Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1923, Page 3

o THE EVENING: STAR, WASHINGTON, of intoxicating liquors. Government officials say this is absurd. The; argue fhat the number of addicts hasn’t increased very much, but that the prosecutions have been more vigorous because at last Congress has appropriated enough money to en- force the law against peddlers of narcotics. There s a feeling also that the publicity which some newspapers D. O, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1923. : |POLICE PHONE SERVICE WILL BE SPEEDED UP | Belleveing that the most efficlent | telephone service possible should be rendered by police department oper- ators, Commissioner Oyster announced that he has taken steps to improve switchboard service at headquarters. The Commissioner sald he experi- 3 About 1,100 kinds of insects make their homes in oak trees. enced delay in getting _detective headquarters several nights ago and that he has conferred with police officlals with a view to speeding up the operators in answering calls, “When_cltizens call police head- quarters,” said the Commissioner, “they, usually are In a hurry and should get a prompt response. A person may need help, and if they do, they need it quickly.” Counsel for Prosecution—Well we']l admit that he was insane when he selected his counsel—Lawyer and Banker. FLAT TIRE? MAIN 500 U. S. to Fight Bobtleggers So Long As Dry Law Stands First Mortga;e Loans; Lowest Rates of Interest and Commission, J. Leo Kolb 923 New York Ave. Noonday Lenten Services Enforement To Be Rigid and Success Is Believed Certain Within 10 Years. Hard Liquor Considered Banned Forever. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. (This is the last of a series of seven @rticles written after an exhaustive study % : Haynes Disputes Figures. of the prohibition question, In which Presi- | foreing the law agalnst the friends| poyinates have been printed from dent Warding, Prohibition Commissioner | Of political leaders or even offictals. Rov Haynes, i Attorney General | President Harding stands back of | time to time that the number of drug TED BY Wiliebrand, oI Wheeler of the Lommlsn;flner Haynes and the latter | users run from 750,000 to 5,000,000. CONDUC nti-Saloon A pt. . H. Sta pursues s nthu- of 1t ol Ansacintion’ Opposed to | SarteS, BIRAASK Wiih all the e Mr. Haynes, the prohibition commis- LS. S Prohibition and other leaders submitted to iciisr) wiio aisc enforoas the liwion Dr. L. S. Stone private interviews with the writer and gave their eandid opinions on law enforce- ment und the outlook.) may vary as to what the American people some day will| do about legalizing the sale of beer and light wines—every one can make his own prophesy of what public sen- timent is likely to be five or ten years hence—but there is no doubt, no such uncertainty over what the federal uncertainty, over what the federal ing America dry so long as the elght- amendment and the Volstead Predictioffs has some| sed on an ex- Harding hts of his own, b e of many years In politi aling with the “wet’ and “d question in all its phases from local option and temperance to absolute prohibition. He has voted “dry” right along, but it cannot be said that he log t prohibition from the narrow or inflexible viewpoint of a partisan. He recognizes the human side of the | auestion, and hence his opinions are | without prejudic | Will Crave Hard Liquor. { The 1 dent think | never in hard liquor legally 80ld. He doesn’t think a modification of existing law to permit beverages of between 2 and 3 per cent of alco-! holic content would do_away with il- licit traffic in whisky. The craving of { some people for hard liquor, good or bad, will never be satisfied by lighter beverages. The President believes certain of the large cities will take longer to subdue than the rest of the country and t liquor will continue to be sold in_ violation of the law in such places for some time to come: in fact, until some shocking scandal, some poisoning of larke numbers of citizens through bad liquor awakens the com- munities to their s of responsi- bility for law enforcement. Question Stays tn Politics. Mr. Harding doesn’t think the liquor question will ever be taken out of| American politics. He once thought it _would. He has found t with an amendment to the federal Constitution, the subject is still poMti- | cal and borcs its way into campaigns | municipal d federal of- rrespeeti Harding hol forc stood i of par of du spect to law en- I I | i be accomplisched in 11920. 1 pull would get about as far with him as with the Anti-Saloon League itself if it ever came to a question of en- Mobile Forces Effective. Indeed, prohibition enforcement, Wwhich at first was looked upon as a half-hearted affair, is beginning to be taken seriously. ~Mr. Haynes has weeded out as much corruption {among his agents as he could in the ast year and knows there's more to that direction, but he also has learned more about handling a mobile force of men who can descend upon a locality, study its problem, make raids and arrests and | depart to another community while janother mobile force of agents ar- rives to continue the work. Success | has attended this policy and it will be kept up. Expert investigators are being developed and where there is the right kind of co-operation be- tween state and federal forces the clean-up will come sooner than most Dpeople expect. Public sentiment, of course, is the main obstacle in some states while in others It is the bulwark of law enforcement. The campaign of edu- ation will be kept up for the next several years in the hope that the business and professional men will radually cease to encourage illicit sale and recognize thelr obligation to uphold the structure of law and the Constitution. Wherever the speakers of the Anti-Saloon League as well as the government go, they address their appeals to the upper classes in the community—the poor man who was deprived of his beer believed to have adjusted himself to the situation while the richer citizen with his cel- lar supply being depleted is begin- ning_to deal more extensively with the “bootleggers. Plea for Law Upholding. It 1s a violation of law to buy from a bootlegger, a violation of law to have liquor in one’s possession which one didn't have prior to January, How long will the law con: tinue to be disregarded? Ant! loon speakers by the hundreds are filling the churches every Sunday and appealing to public sentiment. They no longer argue whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing, but that anarchy and bolshevism Wwill re- sult if the majesty of the law isn't upheld. Prosecutions are being carried on relentlessly. Plenty of funds are allable for the purpose. The states are being brought into closer co-op- eration with the federal government every day. President Harding has not made an empty gesture in his call for a conference of governors. He plans to acquaint them with the main tasks that lle ahead and he has re- ed assurances in person from all of the governors that they will follow the lead of the fed- eral government. | have given to the dope question has increased to some extent the users of dope because of the inevitable ef- fect of lurhl stories on the imagina- tion of weak-minded people. Govern- ment officials think there has been altogether too much said in print about dope and that mefe harm than good is done by the argument that painting the evtls is @ preventive. They think it works the other way and tempts mhny who would other- wise never hear about drugs. narcotics, says his experts believe there are not more than 500,000 to 750,000 in the whole United States. There are two classes—the criminal who must be taken care of in insti- tutions and the business and profes- sional class who must be cared for by physicians, relatives and friends. The courts are beginning to deal very severely with dope peddlers. Sen- tences have been as high as twenty years per individual. Limitation of production of dope is another legls- lative policy which is expected to help the drug situation. The craving for drugs and for liquor is held to be separate and dis- tinet. Officlals in the Department of Justice say they cannot accept the theory that prohibition has increased the number of drug addicts because liquor has not been so scarce In the last two years that a man with a desperate thirst couldn't find a “boot- legger” somewhere or even make some if he needed it. Success in Ten Years. It has taken seven years to make the government enforcement ma- chinery efficent in handling the drug traffic. Many prohibition officials think it will take seven years to handle the liquor problem as well. Prohibition Commissioner Haynes thinks the peak of “bootlegging’ has been reached and that in ten years America will be relatively’ dry, that is violations of the liquor laws will be reduced to the same level as viola- ns of other laws such as th assault and fraud. isver: . Confessions of ‘the ring-leaders in ‘bootleg” operations are already help- Ing the government. By turning state’s evidence to save their own skins, some criminals hav. implicated othe The government is constantly after the “bootlegger higher up.” Once he s squelched the little fellow will be unable to get a regular suppl The increasing dangers of “bootleg- gers.” the chances of blackmail, the hazards taken in attempting to bribe officials who may at any moment b, tray the violators of the law, all this doesn make the profit worth the risk, especially if good liquor becomes scarce and the public gets fe diluted or poisoned whisk! cutting down the volume of purchase: ‘ | B. F. Keith’s Theater | 12:30 to 1 O’Clock SPEAKER TO‘MORROW Dr. Howard Kelly of Baltimore _ Every One Invited—No Collection —_———— of wines and beer can only be con- jectured. The. “wets” or “liberal as they like to call themselves, think absolute prohibition will bring back | a light beverage for table use. The! “drys" are convinced that once the| Jaw is enforced, the moral and eco- nomic benefits will become so deeply | impressed on the public mind that the ; majority will néver wish to turn back, and that even Europe, not from af sentimental viewpoint, but from stern economlic_ necessity, in order to com pete with dr: America, may s day be compelied to do what the w. taught many nations, namely, that restriction of the liquor trafiic begets | efficienc: This is a dry era in government. Few people in it expect change for Some ,time to come. The dominant thought is that America will get drier and drier year by year. With that objective In mind, the effort to en-| force the law_grows gradually more sincere and effective, at least on the | part of those who are charged with the specific responsibility for the job of making America dry. (Copyright, 1923.) Abe Martin Say Depends Upon Administration. America will get drier and drier if the next administration follows in the footsteps of the present administra- tion for a system of prosecution and enforcement is being built up which is bound to get results especially as the states lend their co-operation. Whatever one thinks about the mer- its of prohibition or about the wisdom FFRANK KELLY, FORMERLY OF Watch Pennsylvania Case. or unwisdm of the laws now on the Tiner & Huguely lics to_aunounce to The experiment in Penns: statute books, whatever one may hope many “friends (it he lay purchased 8n in- {being watched with particular inter- | for in the way of modification. ihe ferest in 2101 tor ' thie nar whic of Tuylor & Kell est by President Harding and the en- tire prohibition force of the govern- pleasant or unpleasant truth is the arm of the law s drawing closer and Somecs) r the same serv. | Ment. Pennsylvania is densely popu- | closer and with the assistance of a D e f 2 the past aud jlated. Gov. Pinchot has asked the|changing publ iment in many earnestly sob s legislature to p. drastic enforce- communities is making substantial v 4 T TUES- | ment laws. They may become models | progress. 2 Tl corner of 2rd and Indidna ave. | for other states to copy. nw Community ize at and own their own worksl cinity House, p and to organ. | | [ ] L] S = 5 |th i > Presi - l T Wikl SOt i ANY | violators of the Volstead law. Pro- | .moossible to thousands of people in like t’ see our Presidents ap a I l ll le ua 1 il v {hibition Commissioner Haynes makes | TPO5S peop pointed. i *|frequent trips to Pennsylvania and |Wet states. But it came. Enforce- % e = HARRIS, 1831 | SPeaks to business and trade bodles|ment looks similarly impossiblé to] What if women had t’ pay as| “26¢" | and other important gatherings there, | many of the same people. But It, too, CMARCH MARCH 1 MARCH 1 MARCH 2 MARCH 23 ERIE . ATLANTIC CTTY AND POINT ROU COMPANY, INC., % on your savings. of all kinds: able. KNO designing: « $1 4 share a month. Under the e BOWAE OF tho Leduiat sons 9, 2 — T et mo” Won 1 Gehy | STRMeRt, when it i once exerted, and her,” president; W. 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