Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
50 STATES LEAVE
DRY lob TO u. S.
Crusaders Survey Reports
Only Six States Give
Real Cooperation.

Thirty-eight States are either openly
opposed to national prohibition or are
leaving the enforcement job to Uncle
Sam" according to summary OF a
survey made public last night by the
Crusaders, an organization seeking re-
peal of the eighteenth amendment.
The announcement was made in con-
nection with publication OF "lsSo
Prohibition Map of the United States"
prepared by Rufus S. Lusk, 1nc-' a local
statistical organization which issued
the recent "Speakeasy Map OF wash
Referring to the opinion of the Wick
ersham Commission that the co-opera-
tion of the States is an essential ere
nnent in the enforcement OF the elgnt-
zenith amendment" the statement SAD:
Only Six States Cooperate.
"wl,ile the Wickersham report did
NOT mention all the States which were
not Cooperating, the Crusaders believe
that real cooperation exists only IN
Ohio. Virginia, West Virginia, SCUM
Carolina, New Hampshire and oregon
Martial co-operation in Nebraska, Kan
sss. Michigan and Alabama, and that
an other States are either openly OPP
p0sed to national prohibition or are
leaving the enforcement job to Uncle
Sam"
In 1927, the statement said, 10 States
appropriated varying sums totalmg
almost S700, 900 to enforce proh1bltlon.
During 1880 only 10 States appropriated
any money for State prohibition en-
forcement, according to the survey.
EiRat States have a total Of 1S1 pron1-
bition enforcement officers. or an aver
are of one officer to every 10000 tnhab-
itants IN those States, the report stated
virginia In Leader.
"Over 100 ,o00, 600 people live in States
which make no effort to enforce the
law" the Crusaders declared. Seven
teen and a half million live in States
not having an enforcement statute
About 10000, 900 people, or 16 per cent,
fnhabit States which make some effort
to enforce the law. Virginia leads both
IN money expended and officers en-
ployed. She has one oflcer for each
q, 600 inhabitants. Apparently this Is
none too many, as State ofncers, To-
getner with Federal agents, captured
over 10000 pieces Of hquor-making APP
J@AL esbAB 1acU yC04, Va OAAC AOA So~AA A%S
inhabitants. The solid South prefers to
talk about prohibition and not spend
money on it. Virginia, South Carolina
and Alabama alone have State prohibi-
ton enforcement appropriations.
Next In efforts after Virginia comes
Oregon, which has one State oficer for
each 81, 900 inhabitants. Ohio has q
large prohibition department and Mich
igan uses q few of its State police in
prohibition work New Hampshire has
six men, who, with the aid of the Fed
erals, stem the Canadian rum tide.
Rhode Island, for some unknown rea-
son, employs q chemist and Illinois has
a Stenographer. Kansas has no State
police officers, but appropriated $40, 900
last year for prohibition enforcement,
largely for attorneys. The States which
specifically appropriated money In 1927,
according to figures of the Census Bu-
reau, for prohibition enforcement and
have since ceased to cooperate in the
noble experiment are Massachusetts,
Montana, Missouri. Nebraska. Nevada,
Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Wis
conSin and wyoming. The following
States have yet to appropriate the first
penny to enforce national prohibition:
Maine, Connecticut, New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Mime
sofa. Iowa, North Dakota, Delaware,
Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ar
kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arizona,
Washington and California"