"WET" OR "DRY"

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16210, 7 December 1926, Page 5

"WET" OR "DRY"

AMERICA'S PROBLEM NATIONAL REFERENDUM (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received December 7, noon). WASHINGTON, Dec. C. In ihe House of Representatives, Mr. Gnllivan, a Democrat representing Massachusetts, introduced a resolution to-day proposing a national referendum on prohibition.

BREAD AND WATER DIET CURE FOR LIQUOR OFFENDERS. NEW YORK. Oct, 24. Tho newspapers throughout, Nebraska and the Middle West have suddenly become highly indignant over the custom of Judge Chatt, of Tekamah, Nebraska, in sentencing law violators to 20 days on bread and water. Although Judge Chatt has been imposing such sentences for five years, the public has only just been aroused to demand an end to what it declares to bo "silly sentences." In defence of his cure fw drinkers. Judge Chatt contends that of nearly 100 men who have served such a sentence only one has been arrested a second time, and that after serving his second term this man left the country. Before beginning their bread and water diet the prisoners are examined by a physician, who,visits them twice a week during its term. . ,

j Particular indignation has been aroused over the imposition of tho penally on Roy Corson, who, his friends insist, is ! under weight and unable to stand the scanty fare. They apparently are much more concerned than Corson, who, after the first day with only a loaf of bread and a jug of water, declared: "I don't feol so bad;'.l'm used to a.light diet, anyway." JUDGE, TO TRY BREAD.. AND WATER.' Judge Bryant, of Omaha, Nebraska, who has achieved nation-wide notoriety by sentencing bootleggers to a bread and water diet, has announced that he will take a dose of Jus own medicine ami live on bread and water for a week. Mr. Bryant's treatment of liquor law violators has acted as a powerful deterrent to bootlegging operations in his district, but it is denounced as cruel and inhuman, one prisoner being so weakened that the sentence was set aside by doctor's orders. Mr. Bryant, who is 75 years of age, says that he is not afraid to try the experiment, and if lie is not convinced by the end of a week lie will continue for another week