Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-17
DRY DRIVE TO COVER
us. FROM END TO END
New York and Pennsylvania to
Cot First Attention From
Prohibition Head.

Washington oct. iT--A Federal
ptohihltion clean-up and shake-up
such aa the country has not experience
,d since the Eighteenth Amendment
was ratified and the Nolstead act was
pa@s,d n under way.
nesinning in the .wo great wet
States ot the East New York end
Pennsylvania, which are counted
suunted among the Commonwealths
where prohihltion was received with
greatest reluctance and where IL has
been enforced with Indifferent success,
the cleanup. under the direct general
rhlp uf Prohibition Commissioner Roy
A, Haynes, viii extend into many
other States, Il was learned authorlta-
tlVvly today.
Westward the campaign win make
itn way, u necessary. state enforce
ment organizations, Il is declared In
official circles. which prove weak or
worsp will be reorganixed. Local
officials will be oashiered n they do
not produce results and replaced by
trusted licutcnants Of Commissioner
Haynes. On the other hand. whore
local officers actually try TO combat
Niuiatora ~ the law they VIII be given
the ful cooperation of the Federal
furros. WORKING with. them rather than
HWnphntlns them. hut where local
enforcement organizations seem will
fullk ineffective there win be new faces
M che state organizations. Il Is as
serted
The newest campaign 60 enforce
pfuhimtion h. unique, in that the
theory hchind IL is o. stop the source
ui supply, rather than pursue the sup
flN after u II found at large. More
than half " the nations legitimately
ma ufactured whisky. q IL stated here
tofbN, IL stored IN Kentucky ware
boz sen and whisky iu great quantities
q seems has been making its way up
Through Pennsylvania from kenWcky
nnd into Now York. The frat NOV,
nuN under way. q h said. is TO put the
lid down tighter than it ever has been
. upon The Kentucky warehouses.
iruhihltlnnlsts have Contendcd from
the start that su iong az the supplies
leaked from their source the chase Of
individual tootlyEEcrs with the stan
az hrld agents the Government is abb,
Enforcement officials now are con.
Nlnuod uf lho Same thing.
Tho new drive ageinst Nolstcad act
n. lhtinnn was started IN Naw York
where enforcement ~ the law ha,
broken down. There was something
~ sensation in the East when Judg,
Harold Hart, appointed Federal Pro.
hlhltion Director 90 New York In May
fealsned 'vcrntly. and the enforcement
headquarters were taken in charge by
" a. NCnuwlv, coincidont with an.
nuunccments that there was 20 be q
fwrUpiug reorganization and house.
tiHanins ln that direction.
Tho sensation now is finding az
seho Ia Pennsylvania ss result oi
thr shake-up of the Enforcement or.
ranlHation IN that state, which began
saturday and IL continuing today
Prohibition Commissioner HAYNES has
L. Washington Tor pittshurg. there
90 suporintend the installation Of a
srgvlal ofilccr. s. r. Rutter, who help
sd fcurgauigo the enforc cement Cfices
in New York and who was designated
yesterday as associate Federal al.
rrptor' for PENNSYLVANIA with all tn,
power and authority OF director"
Tho appointment Of this associat,
a. act with Director William c. Nc
tonncil, of PENNSYLVANIA. is declarel
g. hc the beginning OF a reorganiza
ton IN PENNSYLVANIA similar 70 tn,
rl sc-up Ia New York. with the viey
81 placing thS enforcement machiner,