PROHIBITION ISSUE

Evening Star, Issue 19229, 21 April 1926, Page 4

PROHIBITION ISSUE

ENFORCEMENT EVIDENCE REFERENPUM IN NEW YORK. Preta Association—By Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, April 20. (Received April 21, at 12,5 p.m.) Bishop M'Dowell, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, testified the Senate Committee. He said that the proposition to amend the existing taw, was made on behalf of the bootleggers, the booze dealers, and the booze consumers, who had steadily broken the laws established by due process. Pr Wilson, a member of the Methodist Board of Temperance, declared that there was a conspiracy to import aliens into the United States to violate the liquor laws. Ho said that between 50 and 85 per cent, of tho violators were aliens. Dr Barton, of the Southern Baptist Convention, denied that Prohibition was ruining the youth of tho nation.He said: “My observation has convinced me that it is not so much the juvenile flapper as the grown-up flapper who needs attention.” Tho progress of the inquiry shows that the “ drys ” are concentrating against New York, where the State Legislature has now passed a Bill authorising a referendum. —A. and N.Z. Cable.