Evening star., 1933-01-21
CAPITAL TOPS LIST IN AMOUNTS
SPENT FOR LIQUOR NFORMERS
Woodcock Tells Committee $4,000 Was
Spent Here in Year Out of $49, 500
for United States as Whole.

requirements were made 1mmed1Ately
when . vacancy occurred. The CON-
pensation was always IS . day. The
total expenditure therefor for the fiscal
year 1882 was $18. 1000"
.- I'll Special Employees.
Throughout the IL districts including
the local one there were 271 special en-
.ployes, including special agents, 1t was
shown.
The liquor situation In the District Of
Columbia also was brought up by Rep
resentative Cannon, who asked Col.
Woodcock: what would you estimate
to be the number Of places In the Dis
trict of Columbia where liquor can now
be secured illicitly?"
II can only tell you the number OF
places where we have seized liquor, Con-
gresxmAn," replied Col. Woodcock. II
have no estimate Of the number Of
places. Usually they are very small
places which are seized and usually the
tenant there mc7es out or they are
closed by injunction"
Asked If the number were increasing
or declining, Woodcock said "our activ-
1ty Is increasing" but when asked
whether the number Of places where
liquor could probably be secured were
increasing or declining, he replied, Il
do not know, sir"
Representative Blanton then brought
up reports of liquor in local hotels. 1T
Is commonly stated here and elsewhere, t"
he said, that you can go to any big
hotel in Washington, or In any other
big city. and get liquor In five minutes
from bellboy. What do you have to
say about that?"
~>rI{,A. IL vok
know whether it is true or not, Con-
gresham. OF course, unquestionably,
you can buy liquor If you search for it.
Draws War Comparison.
I'VE do not regard that as necessarily
a reason why our efforts have been
futile" declared the colonel. What we
claim to be able to do is to drive the
violations to cover. II I may use an
analogy, which will take Just a moment,
our armies on the Western front would
drive the enemy down into his trenches
and down into his dugouts, and then
they were there sustained by an enemy
population. We could not reach that
enemy population who were supporting
the army by bombs or bullets; you could
reach them only by ideas, and President
Wilson did that. If you will recall, he
told the German people that we were
not making war upon them and he un-
dermined the whole morale
MY own theory Of enforcing the law
Is that law enforcement can only drive
the bottlegging traffic to cover, Just as
our armies drove the enemy's army to
cover To break up the traffic COM
pletely. you have to resort to weapons
OF ideas and ideals and persuade your
good people not to support and sustain
them by buying from them. That is my
own theory Of this problem Of national
prohibition"
Another discussion OF Washington's S
liquor situation was started by Tinkham,
when he presented the polka dot map"
Of Washington purporting to show the
Police Departments liquor raids during
1881.
Col. Woodcock challenged it as exc
cuted by the Crusaders. Asked by
Ttnkham whether he thought the map
accurate, Woodcock said he did not
know. For the fiscal year 1882, he said
I'VE made total Of 2,172 cases in the
District Of Columbia. have not the
locations where those cases were made.
It Is an interesting thing" he aCded,
that In connection with the making Of
those cases, we arrested 1881 indi-
viduak.
Blanton insisted the record showed
the map was prepared by the Crusaders,
. wet organization