Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-03-15
DRY LAW OFFICERS
SUBJECT OF ATTACK
Work in D. C. and Adjoining
States in Unsympathetic
Hands, Is Charge.

BY the Associated Press.
Prohibitionsts generally and en-
forcement dictatorship in the District
of Columbia, Maryland. Delaware
and Kentucky specifically az at
tackled in statements issued here.
opening week that Is expected to
see Congress devote considera Bile at
tentiOn To the subject.
The statements came from the
Board OF Temperance. Prohibition
and Public Morals OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church. repeating its con
tention that prohibition enforcement
in many cases rests in unsympa-
thetic hands, and from Representa-
tive Phillips. Republican, Pennsyl-
vania The Representative charged
that under the rule Of the 'drNs the
Constitution is fast becoming "A scrap
Of paper. the jury system junk. JUS
tice joke and the Government.
through its agents, the greatest law
brea ker."
Senator Bruce to Discuss Topic.
At least one address on prohibition
will be delivered during the week IN
the Senate, where Senator bruco
Democrat, Maryla nd will reply ~
ness. who on Saturday declared pro
hihition WAS success. despite VIC
lations hv the "moneyed ariStocrarF
and the laws administration ny we
biggest distiIler in the Repuhlir.
In addition. the Senate judiciary sn"'
committee will meet soon 10 cor,
slider pending modification bills ana
decide whether II will recommend
that public hearings he held
The board 81 temperance statement
declared that while the recently OF
ganized group of men 20 combat mis-
use of the alcohol permit system
would prove helpful. when anu-pfo-
hihitionists or inefficient men are
maintained in positions of response
hility the confidence Of the people IL
shaken"
1T is impossible. for instan nee.
aNed 70 convince the dry people
of MARYLAND and Delaware that real
rrihhition enforcement is intended III
those States so long as Mr.. Rudnl'Z
1Edmund Rudnitz. prohibition admin
iStrator at Paltimorel is retained in
rharee of prohibition enforcement.
This indicates 10 the people Of that
district that the political fortunes o'
Senaor Weller Republican. Marylandl
are held to he Of greater importance
than pr0hIhltlnn enCOrceHeft.
Ofhere Officers Criticised. =
The statement also criticized the re-
fention Of William o. Mays. admins
TRAITOR for Kentucky and Tennessee.
declaring he WAS appointed for politi-
cal rea sons and that his office was
political machine headquarters.
Representative Phillips declared that
while only n short time ago the term
wet" was approhrious. six years
of urd!sprted and almost unchsl
lenCed power has rendered the word
dry" synonymous with intemperance.
intolerance. hiGotry. arrogance and
tyranny"
Referring 10 newspaper polls being
~ ken throughout the country. he said
thousa nds Of votes recorded in the wet
columns are being east by persons.
who. six years ago. would have been
Ella ssnd definitely AS "drys." Tenn
perate. honest law.ahiding people.
who have protested against the effort
TO put prohibition above all else in
the legal calendar. he continued.
have been bodily cast over by the
prohihitionist In tn the wet group
and so branded. ! myself have been
ella ssified as wet. because I have
had the temerity to protest. privately
and officially. aSairst that very situa-
ion"