AMERICAN PROHIBITION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20963, 28 February 1930, Page 9

AMERICAN PROHIBITION

'> A DEMAND FOR REPEAL I

RESPECT FOR LAW DESTROYED,

(United Press Association.) (By Electric ‘Telegraph— Copyright.)

NEW YOEK, February 26. ’ (Received Feb. 27, at ,10 p.m.) General W, W. Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania railroad, has made an appeal, in effect, to the business interests of the country to get rid of prohibition, basing the dfemand upon the ground that prohibition brought about universal disrespect for law and that anything destroying respect for the law “menaces the general security of the country.’*! Similar contentions were put forth personally or by letter f rom numerous prominent anti-prohibition-ists, including Senator Wadsworth and Dr Nicholas Murry Butler, president of Columbia University.

" A LEGT~ ATIVE FAILURE.” ,WASHINGTON, February 27. (Received Feb. 28, at 1.30 a.m.) The Rev. John Ryan, director of the Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Council, before the House Judiciary Committee asserted that as a result of the dry laws President Hoover and the members of the National Enforcement Commission had committed an excess in public utterances in trying to force a moral issue on the people. He added: “This noble experiment already belongs definitely to the category of legislative failures. When a determined and conscious majority of American people decide that they no longer want national prohibition they will find legal ways to end it, despite the undemocratic barrier elected by Tories, fanatics, autocrats and 'industrialists.”