent .years have brought us to a depression of ' deep moral standards, .which must concern I % erJ , J°ver .of , mankind, and declared -I ; that divorce is America's' chief scandal.'