Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-19
'DR. DORIAN DEFENDS
SERVICE PERSONNEL
Prohibition Enforcement Head
Respects Mans Home as
Castle.

A defense of the Federal prohibition
enforcement personnel, with the claim
that a Nation-wid survey has now
made 1t clear that there exists more
intelligent and efficient organization in
the field" among the dry agents was
the substance of lengthy statement
| issued here today by DR.. James M.
Doran, commissioned of prohibition.
DR.. Dorans statement reveals that a
55-page volume, presenting "a factural
outline of the training program de-
signed to promote higher morale and
efficiency of the Federal prohibition en-
forcenrent service" is now ready for
immediate distribution to dry agents
and Federal officials. This volume en-
phaSizes that the agents shall enforce
the law within the law" It sounds a
keynote of instruction to all dry officers
that the courts, including the Supreme
Court, frown upon unreasonable
searches and seizures" hold against
promiScuous employment of the search
warrant, and stand in support of the
"sanctity of the home" against unlaw-
full invasion.
On December "a Senator William E.
Borah, Republican, Of Idaho, a leader
of ultra-drys in the Senate, made a
scathing attack upon the Federal en-
forcement personnel and said that the
law would never be enforced with the
present personnel from top to bot
tom" This and other assaults by lead
ing drys, together with the admission
of the Wickersham Law Enforcement
Commission that laXity has entered
into the enforcement problem and the
possibility OF Senate inquiry into the
past enforcement regime, are believed
to have caused DR.. Doran to place
dafopco If hiS ouopfS hoforn the nDhlic
High Type Of Men in Service.
1.-THE enforcement personnel is COM
posed of as high type of men as will be
found in any crime detection organi-
zation," he says. Many of the agents
are college graduates. Others have
been successful business men, ranchers,
farmers, merchants and bankers" he
declares.
DR.. Doran proceeds to establish the
intelligence of the dry corps as incor--
porating representative types OF good
American citizenship" among them
lawyers, doctors, engineers. chemists
teachers and accountants, men OF
State and municipal police experience,
men from the Post Once Inspection
Service, the Secret Service, the Inter-
nal Revenue Intelligence Unit, the In
dian service and the customs service.
to pass a rigorous civil service exam
nation: are subjected to character IN
vestigations in their own communities;
are thoroughly schooled in crime de-
lection and legal requirements OF their
work, their. duties and limitations, ana
adds, Not a single agent Is over
looked in a prohibition training school
of instruction, moving constantly over
the IS prohibition districts" says Dr.
Doran.
The commissioner further points out
that agents are constantly tested TO
ascertain whether they are keeping step
with instructions, which include the eff
fects of current court decisions or de-
partmental rulings"
AS further indication of improved
conditions, he says:
Improvement Noted.
Federal Judges. Federal district at
torneys and foremen of Federal grand
iuries throughout the United States
have noted and commented upon the
pronounced improvement in prohibition
agent personnel
Their observation has been that the
building up of a better trained group
of enforcement agents has had mark
ed effect in speeding up the processes
Of Justice.
al. Federal prohibition agents now
command wider respect OF the courts,
juries and the public.
~. Prohibition cases brought to trial
reflect more earnest and methodical
IS. Prosecutors rely more Implicitly
upon the evidence presented and wit
nesses produced.
"A. Agents make a better impression
upon the courts and juries when they
appear on the witness stand to give tes-
timony.
IS. Agents, by their straightforward
handling of cases and in furnishing
evidence, are less susceptible to attacks
by defense counsel.
"6. A more favorable attitude Of
grand juries in relying upon the testi-
mony of agents, and quicker action In
returning indictments.
~. A higher record of correction in
prohibition cases brought to trial"
Mans Home is Castle.
DR.. Doran's statement answers eff
fectively the appeal of some OF the dry
organizations who have urged drastic
changes in law to destroy the long
standing principle that "a mans home
is his castle
Federal prohibition agents are given
these explicit instructions, say DR..
Doran:
THE courts of this land, both Fed
eral and State, have at all times held
that the sanctity of a persons home
must be preserved at all times and that
it should not be invaded except in strict
compliance with the law.
"A mans home has been described as
his castle, and should be guarded by the
law. AS to the search of places other
than private dwellings, the courts have
been considerably more liberal in con-
STRUNG the provisions of the law. It
has been held by the Supreme Court Of
the United States that the Constitution
only provides against unreasonable
searches and seizures and not all
searches and seizures. II a search is
reasonable eYcenf nrnhahlV In ease Of