The Washington times., 1929-06-24
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By George R. Holmes
international New Service

The present drive to enforce
prohibition is by long odds the
most concentrated and serious
the Government has under
taken in the nearly 10 years of
Volsteadism.
Equipped with more money, mere
enforcement agents, more guns,
more swift patrol boats than ever
before. and supported by the Jones
law imposing as stiff penalties for
prohibition violation as for. burglary,
the great summer offensive is on
from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
To these material enforcement
aids ther tMill be brought this week
the app Al TO reason and mass sufs-
gestion. With the active support
of the dry and professional reform
organizations. the Administration IS
now going to try to sell" pronibi-
ton to the country from moral
standpoint--to make the average
citizen prohibition conscious" or.
rather, law enforcement conscious.
Billboard Drive
Within few weeks. many bill
boards throughout the country
which have been advising the puOlic
to walk a mile for a certain cigar.
cite or to get miles Of smiles from
certain automobile tires are going
to blossom forth with advertise
ments appealing for law observance.
There are going to be $4,000
worth of these posters as a starter.
Congress appropriated the money
specifically for the poster cam
paign. 1t was referred to as a
psychological experiment.
Next Friday. the Governments
propaganda for law observance (pro-
hibition observance) is to be carried
to the school teachers of the coun-
try in convention assembled.
Thousands of public school teach.
ers will attend the convention Of the
National Educational Association in
Atlanta. and by written and spoken
word the Government is going TO
appeal to them to inject into their
class room work the message that
the Volstead law is as sacrosanct as
the laws against murder.
CtdEtS at AIlanta
Anna B. Suffer, chief of the di.
vision of education and statistics
Of the Bureau of Prohibition, win
be sent to Atlanta by the Govern
ment to conduct this experiment
in prohibition propaganda. II it is
deemed successful. 1t is probable
that the Government will find
means of having prohibition off.
cials attend other national conven,
tions, business and fraternal, just
as manufacturing organization
might send one of it's sales-execu-
tives to a convention of dealers.
Closely cooperating with the Ad.
ministration, the Anti-Saloon League
has designated next Sunday, June
80. as Loyalty Sunday" and has
broadcast appeals to all churches to
have their pastors and Sunday
school teachers impress upon at
tendants that observance Of prohibi-
tion is a patriotic duty-''to teach
and preach the patriotic lesson of
loyalty to and respect for law"
The President" says the leagues
appeal. ''has stated that obedience
and enforcement are the dominant
issues before the American people.
1t is, therefore, appropriate that
his declarations urging citizens and
officials to support the law should
be presented in schools and churches
in preparation for the celebration
of our country's birth July A."
President Hoover has referred to
prohibition viC& titV as only one
phase of the law enforcement
problem before the country and he
did not even mention 1t specifically
in his instructions to the Wicker.
sham commission which is now
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