Evening star., 1923-06-19
P|NCHOT DRY CODE
| IS WELL FINANCED
Public Subscriptions Make
/ Up for s250,000 Wet
Legislature Denied.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HARRISBURG, Pa. June 19.-The
Pinchot prohibition enforcement law
will be enforced to the letter.
That Is the answer of Giffort
Pinchot, reform governor of the Key.
stone state, to the members of the
last legislature, who adjourned, re-
fusing the needed appropriation Of
$250.000 to meet enforcement ex-
penSeR.
PinChot is to have the money-by
private subscription--as he wants It.
Behind him all of the reform forces
Of the state are solidly lining up. The
w. c. T. u. has announced It's MEM
bership Will raise the cash, while At
torney General George w. Woodruff
has ruled the governor VIII be within
his rights i'll accepting 1t and using
It to see that the liquor traffic Is
sQuelched in this state.
New Personal Triumph.
II is another personal triumph for
Pinchot. How he forced the Penn
sylvania machine to agree to his
economy measures abolishing 20 per
cent of the easy" state jobs: forced
through his reorganization code and
his prohibition bill, Is history. But
the vets were sure they had him
when they killed his prohibition ap-
preparation bill. 1t begins to look
different now.
lock the senate receded on the $780,
900 appropriation. But almost while
their voices were still loudly clamor-
ing it was discovered that a routine
changing the auto license law. 1t
provided that the commissioner of
highways, an appointee Of the gov
ernor, may spend as much of the
money derived from automobile
licenses as he deems necessary for
enforcement of any and all laws of
the highway department.
Under this law any constable, po-
lice officer, member of the state po-
lice or duly authorized official of the
highway commission has the right to
stop any vehicle on the highway, in
spect ii ito get the engine number or
secure such other information as may
be necessary" and generally see what
these machines are carrying.
Open Police School.
The state police, under the reor-
Eanization code, with the approval
of the governor, may assist any other
department in carrying out the laws
affecting such department. A new
school for state police now is in op-
Grafton at Mount Gretna. where in
ing specialized in. II is intended TO
add 100 men to the force. These men
can-and will-stop rum running.
But even facing realization of all
this, the vets We're jubilant because
they felt it would take money to
utilize these weapons against them
However ever since the. adjournment
of the Legislature cash has been pour
ing in. Checks ranging from one dol
lar to thousand dollars have been
reaching the governor to make up a
law enforcement fund to replace that
which the house had denied. T. Larry
Eyre, president Of the senate, sent the
81 900
Now the W. c. T. L. has announced
it will find 100000 citizens. each of
whom will give dollar for this fund.
This has enraged the vets. who al
ready have charged that any such
fund is to be utilized for a secret
spy system and for enforcement
work which officers in uniform could
not lawfully perform.
SuppIant Wet Officers.
Part of it. it also has been claimed
was to be used to supply special
prosecutors in counties where the
officials were out of sympathy with
the dry law. incidentally the new
reorganization code law coufers wide
powers along this line on the govern
or and the attorney general.
The churches also are getting in
tereSted. 1hey plan law ENFORCE
ment" Sunday on July /, when all
collections will be devoted to the
s250.000 fund Pastors are to preach
on this subject. and every effort viii
be made to secure cooperation of all
churchgoers with the governor.
The governor also is being deluged
with offers from we'll known citizens
who are willing to become "dollar-a-
year" enforcers of the law. Such ap-
pointmentS can be made by the gov
ernor under the new state code.
All in all. it looks today as though
the wet rejoicing has been decidedly
premature.