The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-01
CRIME TO Be
RAMPANT, DRY
LEADERS SAY
Prohibition BaCkerS Assert
Little Merit in Slogan
of Legality.
INDIANA CHIEF QUOTED
Withdrawal of Booze Act
Brings Attack From
u. S. Senator.

By Scripps-Hoteard Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-The
country's dry leaders believe that
repeal will usher in an era of law
breaking so serious that the United
States will turn back to prohibition.
They see little merit in the widely
Endorsed slogan, Make it smart to
be legal" They have no confidence
that Americans will agree to pur-
chase liquor from legal sources
rather than from bootleggers and
many of them profess to see little
choice, if liquor is to be bought at
all.
Senator Morris Sheppard Dem,
Tex, co-author of the eighteenth
amendment, believes racketeering,
bootlegging and kidnapping all will
increase after repeal.
The people who we're charging
prohibition with all these evils now
are becoming virtuous and advocat-
ing respect for law" he says. THE
law will not be obeyed and this
means a sure return of prohibi-
ton"
o. G.. Christgau, assistant to the
general superintendent of the Anti
Saloon League, dismiSses the drive
for legality with comment that
drys never have patronized boot
leggers and never will. He adds:
Drys Always Opposed
1.-The drys always have been and
will continue to be opposed to all
forms of selling liquor, including
bootleg sale"
we stand for the slogan Make it
smart to be legal" says L. E. York,
superintendent of the Indiana Anti
| Saloon League, but we stand
against liquor, whether sold legally
or illegally.
Obedience to and respect for the
law can not be realized with our
state and nation in partnership
with liquor traffic, which is the arch
enemy of all laws.
During the past years if such a
slogan mad been sounded forth by
the metropolitan press instead of
ridicule and caricaturing those who
stood for enforcement of not only
the liquor laws but all laws, our
country would not be in the con-
dition in which we find it today"
George w. Crabbe, superinten-
dent of the Anti-Saloon League of
Maryland, predicts that shortly
after repeal I'VE will have figures
proving beyond all doubt that there
is more drinking, more drunken
ness, more crime of all kinds" than
there was under prohibition.
Repeal can not be made to sue
coed because the liquor traffic is an
evil thing" he says. LAS to respect
| for law, repeal of the prohibition
amendment is the worst blow the
law has suffered in this country"
"StilI Try Their Best"
Mrs. Mary R. Haslup. president of
the Maryland w C. T. u, asks:
How can repeal bring added re-
Spect for law? Repeal was brought
about by law violators, not by law
/ observers.
Racketeers and bootleggers were
here before prohibition and will be
here after prohibition. We still
will try our best, as We have since
our organization, to make it smart
to refrain from all forms of liquor"
George Southwell, secretary of the
Cleveland Dry Maintenance League,
says:
we always have fought for OBJ
Servance of the law and shall con-
/ tinue to do so. 1 do not see that
such slogan is more applicable
after repeal that it would have been
under prohibition"
Says DR.. A H. Briggs, California
| superintendent of the Anti Saloon
League: You never will get a
worthwhile citizen who respects the
law just because it is smart to be
legal. Public opinion must rest
upon something more stable than
I SmartneSS. The most venomouS
reptile that ever crept into the hui
man Eden is liquor The eighteenth
amendment was designed to scorch
their reptile. Nor did prohibition
corrupt officials. 1t unfortunately
found corrupt officials.
] BY all means make it smart to
/ be legal, but make it unhealthy not
to be legal"