Evening star., 1923-10-15
CHANGE OF HEART
DECLARED VITAL To
DRY LAW SUCCESS
Citizenship Farley Plans Ma
tion-Wide Drive to Educate
People to Respect Ban.


tion-wide educational campaign in
the interests of law. enforcement, and
prohibition was made to the Citizen
ship Conference, meeting in the
Raleigh ballroom this morning, by
Rev. Samuel q. .Batten. chairman of
the educational policy committee OF
the conference.
This report will be discussed. and
It is expected adopted later today.
1t gives definite assurance that the
movement for law enforcement, ini-
tiated in the Citizenship Conference,
will be continued actively.
The delegates to the conference
were received by President Coolidge
at tlte White House at noon.
The delegates We're introduced to
the President by Fred b. Smith OF
New York. chairman of the confer
cuce, and the President expressed 20
Mr. Smith and other members of the
executive committee his interest in
the conference and the purpose for
which il was called. He mentioned
the governors conference reXt Satur-
day at which the subject OF law en-
forcement will be considered. The
NpIh Ol NilS tItIEtlSitLp CtHit1tL.Ct'I
the President said. would be made use
of in the coming governors confer
enCe.
Chairman Smith told the President
that the conference believed in him
and his desire to enforce the law.
Radical changes in court pro-
cedure and method are necessary to
enforcement Of the law" the COM
mite on educational policy declared
in its report today.
Urges Family Discipline.
Beyond this the report added,
there must be some thoToughgoing
changes in family life and discipline.
TOO often family discipline has sadly
relaxed"
Asserting that for many months
moving picture films have contained
many filings at prohibition, the COM
mittee suggested that there be a
conference with the moving picture
producers in an effort to obtain the
elimination nf ali soothing at pro-
hibition as bad form and unpatriotic;
the creation Of flns of scenes de-
pfcting the beuefts of total alb
specting all laws
1T is vitality important" the report
continues, "tnat there be a compre-
hensivei and persistent campaign to
changer the ideas and customs Of So
ciety with reference 10 the use of
alcoholic liquors. In some groups il
is regarded as sooa fars; Or even as
half-heroic to circumvent the law and
to use alcoholic liquors.; and this even
among those who pride themselves on.
their cultuEe and social standing. We
must refuse to honor Iawbreakers
whether in high life or low"
Attacks Political Pressure.
A scathing attack upon the manner
in which political influence has
hirdered the enforcement Of the pro-
hibition law, particularly in the Pitts
burg district of. Pennsylvania, was
made by Rev Charles Zanisher. ex-
ecutive secretary of the Federation of
Churches of Pittsburgh, Pa. He in
sisted that mysterious influences" at
Washington had been at work, and
declared the churches should have an
agency here to gather the facts
Dealing particularly with the Pitts
burgh district situation, Dry Zanisher
said:
wed like to know why the United
States district attorney in our district
should be notorious wet appointed
over our vigorous protests, and why
the assistant district attorney also
should be a wet. We should like to
know why big politicians are never
prosecuted for violations of the liquor
laws, and why big cases that have
been started. have been nolle pressed.
Says Beer Floods In.
pittsburgh is being flooded with
beer from Philadelphia and other
cities to the east. This beer is sold
TO the distributors for $50 a barrel.
The brewers get SIS a barrel for it
and the cost OF transportation is 81.
What we want to know is who is
getting the other $50 per barreI?''
The Disregard of Law and the
College and University Students" was
the subject Of an address by Rev. DR..
Clarence A. Barbour, president of
the Rochester Theological Seminary.
DR. Barbour told the conference
stitution and the prohibition law was
having a bad effect upon the youth
of the country, in the colleges and
universities. 1t is killing their,
Ideals: Too many easy-money mil
tions.; too many men are riding
around in limousines today paid for
out of the proceeds of Illicit liquor
traffic. he said. These are bad ex-
amples for the students who need
TO learn that the success of life is
to be gained only by patient, per
sistent and honorable toll.
Sees Threat to Nation.
How wonderful our boys were
during the war said DR.. Barbour,
Yet this thing which we speak Of
here today is destroying the heroic.
We have gone back to greed and
aVarice, and il is bound tC loaCa its
effect on our student bodies. unless
checked.
we have a large undigested for
eign populations; we have an unfair
distribution of profits and great
wealth; we have mad excess in the
matter of amusements. and we have
wide disobedience of the law. The
danger is that these things may steal
away our birthright. The student
youth is the hope of the republic.
and We must not shut our eyes to the
situation"
The conference will meet this after
noon at 2:30 o'clock. in the First Con-
gregational Church, and tonight at 8
o'clock, in the ballroom of the Raleigh
Hotel. its final session.
Bornh to spenk.
Senator Borah of Idaho and Bishop
George c. Clement of louisville, KY
and Louis Marshall of New York
will deliver addresses at the after
noon session. The night session will
be devoted largely to business, and
the ALLEGATION of responsibility for
every recommendation approved by
the conference.
DR. Zahnisher, in his speech, pro-
POSED that a fact finding committee
he appointed in Washington to, keep
the churches informed of the situa-
tion. He said: :
Persistent publicity at the hands
rI,s,