PROHIBITION LAWS

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11657, 23 October 1923, Page 5

PROHIBITION LAWS

LAX ADMINISTRATION

PRESIDENT ASKED TO TAKE PERSONAL CHARGE. OFFICIALS UNFIT. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian aml N.Z. Cable Association. (Received October 22. 8.30 WASHINGTON, October 21. The recent movement among various bodies and individuals for the better enforcement of the prohibition laws continues to gro.w in strength. The Methodist Episcopal Temperance Board has issued a statement that NTr A. W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, and Alt I). H B!au. Commissioner of internal Revenue, are neither by conviction nor by inclination fitted for the responsibility of enforcing their duty. The board claims that Mr Haynes, Commissioner of Prohibition, would completely enforce prohibition if given the opportunity, and it calls upon President Coolidg© to take personal charge of the enforcement of the Volstead law. asking him to demand that American people obev’ prohibition, not only because it is law, but because it is the fixed American policy. The board also calls upon th«; Governor* to co-operate. Mr Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania, lias issued another statement, declaring that the States can do little, and the Federal Government must assume the chief burden. Charges are now being made that Pennsylvania is probably the “wettest” State in the Union.