The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-29
j. S. LAUNCHES
DRIVE To CURB
bOQTLEGGERS
Big centers Of Country viii Be
Object of Attack, Says
Haynes.
ADS FOR O-oPERATlON.
lares Thirty Paid Organize
D tons Seek Repeal Of
} 18th Amendment.

Jew YORK, Jan. ZS.-Pronlpition
mmissioner. Haynes has announced
\ new nationwide drive to clean up
the country Of liquor law violators."
u 1--WE are intensifying our efforts
TO enforce prohibition" he said.
THE big centers of the country.
like New York and Chicago. are
bur particular objects of attack in
this new drive. We are mobilizing for
our aid every moral and law-enforcing
agency In the country"
Great Progress Claimed.
In a speech before the New York
Ministerial Alliance. the commissioner
declared magnificent progress" has
been made in the work of enforcement
the country over.
Prohibition cannot be nullified,"
he said, without tearing the very
heart out of our system of govern
ment.
81 make bold to state that. because
OF the beneficence of this law, no ma
ton in the world was or Is so well
fortified to stand the test of the strain
Industrial structures and government
systems have been subjected. =.
There was never a law enecated
IN any civilized country as drastic as
his law which has been SO easily and
:, successfully enforced.
Forsees Curb on Violations.
las Federal prohibition commission.
er, II I could have the voice Of all
Americas pulpits, and the pen OF the
American press for a short while, the
club Of the policeman and the activt-
les of the prohibition agent would
e little needed"
The commissioner warned against
the insiSous, clever, unpatriotic,
alse, wet propaganda under way,
hat has as it's object the delusion Of
the American people into the belief
that the prohibition law is a failure;
that 1t. is unpopular; that 1t was
slipped over" on them; that 1t Is not
= cling enforced and cannot be en-
creed.
nee thirty paid organizations str1v-
tg day and night not only to accom-
fish the impossible feat or causing
ne repeal Of the Eighteenth Amend
fent, but striving to instill into the
linds of the American people these
tse doctrines and to cause the Ameri-
an people to lower their standard
7 regard for the sanctity and ma es-
OF the law" he declared.
Some people expected a miracle
. happen when the prohibition law
,ecame operative. All great move
ments are revolutionary. The idea Of
the men who enacted prohibition was
not that 1t should become an estab-
lished fact in q moment. 1t would
have been an upheaval indeed that
would have swept away IN one fell
swoop an evil so strongly intrenched.
The progress Is insistent, definite and
sure and DEGREES the final doom of
the Illegal traffic.
Drunkenness Decreasing.
Il have been to New York, Phila-
delphia, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark,
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and many
other cities frequently during the
last few months and I could count
the drunken men I have seen on the
fingers of one hand"
Commissioner Haynes declared
there was little possibility Of any
material change so far as lessening
the severity Of the law is concerned,
because Of the political power Of the
new woman voter.
THE woman is the new political
buttress in this country" he said.
The mothers Of America with the
ballot in their hands will stand 100
per cent for the new code or things.
"Our greatest task today, 1t seems
to me, Is to arouse the Indifferent
and apathetic citizen to a sense of
our great danger OF law violations
and to bring speedily to the bar of
justice the law-breaking brewer, dis
tiller, manufacturer, wholesaler and