Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-19
VETS URGE BEER
TO HALT CRIMES
Five House Members Back
Bingham Bill in Senate
and Score Dry Law.

BY the Associated Press
Another group of anti-prohibition
Representatives went before a Senate
committee today to advocate the Bing-
ham 4 per cent beer bill.
Representative Dickstein, Democrat,
of New York contended employment of
the whole Army couldn't stop this
| thing going on today"
Give us back beer" he said, and
stop this bootlegging and moonshining,
| let us have law and order"
Dickstein said Before prohibition, if
you asked a girl to take a drink she
would smack you in the face; now, If
you haven't one to offer, she will kick
you"
Cochran Cites Own Drinking.
Representative Cochran, Democrat,
of Missouri, replying to questions by
Senator Bingham. Republican, of Con-
necticut, said wartime prohibition was
voted to release men for the munitions
plants and shipyards and to acquire the
food going into beer.
In future wars, he said he would vote
to prohibit the manufacture of ice
cream and soft drinks If necessary to
win the war"
Cochran, who planned to address the
House today on prohibition, said he
never drank whisky until after prohi
bitiOn."
Representative Sweeney, Democrat,
Ohio, a former municipal judge in
| Cleveland, said the average age OF $4,000
persons who came before him in 1929
charged with intoxication was 25.
Says Youth Would Like Beer.
These were the boys and girls our
dry friends told us would never taste
alcohol under prohibition" he said.
And what are they drinking? They
are drinking canned heat, corn liquor,
raw alcohol and raiSin jack
Sweeney said youth would gradually
develop taste for beer if it were made
lawful
Representative SABBATH, Democrat,
Illinois, said Chicago was the most law
abiding and sober city in the United
States before prohibition, notWlthstand-
ing it had 1000 saloons"
Now he said, the city has 10000
speakeasies.
haHSaS DtIOdUu
Chicago has suffered" he added
because the large prohibition territory
of Iowa. Missouri, Kansas and Ne
braska depends upon Chicago for its
liquor supply
You don't mean Kansas" Senator
Bingham said.
The demand from Kansas is ire
mendous," SABBATH replied.
Il honestly believe he said, that
no city has suffered SO much in the
last IL years, due to prohibition, as
the City of Chicago for it has suffered
not only in reputation, but it has been
subjected to scorn and ridicule of the
entire world. And why? Only because
of this crime and corruption-b breeding
law"
Mrs. Norton Testifies.
Representative Mary T. Norton,
Democrat, New Jersey, testified beer
would not remove the immoral aspects,
but at least would provide a partial So
ution of this veXing problem"
When asked by Senator Bingham how
much barley and hops could have been
used in the 100000 barrels of illegal
beer estimated to have been produced
in 1880, Mrs Norton said she had
tasted some of that beer and it ap-
parently had neither barley nor hops
in it,"
She said women were changing" on
the prohibition question
Those with children from 5 to II
years of age, she said, were writing her
expressing the hope that something
will be done before their children reach
the f1asktoting age"