PROHIBITION
DIFFICULTY OF ENFORCEMENT
ALMOST COMPLETE BREAKDOWN
EVIDENCE AT INQUIRY
(United Pross Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright
NEW YORK, 9th March
The New York “Herald-Tribune’s” Washington correspondent states that President Hoover’s Law Enforcement Commission in its investigation behind closed doors which separate it from the hearings going on before the House Judiciary Committee, has already collected astounding evidence of an almost complete breakdown of Prohibition en-' forcemcnt in many parts of the country. Evidence' under consideration concerns not the congested courts but the psychological effect of tile efforts of enforcement on sections of the population by whom the laws are not regarded as morally binding.
The situation in the cities is said to have given rise to a wholly' dispassionate testimony concerning the difficulties of enforcement, which in many instances eclipse the shocking claims recently made publicly by “wets” before the House Committee.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 11 March 1930, Page 5
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