The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-01-26
COMMISSIONER HAYNES
DECLARES INJUNCTIONS
PROVE VERY EFFECTIVE
Low Fines Fail to Stop Law Viola
tons

| Instructions sent out by Attorney
General Daugherty to federal attor-
neys TO push all pending cases and to
I impose heaviest possible penalties,
will, Commissioner Haynes believes,
aid materially in gaining joint action
between federal officials and local au-
thorities.
/ "Yhe response to these instructions
/ by United States attorneys, especially
i'll applying the paddock provision,
has been electrical and with such CO.
operation marked strides in construc
tive enforcement are certain" Com
missioner Haynes says. THE pad
lock provision is proving the most ef-
fectivc weapon we have i'll combating
the illegal traffic in liquor and reports
from every section OF the couptry in
dictate that it is being invoked in
every case where the circumstances
warrant, with most gratifying results.
"The presidents conference of gov
ernors to discuss enforcement under
/ the concurrent section of the Eight
eenth Amendment was most oppor
tune and resulted i'll a program for
the present year having in mind the
united efforts OF all enforcement off
cials, federal and state. The gov
ors. according to a statement issued
Immediately after, indicated "a pre-
ponderance of opinion that an earnest
4 appeal for reverence for the law and
cordial support of law enforcement
by the press would combine to cure
the worst conditions reported.
THE one thing needed at this time
in the testing OF the ability of this
great government to make and enforce
its laws. is that the agencies respon-
! sible for the enforcement be courage
Gus, patriotic friends of law and or
der, and of American fundamentals, !"
says Commissioner Haynes. 'If only
the friends of the law occupy the piv-
otal positions in enforcement there
soon can be no question in the minds
of all the people as to its enforcca-
bility.
Fines Alone insufficient
Il have long been persuaded that
fines against large vio,ators are but
very small deterrent forces, so we are
now citing all breweries found guilty
of violation in the United States court,
on criminal information and we shall
continue this program during the pres
ent year. We are not only revoking
permits OF the guilty, but are also re-
fusing to REISSUE permits to persons
who have violated the provisions of
their permits, and this has resulted in
the closing down OF about fifty near
beer plants i'll recent months.
There are twenty-four states out of
the forty-eight in the United States
which are incidentally dry, and of ap-
proximately 100000 physicians 10000
OF them reside i'll these incidentally dry
states. OF the 10000 remaining, be-
tween $4,000 and 10000 hold permits
to prescribe liquor, while some direc-
tors have reported that in their state
less than thirty physicians hold per-
mits to prescribe. 1t is now more
than year since the renewed efforts
began to restrict good liquor into le-
gitirnate channels, and it is believed
that it is almost as nearly achievement
as possible
Finally, Commissioner Haynes states
that he is optimistically entering into
the duties of the new year with the
expectation that the results accom-
plished during the next twelve months
will be even more encouraging to the
friends of law and order than those of
the past year have been.
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