The Washington herald., 1920-10-19
ENFORCEDLAW
DECLARED NEED
New York Pastor Tells Car
roll Issue Is Supreme
In Particulars.
By RAYMoNp G. cARRoII

New York, Oct. 1s.-"I am very
much interested in law enforce
ment," said the Rev. John Roach
Straton. pastor OF the Calvary Bap-
tist Church, this afternoon. He was
in his study at 2o5 West Fifty Sixth
street, from which sanctum that
militant divine planed his recent
excursions into. and exposure of
many places where liquor was being
openly sold in New York city. He
continued:
Il think that in some particulars
law enforcement is the supreme
question before the American peo-
pie. There is no use of going to
the expense of electing legislatures
and Congress and sustaining an
elaborate judiciary IL laws can be
honest and faithful efforts are made
to enforce the laws by the very
| people who are elected to enforce
them.
Sovereignty Of People.
80 far as the Eighteenth Amend
ment to the Constitution lis con-
| cerned 1t is the expression of the
sovereignty of an overwhelming
majority of the American people
There should be such a stiffening
up of the moral backbone and such
| a crystalizing of the righteous pop
ulation in the city and country that
an insignificant minority of lawIess
OF an enlightened and righteous ma
jority.
The laws of the country are the
/ life of the country, and every pa
triotic citizen ought to come to the
help of law-enforcement movements
as their sacred concern. The remedy
must come from the people"
DR.. Straton next Sunday will
preach upon My Platform for the
Presidency" He is going to nomi-
| nate the issues he would accentuate
were he running for the great office.
He maintains that the candidates
of the leading political parties are
alike in putting forward secondary
issues.
Threatens New Booze War.
Indications are that DR.. Straton
is about to grid up his loins and
again descend upon the 'Pint-nask
Palaces" of Broadway.
II was out several times" he
! said, "and there is no telling when
/ shall start again"
AS a direct consequence of DR..
Straton's exposures came the re-
moval OF police inspector Henry and
the undoing of the proprietor OF
Peters Restaurant, the first con-
viction in New York for the retail
ing of Intoxicating liquors. A chat
with DR.. Straton is as refreshing as
a session with DR.. Charles H. Park
hurst in the old days when that
divine's Society for the Prevention
of Crime smashed the "Devery
Ring"
Theatrical Broadway resents the
idea that actors and actresses are
pagan folk. There are quite as
! many players who are conscientious
Christians as you will find in any
other walk of life" said George NJ
| Cohan, actor and playwright, who
himself was the first president of
the Catholic Actors Guild. Other
active members of this Guild are
Wilton Lackaye, Fritz Williams
Brandon lyman and Emmet Corri-
gan. All the Barrymores are Roman
Catholics, which faith embraces the
attention also of Marie Cahill, WILL
lam ]. Kelley, Andrew Mack, Jane
Grey and Elenor Robson. who mar
| ried August Belmont. sr
Hartley Manners, the playwright,
was educated for the priesthood.
His wife, Laurette Taylor, is a
churchgoer. Otis Skinner is the
son of a minister. Mary Anderson
| was educated in a convent and was
| always intensely religious. Al Jol-
son is the son of a rabbi.
Now comes Colonel Joseph L. Ear
man, proprietor of the Palm Beach
| Post which numbers among it's
readers during the winter months
$50 millionaires with revelations
upon Gotham
New York is the most provincial
town in the United States" he said
today in the Hotel Vanderbilt. Most
OF the inhabitants are more ignor-
ant than Florida farm hand. Ap-
parently you folks live in burrows
and ride to and from work by diving
into holes to reach the subway. No
body here can give you any direc-
tion or knows where any place is.
Down in my town everyone
knows everyone else and scandal
dates back two generations. All
the New Workers I know went there
from somewhere else and they don't
know beans about what is happen
ing right under their noses"
But New Workers shortly will
wake up when they come to realize
that Mayor Hylan's administration
has called upon them to pay a one
year service bill of more than $780,
100000. The police alone cost $40
100000. As the price of civic com
fort, civic betterment and such pro-
lection as is given, Gothamites must
pay more than 1t costs to run whole
nations.
Mighty England cost not nearly
so much to conduct the year before
the great war as New York must
pay this year. Six years ago the
United States government ran its
army of 1895 officers and 102.450
men mot only paid them but cloth
ed, fed and housed them) for sl1,-
OoO,OOO, which is less than three
times what New York will spend
this year for police alone.
The Rev. Foster w. Taylor. Of
Round Lake, N. Y. was in the CITY
today telling about new departure