New Britain herald., 1926-01-27

opinions which affect tho thoughtful and informed. A vast mass of propaganda against the law nours into the provinces concealed in alleged humor syndicated to newspap- CTS which are editorlally dry; in the words of popular songs; in the batter of stage come dians, in the words of fiction al heroes, It is propaganda of suggestion which by its drip, drip wears away tho stone Of conviction and by imperceptihle pulls and pushes shapes the opinions of adolescence and un- instructed maturity"
 The report then details the need for better public education upon the subject and for all those who favored the 18th amendment 10 stick to the ship and help 10 cause its enforcement. The Methodist church, 1t was declared, will en- courage tho study of the problems particularly by the young people, and closes with these words:
 "1ho problems of public morals were never more mum erous than now. An appalling responsibility is Indicated by the fact that many great evils arc hardly being opposed at all except by the Board of Tem-
 pcrance Prohibition and Public
 Morals of our church. Race gambling has enormously in- creased since the war, and that
 in many places where the text . of the law is against it. Prize
 fighting, once practically ban
 ished, flourishes as pestilencc
 today.
 Alcoholism has never yet
 failed 10 recognize and meet an
 emergency. In the words of q
 fighting prophet of old: Be not
 ye afraid of them: remember
 the Lord, which is great and
 terrible. and fight for your
 brethren, your sons and daugh-
 ters, your wives and your
 houses
 And then MT. Buckner told of ' Conference with lone of the high est officials having to do with pro hibition enforcement" soon after ht took office.
 This official" he told the minis ters, "said 1t was never intended that the federal government should enforce the prohibition laws, re ceived not the slightest support iron any federal authority.
 NIr. Andrews was quoted as saying that the morale of the enforcement agencies was low, and that member' of tho coast guard were growing weary of arresting the same violat ors and seizing the same rum boat over and over again, and were be ginning to suspect that they wer the only ones trying to enforce pro hibition."
 It may be said in passing tha how the coast guard is taking t prohibition may have been indicate in tho indictments against l3 of it members yesterday.
 Recently Senator Capper, throug his most prominent farm Iourna painted q roscate picture of ho' prohibition was being enforced, an among other things tho statemer said that even the foreign embasslc in Washington were not obserNin the American law. But this evident lv was in error, &S Senator Col Blcasc the other day arose in h. GC2f ana utltItN ti tNi' 'iA'N against the drinking parties in th foreign embassies, which were Tn mlInc under the law, And yeStcrda there was q piece in the paper tel ing o ia girl who had obtained l ouor from lone of the embassies and drovc her automobile wn clad in a bathing suit and pajam' until q telephone pole stopped u proceedings.
 In prohibition, as In many oth thiras. one can think what oi cares to think; or one can bcle' what one wants to believe. The mo conservative of citizens, hoWeF' who do not take cXparte statemeh as the absolute truth, will conclu' , tbot prohibition is enforced wh' thcv no longer read of the pup , monaco of drunken automobile drl CTS.