Evening star., 1926-04-16

Why they should make a concerted
drive in this particular policy-is not
! obvious, apart from their selfish inter.
esta. Other laws are exceedingly diff.
| ficult of enforcement, but we do not
advise their modification or repeal.
mo sooner was prohibition estab-
lished and the vets had recovered
from the shock than they began to
encompass its destruction.
L. w. Beatty, who told the commit
tee that he had been a gospel service
worker on the East Side of New York
| for 25 years and has been employed by
| the Madison Square Settlement, anil
lated with the First Presbyterian
Church. said conditions in the homes
had greatly improved under prohibi-
| ton. Before prohibition, he said.
women and children in the district
which his work covered had required
twice as much money for shoes ana
clothes and other aid He said that
the saloons, which were numerous IN
the district, had been wiped out, some
of them being replaced by banks and
stores. He denied that they had been
replaced by speakeasies.
Couldn't Find Home Brew.
There has been much talk about
home breweries," said Mr.. Beatty. Il
went into home in my district and 1
Smelled home brew. l chaned the
lady Of the house and asked her il she
did not have some home brew to give
me. She replied that it was terrible
the way they were making home brew
on the block, that everybody was do
ing it.
"Afte% left her house visited SO
homes in the block, and not one OF
them smelled of home brew" said Mr..
Beatty
Il was told that the speakeasies
were taking the place of saloons" said
the witness. Il got the numbers OF
seven supposed speakeasies. l visited
them and Il found that not one of
them was conducting anything but
legitimate business. ] did find two old
saloons which still had some OF the
fixtures, although without the bottles,
being used as restaurants, and it may
be that they are speakeasies. They
seemed to get onto me and / couldn't
get drink"
Want "reeth i'm Law"
Mrs. Helen Fl. Green, member OF
the city council Of Cleveland. Ohio,
elected. she testified. by the drys and
the church people, told the committee
that the people of Ohio want better
prohibition enforcement and teeth put
into the law"
Mrs. Green said that in spite Of the
big increa Sc in population, much OF
which was foreign born and colored,
today there is less crime in Cleveland
than before prohibition.
II know that crime is decreasing.
she said. IT have sat on the bench
with the Judges and with the criminals
-. l.nSr a11m ox1I tn, "a Ia
She said that Cleveland has a dry
mayor, a dry city manager and a dry
safety director.
1.-THE young people are not so bad as
they are painted" Mrs. Green insisted.
Wild Parties Exceptional.
wild parties are the exceptional
thing and moral standards are higher
than they were % years ago. Some of
the members Of the committee are
about my age, and they know that
OF q century ago were bad. The worst
things 1 know are the things ! heard
from the lips Of big boys at school
in those days"
Mrs. Green said that delinquency
had grown less in the schools, that
fewer cases we're taken into the Juve-
nile Court since prohibition, and that
the work of the Humane Society had
fallen Off Cruelty to children in the
past, she said, was largely due to
drink
There are less drunken people
found in Clevela nd" said Mrs. Green.
She said that in the year 1917. 3,150
had been prosecuted for being drunk
and that SO 900 taken up for being
drunk had been let of under the
golden rule" She explained that
under the golden rule a drunk was
arrested and held until he sobered
up and was then allowed to go.
'Tn other words, you mean by
golden rule that they did the fel.
lows as we would like to be done by"
Senator Reed Of Missouri
amid considerable laughter.
Fewer "Golden Ruled"
Mrs. Green said that in 1918 the
number of those prosecuted for being
drunk was 2.204 and that $4,000 had
been golden ruled The next fig
ures she gave were for 1923, 1924 and
1925, explaining that during the years
1919-20 and 1921 the mayor, the safety
director and the chief of police had
been SO at odds that she was un-
willing to offer any figures for those
years. In 1923, she said, the num-
ber prosecuted for being drunk was
{, ,406, while 12,408 were golden
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