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Commissioner Haynes
Tells OF Prohibition

Baltimore, Md, Jan, 10.-AI tnS
Union Square Methodist EpiscOpal
Church this evening r, A. Haynes
Federal Prohibition Commissioner,
delivered an address on Law En-
forcement. and among other things
said:
During the seven months since i
took the oath of office of Federal
Prohibition Commissioner, this ad.
ministratlon has reOrganiZed the
Federal Enforcement agency OF the
United States. New plans Of or
ganiZation have been decided upOH
and put into operation; new Direc-
tors have been installed in every
State in the Union, having assumed
fully responsibility for the success
full enforcement of the Volstead Act
in their respective State areas; new
rules and regulations have been pro-
mulgated, and with the inspiration
of full confidence in the inherent
patriotism of American people this
new organization is now taking
strides and is already showing excel
lent results.
while it is true that we also have
our smuggling problems, we have
our brewery problems, our ware
house problems, our distillery pro-
blems, our wholesalers problems,
our moonshine problems, our home
brew problems. yet in my Judgment
the most serious task We have right
now is to arouse this apathetic citl-
zen and to disillusion a lot of per-
fectly good people, who have. been In
oculated with a great mass of popu-
lar misconception and misinforma-
ton. In ether words, they nave
been accepting, in toto, the clever
wet, unpatriotic, false propaganda
that has as it's law is a failure; that
it is unpopular-that it was slipped
over on them-that it is not being
enforced, and that it can not be en-
forced. And today, there are in
actual existence, my friends. 800 paid
organizations striving night and day
not but striving to accomplish these
things that l have been telling you
about,-to instill into the minds Of
Americans these false doctrines
striving to accomplish the Amend
ment's notification, trying to stabi-
lie a condition of notification, and
to cause the American people to
lower their standard of regard for
the sanctity and majesty of law.
observance of the law more cas-
lily becomes a custom than the break
ing of the law. If it is a fact that
more arrests are being made fol
drunkenness than some months ago,
it is not because there is more
drunkenness but because there is
better enforcement. Lawlessness III
any community will last just as long
as any community will stand for it.
1.-The saloon brought on its own
doom; so will bootlegging and other
fragrant violations. No decent
American community long toleratcs
a nuisance; definite nuisance soon
spells its own doom.
"Violators of the Prohibition Law
in America today may largely be di-
vided into two classes; the faddist
drinkers which is a temporary class;
and those who have an appetite es-
tablished through years of indul-
gence. Most Of the latter class may
be expected to use liquor as long as
they live, either through supplies
legally acquired before the Prohibi-
ton Law became effective, or by il
legal means. When you hear a man
talking loosely and fippantly about
my bootlegger' he either has not
thought seriously of the menace to
law and order the bootleggers repre-
sents, or he has not placed a proper
valuation upon the sanctity and ma
jesty of the law.
1.-THE beginning of the operation
of the Eighteenth Amendment came
at a time when the United States, in
common with the rest Of the world
was in the maelstorm of the after
math of war. Because of the bene.
fcence of this law no nation in the
world was or is so well fortified t.
stand the test and strain to which
moral fibre, financial and industrial
structure and government system
have been subjected. Inherently
Americans are law-abiding. Com
munities with large number Of
foreigners naturally show less pro
gress in enforcement work than
those communities with fewer num-
bers of the foreign type. America
is being weaned. The weaving per-
iod is always troublesome but neces-
sary for the welfare of the indi-
vidual.