Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1929, Page 3

" Ednor, Md. mor, | t SAYS STATES MUST AID ENFORCEMENT Mrs. Willebrandt Cites New York to Show Result of Co-operation. (Continued From First Page) No “super-bureau” at Washington can be more than a makeshift if it causes the field offices and the States and local committees to dodge responsibility. It is local opinion and vigilance that will bring about effectiveness in prohibition enforcement and every other kind| of law enforcement throughout the| country. o In New York State, where the Legis- | Jature during the administration of Gov. Smith repealed the State liquor enforce- ment laws, leaving the job solely to the Federal Government, there are between 2000 and 3,000 State police and there are more than 16,000 city police. Thcre are 113 Supreme Court State judges and 62 county prosecutors. All of thesc agencies might be enlisted to reduce the crime and lawlessness that flow from disregard of the prohibition law, but they are now and have been inactive as 10 prohibition since New York State re- pealed its own enforcement act. Federal Force Small. Certainly a few hundred Federal agents and 19 Federal judges, with 4 United States attorneys, cannot hope to enforce the prohibition law with any great degree of success in a State con- taining about one-tenth of the Nation’s| population with practically no help from | ihe sheriffs, the policemen, the State prosecuting officers or the State courts. The metropolitan newspapers, there- | fore, are entirely correct and truthful in telling their readers of the “wringing wetness” of New York and other States | which have dodged enforcement respon- sibility, such as Maryland, Montana, Wisconsin, Nevada and New Jersey. But they are all wrong in editorially using the facts about wetness to prove that “prohibition is unenforceable.” I do not deny that there is bootlegging on & vast scale in New York City and New York State. Liquor running over the Canadian border has multiplied; places that used to operate secretly and with a certain degree of caution operate openly with bars and brass rails; hun- dreds of night clubs in Manhattan are just a new form of the old-fashioned saloons that Tammany used to protect and to use for pay-off stations on elec- tion day in times gone by. The night clubs have open bars, and yet they can exist only so long as they can keep their licenses from a “liberal” city ad- ministration. Of course, the law is not being enforced in New York; it is being evaded and nullified. But the responsibility is not_solely that of the President of the United States nor of the Attorney General. It is the responsibility of the people of New York. They get just the same kind of prohibition enforcement that they get of State law enforcement. No one blames the Federal Government for the lack of enforcement in New York of the penalties against murder. Yet notorious gamblers, not subject to Fed- eral Jurisdiction, are shot down from time to time and the murderers go un- punished. And the number of murders exceeds those of all of England. Graft Under State Laws. There is graft in the sale of intoxi- cating liquor, prohibited by Federal law, and there is likewise graft in the letting of contracts for sewers authorized under State laws. The celebrated night-club hostess who Joked with the judge and the jury and tried to make her trial into a vaudeville show was not any more contemptuous of the authority of the United States Government than she was of the people of New York State and New York City. Because the New York newspapers have been giving so much publicity to the “wetness” of the city and State, the situation there has come to be regarded by many honest, law-abiding people as proof of the unenforceability of the prohibition law. But let’s see what the situation in New York was long before any one even seriously thought that there might some time be a national law against the sale of intoxicating liquor. Let's use as & witness & man whose truthfulness and credibility were never questioned. In other words, let us see what Theodore Roosevelt said about the New York liquor situation in 1895, more than a third of a century ago and 30 years before the adoption of the eighteenth amendment. He said: “All of our cities have been shame- fully misgoverned in times past, and in New York the misgovernment has been perhaps more flagrant than anywhere else. 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PEACHES Best Quality Tree-ripened Fruit Drive thru Silzer Spring. turn 3, ikt at S2ire ticknough Orchards Only 12 miles from D. C. Line }local municipal authorities. jand applications for State permits are | referred to the Federal authorities for | other in bringing actions to a successful |a reduction of almost one-third in the | number of permits issued in two years were made every year, but the worst offender, the big man with the pull, was never arrested, while the man of small means was ted without mercy. The city authorities, notably the police magistrates, the police department and the district attorney’s , were in league together, and the saloon keeper alternately profited and suffered by their rvuunxneu that he should violate the aw."” Couldn't the same general statement be made about liquor conditions now under the eighteenth amendment in New York State, and, that being so, can it be truthfully said that the prohibition law is any more unenforceable than State laws? Other Side of Picture. Now let’s turn to the other side of the picture and see what can be done when the State and local communities do what the eighteenth amendment of the United States Constitution conum‘flnu —exercise thelr concurrent authority to enforce. In the State of Kansas, which had an effective law of its own for prohibition enforcement long before the eighteenth amendment was adopfed, the Federal Government has had comparatively lit- tle to do since enactment of the Vol- stead law. In one year, for instance, we had to handle only 12 liquor cases in the Federal courts of Kansas. But they were important cases, and the Gov- ernment won all 12 of them. The cases instituted in Kansas range from few or none, some years to 19, which is the highest number, in 1928. Contrast this with the situation in New York State, where the Federal Government has been obliged to prosecute from 600 to 1,000 cases a month, and then only scratches the surface. It is not the difference in the size of the two States that counts; it is the difference in the attitude of the local enforcement authorities, large- ly influenced by the press. The situa- tion in this aspect is the same in Phila- delphia, Chicago and New York as in hundreds of small towns and cities. For instance, at Trenton, Fla, we