New Britain herald., 1926-04-16

hHnW tllIlc IN utCItdhlIE' ! have sat on the bench with the judges l have been down to the jails and 10 the work houses,
 "Clayelond has a dry mayor and lt has a dry city manager who has appointed a dry safety director who is getting results in holding down crime.
 "Our young people arc not nearly as bad as they have been painted. Yon gentlemen of the committee will bear he out that conditions today are no worse than they were in the country schools a quarter ot q cen tury ago,
 Tho worst thing I know today aro th' things I heard from the lirS oi Ms boys when 1 was iu school"
 To support her statement about conditions among youths, Mrs. Green saii @.Si7 boys and girls were broncht Into the Cleveland juvenile courts in 1918 whereas in 1925, when tho population had increased hy BOG, ,u00. boys brought in number for l.N92 and girls 621. She added that the negro population supplied T. rcr cent of the juvenile delin- Qurncy
 She continued that drunkenness in her city had decreased,
 q don't think" she said T have seen five drunken people on tho streets Of Philadelphia in the last 1 S months.
 'Thoro arc fewer deaths in Cleve- land from alcoholism" she said, reading an official report showing GG deaths in 1919; Il in 1920; 42 in 1921; S5 in 1Q22; 23 in 1923 and 2 in 1921
 Poverty as a result of drink Is disappcaring"' she agreed as the pro lucod official figures Of the loard of charities
 "I am tho mother of four daugh- ters and two sons and none of them arc hip pocket flash toters, and as far as ] know none of their friends are"
 Calling attention that Ohio had voted dry ny 17o,N00 the last time, Mrs. Green said,
 T am sure the people of Ohio do not want any modification of the dry law"
 In the last state election she con- tinucd, the only republican to lose was Harry L. Davis a wet candidate for governor.
 Wants Opportunity
 The call of the hour is for such q thorough going work of moral nersuasion and legal enforcement as Twill give the policy of prohibition an .adcquatc opportunity to demonstrate its full value to the nation and he world said q statemen presened by ,tbo administrative committee of the H7cderal Council of Churches.
 This declaration by the spokesmen for 2S Protestant communions mark cd the opening of the drive by the drys in response to the assaults on prohibition which have been made by the vets during the past ten days. The statement was read by Dr. Will liam J. Haven, of New York, secro- itary of the American Bible society.
 Evils Are Less
 "If serious evils have sprung up since prohibition" the statement said, they are far less than the evils which arose from the liquor traffic prior to the eighteenth amendment. The liquor traffic with the accompanying saloon was allied with political corruption, crime, gambling and prostitution. It meant tho wrcckage of men and the de- gradation of families,
 "Thc policy of prohibition was not ladoptcd hastily nor was it foistcd unon the country by a puritanicaI minority. IL was first voted in most of the states separately and then na- tionaIly, because the people had be- { come convinced that liquor traffic was q social evil of such magnitude that it had 10 be destroyed. "The eighteenth amendment was made q part of tho constitution by , tho regular methods which the , founders of the republic devised with } T view to making the amendment , of the constitution difficult rather [ than easy. Yet this amendment was adoptcd more promptly than any - .ohor change in the constitution ever proposed.
 l "Tho proposal to modify tho Vol [ stead act go as to permit the sale Of 5 wines and beer presents inSuperablo objections. II would make enforce . mont moro difficult. It would in ] ovitahlv moan the return either of | inc saloon or something equally un- - desirable
 Menace of Bootleggers
 "Roo' logging in stronger liquors - would become more monaclng be 2 cause if would tend 10 operate through the places where the milder
 ,ntoyicants were sold. Moreover there ie no evidence to justify the contention that to permit wine and - beer would reduce tho consumption = of ar1rnt spirits, The teaching of experience Is to the contrary. "NInthods of control or prohihltlon, such as taxation, regulation and the governmrntallv controlled systems l of some Of th" Canadian provinces, - Norway and Sweden, have all prov cd na4oqua'a to cope with the evil. ! "Tho ono rath of advance is for
 all good citizens personally 10 oh-
 serve tho law and 10 support the s great "n'crTrlso. horn of the ld"a'ism ; cf thn people, of completely riddins - tht nanon of as domorallzinE hnsl- rcs~ as inc hquor traffic has always ,,ros.1 recIf 10 h".'
 IT,. ,ommI't'e which had charge of Irascn'nE the report included Dr,
 < Tar&~e Cadnl7N of New York, prcsd"n' of tho council of churches; pr. Charles S MacFarland, general
 eacro'ory of fho federal council of churches: H,ahop James Cannon, IT,. M'hcdlat Episcopal church, and
 Dr. rohcrt F.. Sp"rr. uf Now York,