“I DON’T KNOW HIM.”

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18499, 21 February 1930, Page 9

“I DON’T KNOW HIM.”

American’s Amusing Reply.

NO KNOWLEDGE OP HENRY FORD (United Press Association—By Electric Tel egr aph—Copyright t.) (Received February 20, 9.25 p.m.) NEW YORK, February 20. Mr Grayson Murphy, director of several large business corporations in New York city, told the House Judiciary Committee, which is holding open prohibition hearings, that he did not know a leading financier, banker, Industrialist, or manufacturer, who did not break the dry laws. Representative Michener said: “Well, how about Henry Ford?” “I do not know him,” witness replied amid gales of laughter from the packed committee room. According to Senator McKellar,* who made the charge in a letter to the members of Nashville (Tennessee) bar, prohibition has never been enforced, because the Secretary of the Treasury “has never really tried to enforce it,” nor has any President, except for political reasons, “been really interested in its enforcement.”

Senator McKellar says: “I am opposed to any weakening of the prohibition law. Whenever we have a President, who is sincerely in favour of this law’s enforcement, it will be enforced, as well as other Federal laws.”