FOR PROHIBITON

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2506, 20 March 1930, Page 5

FOR PROHIBITON

TWO NOTED AMERICANS STRIKING EVIDENCE BEFORE THE INQUIRY By Telegraph-Press Assn-Copyright I Aust. and N.Z. Cable) (Received March 10, 9.55 a.m.) Washington, March 19. The ex-Scuretary of the Navy, Mr Daniels, testifying before t.he Prohibition Committee of the House, said there was but <>ue alternative t<> national prohibition and that was the return to the old saloon system, “with, its heart breaks and its products of drunkenness and poverty.” He admitted there were inperfections in prohibition, but it was preferable to the saloon. Dp decried light wines and beers ns a solution, declaring that most anti-prohibitionists “wish their drink to have a. kick in it.”

Mr Horace Taft brother of ex-Pre-sident Taft and head of a noted boys’ school, testified thatTTis brother, while at first doubtful of prohibition, la ter found the results “glorious.” Witness said th o public schools showed the benefit of prohibition.