Evening star., 1929-05-19
morning to get in his golf before he gets

morning to get in his golf before he gets
to the Office at 8 o'clock.
OF course, he's a teetotaler. He has
never taken a drink in his life to his
own knowledge or belief. He is not a
Methodist, in spite of his given name,
and he comes from a State which had
prohibition long before the Constitu-
ton was amended to make prohibition
national. He says he doesn't see much
drinking around Washington or among
men in the House of Representatives
and the Senate, in spite Of the fact that
| some of them occasionally get in the
public prints because of their liquor.
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LIE seems a good-natured, eaSy-going,
l. l. even tempered person-not the
least bit of the lanky, starved, smiling
fanatic who figures as the prohibitioniSt
in the cartoons. He is little rotund,
his hair is dark and his black brows
have a striking twist.
"I was so surprised to know that he
introduced that bill," one of his friends
remarked. ST knew he was a strict
prohibitionist, but didn't think he
would get up that much enthusiasm
It wasn't enthusiasm which put the
Senator behind the bill; 1t was honest
conviction. ~,
He is one Of those quiet individuals
who have their convictions and live up
to them. Senator Jim" Reed said re-
Gently:
1--WE all know that If there are four
sincere prohibitionists in all this world,
the Senator from Georgia (Mr. HarriS)
is one, the Senator from Washington
(Mr. jones' Is another. and the Senator
from Texas (Mr. Sheppard Is the
other two"
He has been in Congress for 80 years,
for 20 consecutive years in the Senate
and probably knows as much about his
many important committee assignments
as any other man in that body. His
.pecialties are agriculture, shipping,
commerce and irrigation. He is chair
man Of the commerce committee and
member of the powerful committee on
appropriations.
He honestly believes that people are
not drinking as much now as they did
before prohibition.
Il think the reason you see SO much
about it in the papers Is that it is news
when man violates the law or when
man gets drunk" he said. 'It isn't
news when a man stays sober and
doesn't break the law by not selling
liquor. It's like the famous example Of
the man biting the dog.
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Congress I hear about it occasionally
or see something about it in the pa
pers. I don't see much drinking in the
City of Washington. I don't believe I
have seen drunken man in a year. I
go In the usual places that most people
CO."
And, besides, he travels back and
Forth across the entire continent two or
three times each year.
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THE tremendous agitation in bootleg
circles and the bursts Of oratory
in the Senate following the introduction
Of the Jones-Stalker bill came as a big
surprise to Senator Jones. He did not
expect to be placed in the limelight
when he introduced the bill, which had
been drafted in the Department Of
Justice.
THE law simply amends the Volstead
act by making the maximum penalty
a $4,000 fine or five years in the peni-
tentiary, or BOTH" he explained ut
was written and passed because it was
believed that 1t would be of great as
sistance In bringing about more effec-
tive enforcement of the liquor laws. It
does not repeal or eliminate any mini
mum penalty for the first or any sub
sequent ofenSe already provided under