Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-14

HOOVerS own thoughts are turning 10
woodland solitude and the trout that
as compared with 20 to 20 per cent con-
victions for reckless driving. It Is q
much easier law to enforce than the
laws against driving under the infiu-
ence Of liquor.
I'm fact, it is only when the boot
logger violates other laws-conSpiracy,
bribery, perjury, forgery and sometimes
murder-that he can make Bookkeeping
q paying business, and it is really be-
cause of the difficulties Of our courts in
graphing with these more serious Of
lenses that bootlegging can exist
White offered the opinion that drink
ing associated with college fraternity
life had increased in his State.
There is noticeable change, how
ever in the character Of the present
students who drink as compared with
the old days." he said 1.-THE youth who
drink today are characteristic of the
kind of boys who like to drink with
women and are not adverse to doing
things surreptitiouSly."
Yale Deans Are Cited.
There is a difference of opinion
among the Yale deans regarding the
advisability of the eighteenth amend
ment and also the effects of the liquor
laws on the character Of the student
body. Most agree, however, that COLI
ditions have steadily improved since
1924.
"At Wesleyan University the college
authorities state that there has been an
entire change in the attitude Of the
students and the faculty toward drink
ing, so that at the present time they
have only about one disciplinary case
year in a body of 600 students. And
for student to be known to drink
liquor at all is Immediately followed
by serious disciplinary measures, and 9
repeated offense means dropped from
the student body
s There is, however, some clandestine
drinking, especially associated with re-
turning alumni and the fraternity life"
White said his research work had
sent him twice into Canada to study
Canadian court records on cases Of the
same type he was investigating In Con-
necticut
After research In Quebec and On
tario and a study Of the general sta
tistical data published by the Dominion
government he said he believed the
efficiency of the Canadian system Of
law enforcement and the attitude Of
observance of law in that country was
so much In advance Of that in the
United States that we could afford to
double the national debt to secure It,
The permit system Of ontario and the
dispenSary system, with the beer tav-
erns Of Quebac, however, have shown
no sign of being q solution Of the liquor
problem, he asserted.
They do not prevent bootlegging, I"
White said Drinking has steadily in
A. a
to drink is rather alarmingly on the
increase IN these provinces.
Deaths in Connecticut from diseases
that are more or less related to the
drinking Of alcohol" he said, have
been cut in half since prohibition. These
are pneumonia, tuberculosis, ctrrhoSiS OF
the liver and alcoholism"
Jail Rate Is Pointed Out.
During the last 10 years under IL
cense there was q steadily increasing
jail rate for our population. During a
three-year transition period it fell three
fourths. Since this it has returned to
about three-fifthS of the old rate. Com
mitments to jail for drunkenness fell of
seven-eighths and have returned to
mitments to the State Hospital for the
Insane for alcoholic insanity fell OF
two-thirds during the first years of pro-
hibition, but have returned to about
one-half."
A QUESTIONABLE sent out by White to
heads of public high schools of his
State, showed, he said, that only one
principal would admit that drinking
was problem In school and only one
himself, in favor of the dispensary
system or any modification permitting
hn Ia ~ Ia
per cent Of the schools had replied.
Those who had knowledge of pre-
prohibition conditions in the schools"
he said, were almost unanimous in
stating that the drink problem was not
as serious as 1t was In the last years
before prohibition. Some of them stated
that there was some drinking among
high school pupils, but that it was not
so serious as in prohibition days,
and there was almost unanimous con-
SenSus that conditions were steadily
Mcintyre, the next witness, presented
on behalf of the gospel missions of the
country a resolution calling on all citi-
zens to uphold with absolutely no COM
promise now or forever" the eighteenth
amendment.
La Guardia asked about the plan to
establish rescue missions in every city
OF the country, and the witness said
they were intended to rescue poor I'M
tortunates now and in the future.
John w. Helmbold. superintendent
OF Camden, N. j., rescue mission, In
troduced himself as the product OF
the saloon and the son of drunkaro.
Session Ends in Confusion.
Yesterdays session ended in confu-
sion, terminated abruptly by Chairman
Graham in the midst Of Q heated argu-
ment among members of the committee'
Mrs. Peabody, who had test1f1ed on
Wednesday, in company with more tnan
a score of women, was called back 70 tine
stand for DISCRIMINATION and faced an
accusation from Representative Ceiler,
Democrat, New York, that she mao
prevented the committee from learning
the true views of several Of the women
witnesses by coaching them In tneir
testimony. He demanded permission 70
read from the transcript to prove ms
charge.
This request was denied by Char
man Graham and an argument enSueu'
with several committee members ex-
indignation at what they term
ed Celler's Insult" to the witness.
Representative Summers, Democrat;
Texas, asserted he had never heard %
such treatment. Representative Stopns,
Massachusetts, asked 'ii"''