PROHIBITION IN U.S.A.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 January 1926, Page 7

PROHIBITION IN U.S.A.

tXTRA EDITION.

ENFORCING THE ACT. SOME OF THE CONSEQUENCES. CULT OP THE BOOTLEGGER. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received; Jan. 23. 13.36 a.m.) NEW YORK, .Tan. 22. General Andrews, who is in. charge of the Federal prohibition enforcement forces, addressing a number of prominent citizens, cited numerous cases of demoralisation which had followed the enforcement of the Act, of which he doubted the beneficial results. “Prohibition,” he said, “has wiped out the source of the liquor supply, but not the demand, so there has sprung up a new source of supply, called the bootlegger. The latter is represented in the courts by the best legal talent. He is rich beyond the _ dreams of avarice, because of the price you pay him. He bribes and corrupts Government agents. I don't mean just policemen; I mean all the way up and down. YotV-are financing a very real menace tOy-fsociety in not obeying tire law.” Personally, General Andrews advocated the determination of the true state of affairs by a scientific and statistical Congressional investigation. Air R. Fulton, who presided, pleaded for obedience to the law until it was repealed, saying: “This indifference to enforcement is gravely perilous. The subterranean . practice, hidden d’sobedience and questionable expedients employed to avoid exposure are a menace to the virility of American life. ’ ’ Dr Jackson, State Commissioner _ of Education in New Jersey, addressing New Jersey school officials at Atlanta City, stated that the. pupils of the schools and colleges in the _ United States were drinking proportionately as much liquor as adults. For this state of affairs he blamed the latter’s example.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.