The Washington times., 1926-04-20
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homes. better food for the ''com.
mon people," more milk, more
books, more automobiles. more
music, more baths. more washing
machines, more vacuum cleaners.
more lavatories, and a relief TO
women from stupefying drudgery.
Barton reported great transfer
nation In the large cities, speaking
particularly Of Kansas City and
sc. Louis.
Bishop COPS legislators
"The sIums. Barton said. have
almost wholly disappeared. Sec.
tfons once filled with saloons are
now crowded with banks. drug
stores and commercial houses. The
transformation has brought in
creased business, comforts. health.
wealth and happiness. +"
Barton added that the alcoholic
limit of one-half of 1 per cent was
absolutely essential for enforce
ment of prohibition.
Bishop Mcdowell said the Metf.
odist Episcopal Church was rising
to the defense OF the dry law with
clean hands
I'VE come also to declare that
people who have freely violated the
laws and constitution of the United
States. some of whom have sworn
to defend them. and have violated
these laws as was said here the
other day without compunction or
(. conscience have no standing in
court. Law breakers are not in
position to be law makers or law
members"
Great Crime Is Anarchy
DR.. Wilson alleged that labor
agents are using foreigners to come
to America because they can make
big profits" by bootlegging. Hn
said he had received these reports
from the boards representatives
in Europe.
Daniel A. Polling, president of the
United Society for Christian En-.
deavor. another pleader for the
Volstead Act. declared America is
headed for "bolshevfsm or fascism"
II the vets succeed in modifying
prohibition. He opposed any change
In the law.
"I submit to you that murder ik
finally not the great crime" he
said. II submit to You that finally
the great crime is anarchy.
The logic OF the arguments
made in support Of the modifica-
tion proposals now before Congress
and in attacking the Eighteenth
IN essentially the logic of anarchy"
Defend Flaming Youth"
Both Wilson and Polling defended
the flaming youth" Of the era.
I'VE deny emphatically that the
young people Of this decade under
prohibition are consuming liquors
in quantities or that they are being
morally depraved by the operation
Of the prohibition law" said Wilson.
$50 rare is the consumption OF
liquors by young Methodists that 1t
constitutes, when it does occur, a
scandal and shock to the home. the
church and the community-a spec.
tacular disgrace by no means tyDica;
Of general behavior"
Polling laid what blame may &C.
crue for present-day tendencies to
parents.
my observation convinces me
that II Is not so much the juvenile
3lapper as 1t is the grown-up flap
per who needs the attention OF
psychologists, religionists and off,
GERS Of the law.
stop slandering youth! Let
labor leaders, clergymen, United
states senators ana educators be-
come constructive rather than de-
structive. Our boys and girls need
today, not preachment and denun-
Citations, but good example,"
Money for Other Things
when the prohibition law went
into effect" Wilson said, 'the
American people were spending
So, ,42s, ,000, 900 annually for intoxi.
eating liquors.
'"The addition of this expenditure
to the channels of legitimate trade
inevitably meant greater production
and consumption of the necessities
and true luxuries of life.
''The money that was not spent
for beer Immediately was spent for
meat, vegetables, fruit, clothing and
thousand other useful things. or