Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1920-09-15
ACT ON BOOZE,
JURY IS TOLD
Federal Judge RelIstab Scores
Crooks" Who Are Engag-
ed in Selling of Liquor.

ed in Selling of Liquor.
TRENTON, Sept. 15-"Put in
your graphing hooks and produce
the crooks who are engaged in this
nefarious work, and remember also
that it makes no difference as to the
guilt of thine participants in this
crime. whether they actually traffic
in intoxicating liquors or whether
they aid or abet the actual traffic
ers' was the way United States Ijis-
trsct Court Judge Rellstab yesterday
summed UP his charge to the Sep
| tember federal grand jury which Bit
terly scored the 1awlessness which
the judge says is rampant in some
sections of New Jersey with respect
to violations of the prohibition
amendment.
The duty of the hour is to hon.
estly and impartially enforce the ma
tionai prohibition act, SO far as il is
possible to bring to the bar every VI
olator of this law both great and
SMALL" declared the judge.
The jury was told that there al G
wholesale violations of the dry
law being carried on. They would
not have reached the magnitude
they have. he declared, except for
the general failure of the local au-
thorities in the more populous sec
tions of the state to aid in enforce
ment of it.
The neglect of the states local
authorities changed with enforce
ment of the law to fully cooperate e
with the efforts of the federal gov
eminent to enforce this amend
ment." said the charge. sis proving
G serious handicap in the present
Juncture to secure a proper enforce
ment of this act. 1t was not draft
ed with the idea that in any of the
states there would be found such
general indifference to its enforce
nlent by local authorities, as is the
case in certain popufous acomnauui-
ties. Least Of all, II /. as born and
bred Jerseyman, may be pardoned
for saying so. that 1t would be found
in our state, heretofore conspicuous
| for its inexorable resistance to law
lessness and consciousness of its
executive that to tolerate persistent
violation of the law would tend to
the undermining of the authority of
all law"
In his charge to the grand Jury,
Judge Rellstab, who some months
| ago rendered the opinion in the Fei-
Eenspan case in this district, Ep-
holding the eighteenth amendment,
said that the present lawlessness in
the matter of violations of the dry
law would spread to contempt for all
law, federal and state unless
| checked
He asked the grand jury to do its
duty by aiding to stem this rising
tide so that 1t would not swamp
h. tanr !. 4. g.
of the law. He charged that men
have been working in combination in
this state to violate the eighteenth
amendment and to prevent detec-
ton.
Judge Rellstab said that his
twenty-four years of service on the
bench had forced him to reach the
conclusion, after observing the pres
ent situation, that there is con-
| spiracy at work to violate the
/ amendment. He warned against the
danger of allowing terminals to be-
come our masters" in their pursuits
for inordinate gain.
| Lawlessness oegets lawlessness
and leads to anarchy, said the fed
eral judge. He said what the jury
liquor traffic. but suppression of this
lawlessness.
BY The Associated Press
Aim to Enforce Dry Laws.
| WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.-En-
forcement of the prohibition amend
ment, plans for the fight before the
next congress to prevent modifica-
ton of the enforcement act and
world prohibition were the
principal topics before the
conference of anti-saloon league
leaders which began here today to
continue through Friday.
The conference was preliminary
to the international congress against
alcoholism which begins next Mon
day.
Enforcement of the liquor
amendment was discussed today by
prohibition Commissioner Kramer,
Wayne B. Wheeler general counsel
tof the anti-saloon league.
Mr.. Wheeler declared that nation
al prohibition would never be re-
pealed, but that it might be nullified.
The power to enforce national
prohibition is given both to the state
and the nation" said Mr.. Wheeler.
1T is up to the people to see to it
that federal and state officers do their
duty in sustaining an important
amendment.
Local and state officers who are
trying to evade responsibility in the
enforcement of national prohibition
should be removed from Office"
Held As Fugitive.
NEW BRUNSWICK. Sept. Is. -
John Hokhold. OF Raritan township.
is being held in the counfv iail "A