PROHIBITION LAW
ASTOUNDING EVIDENCE.’ DIFFICULTIES OF ENFORCEMENT. PRESIDENT’S COMMISSION.. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received March 11, 9.5 a.m. NEW YORK, March 10. The New York Herald-Tribune’s Washington correspondent states : “President Hoover’s Law Enforcement Commission, which is distinct from the hearings going on before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, has already collected astounding evidence of the almost complete breakdown of prohibition enforcement in many parts of the country. “Tho evidence under consideration concerns not the congested courts, but the psychological effects of the efforts of enforcement upon sections of the population, by whom the laws are not regarded as morally bounding. “The situation in the cities is said to have given rise to wholly dispassionate testimony concerning the difficulties of enforcement, which ; in many instances, eclipses the shocking claims recently made publicly by the “wets” before the House committee.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 88, 11 March 1930, Page 7
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