Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-15
DRY QUIZ TO HEAR
DR.. JASON N. PIERCE
Pastor Given Approval as
Witness by Church Law
Committee.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Dry leaders prepared today to bring
their defense of prohibition to smash
ing conclusion with the renewal next
week of the House judiciary committees
hearings on proposals that the eigh-
teenth amendment be repealed.
The inquiry is to be resumed on
Wednesday. The drys have two and
one-half days left of the seven allotted
them for the presentation of their testi-
mony, and it is expected that the COM
mittee will again depart from its usual
practice of holding hearings on two
days each week in order to conclude the
inquiry.
DR.. Jason Noble Pierce, pastor of the
First Congregational Church, will be
one of the witnesses, having been APP
proved yesterday, by the church's COM
mittee on law observance in Chicago,
as the spokesman for the group before
the House judiciary committee holding
hearings on the prohibition law. DR..
Pierce will address the committee, urg-
ing the retention of the eighteenth
amendment and of the Volstead law, in
accordance with the views of the church
council.
Other Witnesses Unnamed.
There has been no intimation of what
other witnesses the prohibitionists will
present beyond the fact that they have
statements from Irving Fisher, professor
of economics at Yale University, and
DR.. Clarence True Wilson, general Sec
rotary Of the Board of Temperance,
Prohibition and Public Morals OF the
Methodist Church.
An effort to have the Fisher state
ment read into the record was ended by
Chairman Graham Of the committee.
who ruled it inadmissible since the
author was not present for cross-ques-
tioning. The Wilson statement was to
have been similarly presented, but adj
vance copies which had been distributed
to the press were withdrawn after the
Fisher ruling.
Two days and half were devoted to
the drys this week. They presented a
long series of women who gave short
statements intended to present cross
section of the views of American
womanhood on prohibition. Other wit
nesses included Alonzo Stagg, veteran
foot ball coach of Chicago University;
Carlton NJ. Sherwood of the Citizens
Committee Of One Thousand for Law
Enforcement of New York City, and
John Callahan and John r. Mcintyre,
actively identified with rescue missions
in New York and Philadelphia.
Society Files Statement.
Announcement was made last night
that Mrs. William Tilton of Boston had
filed with Chairman Graham, on behalf
Of the Unitarian Temperance Society, a
statement asserting that the ministers
of that faith were three to one in ia
vor of prohibition. It was intended,
Mrs. Tflton said, to offset the testimony
Of a Unitarian minister who opposed
prohibition earlier in the hearings. The
statement also said the Unitarian min
listers were nine to one in favor Of keep
ing State prohibition enforcement laws.
Appended to the document was a
copy of purported letter from Graham
to Mrs. Tilton in which the chairman
declared:
MY plan would be to substitute con-
troll for prohibition. I would wish In
dividual liberty restored-that' would
disarm hostility. A controlled dis
pensary Of Government owned and pro-
duced liquors would take away the
profits which now create the boot
logger"