PROHIBITION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19696, 25 January 1926, Page 9

PROHIBITION

ENFORCEMENT IN AMERICA. DOUBTFUL BENEFICIAL RESULTS. GENERAL ANDREW'S COMMENTS. DISOBEDIENCE OF THE LAW. f Frees Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK, January 22. General Andrews, in charge of Federal Prohibition Enforcement, addressing a number of prominent citizens cited numerous demoralisations which had followed the enforcement of the Act, cf which he doubted the beneficial results. “Prohibition,” he said, ‘‘has wiped out the source of the liquor supply, but not the demand ; so there has sprung up a new source of supply called ‘bootlegger.’ The latter is represented in the courts by the best legal talent. He is ‘rich beyond the dreams of avarice because of- the price you pay him. He bribes and corrupts Government agents. I don’t mean just policemen, I mean all the way up and down. You are financing a very real menace to society in nob obeying the law uersonally.’’ General Andrews advocated the determination of the true state d affairs by a scientific and statistical Congression investigation. • Mr R. Fulton Cutting, the financier, who presided, pleaded for obedience to the law until it was repealed saying; “This indifference to enforcement is gravely perilous. The subterranean practice, the hidden disobedience, and the questionable expedients employed to avoid exposure are a menace to the virility of American life.” Dr Jackson, State Commissioner of Education in New Jersey, addressing New Jersey school officials at Atlantic City, stated that pu-pila of the schools and students of Hie colleges in the United States were drinking proportionately as much liquor as adults. For this state of affairs he blamed the latter’s example.—A. and N.Z. Cable.