Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-21
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Wnen the case Oh UIle uIJS lids UcSAl
! completed, rebuttal testimony will be
in order 1t Is planned that two days be
given each side for this purpose.
The prohibitionists were given seven
days originally for the presentation OF
their case, a time equal to that taken
by the vets in their scathing arraigE-
ment of the dry laws and conditions
attributed to them. To date they have
used six and half of them, and nave
presented a long series OF witnesses, In.
GLIDING business men, representatives Oh
women's clubs, educators, settlement
| workers, clergymen and a noted 1ooI
ball coach.
Five witnesses were heard by the
committee yesterday, four coming in the
afternoon after the morning session had
been given over to Daniel G. Roper,
former commissioner of internal reve-
nue., who urged the calling by President
Hoover of a council of governors ana
prominent citizens to work out a plan
to educate the American people to
observance of the dry laws. Roper said
/ he was convinced the law could be en-
forced and suggested that the Chief
Executive call Federal and State officials
| into conference with vets and drys TO
| determine upon a solution of questions
revolving around prohibition.
| Demand Laid to Rich.
The American-born wealthy class
was charged by Mrs. Martha Bensley
Bruere of New York, author and a
social worker, and the first afternoon
witness, with creating market for
Illicit liquor. She said low wage earners
| created no demand for liquor.
The National Woman's Christian
/ Temperance Union was placed on record
as opposing all of the measures before
| the committee to repeal the eighteenth
/ amendment by Mrs. Ella A. Boole OF
| Brooklyn, N. Y, its president. She
declared that as long as the women
retained their right of suffrage the
eighteenth amendment would remain
in the Constitution and that regardless
| of party aff1liatiorls they would continue
/ to be "implacable foes of the liquor
i traffic"
The other two witnesses of the day
were James l.. Kennedy Of Greensburg,
Pa, and Oliver w. Stewart of Chicago,
president Of the Flying Squadron
| Foundation.
Kennedy advocated observance of the
prohibition law on the ground that 1t
deserved protection by the citizens as
| long as 1t was law.
| Stewart said more than half the
population of the United States would
| oppose any measure to repeal or modify
| the dry laws sent to the House by the
judiciary committee.
Says Dry Act Aids Poor.
The committee also received state
| ment from Mrs. Nellie Burger Of
| Springfield, Mo-, president of the Mis-
souri, Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, in which she declared that pro-
hibition had brought relief to hun
dreds of families who never before knew
anything but grinding poverty" She
added that prohibition had not been the
cause of crime increase, but attributed 1t
| to automobiles and firearms. When wet
advocates offer better solution for
handling liquor trafiicking than prohi-
bition, she said she would consider IT.
To-day, no matter what straw votes
may show: no matter what magazine
polls, gathered largely from lists of men,
may show: as long as the nineteenth
amendment stands, the eighteenth
amendment will stand Also" were the
words of Mrs. Boole, for years leader
Of the dry cause as she took the stand
late in the day.
Mrs Boole asked why "do we believe"
national prohibition the best means OF
dealing with the liquor question and
then gave six answers. They follow:
cit establishes the same method OF
dealing with the problem throughout
the Nation.
"It prohibits the manufacture, the
sale, the transportation, expectation and
importation of intoxicating liquors for
beverage purposes.
"The same definition Of intoxicating
liquors applies to the whole country. !,
prohibition is the logical method
Of dealing with a law-defying evil.
Says Rich Support BOOtleggers.
prohibition has disclosed no new
attitude of It's opponents, for the liquor
traffic has been always a violator Of
| law.
"The bootlegger Is blamed and is
blameworthy for violating the law. He
could not exist II people did not buy
| his liquors. It is the rich, the In
| ffuehtial, who still believe In moderate
| drinking-those who claim the right
to violate the law-who lead the way
and are supported by the unthinking
and lawless.'
/ When Mrs. Bruere took the stand she
| said If one followed the ninety-sixth
| parallel from where it crosses the Ca
/ madam border near the North Dakota
| Minnesota boundary down to Sioux Falls
| and then took in the territory westward
to the Pacific they would find a section
In which the drink problem" did not
cause the social workers concern.
| This area, she said, had tried to con-
| troll liquor for nearly. century and
consequently had an advantage over the
rest of the country.
/ She reviewed the history of the set
| tiers in this area, saying the first gener-
alton began in New England and drank
| Jamaica rum and appleiack; that the
| next generation migrated into Western
Pennsylvania and New York. where tenn
perance discussions took place: that the
| next generation pushed further west
ward, and they maintained the dry ira
| dition of the Northwest"
| Mrs. Bruere said reports from Mayor
| Eagleson of Boise City, the head social
worker at Spokane. the head of the
| Portland, Greg, Public Welfare Bureau
| the Social Welfare League of Seattle
and the Family Welfare Association Of
Tacoma all reported improvement.
"Of Boise City, Idaho, Mayor Eagle
son wrote" she said, with double the
population, but 10 per cent as many
officers were required for liquor law en-.
forcement in 1925 as were necessary irl
1910. And the number of liquor cases
has decreased from 1852 in 1910 to 321
in 1925"
Washington Conditions Reported.
j The Spokane social worker wrote
"Your QUESTIONABLE rather embarrasses
me. You see, alcohol Is no longer q
special problem with us, We had State
prohibition IN 1914, and national prohi'
bition made no difference"
j In Seattle, Mrs. Bruere said the study
showed an intelligent middle-class peo'
pie trying to obey laws they themselve:
helped to make, and that they were not
seriously considering either repeal OF
modification Of the eighteenth amend
ment.
Men. drink in Seattle" she said
but 1t has ceased to be social prob