Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-24
WOODCOCK TO Use
| MODERATE MEANS
New Dry Law Director viii
Act Strictly in Legal
Man. 'er.
lpeeial Dispatch to The Star.


BALTIMORE. Md. June 24.--Amos
w. w. Woodcock will discharge his
duties as the director of Bureau OF
Prohibition of the Department of JUS
tice in a restrained manner, strictly
within the law and with a proper regard
tor the Bill of Rights of the Constitu-
ton of the United States.
Mr. Woodcock indicated today that
his regard for the law was too high to
permit him to take any other course
and that he felt this was the course
which would assure him success and
public respect for the office.
Seen in his temporary Offices on
North Eutaw street today, Mr.. Wood
cock confined himself to the following
statement:
II did not seek this office or desire
It, but, having accepted it, promise to
see that the law is administered fairly,
honestly, decently, earnestly and, above
all. lawfully.
mo citizens should be dissatisfied
With it. No citizen has right to ask
for more"
you mean to say that you will dis
charge the duties with due regard to the
Bill of Rights?" Mr.. Woodcock was
asked.
"Yes," he answered.
Feels Responsibility.
The new chief of the Federal Bureau
OF Prohibition said very clearly today
that he felt the weight of the RESPONSE
bility which had been placed on him.
His manner suggested that he under
stood that badly advised legal proceed
tngs might add to the prejudice against
the prohibition laws and interfere with
the success of his office, although his
utterance was confined absolutely to the
quoted statement.
Mr.. Woodcock makes it clear that
he Is a lawyer before he is anything
else. He will go to Washington each
day between now and July /, when the
appointment becomes effective. His
work in Baltimore is said to be in such
shape that no difficulty will be involved
In transferring the Office to another.
His duties have taken him away from
Baltimore much recently and he has
organized his staff in such manner that
1t will run until his successor is named.
A bachelor, living at the st. James
apartments, he has not thought much
OF the transfer of his home, which is
really in Salisbury. He will probably
travel considerably, making contacts
with prohibition enforcement officers
and with governors in various States
He will eventually set up a bachelor
apartment in Washington, continuing
TO spend most of his week ends at
SALISBURY as ne does now.
Has Deputy for Detail.
He will be responsible, under the
Attorney General of the United States,
for the Federal policy toward prohibit
ton enforcement. He will not deal
with detail, but will have a deputy
who will attend to such matters He
will, at times. appear in the various
Federal courts.
Mr.. Woodcock made it clear that he
did not propose his new Office to re-
suit in less of contact with the people
OF Baltimore or Maryland He said
that he was sincerely sorry to give Up
his duties in Baltimore and emphasized
the fact he was Marylander and that
his own law firm was Woodcock &
Webb OF Salisbury, where his chair
always awaited him.
Friends of Mr.. Woodcock do not rate
him fanatical dry. They rate him
as a lawyer who, with legal duty to
discharge, tries to discharge it as a
lawyer of high type would. It is known
that this is the point of view which
Is acceptable to Mr.. Woodcock himself.
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