Evening Star Newspaper, April 16, 1926, Page 3

DRYS LAUNCH FIGHT FOR STRICTER LAWS; ] ANDREWS ASSAILED (Continued from First Page.) frade In marcotics. It is equally drue of the liguor traffic. To insure mocial protection against a trade whose avowed purpose was to get people to consume the maximum posgible amount of alcoholic liquor is the foundation on which our na- #tional policy of prohibition rests. “The policy of prohibition was not ndopted hastily nor was it foisted npon the country by a puritanical minority. It was first voted in most of 1he States separately anmd then nationally. because the people had become convinced that the liquor wrafic was a social evil of such magnitude that it had 1o be de- stroved. Liguor Evils Less. T'he reasons which led to prohibi- tion not only remain today but have heen re-enforced by the experience of other nations. The social peril of alcoholism is hecoming a grow- concern to statesmen through- the world. If serious evils have sng up since prohibition they are - less than the evils which arose ‘rom the liquor traffic prior to the amendment T liquor traffic with the accompanying saloon w lied witk political corruption, crime ®ambling and prostitutios The proposal 1o modity the Vol stead act so as to permit the sale of wines and beer presents insuper- able objections. 1t would make en- forcement more difficult. It would inevitably mean the return either of the stronger i would become more menacing be- cause it would tend o operate through the places wheve the milder intoxicants were sold. Moreover. there is no evidence to justity the contention that to permit wine and beer would reduce the consumption of ardent spirits. - The teaching of experience is to the contrary Churches Declared Dryer. On the pa Cadman, Dr. Charles S. Mac! general secre- tary of the Federal Council of Churches, presented a personal state- ment, in which Dr. Cadman was quoted as foliows: The churches are dry—more so than ever before. ‘They are more con- vinced than ever before of the value of prohibition. “‘Modification would inevitably bring back the saloon. Give prohibition a equare deal. “The personal liberty plea is a delu- =lon and a spare. All law is limita- tion of personal liberty for the sake of public welfare. “Only yesterday a bread trust was #dimsolved betore it was well begun. The plea that one can do as one pleases with hig own property does not. avail for the bakers. Why should it avail for the brewers and drinkers? “'One of the biots upon our national sharacter i due to the utterly mis- leading conception of personal free- dom which rejects control and defles suthority. How else can we account for the swollen lists of divorces. rob- beriee, murders, the notorious deeds wof public spoilation and financial de- fmachery, the unlicensed allusions of #he press and its exaltation of rogues fr_the publicity it gives their trial and execution when they are brought within the reach of tardy justice? I fomintain that the republic we love peads the discipline which preyents less and - assertive individyalism prostituting the honor and im- periling the safety of the American people. ing in One Law Attacked. “The descriptions of ‘the violations of the law, of the Avéalth of bo leggears and of other willains and vil- laintes previnz upon our people are usually made by thosé who want the hy an, G H. WALTER. RESPONSIBL by anyone other ITTON. 1454 Spr, in first-class or FoA n HERRELL 10th et. ne. Lioc. A“.”‘Afv’n Uh:fil. il "go_anywhere, WANTED—A R X LOAD OF FORNI: more. AN iy % AGECO. o X New Philadsivhia Thiadelphia (e City YES! WE MAKE WINDOW SCREENS to measure. 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ADAMS, ,FRUATES Ecifigx!m‘-é:i%?amfimu Unfit to Sieep On Tou ove it to vourmlt to P2t Fenovated and '.'é; e, |wny they should ‘make a concerted drive in this particylar polity-is not obvious, apart from their selfish inter. ests. Other laws are exceedingly dif- ficult of enforcement, but we do not advise their modification or repeal. “No sooner was prohibition estab- lished and the ‘wets had recovered from the shock than they began to encompass its destruction.” L. W. Beatty, who told the commit- tee that he had been a gospel service worker on the East Side of New York for 25 vears and has been employed by the Madison Square Settlement, affil- iated with the First Presbyterian Church, said conditions in the homes had greatly improved under prohibi- tion. Before prohibition, he said, women and children in the district which his work covered had required twice as_much money for shoes and clothes -and other aid. He-said -that the saloons, which ‘e nunierous in the district, had been wiped out, some of them being replaced-by banks and stores. Hé denied that they had been replaced by speakeasies. Couldn’t Find Home Brew. “There has been much {alk about home breweries,” sald Mr. Beaity. T went into a home in my district and I smelled home brew. I chaffed the lady of the house and asked her if she did not have some home brew to give me. She replied that it was ‘terrible’ the way thev were making home brew on the block, that everybedy was do- ing it. “Afté T left her house T visited 93 homes in the block, and not one of {them smelled of home brew,” said Mr. Beatty “I was told that the speakeasies were faking the place of saloons,” said the witness. “I got the numbers of