LIQUOR IN AMERICA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19234, 25 January 1926, Page 9

LIQUOR IN AMERICA.

ENFORCING PROHIBITION. CASES OF DEMORALISATION. A. and N.Z. NEW YOKK. Jan. 22. General Andrews, who is in charge of the United States prohibition enforcement department, addressed a number of prominent citizens. He cited numerous instances of demoralisation which h© said had followed the Enforcement Act. He said he doubted its beneficial results. "Prohibition has destroyed the source of liquor supply," said the speaker, "but not the demand. So there has sprung up a new source of supply called the bootlegger. The latter has been represented in the Courts by the. best of legal talent. He is rich beyond the dreams of avarice, because with tho price he is paid he bribes and corrupts Government agents. "I do not mean just policemen. I mean all the way up and down. Yon are financing a very real menace to society in not obeying the law." General Andrews advocated a determination of the true state of affairs by a scientific and statistical investigation by Congress. Mr. R. Fulton Cutting, a financier, who presided, pleaded for obedience to the law until it had been repealed. "This indifference to the enforcement of the law is gravely perilous," he said. "The subterranean practice, the hidden disobedience, the questionable expedients which are emplo3 r ed to avoid exposure constitute a menace to tho virility of American life." Dr. Jackson, State Commissioner of Education, addressed the officials of the New Jersey school at Atlantic City. He said pupils at the schools and colleges in the United States were drinking proportionately as much liquor as adults. For this he blamed the example set by the adults.