PROHIBITION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 6 May 1924, Page 5

PROHIBITION.

SUCCESS CLAIMED

VIEWS OF BISHOPS

■ BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT ■ ISEW YORK, May 4. ■ At Springfield, Massachusetts, the ■ Board of Bishops' address before the ■ American Methodist Episcopal Com- ■ munion emphasised the prediction that ■ all the agitation to modify or repeal ■ the prohibition laws will fail as tor- ■ merly. Tie Bishops incidentally advo- ■ <cated lifting the ban on dancing, card ■ playing, thea&re and circus going, which ■ liad hitherto been forbidden. ■ Hi© adaress admits that the prohibi■tion laws =are not properly enforced, ■and asks: Did any thoughtful person ■«xpeci ©therwise, in view of the fact ■that the Jiquor traffic was legal for ■150 years ? Prohibition has become ■the permanent policy of the American ■people. Only two States are not active■lj supporting the 18th amendment, and ■the best elements in those States feel Ihumiliation. ■^_"We affirm that under all circum--?the prohibitory law has been ■a great success here, 5' adds the ad'"America has as much prospect returning to the practice.of human as to legal rum selling." H^ The-address concluded with the obthat recent years have us to a deep depression in standards, which must concern very lover of mankind, and declared xiivorce is America's chief scandal.