AMERICAN PROHIBITION

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXII, Issue 58, 6 May 1924, Page 5

AMERICAN PROHIBITION

BISHOPS' OBSERVATIONS.

Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

New York, May 4

At Springfield, Massachusetts, the Board of Bishops' address before the American Methodist Episcopal communion emphasised the prediction that all the agitation to modify or repeal the prohibition laws will fail as formerly. The Bishops incidentally advocated lifting the ban on dancing, card playing, theat.ro and circus going, which had hitherto been forbidden.

The address admits that the prohibition laws are not properly enforced, and asks : Did any thoughtful person expect otherwise in view oi the fact that the liquor tra-Qic was legal lor 1.00 years? Prohibition has Become the permanent policy of tho American people. Only two States are not actively supporting the 18th amendment, and the best elements in those States feel natural humiliation. "We affirm that tinder all circumstances the prohibitory law has been a great success bore," adds the address. "America has as much prospect of returning to the practice of human slavery as to legal rum sell-

The address concluded with the observation that recent years have brought- us to a deep depression iri moral standards, which must concern <v-ery lover of mankind, and declared that divorce is America's chief scandal.