New Britain herald., 1926-04-17
DRYS LEVEL THEIR
 GUNS ON THE VETS
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 has brought down upon him bar
 rage of denunciation from somo
 ardent drys,
 May Demand Removal
 Tho legislative committee already
 has discussed the situation and when
 todays meeting was called. some
 predicted that a demand for removal
 Of one If not both of the officials. or at least a resolution of censure would
 be adopted.
 l whether any notice would be taken of Secretary Andrews testi. mony, however. remained somewhat in doubt. in view of the differing re- actions among prohibitionists them selves, As contrasted with the de- nunciations from some prohibition workers, Representative Cramton. republican. Michigan. dry leader In tn house, has voiced the opposite view. telling the chamber he be- lieved the general was striving faith fully to enforce the law. Describing the generals testi- mony as based on no facts what ever. but on the flimsiest kind of guess work" Wayne B. Wheeler. general counsel of tho league and q member Of the committee. declared: Wheeler's Rebuke He certainly did not take into consideration the statement Attorney General Sargent recently made on the subject, that the prohibition en- forcement official who publicly states 1 that he doesn't thoroughly believe in the law weakens his own position in attempting to enforce the law.
 The opposition of prohibitionists to liberalization of the Vostead act, set forth emphatically with the launching of their counter offensive against the vets at the senate hear Ing yesterday, was echoed today in a statement by Mrs. Ella A. Boole, na- tional president, and Ida B. Wise smith, vice-president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
 The testimony as president of the wets," 1t said. lis from wet cities and wet centers and given by those who opposed prohibition before it came and have opposed it ever since.
 Prohibition can be enforced and It being enforced, notwithstanding the activities of proponents of legis- lation to weaken the Volstead act"
 Statements Denied.
 Again turning to Canada for light on the prohibition question, the sen- ate committee was told that thera was no truth in statements that sale Of beer had solved the Dominions wet and dry troubles.
 William E. Raney, former attor- ney general of Toronto, called by the dry leaders, testified that Ontario's experiment. with the legaized sale or misunderstanding" beer had not been successful.
 The beer drinkers said the four per cent beer allowed under the law did not have enough kick in it." Raney said. and the permits for the sale of this beer are useful to the holder as q disguise to sell some. thing stronger"
 Bootlegging goes on in both the wet and the dry provinces in Cana. da, he continued, and the products Of Canadian distillerios and brewer. es have become well known in the United States.
 This makes law enforcement fin the dry provinces more difficult" the witness said.
 And it also makes law enforce. ,, ment in the United States more dit- licult,' interiected Senator Harreld, republican. Oklahoma.
 Law Was Enjoyed.
 Mir. Raney said the efforts to sun. ' press the clandestine sale of liouoy z n Ontoria had been reasonably suc. | Sessful and gave general satisfaction I o the friends of the temperance act. I
 The government control prov nces are Quebec, Manitoba, Sas- tatchewan. Alberta and British Co., umhia,' he pointed out. These are the only systems of governmental control in an English v 'peaking country anywhere in the | world. Three of them have been ', 'arlors, as they call them. Less than q year ago Montreal 'aid $75.O00 to hear the truth about {. Il tself. A police investigation was leld which produced 200 witnesses II nd ten thousand pages Of evidence. 11 luch Of the evidence about the n rinking under government control nd social vice and about the pro. II ection of crime and wrong-doinr d 'as sensational and the community e asped. oi Next to British Columbia, Quebec " rovince has the largest dope traffic l Canada. One of the daily papers recently II uoted an unnamed official of ths II uebec liquor commission as saving II lat the menace of tho illicit liouor II Ill Is one of the main problems that l= ices the city of Montreal that n as increasing, and that the com- ission estimated that there were th lore than 1000 Illicit stills in full nj 'eration in and about the city" to
 Other Facts On Canada in The witness said Quebec had the rl stem of government control that is rn ost acceptable to the brewers and M stillers." " He quoted Mayor Webb of Winni- E is saying that conditions there ie 10 government control, were So