The Washington times., 1921-09-05
HAYNES To
SHAKE Up
\. YF0RCE
Anti-Rum Officials Will Tour
Country in Effort to Gust
Wet Sympathizsrs. -
By w. H. ATKINS.
international News Service.

international News Service.
The biggest drive for a real
bone dry" United States is on to-
day, and it is to be the most de-
termined smash to dry up the
country that has been made since
the people put the stamp Of their
legal approval upon the Eighteenth
Amendment.
Secret Confabs End.
A lot of quiet confabs among dry
law chiefs ended today with the
letting loose Of a horde Of dry law
sleuths over the country upon mis-
sions which have only, one meaning
the ultimate stoppage Of liquor leaks
Of every kind.
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes
cleared up his desk and. with a staff
OF. trained assistants, prepared to
whiri through the Eastern States in
tour that will result In an over
turn of lax or Indifferent dry law
machines wherever they are found
and the injection of dry" blood
where wet" blood has permeated
liquor control. 1t is by far the most
ambitious attempt thus far made to
check the liquor flow to legalized
dealers from bonded warehouses.
To Fire Old Guard.
There IL to be no pariey with sus-
pected culprits among enforcement or
ganizations. There Is much Of that. il
the reports of inspectors today |
counted for their face value. There |
Is to he a speedy wedding out OF
political appointees who have held
tight to their jobs from former Ad- |
ministration and continued an inti-
mate interchange of ideas and other |
things, almost in open Haunting Of |
the leaders Of bootleg rings and the
king pins OF Illicit distillery projects.
.- Aim mt New York.
The present objective Of the pro-
sa h,sitiOn n.x suPefyi,Srs sSs New f1ls ahs
national LIQUOR problem. What
they will do about II Ii an
other story. But that they are not
lacking in courage Is quite evident.
Dry Law Chief Haynes said he Is
determined to check the lawlessness
in New York in matters Of rum. IL
IL takes most Of his Federal forces.
Violators Of the law can accept that
ut it's face value. He is going to
take personal charge. of the New
York situation, because his reports
show that the present personnel. not
unlike the personnel In other State
prohibition organizations, Is "honey.
combed'' with staid and secure hold
ers of official places. Under civil
service they cannot be entirely sup
planted without absolute proof Of
guilt in completely with outside
"rings," who have exerted a potent
influence in circumventing new and
more rigid regulations by their :,
clever devices, some Of which are
political.
Some to Re Hit Hard.
Prohibition chiefs today decided
in their new program to tackle
bluntly and with vigor the situa-
ton that they regard as political
in New York and other State or
Mr.. Haynes has cut out for himself.
He said some heads may be hit
hard" but that in the process there
will be a tightening up Of liquor con-
troll, such as Washington dry law
supervisors believe necessary at this
time. l.
That the liquor evils are get.
ting almost beyond control in New
York and other localities Is admitted.
Liquor smuggling at the largest port
in the United States, and relatively
as great law.breaking in other ports
along the entire Atlantic coast, has
led officials to adopt heroic tactics
and forced them to concentrate their
staffs of experts. In drive that