Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1924, Page 10

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Nation-wide prohibition enforce- ment has broken down, by the testi- mong even of the friends of pro- hibition, Senator Edwards of New Jersey, democrat, declared in the Sen- ate today urging the adoption of his resolution calling for w senatorial investigation of the “national pro- hibition department.” His resolu- tion makes mention particularly of the recent shooting of Senator Frank L. Greene of Vermont while walking in Pennsylvania avenue durlug a bat- tle between prohibition agents and alleged bootleggers. “The clrcumstanc this deplorable affai Edwards, surrounding .snid Senator “the prominence and the tion of the innocent v , the geographical setting, and the criminal recklessness of the prohibi- tion agent and the bootleggers alike, make it stand out lik mountaln inst the sky. 1 have been waiting patiently for some one who advocates straight out prohibition or for some one who apologizes for the inexcusable ex- cesses of the law enforc t branch of the national prohibition depart- meut to take official cognizance of this latest evidence of contempt for the general public In the alleged effort to enforce 2 law that is not enforceable. Takes Initiative. I have waited in vain. Therefore, I have taken the Ini ‘e, 50 far as the Senate is concerned, and have in- troduced a resolution to Investigate the national prohibition department. Have we reached the point where it Is no longer safe for United States senators to walk along the principal thoroughfares of the nation's Capital clty? “Is the law to enforce the eighteenth amendment to the federal Constitution so much more sacred than the laws to enforce the other amendments that those charged with its enforcement may, without regard to the great third party—the public— engage in pistol duels with lawbreak ers, alleged or real, in places wher hundreds of people pass to and fro hours of the day and far into the night? “If T have read the news dispatches aright, the running pistol duel be- tween the prohibition agent und the suspected Dootleggers the 15th in- stant was not an exceptional occur- rence, but Is becoming typical of the methods pursued by the national pro- hibition department. There have been numerous stories In the public prints about similar running duels in thick- 1y populated and much traveled sec- tions ‘of our National Capital. The wonder has been that the lamentable tragedy, which has riveted the coun- try's attention on the unsavory situa- tion existing in our National Capital, was 5o long delayed. “Drunk With Pewer.” “It sometimes takes a great tragedy to shock people into their senses. If the inexcusably careless shooting of a United States senator will shock the law enforcement officials in the natfonal prohibition department into their senses, to the extent that in the future they will have more regard for the lives of innocent bystanders, it ‘wlu not have been altogether In val “However, If it be true that the only way we have of judging the fu ture is by the past, I am not sanguine that even this latest evidence of criminal recklessness and contemptu. ous disregard for human life will re. sult in bringing about a changed at. titude on the part of those in author- ity in the national prohibition de- partment. They seem to be drunk with power. And like all officials drunk with power they are intolerant rather than tolerant, narrow and cruel rather than broad and sympa- thetic, Pharisees rather than'Samari- tans. “One of the reasons I have given in my resolution why the national prohibition department should be in- vestigated is that it has been publicly charged in the house of its friends that it has broken down. This is a very serious charge. If true, it means that our national prohibition depart- ment is not functioning properly. The people are entitled to know whether the charge is founded in fact or in fiction. I would not have presumed to have asked the Senate to add to the number of investigations, either already under way or proposed, if the charges against the national prohibi- tion department had been made solely by anti-prohibitionists ltke myself. But when nationally known friends of prohibition and the Volstead act make the charge, an Investigation to ascertain the facts s, in my judg- ment, justified. Quotes Pinchot Speech. “On Sunday afternoon, October 14, 1923, before a mass mesting of dele- gates to a citizenship conference, fn the Central High Schoo} auditorium in Washington, D. C., Gov. Gifford Pinchot of Pennsyivania, one of the outstanding drys in the country, a republican, and incidentally mention- ed as a