recently secured the conviction of the mayor, one of the members of the city council and an ex-constable and deputy sheriff. They were indicted with others for violations of the prohibition act, and upon conviction were sentenced to terms of 15 months and a year and a day in the Federal penitentiary. In some of the smaller towns in the country we have found evidence of vir- tual “licensing” of bootleg establish- ments by local authorities. The prac- tice at Silverton, Colo., in the mining district, for instance, was to regularly fine those who operated what amounted to open saloons, the fines being used for municipal purposes instead of Tais- ing tax rates on the property of law- abiding citizens. As long as fines were paid regularly the bootlegging estab- lishments were allowed to continue op- | erations without any interference by the | State Co-operation. On the other hand, where the State or city uses ifs power to curb liquor violations the results are worth while. In Pennsylvania, for instance, the State Alcohol Permit Board works in close co- operation with the Federal prohibition administrator. Applications for Federal permits are referred to the State board past records. Violations by permittees are reported to each other. Violators are prosecuted under State and Federal Jaws. All records, reports, witnesses and assistance are provided by each to the and prompt termination. The language I have used in describing the co-opera- tion is that of the State board itself in its annual report. The result has been for the handling of alcohol and liquors. | On reports of Federal prohibition agents a_ manufacturing company lo- cated at Reading, Pa., was deprived by the State board of its permit to operate | a brewory or cereal beverage plant and | its $10,000 bond forfeited. Injunction proceedings were also brought and the brewery premises padlocked. This was only one of several like cases where the State authorities took action on evidence furnished by Federal prohibition agents. hibition administrator for the fifth dis- trict, located in Philadelphia, appealed | to the attorney general of Pennsylvania | for aid in the enforcement of prohibi- | tion laws a special State deputy at-| torney general was assigned to conduct padlock proceedings. On- one day 65 cases were instituted by the State at- torney general, and 52 places involved in these cases were ordered padlocked. | Six other places were restrained and | the character of business changed. | How different this is from the situa- tion in New York State! One of the United States district attorneys in New York has called attention to the fact that the two Federal judges in the western district of New York State have sole power to try prbhibition cases in a territory populated by approximately two million people. Necessarily, there- fore, the pressure of work encourages bootleggers, little and big alil%e, to enter pleas of guilty rather than hopelessly congest the court dockets with untried Jury cases. Is it prohibition that is a failure in New York State or is it gov- ernment by the people .of New York State that is failing? .Conferences Held. I have from time to time—many times—urged that United States at- torneys, marshals and key men in charge of investigative agencies be called to Washington for zone conferences at which a definite policy of approach to When Col. S. O. Wynne, Federal pro- | __THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, out. After that each of the Federal men should go back to his respective district and take the initiative in approaching governors, State flwm“:‘y generals, mayors, chiefs of police, try to work out a scheme of co-ordination and ex- of information where authori- ties overlap. This will enable the Fed- eral Government to turn back to State the responsibilities for prosecu- tion of many minor offenses that now congest Federal dockets. On the other | hand, the State could and should u!ll upon and receive helfi‘fmm the Federal Government in dealing with criminals where their operations are of extended or politically intrenched nature. Such co-operation can be secured even in States which are considered “wet.” For instance, Maryland has no State prohibition law and has never even ratified the eighteenth amendment. But Maryland does have a high degree of county government, and practieally all of the counties of Maryland, outside the one where the city of Baltimore is located, ve local option statutes. When the prohibition administrators and the United States attorneys have called upon these county officials and worked out a means of sharing n- sibilities the counties have taken over a substantial share of the load. This is also true of many counties in Florida where during the long period of time when there was almost a complete breakdown in Federal enforcement pro- hibition agents took their cases directly to county sheriffis and the offenders were tried in the county courts. ‘The arm of the Federal Government is long and strong, but it needs to be reinforced and aided by the numerous arms of the State and municipal gov- ernment. With all those arms of the law reaching for the lawless, the boot- legger's chance of escape would be slight indeed. It uld be compara- tively easy by systematic appeal to ob- tain local and State co-operation, and would yield rich returns in reduction of lawlessness. (Copyrisht, 1929, by Current News Features, ne. In her next installment Mrs. Wille- brandt will tell the story of the battle with Rum Row. Clocks in Forms of Heads. Clocks in the forms of heads have appeared In Europe. One is a human skull, another & monkey’s head and an- other a grotesque dog’s eranium. 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The bellef that Mrs. Parillo was not 1929, MILL WORKERS END BIG WAGE STRIKE Half Million Employes in Cot- ton Industry at Lancashire Agree to Arbitrate. By the Associated Press. MANCHESTER, England, August.17. —Half a million workers will return to their tasks on Monday and the wheels in Lancashire’s 1,500 cotton mills wili start turning after a stoppage of three full weeks. An _eleventh-hour conference last night between representatives of the striking operatives and the employers resulted in an agreement to submit to arbitration the employers’ demand for drowned has led to four death theories: | Murder by an unknown suitor, murder | by the husband, who might then have rowed ashore and caught a train at a way station; murder and suicide by the | husband, or a double murder. | an all-round reduction in wages of 12.82 per cent. In the meantime work will be re- sumed on Monday and the old rate of wages will be paid pending the decision of the arbitration court. 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