Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
BOOTLEG ALCOHOL
OPINION DIVIDED
Woodcook and Doran at Odds
Over lIIioit Industrial
Liquor.

| BY the Associated Press.
The Treasury and the Department Of
! Justice were at odds yesterday over the
amount of industrial alcohol that had
been diverted into the bootleg trade.
James H. Doran, the industrial alco-
| hol commissioner, issued statement
taking exception to figures made public
| Woodcock and asserting the latter's
estimate was far too high.
First Difference.
It was the first difference Of opinion
between these two units since they were
separated, with the transfer of the Pro-
hibition Bureau from the Treasury to
the Department Of Justice last July.
In q monograph on liquor production
issued a week ago, Woodcock said
100000 gallons Of illicit beverages
could have been made during the fiscal
year of 1880 from alcohol diverted from
the perfumery and toilet water trade.
Doran yesterday termed this figure
many times excessive" He said 2,000, =
900 gallons OF alcohol would have been
necessary to produce 100000 gallons
of liquor, or about 40 per cent of the
total amount OF legal alcohol manu-
featured for the use of the perfumery
and toilet water makers.
says diversion Small.
He added that statistics In his bureau
showed the diversion from this branch
of the industrial alcohol field was small
and nothing like the amount Wood
cocks figures indicated.
Doran said he felt an injustice had
been done to the manufacturers of
toilet water and perfumery, who, he said,
have co-operated with the Treasury in
every way in its effort to prevent, the
diversion Of alcohol intended for their
use.
Woodcock returned yesterday from an
inspection tour of New York and de-
clined to comment upon Doran's state
ment. He left last night for Chicago
and will devote this week to q survey
Of organization conditions In Illinois,
proceeding from that state into the
Far, West.
3 Police Aid Agents.
Before leaving, he said police of New
York City were giving Federal agents
substantial assistance In their effort 10
the Federal courts of the metropolitan
section, he said, evidence for half came
from city police.
Woodcock yesterday issued a mono
graph on THE Value Of Law Observ-
anve," terming 1t q "factual" survey. It
dealt with prohibition In Its economic
aspects, Its effect upon industry. upon
the body and its relation to automobile
accidents.
From this short review Of a very
comprehensive subject" the monograph
| said, "the deduction seems apparent
that criticisms of the prohibition laws
and their enforcement ignore the value
OF observance and In reality condemn
the people and communities who do not
observe the law, but choose to place
| themselves above law as persons who
are not and need not be amenable to It."
Critics Are Criticized.
"In the last analysis, critics of pro-
hibition laws and their enforcement
are criticizing and indicting the COM
munities, ofncials and citizens TO whom
| they refer" 1t added. "It is no lust
| criticism of the laws against homicide
30 point out that America produces more
homicides than any other civilized
country.
"It Is equally unfair to lay at the
doors of the prohibition laws the law
lessness and unbridled selfishness of a
, too-large portion Of our citizens, who
should show strength Of character
enough not to commit themselves to the
theory that they are above the law
and will choose only such laws to OBJ
serve as suit their own convenience and
taste"