PROHIBITION LAW

Evening Star, Issue 18393, 29 September 1923, Page 3

PROHIBITION LAW

ENFORCEMENT DIFFICULTIES.

CALL TO THE CHURCHES. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, September 27. Several interesting matters relative to Prohibition occurred to-day. The City Commissioners of Washington sent a demand to the United States Commissioner of Prohibition, whoso headquarters are in Washington, requesting that ho should discharge several of his agents, who are charged with accepting bribes from the bootleggers and asking that a greater effort should bo made to enforce the Prohibition law in the city.

The Federal Council of Churches, representing _ all the Protestant ecclesiastical bodies in America, called, upon its membership to get behind the movement and compel the authorities to enforce Prohibition. The council declared that unusual _ laxity exists among those whoso duty it is to enforce the law, and church organisations must revive the war against liquor which tho churches fought five years ago. The council hopes also to enlist all the Jewish organisations in this campaign.

Regular and special juries in New York City, with a calendar of 402 cases of violations of tho Prohibition laws, returned indictments against only two persons, dismissing the remainder. The judge, in dismising tho juries, declared that the greatest menaces to law and order in America are Communism and the situar tion created by the Prohibition laws.—A. and N.Z. Cable.