Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-12-29
Tighten Dfy Law. Don't Loosen
IT." Governors Argue

called. by President /
Harding might favor the reincar-
1ation of modified John Barley
:orn seemed to vanish today
when a canvass of the state gov
errors who are here showed those
officials to be overwhelmingly
bone dry.
Out of the entire group of state
executives to come to Washing
ton in response to the President $
call for discussion of the liq or
situation, not a voice could beI
found to champion the return oil
even light wines and beer. Gov.
Allen of Kansas apparently
spoke the sentiment Of the COLI
ferees when lie announced as hls|
slogan;
Tighten up; don't loosen up"
Tie governors are having
luncheon with President Hard
ing this afternoon. 1t is round-
table discussion calling for a
frank exchange of ideas on a sub
iect that the President has seen
fit to publicly denounce as
rational scandal" The Presi.
dent has let it be known that he
ardently hopes to see emerge
from this conference definite poll
icies for close cooperation be-
tween TIE state and federal au-
thorities in the enforcement OF
the Volstead law.
| Any fear as to the possibility
that the state executives would
not share that hope with the
President was dissipated by their
statements to newspapers today
AS unit they were strongly
lag ainst modifying the Volsteat
act and denied that the rec,!'
crime wave might be laid TO tht
door of prohibition. A 'tfe tn
dunn tomorrow, they said, mol"'
show the sentiment of Amerlc;
Ito be dry-'bone dry"
Combined and condensed TIN
. ideas of the governors for NOR
| efficient enforcement Of prolll
, bltion proved to be:
/. More stringent federal ant
state enforcement laws, carrying
heavy fues for first offenders ant
substantial jail sentenced for al
second offenders, regardless o
of their position or prestige.
/ 2. Prohibition enforcement Of
fcials who are honestly in favo1
of prohibition.
3. Education of the business
man to realization of the fac
that prohibition enforcement i!
. as much of an economic question
. as a moral question.
4. Larger appropriations fol
j; the enforcement of the law.
Gov. Trinkle of Virginia prov
: ed to be an equally ardent cham
pion of prohibition. He particu
larly emphasized the need O
= heavier fines and longer jai
: sentences for offenders of til,
dry laws. He declared lie hat
refused to pardon any man, re
CARELESS of his prestige or posi-
: ton, who had been convicted o
| dispensing intoxicants for gain
II Take politics out of tn
prohibition enforcement agen
, cies," Governor Trinkle declared
" and we will have better en-
: forcement. What we need is ell
forcement agents and officials
who are N favor of the Law
themselves. I have found that pro
hibitiou is beneitting the stat,
iof Virginia already, and those
benefits will grow with time"
AS the Governor of Kansas
(which has been dry for forty-twc
Years. Gov. Allen spoke with III
little knowledge OF the effect dry
restrictions have upon the PEG
Iple. He declared that the failure
Iof the federal government to Ell
force the dry statutes more
efficiently need occasion ITO ap
prehension it took Kansa $
twenty-five years to educate the
people up to the bene fits of pro-
hibition, lie said.
To-day Kansas enjoys better
degree of temperance enforce
ment than her neiahbors," he
said, because we are in the sec
ond geneneratior of men who
have never seen the saloon Fed
erai prohibition will become a
national success when the bust
ness man realizes that the tota
abstainer makes the best work
man.
prohibition has proved tic