Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-27
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Representatives German, La
Guardia, UpshaW and Hill
involved in House Debate.
BY the Associated Press.

Indulging in one of it's favorite pas
times of the present session. the House
yesterday participated in a round of
prohibition debate.
Consideration of the second de-
ficiency supply BILL which among other
items carries s2,6S6,700 to supplement
the s10.635,6S5 already provided for
prohibition enforcement during the
fiscal year beginning July l. served as
the vehicle for bringing up the sub
jeCt.
While Representatives German. Re-
publican, Illinois, and La Guardia,
Progresive-Socialist, New York, vigor-
ously assailed the dry law and condi-
tons under it, Representative Upshaw,
Democrat, Georgia, urged his party to
come out with ringing" pronounce
ment in support of the eighteenth
amendment in the 1928 presidential
campaign.
Lays Blame to Prohibition.
Mr.. German charged prohibition
with a grave responsibility in recent
crime waves in his home city of Chi
cago. while Mr.. La Guardia concen-
"A
drews. Assistant Secretary Of the
Treasury. who is in charge of prohibi-
tiOn enforcement.
Assailing Andrews as a typical
Cringing Office holder who is seeking
to please the administration. the drys
and the VETS La Guardia shouted
that the proposed distribution of the
233 additional dry agents to be en-
ployed under the new appropriation
is not to prevent liquor coming into
the country, but to facilitate the entry
and to give concessions at certain
ports for that very purpose"
MIR. Cpshaw reviewed the last presi-
dental elections. accused President
Coolidge of not taking definite stand
on the ku klux Klan and said the
Democrats had been afflicted with too
much Madison Square Garden
Says Poison Has Replaced Beer.
Comparing conditions in Chicago as
he knew them as letter carrier eight
wears ago with those at present. Mr..
German said that his route Law in an
orderly community" but now there
is much crime
Young boys and girls" he said. "in
the days 1 travelled there, now grown
into early manhood and womanhood.
instead OF drinking beer in their own
homes. as was the custom of their
parents. now drink poison at house
parties, dances, cabarets and else.
where.
There is more drunkenness among
these young people today than there
was among the adults of eight years
ago when / worked in their midst.
The girls who don't drink strong
liquors are rare exceptions, and they
all Whit that eternal companion Of
drink. the cigarette.
THE young men all drink and they
get stupidity drunk from the rotten
stuff they drink. Other vices have
come among these plain folks as a
result of strong drinking. Indulgence
in intoxicating liquors at their dances,
parties and other gatherings have pro-
duced immoral and suggsEtive dane
ing among them and combnsation Of
both drinking and dancing has
brought on aggravated immortality.
Community of Drinkers.
"These simple people are no better
off since prohibition. They are worse
off For the most part, they were a
temperate people before prohibition
Now, they are a community of drinkers
They make their own home brew and
they distill their own booze, strong,
vile and unaged concoctions that are
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