The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-01
PROHIBITION MADE
 OBJECT IF ATTACK FROM ALL SIDES.
Vets Take Hope As Weeks Developments Seem To
 Oppose VoIStead Law
By RAYMOND CHAPTER CLeased Wire to The Age-Herald

WASHINGTON. Sept. 30.-Prohi- bition is being rlddIed from all sides in such a way as to visibly encourage vets who contemplate an investiga- tion by Congress next winter. as re- gently announced by this leased wire.
 In the last few days, incidents have occurred at widely separated points, which, In the opinion of vets here. indicate that prohibition Is not being accepted by the country, and | is incapable of real enforcement de- spite the annual expenditure of 1 $9,000,000 for this purpose. l. Representative Hill of Maryland has informed the prohibition enforce ment bureau that he is making wine in the cellar of his home at Balti- more and has informed Commissioner Haynes that he has developed 12 per cent alcohol. Two prohibition chem ists have been dispatched to stop home brewing in this instance, as has been done in the case of more humble persons.
 2. District of Columbia commission CTS have informed Haynes that unless he drops six or seven prohibition agents, charged with graft, the local police will stop cooperating with federal agents in enforcement of the Volstead act. Looting of homes and appropriation by agents of liquor seized are among the charges, Lieu tenant Davis of the district police, de- clares that a federal agent offered to "cut him in" on 25 cases of whisky, valued at $5,500, which had been seized from a bootlegger. Urge Repeal Of Measnre.
 B. Repeal of the prohibition amend ment was urged in an address before .T-.. lk,,.., o.. lantic City by Waldo Newcomer, head of the National Bank Division of the association
 4. Charges that prohibition enforce ment officials are playing politics and that Coolidge has been promised the Ohio delegation at the republican national convention in return for backing Haynes, were made in Boston by the general counsel of the Ma tional Retail Druggists association. Haynes, it is charged. was named by the nti-Saloon league. which is holding that threat of political pres sure over Coolidge.
 5. A Catholic priest in. Chicago, Rev. Francis c. Young, declared at the funeral of a man killed in the beer runners war that the dry law was "a farce and must be changed" he said that disrespect for the Vol stead law was responsible for much
 
 and that the people should let their representatives know they wanted the law modified or they would lose their support in the future.
 Then there is the attitude of the Maryland democrats who are demand ing a wet plank in the party platform. New York democrats have taken the same attitude. Governor Al Smiths approval of the state enforcement re- 'pealer has encouraged vets every where.
 Predict Prohibitions Fate.
 Such incidents, the vets contend, indicate that prohibition is destined to go into the same class as the fif- teenth amendment, which is enforced where local sentiment permits, and ignored in sections of the south. Like wise. prohibition will be effective in localities sympathetic toward it and dead letter in wet centers like New York and New Jersey.
 The vets say prohibition has suf- fered a hard blow also in the report recently made by Attorney General Daugherty in which he described the graft and corruption in the enforce ment machinery. It has been the most tragic epoch in the history of law enforcement, >Daugherty said. Vets are going to De in a more advantage ous position in the next congress and it is certain that they will try for a strong. comeback.