Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-19
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ton Federation of Canada, took up
more than half the afternoon session.
Referring to the suggestions for the
legalizing of notwithstanding" beer in
thisg country as an aid to enforce
ment, Mr.. Raney said Ontario's experi-
ment in that direction had not proven
successful.
"The beer drinkers said that pep
cent. beer allowed under the law did
not have enough kick in it," he testi-
fed thus the permits for the sale Of
beer are useful TO the holders as dis
guise TO sell something else"
Both Mr.. Raney and Mr.. Peck
produced official reports of invests
cations in Montreal, where liquors
OF all kinds are sold by the govern
ment, to the effect that bootlegging
and vice and crime are prevalent.
They also testified that bootlegging
was general in all the licensed pro-
vinces.
With respect to conditions in
Quebec provinces, in which Montreal
is located, Senator Reed, Democrat.
Missouri, the one wet member OF
the committee, put into the record
a letter from Prime Minister Ia
chereau of that province, saying that
the restriction law had proved IAN
unqualified success" from both the
moral and financial side and that
drunkenness was on the decrease.
Besides telling of decreased drink
ing at Chicago University since pro-
hibition, Mr.. Stage declared it was
not the Volstead act that created the
problem among the youth of today.
but ''the breaking down of the home
and the responsibility on the part
of the parents toward their chill
dren.'
God only knows what conditions
would be with this enlarged free
dom of growing boys and girls, il
the prohibition law were not in ef-
feet" he said. "If prohibition were
| not in existence there would be an
| immeasurably greater amount of
drunkenness and debauchery than
there is now.
1.-THE trouble with prohibition is
not prohibition itself. but that it has
not been given a fair chance. 1t is
time for the people and the news
papers to play the game according
to the rules of the game, and not
| play crookedly."
Besides dealing with the economic
phases of prohibition, Prof. Fisher
told of improved conditions among
students at Yale under prohibition,
declaring that such drinking as still
remains sis often more. concentrated
and uproarious thar, before prohibi-
tion."
The drys were taken to task by
Prof. Fisher for abandoning their
educational policy for a mere law
! observance program" He expressed
/ the opinion that this had been a
i great tactical blunder" and that
J prohibition had lost ground as a re-
! suit.
More charts showing deaths from
alcoholism and other diseases attri-
| butable to alcohol were presented to
| the committee by Prof. Walter f. Will
cox, professor of economics at Cor
nell University. The chart on alco-
; holism showed a sharp drop from
| 1915 TO 1920, with a sharp rise during
prohibition, until III 1925 almost the
pre-war level had been reached.
Statements from business men and
civic and other societies in Boston
were filed with the committee by the
Rev. William NJ. Forgrave of Boston,
president of the Massachusetts State
Anti Saloon League. These all told
of improved conditions under prohi-
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