The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-12-19
Find Efforts to Make the
Country Dry Are Only
Screaming Farce.
SEEK CONGRESS HEPL
Drastic Volstead Act as Full
Of Loopholcs as House
hold Collandcr

WASH So . y, uoc. r.
'Hooch' pufycyur- ,i'W the No"
Year with uncertainty Dry To-"
cnfOrCUTH az, 20. to mako ihril
game an exceedingly hard one %
play During exploits ~ hootlct
gers, conceived and executed win Il
cunning that almost dcf.os detection,
hfve made prohibition Mm's' d"
farce. 80 tarcical has prohibition
become, both ~ the eyes ~ tue '"w-
abiding ana the ltwhrcnk"rs, ihdl
government officers, N a ttcuzy "i
dismny, are ready tp propose to- con
pross amendments that wiu virtually
Danish whisky making II pIacucally
Impossible uf Haic Tor bcv,ras. puT
pOhes.
Rootlog liquor nov flooding the
country has It's source IN Buch wet
ftrungholds rs PcunsS lyanln, Mary
land Sew YORK Sew Jersey ONO
and Illinois. Dry law chiefs mere to-
day admitted with lack OF police CO.
operation and adverse public srnu
ment IN those sections, they ar,
making a losing fight, ana thelr 81
forts In future are doomed to iaiiure'
unless congress tightena up the dlS
law.
Wiping away OF many of the no
called "libcra' provisions or th'
law. extending wide latitude 10 dchi-
ors who obtained permits Tor sal.
and distribution OF intoxicanis, Will
be sought by internal revenue bu-
rcau officials Amendments con
templatcd would mean virtually
complete rcvamping OF the Voisteau
law, as the loopholcs through when
uuupr scrps out to the public are IN
extiicably woven into the laws pro-
yisio:.B.
Policc ..rc Apnthctic.
Police apathy In prohibition cases,
prohibition officials declare, In re-.
sponsiblc for not only largo pro
norton OF evils that have sprung up
In the dry era, but have lent en-
couragemcnt and support In thc
varied schemes now carried ON dar-
ingly In defiance of the dry law and
with enormous profit TO the
schcmcrs
Com missioner Kramer today cited
the record OF cases covering en-
forocment work In the state OF III
nois. 1t Is but a sample out OF
lengthy !!st OF states. and offers
sofne eloquent proof OF the boldness
Of liquor law violatorS. ahd the ease
with which thoy get away.
have secured only fifty convictions
since national prohibition became
law. This. IN spite Of the fact that
dry law agents gave federal district
attorneys 'cocksurc' evidence In
i,725 cases. Jury hostility s the
answer. officials said.
Can't Get Convictions.
"A bootlcgger or an Illicit distiller
or a smugglcr OF whiskey. as things
now stand, has odds 10 to l thar
ne will gain an acquittal.' said
Kramer and his aids. ain some oi
the wet centes there In scarcely q
ghost of chance to land these evil
docrs in Jail. Jail them, even the
worst Of them, and theyl are out IKE
u flash through the aid OF profos
sional bondsmen and quick-witted
lawyers. who thrive upon that KIN"
OF practice"
Kramer's records now show that
some lawyers have almost overnighl
become Immensely wealthy through
fees made from a practice devo.eu
almost exclusively to defending Soot
leggers. Since January lawyers III
cities including those OF the size oi
Philadelphia, New York city, Ptts
burgh, Chicago Baltimore. nave
CLEANED mp" all the way from $bo''
900 TO 100000 In fees s.nco January
l6, when the dry lid was laid. some
lawyers he was advised, think IL !
poor day tina. does not wind up viii
"A few siOO tees from buutiogsors.
Many Liquor t'c. m,'s.
The whptg uaIn Of evils of ever!
kind growing out Of lax enforce
ment, n ans. aaSc u, iJ iec.'
traccab.e al the present stage Of IN
"A. as.t., all al n