New Britain herald., 1925-12-03
Coolidge Is Assaulted For Not
 Insisting Dry Law Be Rgidly
 Enforced h Epery Particular
Enforcement by Admins tration Makes a "Joke" and "Hissing By-Word, ' United Committee State ment Declares.

dSHlNS ton, DeC, Rl--Ihe re- suits obtained in prohibition enforce ment by the present administration were declared to have made the eighteenth amendment 6 "Joke" and q missing by word among other wise well-disposed citizens" in an expression of views mailed to the White House today by the united committee for prohibition enforce ment, now in session here,
 Clinton N. Howard of Rochester, N. T., chairman of the committee, which is composed of 2G national reform organizations, expressed the sentiments of the gathering and his speech was made public as contain ing the views of the committee.
 Every effort of dry organizations to respond to the approval of Presi- dent Coolidge and prohibition off cials for aid in endorsements he said, had been defeated by unfit and un- favorable appointments by those making the appeals"
 SritlC1ZeS IrCSfQcnt
 There sits a man in the White House Of silent determination" he said. "The president has done some fine moralizing on the general en- forcement of the law, but he never yet had definitely and unreserVedly committed his administration to the enforcement Of the eighteenth amendment, as provided by his oath of office 10 support the constitution.
 He knows how 10 speak on the world court. He has spoken bold and ringing words on the question of world peace. and in his address at Omaha to the American Legion he said; This country has had all the war, all the taxation, and all the militarism 1t wants,' but national scandal, unequalled In its financial and political ramifications in the history of the United States has brought this country nearer the brink of destruction than 1t has been at any period since the Civil War"
 
 Mir. Howard charged the law had not been enforced beyond the point where in the opinion of the enforc- CTS, 1t would hurt the party in pow CT, AS m example of the free flow of liquor. he said 30,000 arrests had been made in Washington for drunk enness since prohibition became a law.
 He declared that the wet leaders were out to capture both of the ma ior political conventions.
 Mellon Replies
 Although he conceded that "con- ditions are bad" Secretary Mellon today characterized as ''unfounded and unjustifled," the latest attacks by the drys on the administrators prohibition policies.
 The secretary's observations were directed particularly at the above letter sent to the White House by q group of reform organizations, de- scribing present enforcement condi- : tions as "a national scandal" and declaring the president never had "unreservedly" committed him to enforce the eighteenth amendment, as required by his oath of office. Heretofore high administration Of. ] ticials had taken a public notice of the manifest disposition of the dry forces to fasten blame for non-en- forcemcnt upon the president him. self.
 The letter sent to the White House, Secretary Mellon said, lacked detlntteness and apparently was not entitled to serious consideration. II represented a clash of maneuvcrs he protested, which would afford treasury officials little assistance in , enforcing the law.
 MT. Mellon added that + was the business of the treasury to attempt 10 curb lawlessness under the prohi. hition law, and he believed 1t wa: making progress in that direction al. though "of course conditions are bad"