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porting his statement about lax en-
forcement in the state.

porting his statement about lax en-
forcement in the state.
Linthicum said it had been definite
ly established from various witnesses
drawn from almost every field Of en-
deavor that prohibition enforcement
had broken down and that 1t was
impossible to enforce the 18th amend
men and the Volstead Act.
1T has been shown" he asserted,
that the use Of liquor gradually de-
creased until the approval of the 18th
amendment and the passage Of the
Volstead Act, and that just after the
passage of the Volstead Act, drunk
enness gradually increased year after
year.
For instance, the number Of pieces
Of distilling apparatus has increased
from 95,933 for the first full year Of
prohibition to PAT, 052 in 1929. The
total amount of liquor seized has in
creased from 5,8O5 900 gallons in 1921.
to 30,429, 1902 in 1929. Federal arrests
of prohibition violators increased
from Bats in 1921 to 66.l95 In 1929
and convictions in federal courts have
increased since 1921 from 1882 to
56,546 in 1929.
Georgia Banner State
1T has been found" he said. that
liquor is manufactured by thousands
of stills throughout the land-the
state of Georgia today holding the
banner for its number Of illicit stills.
It has been shown by the witnesses
here that liquor can be had through
out the entire land and that in many
places saloons are wide open. 1t has
also been shown that the number of
speakeasies now outnumber the FORM
er saloons by 3 to l and that the Ii
quor dispensed by them is injurious
and dangerous for human consump-
ton.
The government in it's endeavor to
present the use of industrial alcohol
has resorted to all manner of dena-
turants some of which are destructi-
BILE poisons, causing blindness cirrho-
sis Of the liver and at times death. 1t
has been testified that III the en-
forcement of prohibition that 1861
American citizens have been shot
down and killed. sometimes merely
under suspicicH that they had liquor"
Fraud And Corruption
Prohibition, he added. had left a
trail Of fraud and corruption where
ver it had touched the national gov
eminent and had become a menace
to the people and the government.
He commended foes Of the dry law had
the same right to work for repeal of
the Eighteenth amendment as pro-
ponents Of prohibition had a right to
work for its adoption, adding:
we have the Anti Saloon League
and it's friends to thank for the eli
mination of the saloon. Let them
10Y help us to eliminate the speak,
easies and the underworld who are
profiteering under the Volstead Act"
Cochran Backs Norton
Representative Cochran. Democrat,
Missouri. told the committee in q
prepared statement that he would
throw his support to the resolution
of Representative Mary T. Norton,
Democrat. New Jersey, for a refereE-
dunn on the repeal of the eighteenth
amendment.
He said he felt the people never
would be satisfied until they had been
given an opportunity to speak di-
rectly upon the question.
Noel B. Martin, an attorney Of
Lewiston, Idaho, and a director of the
Association Against the Eighteenth
Amendment, testified there had been
All increase in juvenal criminality
under prohibition. He submitted q
report on a study made by a member
of the sex crimes. property crimes,
general miSbehavior, assault and In
toxication.
Drunken Girls Increase
THE period covered by the survey
Martin said, WAS 10 years, the first
five year period ending in 1918, the
second five year ending in 1923. The
results were that in the second five
year period. sex crimes had increased
112 per cent, property crimes had in
creased ITO per cent, general mis-.
behavior 81 per cent. assaults, none.
intoxication in excess of 1000 per
cent. It is interesting to know that
during the first five-year period, girls
had contributed not a single intoxi-
Gated case. Among those reported
during the second five-year period,
however, girls constituted more than
Is per cent of the total"
DR.. Stewart Patton. of Baltimore, y
professor of psychiatrics at Johns
Hopkins university, told the commit
tee that a moderate drinker had a
greater expectancy of life than either
an excessive drinker or a total abb
Stainer.
He asserted the eighteenth amend
ment was having a disastrous effect
on the young people because of its
prohibitiveness.' and added that the
country was suffering from "prohibi-
ton shock" just a. soldiers during the
World war had suffered from shell
shock"
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