Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-15
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paralyze the operation of local prohib-
itory laws.
1T still remains obvious that there
must be a large supplementary police
activity and a full functioning of State
courts to bring about the degree of
criminal enforcement that we all de-
SIRE"
Gov. Richie last night argued that
the States were not oblieated bv the
terms of the eighteenth amendment to
pass state enforcement laws.
House Divided.
we cannot unscramble this prohi-
bition omelet,' he said. Neither can
We digest 1t. "A house divided against
itself cannot stand My own convic-
ton is that the whole problem within
the State should go back to the State.
with power to enact workable laws in
harmony with local ideals and the
peoples will. Neither our social nor
the Federal system can stand the pres
ent strain"
The Maryland governor was hardly
the best person to speak on enforce
ment. said Mr.. High, who advocated
quarantine in a detention camn" for
State that is willing to abandon le-
gaily constituted procedure to gain its
detectives in getting rid of the prohi-
bition law.
1T is rather significant" he said.
that the two gentlemen who are most
1nsistent that prohibition cannot be
mace 10 work are. or were, the heads
OF two great States, Maryland and New
YORK, where no serious State effort was
ever made to work it,
States Rights.
THE right of Q State to disagree
with national policy Is guaranteed. The
right OF State to work against the in
auguration OF that policy Is guaranteed.
But once policy is inaugurated by
majority vote of the people of the Ma
ton 1t would seem to me that the State,
like the citizen, had one of two courses
open: either to cooperate or be quar-
antined in a detention camp and de-
MED the benefits accruing from the
Constitution which the State has re-
fused to support"
He supported the participation Of the
church in politics lin the business of
human uplift." Bishop James Cannon
and Rev. DR.. Clarence True. Wilson,
date given them by the rank and file
laymen and the rank and file preachers
who believe the church is called to
moral leadership.
The round table on Latin American
affairs yesterday brought spirited ex-
change between DIR. Ernest Gruening,
editor Of the Portland (Maine) News;
G. e. Castenada Of the National Uni
versity of Mexico; DR.. Frank Tannen-
baum, expert on Mexican affairs, and
Patrick ]. Ward Of the National Ca.
tholic Welfare Conference of Washing
ton.
Settlement Not Final.
Mr.. Ward pointed out that the re-
ligious settlement In Mexico admittedly
Is not final, but the government has
only made 1t possible for the Bishop OF
Mexico to return to his native land and
work out more satisfactory solution.
AS the result Of the revolution and
the federal agrarian legislation which
has given a great many more persons
stake In the country, said Mr.. Tannen-,
baum. Mexico Is more democratic at
this time than ever before since the
conquest by SPAIN"
"The greatest obstacle to Mexico
working out its own salvation" said Or.
Castenada, els the foreign capitalist
who holds his vested rights are above
those OF the great masses Of the people"