PROHIBITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17009, 16 April 1926, Page 7

PROHIBITION.

LIQUOR LAW IN AMERICA

HOW IT HAS BEEN ADMINISTERED

lElec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn., (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) WASHINGTON, April 14. Senator Andrews, before the Senate Committee, said he believed a modification of the Federal Enforcements ■Act to encourage mild alcoholic beyerflges would aid prohibition enforcement. He estimated that about 1,720,C0D stills are now operating in capacity each of 40 gallons daily.

Cross-examined, he stated his opinion that as a,man and a Citizen the present conditions for home distilling were seriously injurious to the morals of (he home. i Figures introduced showed that the number of stills seized had ' increased from 95,930 in 1921 to 172,557 in 1925. Senator Andrews admitted he had often hired informers . from , the underworld to obtain evidence. Senator Reed, .the only “wet” committeeman, declared -that some laws coiild be more criminal, than .crimp. The old. English law permitting the hanging of a man for killing a. rabbit was more criminal than the act. Anyone who held a contrary opinion was heartless, allowing enthusiasm to rise to the point of insanity. . , SOBRIETY PER RIFLE. • MORALS .AND MAXIMS . DEATH PENALTY FOR THIRST. ' NEW r YORK. April 7. ' Under such; headings' as “Join the Tank Corps and-Tank. Up,’’ and “Join the Marines and See Night) CluW’ tlie press is poking fun n,t Henry Ford’s (Declaration that prohibition can be enforced, and that the Army and Navy should he used to halt the .illegal traffic in drink. ’ The Wets are just now in the throes of a debate with the Drys before a suß-committee of the U.S. Senate, and the Burden of their argument is that prohibition is a farce because it cannot be enforced. In support of this contention they quote reams of statistics showing the enormous amount of alcohol consumed in the States since the passing of the prohibition, law. , , Ford l maintains that prohibition can be enforced, and,, further)* declare# that, as it is the law of the land,,it should be enforced! rigorously. , ... The press points out that .Ford’s plan is equivalent to placing the country under martial law. (Aic paper declares “It is suggestions 'of this nature that '■ause us to wonder whether, , in our do-’ sire to be a sober people, we are not- in grave danger of losing our sober senses.” Another says: “Ford’s suggestion is nothing but a flivver.” \ ■■ ‘ ’