PROHIBITION LAW.
DIFFICULTIES OF ENFORCEMENT, ALMOST COMPLETE BREAKDOWN NOT REGARDED AS BINDING. United Pres 3 Assn.—Elec. Tel. —Copyright. (Received March 11, 9.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 10. The New York Herald Tribune’s Washington correspondent states that Mr Hoover’s Law Enforcement Commission, in investigations • behind closed doors, which is separate from hearings going on before the House Judiciary Committee, has already collected astounding evidence of the almost complete breakdown of prohibition enforcement in many parts of the country. The evidence under consideration concerns not the congested courts, but the psychological effects of the efforts at enforcement upon sections of the population by whom the laws are not regarded as morally binding. The situation in the cities is said to have given rise to wholly dispassionate testimony concerning the difficulties of enforcement, which in many instances eclipse the shocking claims recently made public by the “wets” before the House Committea.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19300311.2.54
Bibliographic details
Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17966, 11 March 1930, Page 7
Word Count
148PROHIBITION LAW. Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17966, 11 March 1930, Page 7
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Waikato Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in