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one of the wet" Senators who
brought about the hearings before
the Senate committee, Immediately
issued a reply to Senator Mckellar
defending Gen. Andrews, and critfciz-
ing the drys because they attacked
Gen. Andrews for giving the Senate
committee the facts.
The prohibition hearings will be re-
sumed tomorrow morning in the Sen
ate Office Building, with the drys Stlll
on the stand. They have 16 hours IN
which to complete their case. The
Senate committee ruled today that
Julian Goldman, counsel for the vets.
be permitted to sum up for his side
after the drys have completed their
case. He has about two and half
hours remaining of wet time IN
which to make his argument. Wnlch
Is expected to come toward the close
of the present week
Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel
of the Anti-saloon League, and active
in the presentation of the dry cause
to the Senate committee, in a radio
speech last night declared that the
vets. who have adopted as a slogan
"Face the Facts are themselves
afraid to face the facts.
Calls Challenge Bluff.
"Their challenge is brazen bluff, y
said Mr.. Wheeler.
W. II. Stayton, head of the Associa-
tion Against Prohibition, at the same
time was issuing a statement saying
that the drys are now demanding more
money for law enforcement, and there
nv admitting that the law which they
have so often declared perfect IS oy
no means perfect.
Mr.. Stayton said that the testimony
OF Gen. Andrews and of United States
District Attorney Buckner OF NsW
York had indicated 1t would take
sr5n or0 600 a wear to enforce proh1-
bition.
Prof. Fisher, expressing his opln-
ION that the "drys'' had made a
hIunder when they virtually dropped
their educational program after the
enactment OF the Volstead act, SAID
prohibition made its greatest strldes
when the evils of alcohol were
stressed. 1t lost ground as soon as
that emphasis was lost.
1.-THE public which had not ALREADY
been converted to prohibition, and
| who never understood the SOLID rea-
sons for 1t, when preached to oy
Judges and clergymen and exhorted
TO obey the law merely because 1t was
| law, have acquired the impression
that no other reason for obeylng the
law exists. They have acquired the
idea that this prohibition law Is bad
law. resting only on the whimsical
ideas of fanatics. No one can be
really enthusiastic over obeying bad
law believed to have been put over
on us.
Declares Education Is Needed.
"what is needed is to go back to
| first principles and educate the public
| to understand that there's reason
| and a good one."
| prof Fisher called attention to the
fact that the recently published sta
tistics of the senior class at Yale Col
| lege showed that 80 per cent OF that
class are "wet" in their sympathies
This is q larger proportion than the
| figures for Harvard last year, he
said. and far larger than the recent
survey of II colleges, mostly in the
| NIiddlewest, which showed that two
thirds Of the men and fourfifths OF
the women students favor strict en-
forcement Of prohibition.
mot only is the Yale student senti.
ment prevailingly wet but the city
| and State in which Yale is located
are among the wettest in the Ma
ton. Connecticut did not ratify the
eighteenth amendment and recently
refused an opportunity to tighten up
it's inadequate enforcement legisla-
ton. The newspapers of New Haven
! are uniformly wet The judges are
| wet
BESIDES all this damp atmosphere