New Britain herald., 1925-02-26

vored by the judges and prosecutors
 led by him, which will strengthen
 the enforcement code against the H.
 licit liquor trade. We hope this bill
 will pass and to help 1t we hope
 everybody here will write letters to
 Senator Hall, and to Representatives
 Rackliffe and filling, In favor of this bill. ..5....
 Numerous complaints of liquor
 violations have come to us during the year and these have uniformly
 been turned over to the police de- partment. Only few of these cases are yet pending, Local officials are always given first chance, before we appeal to Hartford.
 Last year we gave a resume of the liquor cases, aside from trunks, coming into the police court during the first six weeks of the year. It showed, as you may remember, a situation not complimentary to the local court. This year, however, we are pleased to report distinctly bet ter showing in one respect at least, which indeed, one would expect to find since New Britain has been free from the open bar now for over year. In this respect, New Britain stands higher than Hartford.
 "Our survey of the past six weeks of the police court records, show only 15 liquor cases brought before the court, as compared with 29 cases reported in the same period last year. This is 50 per cent improve ment in number of cases; but we are sorry to report that there is not the same improvement in the quail ity of their treatment. For instance, last year the fines amounted to 45 per cent of the maximum fines al- lowed by law, while this year fines ran at only 26 per cent of the max mum allowed by law, and again, last year jail sentences were for 6.2 per Sent of the maximum allowed by law, while this year jail sentences ran at only 5.7 per cent of the max luuHl dilOWeQ Dy law.
 All of this is additional evidence of the need for the new legislation sponsored by Chief Justice Wheeler, which will make it harder for boot leggers and law-breakers and easier for judges and prosecutors to do what is right.
 Respectfully submitted, ]
 "B. E. BASSETTE." :,
 Says Prohibition Is Permanent,
 Prohibition has come to stay, was he substance of the address made to he meeting by Horace w. Taft, president of Taft school at Water own and chairman of the civic com- nittee of the Connecticut Federation of Churches. He began by saying hat the United States has already )een five years under prohibition md an enormous amount of good las been done, including the reduc- ion of great many kinds of crime But many kinds of wrongs have fol- owed he went on and cited the flood # liquor which is pouring in over he border and from rum row."
 Every quart of this pays it's 'ribe," he asserted. we are facing frightful crisis, the corruption of ur police force, detective force, and 'rosecuting attorneys and the eating ut of the foundation of our honesty.
 have seen the tremendous distance which the power of the bootlegger an reach" He claimed offices were being sold in congress and that me such office buyer had said if he leeded the office more than a year le was fool. Tt is foolish to deny hese things and idiotic to laugh at hem. They mean moral death, Fhich is more frightful than war.
 "1s there way out ?" MT. Taft sked and took up each of the ways uggested by opponents of prohibi- lon. The first was the repeal of le 18th amendment. Don't dream it," he said. The people went or prohibition and have been going nat way for 100 years. There is bsolutely no chance of repeal which ould require Q two-thirds majority both houses of congress and ia orable action by three -fourths of le states, but more than enough to efeat the repeal, 26 states, were dry efore the amendment was passed. ven Senator Edwards, the wettest ,nator from the wettcst state, ad- its that there is no chance of re- ealing the amendment. Some say K icy have a better system in Canada. ome say the amendment was put yer on us. But the main point is lat there is no chance of repeating
 The repeal of the Nolstcad act so ; to allow the sale of beer and light 2 ines was the second possibility entioned by MT. Taft. On this pint, he said that a man in this ct section of the country had no { ca of the dry sentiment in the west ' Id south, which would stop any y lch action. "As well ask a man
 the bottom of the well his opin- z n of the landscape as ask a man
 this wet section his opinion of ,er and light wine feeling" he s id. He said that this would not 2 op the thrush of hard liquor. which 4 ould elude the police. 'even if ere were any honest police left by en." E The third possibility was letting , e law become dead letter. This Ould mean the corruption of all the ,lice in. the city and the corruption
 all our young people," he said. as W