Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-19
SALVATION ARMY
LEADER DEFENDS
PROHIBITION LAW
EvangeIine Booth Declares
. Lives of Tenement DWELL
erS Have Been improved.
BROTHER TESTIFIES TAFT
HELD DRY ACT SUCCESS
Head of Taft School Tells House
Committee Straw Vote Means
Nothing.

Those who live in the tenement dis
tricts of big cities or make their homes
in the little Salvation Army Hotels
nesting under towering skyscrapers
have had their lives improved as a re-
suit Of prohibition in the opinion of
Comdr. Evangeline Booth, who today
was recorded before the House judiciary
committee as staunch defender Of the
eighteenth amendment.
Her view was presented by n. w. Jen-
kins, colonel in the Salvation Army,
who read her prepared statement. She
denied that under the dry law more
young girls were being led astray and
asserted that the automobile rather
than prohibition was responsible for
most of the cases coming to the army's
attention.
A recent survey, her statement said,
showed an improved condition among
working men in industry, and she cited
a case wnere smallpox examination in
Salvation Army hotel in Chicago had
failed to disclose single intoXicant out
Of 500 roomers.
Taft Held Prohibition Success.
Jenkins offered the statement after
Horace Taft, brother of the late VIII
liam Howard Taft, had submitted let
ter written by the one-time President
and Chief Justice under date of Novem-
Der, 1928, to Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale,
in which he said the results of the
eighteenth amendment had been "glori-
ous," although he at first had felt 1t
would meet with failure.
Comdr. Booths statement added that
drunkenness had diminished 20 per
cent in Boston, according to the obSer-
walton of industrial workers, while @
similar improvement had been noted in
Columbus, Ohio; Altoona, Pa; Brook
lyn; Philadelphia; Los Angeles; Port
land. Me-, and Jacksonville, Fla.
Another listed to take the stand to-
day was JoSephus Daniels, Secretary
of the Navy under Woodrow Wilson,
who in 1914 issued the now famous
order abolishing the wine mess" of
officers on American warcraft.
During the day, Mrs. Lenna L. Yost,
In charge Of presentation OF dry Wit
nesseS, expected TO present a state
ment In support Of prohibition from
Prof. Irving Fisher of Yals.
In addition to presenting the views Of
his brother Horace Taft, head of the
Taft School for Boys in Connecticut,
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hibition meant nothing. Even though
he estimated there was more drink
ing" at Yale University than when he
was in school, he said he doubted If
there was 'one-twentieth Of the drunk
ennesS."
Letter Contains Taft's Views.
The views of the one-tiIne Chief Jus
tice and President as set forth in let
ter to Prof. Fisher, under date Of Mo-
cember 81, 1928, were read by his
brother, Horace Taft, who is head of
the Taft School for Boys in Con-
necticut.
Mr.. Taft's letter read:
MY Dear Irving:
THANK you for sending me your new
book, shall read it with a great deal
of pleasure.
"In the late campaign I found myself
In very awkward situation. I could
not issue any publication during it, be-
cause of my being on the bench, and
yet the New York World published my
prohibition letters written to Lin
coin Ca dry of New Haven) before the
adoption of the amendment, and then
nobody seemed to take the trouble to
publish my speech at Yale, given after
the amendment was adopted
But the result is glorious and points
the only way that we have to work out
the problem presented. The solution
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