, 1925-01-21

Upon the occasion of the fifth anniversary n federal prohibition last
Friday, Wayne B. Wheeler, genral counsel for the Anti,sa1oon league, is
of a nw era of freedom and prosperity and will be of the most memor-
lied a liquor "outlaw" (bootlegge). The United States has travelled so
fast and so far IN the water-wagon that the oIdtime saloon is less than a
memory and W are startled if a few young people drink today"
Opponents of the dry law fail to be impressed, however, by the highly
imaginative statements of Mr.. Wheeler, and, instead, call attention to the
mounting list of dry law arrests, the increase in drinking among young
people, the growing disregard TO, all law, the enormous total of deaths and
this celebrated period a total of $5OOOOOOOOO has been lost in federal
state, county and municipal revenues, while enforcement has cost about
saOOoOOOo a var.
revivals in the Blue Ridge Mountains nea Bristol, Va, werea arrested on
December 10th for moonshining. They were caught working a still
Here is an interesting experiment to show that over u of n per cent
alcohol n a beverage should not be classed Is IN intoxcant. One hundred
and ninetyeight Qs drops Or measures of water, non-alcohoic wort or
liquid are put into a container. One drop of alcohol is added making 1919. If
one drop more of water is added then the product contains Il of ne per
cent alcohol If, instead of adding the last drop of water, one drop of
alcohol be added, the product contains n per cent alcohol Does any sane
a woman o child believe that putting n drop of alcohol into a u
of one per cent Misunderstanding beverage will make the beverage intoxi-
eating?
San Francisco, January 12-Probably the severet indictment as a re-
suit of prohibition ever to emanate from high places with in the government
itself, was voiced by United States Judge John S Partridge, veteran federal
took occasion to characterize the Voltead- created liquor traffic 5 "our
greatest nursery of crime and a breeding place of brazen defiance, both
to the government and its courts
Added weight must be given to Judge Partridges utterances because
of the fact that thousands of such cases have passed through his court
among volstead law viohtor.
It is accepted as inevitable by bootleggers whose cases cOm into his
court that conviction II a plea of guilty mean the heaviest penalty that
the law allows. both in fines and imprisonment.
or ignorant of the facts
Judge Partridge said: "our dry laws have brought about a condition
never even approached in or whole history of commercial Jurisprudence
violators appehended u into thousands in this district alone. The result
is congestion of u courts, making it almost impossible to cope with the
situation. Delays resulting from the overwhelming situation have encour-
aged other thousands, not alone in persisted violation of the Voktead law.
but in most brazen and open difanee of u government and its courts
"This disespect and contempt for law and government has spread to
alarming proportions. Particularly has it grown among the ignorant and
literate of our foregn-born population.
at is not too much to say that the resulting illicit traffic in liquor is
our greatest nursery If crime of every description"