The Washington herald., 1921-10-22
MR. WET JOKE
!: !. DOOMED TODIE
:. VIOLENT DEATH
america Must Take Pro-
q hibition Seriously,
Say Enforcers,


cleared the desks OF permit litter"
aud Is going before the public soon
With n business instead OF a moral
pstform.
Hnstead Of making speeches In
churches and before moral associa-
tiens. the prohibition enforcement
oaicials are planning a new cam
paign Of education designed to sell
pfohibiti9n' to the public trough
Business organizations. .
under the representative ak OF
this prospective campaign the pro-
hfbition joke is scheduled for a fall.
say the dry agents. The campaign
is. not to be one Of pleading but Of
pure craftsmanship on "man-to-
man basis"
If the idea is carried through.
officials will direct their attention
t8 Rotary clubs. Kiwanis clubs,
chambers Of commerce and the like.
they believe the present form Of
pnOhibitiou argument to be wrong
because Il stimulates antaEonism
toward the law rather than respect
and cooperation.
Not n Permit Dispensary.
They realize the personal nature
attempting to develop a system at
once rigid. fair and not coercive.
Until Commissioner r. \. Haynes
flOuse- cleaning" began to WELD its
powerful broom. the department
had been a permit orEaniZation"
father than an enforcement agency
Sf the Federal government
We inherited this permit OrEani-
zation," a high prohibition official
explained yesterday. Heretofore,
the liquor sptEot OF the nation was
sctualIy the nations Capitol. The
Commissioner had to spend his day
constantly asking himself. Shall 1
or shall I not. grant sO-and-so a
hermit for liquor But that bust
hess has been taken care of by COM
Bling q restricted list Of legitimate
enanuractu~,rz Of drugs and pro-
Srieta-y medicines, Of wholesale
druggists not asqUeradinG and so
hany Wholesale druggists are
ROwadays. We are operating on a
basis Of strict enforcement and
hothtnE else"
Don't Wear Tall SILK Hat.
: The permit evil whereby millions
Sf dollars were made within the
hst year and a hale has at least
teen curbed If not finally disposed
II. this Off CiaI believes.
$50 many people honestly think
we're agents Of arti-saIoOn socie-
ties and Temperance unions and all
kinds Of moral urlift societies." he
said They think were fanatics.
We're not. Our business here is
to enforce n law regardless Of per-
sonaI views. Yes. tho law is pecu-
liar uufr-n. Won might saw and We
son't want to ne doruatie abort II
But We must enforce that law. al
hougr our method Of enforcement
,rst he r,-cb that il will stirnu1s+ ~
yood-vf1 and NOT arouse resent
p,aDt toward itself and toward any
Stbar 7av."
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tbe corrDtrv accordfDa, TO nrobibi-
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