Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-26
include all those seeking amend.
| ment OF the Volstead law.

include all those seeking amend
ment of the Volstead law.
The Anti-Saloon League counsel
COMMENDED there should be no sur
Tenoer TO the "lawless' element on
the prohibition question and that II
was the plain duty of congress 10 mr.
on the statute books laws which
would enable the federal government;
IN cooperation with the states to
make prohibition effective. On the
otner hand, counsel for the vets said
ms side had presented a mass of
evidence" revealing real conditions
ana that the question was whether
the lawmakers were to tackle it as
real men" should or shunt it to one
side for their successors to wrestle
with
Before the counsel got under way.
Gen. Lincoln G.. Andrews. the dry law
enforcement chief, reiterated en-
phatically that in his recent testi-
mony before the committee he had
not meant to advocate a change in
the law to permit the sale of non-in-
toxicating beer.
Replying to Senator Reed, Gen.
Andrews said he did not now mean
to change his testimony, which was
IN reply to hypothetical question.
He added that at that time he had
stressed the dangers to enforcement
OF the sale of beer.
Immediately after the general had
completed his declaration, the Meth
odlst Board of Prohibition, Temper
ance and Public Morals and the
Womens Christian Temperance I'm
| ion issued statements commencing
him and assuring him of their close
cooperation in his work.
There was no statement from the
Anti Saloon League, within which
after he testified about the sale of
Notwithstanding beer, but it's legis-
| lative committee did pledge the
hearty support to the aggressive for
ward-lookirg legislation and pro-
gram" as outlined by him before the
committee.
Besides Gen. Andrews the COM
mittee heard today from three Yale
! students and on Yale professor as
to the sentiment at Yale regarding
prohibition. The students, Russell
Lee Post, Greedy Sturdivant, Jr., and
Albert Wells, all connected with the
Yale News, and Prof. Irving Fisher
! were far apart on the subject. The
| students said straw vote had shown
a majority of four to one for modi-
| fication of the Nolstead act, with
300 of the 1000 students partici-
| pating. and they asserted that it was
not difficult for the students to OBJ
| tain hard liquor from bootleggers.
| Prof. Fisher insisted there was less
| drinking at Yale now than before
| prohibition and said he thought il
was better for the students to buy
from bootleggers than from the open
saloons because they could not get
as much intoxicants.
At the conclusion of the hearing
the vets, through James MacGuire
chief assistant to- Mr.. Goldman. is
| pointment that Wayne B. Wheeler
| did not take the witness stand, as
| he said early in the hearing he
would, and thus Subject himself to
| cross animation by Senator Reed
| The statement said Senator Reed
| wanted to inquire of Mr.. Wheeler
about the funds of and expenditures
by the Anti-Saloon League and re-
! ports that the league is engaged ir
an active campaign to collect mil
lion dollar fund to be used in elect
ing dry senators and representatives
and defeating those who believe
that the face of prohibition has
been carried far enough"
I'VE desire to show the state
! ment added. "how Mr.. Wheeler and
his associates use their extra gov
| ernmental powers to dictate APP
! pointments of federal judges. dis
trict attorneys. and United States
| marshals to create prejudiced trib-
unals to try citizens charged with the
violation of the prohibition law"
! Summing up the hearings from
| it's point of view. the Anti-Saloon
| League legislative committee de-
clared in a formal statement that
| 1.-The vets met their Waterloo at the
Senate Judiciary committee hear
ings."
mo evidence showed that the
country at large desired the legisla-
I ton proposed by the VETS the
statement added. "On the contrary
! representatives of great religious and
reform organizations, associations OF
citizens, including millions of women
beside manufacturers and economi-
cal experts, opposed any modifica
ton of the law.
THAT conditions are incompara-
bly, better than in license days, and
that prohibition lessons graft and
! corruption due to the liquor traffic
| was demonstrated