seven supposed speakeasies. I Visited them and I found that not éne of them “was conducting anything but a legitimate business. I did find two old saloons which still had some of the fixtures, although without the bottles, being used as restaurants, and it may be that they ave speakeasies. They seemed to get onto me and I couldn't get a drink.” Want “Teeth in Law.” Mrs. Helen H. Green, a member of the city council of Cleveland. Ohio, elected, she testified, by the drys and the church people, told the committee that the people of Ohio “want better prohibition enforcement and teeth put into the law." Mrs. Green said that in spite of the big increase in population. much of which was foreign born and colored, today there is less crime in Cleveland than before “prohibition. ““I know that crime is decreasing.” she sald. “I have sat on the bench with the judges and with the criminals in their cells and in the fails.” She said that Cleveland has'a dry mayor, a dry city manager and a dry safety director. ““The young people are not so bad as they are painted.” Mrs. Green insisted. ‘Wild Parties Exceptional. “Wild pagties are the exceptional thing and moral standards are higher than they were 25 years ago. Some of about my age, and they know that the county school conditions a quarter things I know are the things I heard from the lips of big boys at schoo! in_those day Mrs. Green said that delinquency had grown less in the schools, that fewer cases were taken into the Juve- nile Court since prohibition, and that the work of the Humane Society had fallen off. Cruelty to children in the past, she said, was iargely due to drink. “There are less drunken people found in Cleveland,” sald Mrs. Green. She said that in the year 1917, 3,160 had been prosecuted for being drunk and that 38,000 taken up for being drunk had been let off ‘‘under the golden rule.” She explained that under the golden rule a drunk was arrested and held until he sobered up and was then allowed to go. “In other words, you mean by ‘golden - rule’ that they did the fel. lows as we would like to be done by?"" interjected Senator Reed of Missouri amid considerable laughter. Fewer ‘““Golden Ruled.” Mrs. Green said that in 1018 the number of those prosecuted for being drunk was 2,204 and that 49.000 had been “golden ruled.” The next fig- ures she gave were for 1923, 1924 and 1925, explaining that during the years 1919-20 and 1921 the mayor, the safety director and the chief of police had been so at odds that she was un- willing to offer any figures for those vears. In 1923, she said, the num- her prosecuted for being drunk was 6,406, while 12,408 were ‘“golden Job or No Job! OU can, nevertheless, have a four months’ va- cation this Summer -in the woods and on the water— if you really want it. And if you don’t want it, you're queer indeed! But let us explain.. Within a short ride, by motor or comfortable electric train, is the beautiful country of the Chesapeake tidewater, abounding in opportunities for boating, swimming, fish- ing and every other kind of outdoor play. It is an easy and inexpen- sive .matter to rent, buy or build a cottage or bungalow there—to which you would return .every afternoon, when you work in town is over. t * * * Fill sn and masl the form below to our Baltmore Termsnal, Howard & Lom- bard - Streets, for a copy of our Summer Homes booklet, describing these homes. WASHINGTON BALTIMORE | & ANNAPOLIS ELECTRIC RAILROAD COMPANY AR. WASHI proving that liquor is more tained now in New York. 7,119 were prosecuted ,and Lo = “golden ruled.” . Green sald that very few drunken people are seen on the\itreets of Cleveland today. She gave figures showing that deaths from alcoholism in Cleveland had decreased from 80 in 1816 to 7 in 1924. Mrs. Green insisted that drink as the cause of poverty was also disap pearing under prohibitior. “I am the mother of two sons and four . daughters,” said Mrs. -Green, “and none of them tote flasks, and as far as I know, none of their friends Mrs. Mary Coghlan, a tion papers. that she thereby lost her citizenship. ‘The news eca surprise to her. NGTO easily ob- Lolt_ Citizenship Sought. native of Washington, recently discovered that she is an alein, and today took steps to be repatriated by applying to the District Supreme Court for naturaliza- She_went to , Ireland with her parents 20 years ago, and later married there, without knowing American me as a do. K4 - Says Ohio Is Dry. “1 am a citizen of Ohio and I want to say that Ohio is dry; that in the last election on this question it went dry by 17,000 votes. The only Repub- lican who won.in the primaries re- cently and who was defeated in the election was & wet man, Harry L. Davis, who was a candidate for gov- ernor and was defeated by a dry Dem- ocrat.” Senator Feed wanted to know whether the wet and dry issue was the only issue in that election. “No, but the people couldn’t for- get,” said Mrs, Green. H ““You mean that they couldn't forget the iniquities of the Republican |§ party?” asked Senator Reed. i ““No, they couldn't forget that Davis had promised to be dry while he was governor and that he hadn't been dry,” was the reply. Senator Reed Asked Mrs. Green if she belonged to the Anti-Saloon League. She said she was affiliated with it as 8 member of the Dry Mai tenance League and the W. C. T. 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