Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-20
Urges Enforcement
(Cnntinued from PaaA Qnel


pal church, South. Bishop James Can
non. Jr., declared that the law should
be enforced in the wet sections OF
the east at whatever cost of men and
country.
Tightening up of the enforcement
statute also was urged by Ella A.
Boole of New York, national president
Union; Fred B. Smith. chairman of
the Citizens Committee of 1000 for
Law Observance and Enforcement, and
Colonel Walter F. Jenkins of New
York, national secretary of the Saliva
tion Army, who appeared as the per-
sonal representative Of Commander
Evangeline Booth.
More teeth" in the law also were
urged by Mrs. Willebrandt, who sug-
gested especially that the act be
amended so that federal judges can
make the punishment fit the crime in
the case of major offenders, the kind.
Mrs. Willebrandt said, the federal
courts should deal with.
While the committee thus was del
uged with requests for Tightening up
the law, another administration meas
ure was drawn up today by the treas
ury to make more effective the pres
ent coast defense against contraband
liquor.
At the same time discussion of fur
Their agreements with Great Britain
for curbing smuggling from that coun-
try were renewed with trip by state
and treasury officials to London in
prospect and in connection with the
international phase of the situation
With the exception of Bishop Can
non, all of the witnesses today. and
especially Mrs Willebrandt were ques-
TONED at length by Senator Reed.
Democrat, Missouri, the WEI prosecu-
tor. This finally led to formal written
protests from those presenting the
case for the drys. with the result that
Chairman Harreld announced that the
drys would be given additional time.
Mrs. Willebrandt and Senator
Reed engaged in good deal of fenc-
ing, with the senator disagreeing
with her conclusion that the Vol
stead act could be enforced as we'll
as other laws.
1T will take a longer period of
time to get the law operating fully
than has been the case with others"
She said.
How many men would you need
to enforce it?" the senator asked.
THAT Is difficult to answer. Il
don't think it would take any vast
army"
Mrs. Willebrandt said she based
her conclusion as to law enforce
ment on conditions in those states
which are doing their part in en-
forcement, citing particularly Kan
sas and Idaho. ''.f
Senator Reed disputed the asser-
ton that the law is being well en-
forced in Kansas, citing police stat
istics of arrests in Atchison and
Kansas City, Kas. He also called
attention to the seizure of thousands
of stills in southern states which
were dry before the eighteenth
amndment was ratified.
With respect to the wet rector"
of the east, on which Bishop, Cannon
laid stress, Mrs. Willebrandt said
the federal government would have
TO keep on hammering away at law
enforcement there, mil the states
without enabling acts fall into line"
Bishop Cannon, who is the chair
man of the Legislative committee of
the Anti-Saloon League. told the
committee he spoke for the third
largest Protestant denomination in
the country and that the assertion
of the vets that distilling and brew
ing in the home are universal could
not apply to the 100000 members
Of the Protestant Churches. the 81
OOO.OOO Sunday School attendants
and the 5.00O0O0 members Of young
peoples societies.
The bishop also called attention as
noteworthy that testimony pre-
sented by opponents of prohibition
had come from persons living in
those sections which always had
opposed prohibition and which are
doing much now to nullify the dry
statutes.
Like Bishop Cannon. Mrs. Bools