New Britain herald., 1923-11-12
Bootleggers Worse Than Scorpions;
 Drinkers Worse Than Bootleggers

they find technicalities in the law
 and boast Of being able to secur
 acquittals for bootleggers on pay
 ment of, large fees. The judges an
 prosecutors should have more jai
 penalties imposed to offend the re
 fined sensibilities' of the bootleggers
 and the newspapers, or at least thos 4 which publish only violations of th
 law, and steer clear of news favor
 able to prohibition, are responsibl
 for the failure of the enforcement of the law"
 Touching on the New Britain situa
 ton, MT. Davis said he has learned
 that there are eight or ten men il
 the Shuttle Meadow club who Ter,
 for a drink" They play golf witt
 flasks on their hip and the caddies l see them drink. and go home and tel
 about it. When I was a baby m, 1 mother used to give me sugar rolled up in cloth, to soothe me when
 cried" he said. "I don't know
 whether any of you ever saw thai done. but that is the way of those eight or ten Shuttle Meadow club members act. They cry for thefl
 booze just like babies. I hope our local furniture dealers will put in a new supply of baby carriages so that these big babies can be wheeled around town"
 New Britain society people who employ servants set a bad example, AIr. Davis said. by drinking in their homes. The servants think it proper for the well-to-do to drink and then they want to follow suit. They can not buy liquor because of the high price, and at once they set up the cry that it is rich mans law. It is not a rich mans law, Mir. Davis said. It is just as much & law as any other constitutional amendment and If the other members of the Shuttle Mea- dow club who believe in law enforce mcnt and decency would speak up to those eight or ten babies, as one prominent member spoke up at that club a short time ago, there would be less whining and crying flor those big babies who cry for their booze who woul6f sell this government for a drink. who would sell the virtue of their grandmother for their beer who would tear down that flag and trample it under foot.
 It Was Bootlcgger.
 "when God finished making skunks, scorpions and bobcats, he created something clothed in snspi- cion and smeared with hatred and jealousy and put it forth and said let's see what 1t will be, and it was a bootlegger," he said. And there is nothing lower than a bootlegger, except those who buy from them. A man who would violate the consu- tutional amendment would lie, he would steal, he would commit adul- tery, he would murder, because he is a law breaker at heart, and he has 1t in him to break the law. and when he finds that his wife thinks none the less Of him for bsaklng the pro- hibition law, then he will break the other laws"
 Referring to Mayor Paonessa and tho local city officials, Dr. Davis said he has personal admiration for the mayor, and often points to him as an example for other men Of foreign birth who think it impossible 10 att ain places of prominence and power | and honor. Other city officials he is not acquainted with, he said but hey and the mayor are in a measure responsible for the failure Of the law O be enforced as strictly as it should I oe Referring to the New Britain | police department. he said he likes III the local policemen he knows. That fellow up on the corner of Main and West Main streets" he aid T do not know hls name, but ' vas a case Of love at first sight when I first saw him a block away. Ie laughs at everyone. He is up here all day swinging his arms like
 do when I am delivering a sermon, md I believe neither of us need to 70 to a gymnasium when we have inished. He is worth all the money he city of New Britain pays to keep i'm there. just for his smile. I love jim. God bless him and keep him here" tHe referred to Traffic Po- ieeman Joseph KennedyD d
 SolIthington Inn Raid.
 Mir Davis spoke with yehemence n the Southington Inn raid, in which here were three prominent New Britain men. q hope Hugh NJ. A- orn gets the dope on that political .ang that think they can violate the sw when they want to-" he said. We know who else in New Britain 3 associated with those three. and we inow what the connections or those Iigher up are. Every night pray [ or Hugh M. Aicorn and Governor who are in a drive for aw enforcement in this state. I do lot mean that everyone who. is for aw enforcement is a saint. but those so men come pretty close to being anonized. in my opinion. i
 Those three who were in that inn ] Then it was faided are not men.