Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-13
DRY QUIZ REFUSES
YALEPROF ESSOR'S
VIEWS IN WRITING
Irving Fisher Should Be
Heard in Person, Chair
man Graham Holds.
COACH stage DEFENDS
Eighteenth AMENDMENT
Tells House Committee Youth Bet
ter Of and Poor Children
Have Fairer Chance.


Chairman Graham today refused
to permit Edwin G. Dinwiddie to
read a statement on prohibition by
Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale at the
prohibition hearings or the House
Judiciary committee.
The chairman held that Fisher
was such well known dry advocate
that he should appear and be ex-
amined on his views. He reserved
the right, however, to have the state
ment introduced later if Fisher could
not attend next week.
At the same time it was announced
that the committee would meet to-
morrow to continue hearing dry
witnesses, although it was indicated
the session might last but half day.
~ the Associated Press.
Alonzo Stage, who has won his way
20 prominence by coaching the big
Maroon elevens of Chicago University
was recorded today before the House
judiciary committee, along with a group
OF prominent business men of Phila-
delphia, as sharing the same view that
the eighteenth amendment should
stand.
The white haired athletic director,
whose voice has barked sharp COM
mands to youthful athletes for 38 years,
said that it was his observation that
the young men and women Of today
were fortunate in growing up in a land
where the sale of intoxicants was pro-
hibited.
With the breaking down of home
life and with all the complexities of
new opportunities for being misled, ]
tremble to think" he said, what this
revolt Of youth might have led to were
prohibition laws not in operation"
After Stagg, Arthur H. Hood of Phila-
delphia, an insurance man, who said he
represented the Philadelphia Federation
OF Mems Bible Glasses, argued the pro-
hibition law was the supreme common
sense of the majority" He presented
letters indorsing the dry statutes from
q number of business men in the
Quaker City, the group including sam
uel Robinson, president of the Ameri-
can Stores Co.; Edward G. Budd, presi-
dent of the Budd Automobile BODY
Works; David Lupton, steel manufac-
turer, and G. Renwick Hogg, a CARPET
manufacturer.
Vets Described as fanatics"
Preceding both Hood and Stage. the
committee had heard the anti-proli-
bitionistS described as "fanatics' by
Carlton M. Sherwood, executive secre-
tary Of the Citizens Committee of One
Thousand of New York City. Under
questioning by Representative La Guar.
dia, Republican, New York, he men,
toned Senator William E. Borah. Re-
publican, Idaho: Senator Carter Glass
Democrat, Virginia; william Green
president of the American Federation
Of Labor, as members of the board OF
directors of the organization, and Gif-
ford Pinchot. now candidate for the
governorship of Pennsylvania.
The white-haired athletic director
said he was interested In young people
particularly boys He has been coach
at Chicago for 38 years.
In the pre-prohlbition days, he said
he could remember beer drunken men,
fights, young men chipping in together
to buy kegs of beer to take out In big
lots nearby and get good and soused."
Economist Drafts Brief.
AS Stage testified those in charge Of
the witnesses appearing in support Of
prohibition held a brief indorSing the
eighteenth amendment, prepared by
Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale, the vel
known economist. Fisher was not tr
the committee room and it was unde-
cided whether the brief would be ready
at today's session.
Stage, whose name is known to col.
lege students throughout the Nation
Is one of the veteran coaches of thu
Western Conference, an organization
composed Of 10 big universities in the
Midwest.
1--WE got our drama at first hand anc
in the raw from the saloons and thu
show was continuous in pre-prohibitior
days" said Stagg.
In contrast, he pictured the "quieter'
streets Of today.
81 am interested in young people anC
particularly in boys and young men,
he went on. MY interest in the vel
fare of young men is the outgrowth o.
gratitude, gratitude that escaped tn,
effect Of environment and conditions II
which so many of my playmates wer'
subjected and by which they wert
handicapped for life"
Saloons Substitute for Movies.
my home training in comparative
poverty was all that could be desired
but the environment in which playet
was for from helpful. The saloon
we're our substitutes for the movies, tn
theater, the motor car, the radio, tn
seashore, reading and all. In bad lucl
men drowned their sorrows at the bar
in good luck, they celebrated it there.
"The children of most of the familie
of our block grew up under the SHADOW
OF these recurring debauches, In which
they and their mothers ran the chanc
of a beating. Nobody can paint tn
effect of those conditions on the grow
ing boys and girls. Of which there ar
many.
For over 80 years I have been con
neeted with the University Of Chicag
and have happened to live near on
Of the main thoroughfares. Before pro
hibttion drunken men were quite com
mon on the street. now only occasional
There has been a tremendous gail
IN social and economic conditions amon
the poorer classes as result of pro
hlbition and the children have profitet
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