New Britain herald., 1930-01-03
BOrah Suggested for Probe

cipal critic Of prohibition enforce ment conditions, Senator Borah of Idaho has been suggested for the chairmanship of the proposed joint congressional committee 10 study legislative means for strengthening the liquor laws.
 This idea was advanced by Sena- tor Fess, republican, Ohio, on be- lief that the alcohol permits system would furnish one of the chief problems of the committee and that I5orah's knowledge of this subject fitted him for the chairmanship. Borah, one of the most promi- ncnt participants in the recent pro- hibition controversy, asserted that condition amounting to a ''sca andal" exists in tho administration of the permit system, which is under the charge of the treasury department. The importance of the alcohol permit system in the present con sideration Of the prohibition ques- ton was urged by spokesmen for the treasury
 ANOHOi lIcdkS tnetkeO Prohibition Commissioner James NJ. Doran said yesterday that indus trial alcohol leaks had been check cd and that corn sugar now fur nished the main source of the boot l legger's supply. In support of this. | he cited department of commerce statistics showing that production Of corn sugar had increa ased from l52. 900, ,0O0 pounds in 1921 to 968,- 100000 pounds in the last fiscal | year.
 In his annual report to congress q month ago, Secretary Mellon said that the diversion of denatured al cohol to beverage consumption had practically ceased"
 Drinking among the socially, financially and politically prominent, | in the opinion Of Senator Jones O: l Washington. an administration spokesman. presents one of prohibit tion's most batTling problems. He expressed this view last night in a radio address delivered under the auspices of the Washington Star He asserted also that he had seen far fewer senators under the in- fiuence of liquor during the last ten years than in the preceding decade. Obstacles in AIky Probe Meanwhile, rumors gained circula- ton 10 the effect that the adminis- tration was formuating plans for preventing tho Diversion of industrial alcohol into bootleg channels anl that the Hoover law enforcement commission had encountered seriors obstacles in it's efforts to investigate Q this phase of the prohibition situa- tion.
 In his radio speech. Jones sa; that "one Of the hardest problems to meet" was that "mcn in high standing. socially. financially an ] officially" do not obey the law.
 Instead of encouraging good citi- zcnship," he continued. they breed the very poorest and most dangeror. type"
 ReIerring to the same problem he said farther on in his address,:
 Grant that there is more drink ing today than heretofore among q certain class of our people. What claGs. is it?--thc extra Well-to do the class that should be the most scrupulous in respecting and observ. ing the law. l may be wrong about it, but many of the fathers anl mothers who set their children the example Of non observance Wit some day greatly regret that thaN have not set different example an given their children dffcrea teaching"
 Jones Praises Hoover
 or President Hoover, Jones sail
 He practices what he breaches.
 He added that he had no hnoWl
 cage Of Mir. Hoover's attitude towar,
 prohibition before it became a Ia V
 but that the chief executives atti
 tudc since that time was "a per
 sonal example" that should be fol lowed by every good citizen in hi home, at social gathering and II
 business affairs
 r Reports that many Congrcssmai , vote dry while they drink liquor, , the Washnstonian regarded as
 valid argument for prohibition. H. said he was "sorry it may be SO
 but that it emphasizes the strenG:i , Of prohibition sentiment in thal
 districts.
 Representatives. he added. 'ar' primarily. 10 represent the ma jCri"
 views of their constituents and tha
 is what many of them do rcgardlej Of their personal viCws'