New Britain herald., 1927-04-19

mailed a copy o. the Prohibition Ladder one Of the best dry state ments ever prepared; and also q copy of Why Wet Candidate Will Never be President
 Our complaints re liquor viola tions. sent to the police department, have had, for the most part, their usual careful attention. A study ot the liquor cases on the police boards during the past two months, aside from mere cases of trunks, show l4 convictions against only about 6 dur ing the same period d year ago. This does not show any increase in viola tions: but rather improved activity due to the liquor squad. The facts, indeed. show a dryer situation today than at any time since 1920. The organization in Hartford lately of a branch Of the Association Opposed 10 the 18th Amendment, proves that standard liquors are harder to get, and indeed cost more than even rich men like to pay for the stuff. One disappointment that greets us in these local police records is the fact that the fines and sentences are no larger than they were five years ago. Many judges in the country at large show increasing sentences as the years go on. and we long for the day when our police records will catch up with the drift of the times.
 We had the pleasure this past month Of sending to the federal judge and the prosecutor in Hartford and also to the states attorney, q copy of a Digest of Federal Court Decisions on Liquor Search and Seiz- ure Authority by John B. Ham, mond Of the New York Civic league. Judge Edwin <. Thomas, United States district judge, sent us his deep appreciation for sending him this digest~and said 1t would be of great assistance 10 him. District At torney John Buckley thanked us very cordially. also.
 Referring to the controversy over the doctors prescr otions, many Of which are more repertions of drinks for the thirsty. it was interesting to see how the medical convention at { Chicago this year came to our sup port. Some of the leading doctors declared that 99 per cent of all doc- l tors prescriptions for liquor were mere bootleg prescriptions and they urged all doctors to cut them out completely, as the late lamented Dr Bray did. Dr. Bray never issued one single prescription for liquor after the 18th amendment was adopted This is the ideal for vast increasing army of physicians. In this connec' ton. it was good to see the supreme court confirm the right of the gov ernment in limiting the amount o1 liquor which physicians may pre- scribe. In time, the government vii
 take the view of the American Medi' cal association which declares tha
 liquors are without scientific basis as medicine. That is liquors are use
 less as medicine. in the words o
 the doctors themselves.
 "Our last work of the year ha
 been to lodge a protest with the loca
 authorities against the practice o
 allowing children under l to attent
 the motion picture theaterS unac
 companied by adults, as required b,
 statute. The police department ha
 argued that it was better to alloy
 this than to have the children run
 ming wild; but we protest that this 1
 teaching the children to take tn the moral blight that many childre suffer in the low quality Of, even an archistic, films that are frequent
 shown"