ENGLAND’S WAY BEST
TEMPERANCE PREFERRED TO PROHIBITION U.S.A. COMMISSIONER’S VIEW NEW YORK, Monday. Five thousand social workers at Boston were astounded by a statement made by Mr. G. W. Wickersham, ex-Attorney-General, now a member of the Law Enforcement Commission appointed by President Hoover. After an address, in which he avoided the prohibition question, Mr. Wickersham suddenly resumed speaking. He declared with measured deliberation that the English system . oi: promoting temperance by education and restriction of the sale of liquor was far more effective than the American system of absolute prohibition. The audience applauded heartily when Mr. Wickersham stated that prohibition had failed owing to the overstressing of the penalties and the disregard of education. The speaker concluded his first public statement on the question by saying: “All this furnishes a very cogent suggestion as to better methods of attaining the object of the 18th Amendment than those which in the past decade have been pursued.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 995, 11 June 1930, Page 9
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