candidate for the presidency, delivered an address. He assured the world that prohibition can and will be enforced, had much praise for the - work done’ by the state police of Pennsylvania, had a kind word for the Department of Justice, but only criticism for the national prohibition department. For instance: “The elghteenth amendment has been betraved in the house of its friends. Measured by the Trespect ac- corded to it, it has failed, and the reason is that no sincere, intelligant and concerted nation-wide effort has ever been made to enforce ft." " Senator Edwards called attention, too, to a statement of Gov. Pinchot that prohibition agents were glving protection to brewers of Pennsylva nia and receiving $7 a barrel for this protection. ® quoted, too, from an article b: 1 Willlam Dudley Foulke in Good Gov, iernment, the organ o. the National Civil Service Reform League, which criticized severely Commissioner Haynes and the natlonal prohibition enforcement unit and declared that Haynes had put in the service “men Wwho have made his service & by- word of corruption an inefficiency.” Senator Warns Drys. Senator Edwards sald that the num- ber of prohibition agents and em- ployes has constantly been Increased, along with the appropriations for prohibition enforcement, and that the violations of the law have Increased also. He referred to charges that the fourth and fifth amendments to the Constitution, guaranteeing the people against unwarranted search and protection of life and liberty, are being flouted by prohibition enforce- ment agents. He sald: ‘The country ought to know of- ficially whether they are being flouted by the national prohibition depart- ment as has been charged. If the charges are false the sooner it is officially known the better for the na- tional prohibition department. If the charges are true the sooner it is of- fically known the better for the coun- try. . “There is no spectal sanctity about the eighteenth amendment. it {s an integral part of our Constitution and as such is the fundamental law of the land. But that is true of the other elghteen amendments, also. It is undemocratic, unpatriotic, and un- American to Single out ‘any one amendment for special observance, To enforce one amendment by violat. ing another is to commit a_crime against the Constitution. And I want to warn_those champlons of the eighteenth amendment who justify ! encroachments on the fourth or the | Afth or the fourteenth, on the ground i‘the end justifies the means, that they 1are riding to a fall.” i —_— Iron ore which possesses the prop- erty of attraction was called magnet by the Greeks because it was first found in Magnesia, in Asla Minor, 8cogrding ta sRe RCCOUDte THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1924. Abe Martin Says: Miss Bunny Moots is learnin’j a trade préparatory t’ her mar- riage next June. Mrs. Lafe Bud spoke t’ her milkman th’ other afternoon on th’ street, an’ he said, “Excuse me, but you've got th’ best o’ me.” (Copright Nationa! Newspaper Service.) Hogs Killed Yearly In U. S. Would Reach Twice Around Earth A double file of hogs around the world at the equator and a single unbroken lin€ from the north pole to the :outhern end of South America is the graphic picture presented by the Department of Agriculture of America's slaugh- ter of porkers last year. The department's statisticians calculate the 81,532,600 hogs killed for consumption would reach 61,- 770 miles if placed end to end. al- lowing four feet for each hog. The sama number, they add, if placed twenty-one abreast, would form a bristling lane from New York to San Francisco. BAND CONCERTS. This evening at 8:15 o'clock, at the United States Marine Institute Hall, 8th and I streets southeast, by the United States Navy Band Orchestra. Charles Benter, director. March, “The NC-4" Overture, “The Flute” Patrol, Grand’ scenes from the opera “Carmen”....... Fantasia, “Old Folks at Home and in Foreign Lands"” Traus., (“Way Down Upon the Swanee bber”),, Cormany, Ireland, Ttaly, .Bigelow c France, Scotland, ¥riedmann s Becthoven Mexican waltz, londrina” (The Excerpts from the popu- comedy, Romberg .Lope Banner”, Spanish ito’ Finale, gled Concert by the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Oruhcslru; Stanley Hall, beginning at 5:45 o'clock this afternon. John S M. Zimmermann, bandmaster. Ma, “The Strenuous Lif .Boehme Overture, “The Caliph _ .. Boieldleu Morceau, Valley 1 of Poppl. Al Waltz suite, on the Oc Finale, “Love's Journe “The Star Spangled Banner" | RUSSIA BARS ALL SHIPS THAT STOP AT BULGARIA Objects to Practice of Ordering Deportees Transported to Soviet Territory. 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