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8
Churchmen Demand Stronger Liquor Laws
DRY LEADERS
PLEAD FOR
I REALTEST
P -sonal Liberty Cry of
Wets Declared ‘Snare
and Delusion.'
April IC —
fThc call of the hour is for such a
jthoroughaoina work of moral persua-
kio* and legal enforcement as will
fare the policy of prohibition nn ade-
opi>ortunity to demonstrate its
Kull value to the nation and the
WNkl. said a statement presented to-
i<!sy to the Senate liquor committee
bv* the administrative committee of
Federal Council of Churches.
► Tiuh declaration by ihe spokesman
Jf«< 2h Pratestart communions marked
* opening of the drive by the drys
hi raponse to the assaults on prohi-
niuon which have been made by the
• weta during the past ten days. The
Su. * .ment was read by Dr. William J.
I .k mof New York secietary of the
iZiwrea.i Bible Society.
FEU EVILS TODAY.
• serious evils have sprung up
prohibition ” th'- staiement said
are far less than the evils
i jich arose from th»- liquor traffic
j»- tr to rile Eighteenth Amendment.
a Eqnor traffic with the accompany*
jaj ialoon v.\u» allied with political
< crime gambling and pros;
Liution. It meant the wreckage of
t./n and the degradation of families.
"The policy of prohibition was not
i uopted hastily nor was it foisted up-
r<n the country by a Puritanical mi-
-1 parity. It was first voted in most of
the atute separately ami then nation*
4 )ly. because the people had become
convinced that the liquor traffic was
un evil of such magnitude that it hud
r io be destroyed.
OBJEC T TO CHANGES.
•‘The Eighteenth Amendment was
mad? a part of the Constitution by
the regular met boils which the found-
er# of the republic derived with a
I view to making the amendment of the
[Constitution difficult rather than
’ va>y. Yet this amendment was adopt-
ed more promptly than any other
change in the Cunatitation ever pro-
"The proposal to modify the Vol-
’ stead act so as to permit the sale of
light wines and beer presents insup-
erable objection*. It would make en-
forcement more difficult. It would in-
cvitaldy mean the return either of the
' mu loon or something equally undesir-
' abb.
ONLY ONE PATH.
••Bootlegging in stronger liquors
would become more menacing because
it would tend to operate through the
gtacas when- the milder intoxicants
v/eru sold. Moreover there is no evi-
deuce to justify the contention that to
‘ permit wine and beer would reduce
tile aunsumptioii of ardent spirits. The
। tracking of experience is to the con-
t*w y.
| - "*Mr«hods of control .shirt of pro*
Libi lien such ar taxation f zu’etion
and the governn>entaliy-€M»Tjtrolled syr-
|Kbu of Aom<‘ af the Canadian prov-
. Norv.ay and Sweden have all
io cope with the
*Tto on* path of advance i* for all
| f Oi. i citizens pvn«*naJly to the
I Ig*? and to Mipport the great enter-
k)*r«a4» bom of the idealism »»f th»‘
of iWi-M’ly ridding the na-
L'twaiof as <»emornlixing a business as
I the luinor traffic has always proved
Rxlf to be.”
x . Vr.y. cE. Wbdvr. neral counsel
t of th* Anti-Sn’ on L* ague: Bishop
[ Jn .es Cannon Jr.. < f the Methodist
Ljj j*.4ec.ir.il (’hurcb. South end Mrs.
KT. A. Yost legislative sirs rintend-
i uf the Women's Christian Tom-
[ pe; iiir? T’iiton. eat at the end of tl«
f c table nt today * session to
the presentation for the drys.
BOOM CROWDED.
Th* commit t«*e mom again was
[ Zr with hundred'- (um'*d av.ny
E f'»r jgant <»f room. Only a few of
Fwet leaders in <’ on
1 hr nd.
£ Dr. Haren was sworn and stood
| wlrle he read the statement of the
f federal council.
E The statement de*< rile das “a d ■
S Ir doti and a snare” the i»ersonal lib-
txrty pka of the*' who otq>o*' pro-
I ■Hldtiou.
"AI! law is infringement of pcr-
a ftonsl liberty for the aak« of the pu»e
F 1»«* welfare." the stat»me!it continued.
[ Dr. Haven also pre*«nt»d a re*o]b-
- tion from the Chicago Church fedora-
tion petitioning Congress “to ena't
smet additional legislation as will h* Iji
' In the stricter enforcement of the
l prohibition laws."
FAILURE IN CANADV
1 Dr. Charles S. MaeFarland secre-
f tary of the Federal Couneil <•!
r <*burrh«». read a telegram from T
' Albert Moore secretary ot the L’niht
t Church of Canada saying that undei
» <wtricted licenses in Canadian prov
[ itjc«s consumption of liquor and boot
F legging had increased and that horm
F xonditiuns were worse than they hat
L been under prohibition.
Dr. L»e W. Beatty superintended
[ of the Madison Square settlement
[ New York told the committee tha*
FIRST AID TO BEAUTY
AND CHARM
Nothing so mars an otbrr-
wire beautiful fare as the
inevitable lines of fatigue
W' and auHeriag caused by
ill JfKnt tired a Ling teet. MIEN S
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■ Bre ' K Healing Powder. Insures
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FRIDAY—A
D. A. R. Leader
Will Meet
To Rack Dry Law
By I niverval Servic..
WASHINGTON April 16 —
Four thousand Daughters of the
American Revolution who gather
here in national session next
Monday will be asked by Mrs.
Anthony Wayne Cook their
president-general to pledge them-
selves against any possible ef-
forts to repeal the Eighteenth
amendment and to stand for its
enforcement.
Mrs. Cook made it known to-
day that she would include that
appeal in her message to the
continental congress
of the D. A. R.
The coming meeting attended
by representatives of more than
2000 chapters of the organiza-
tion located in every state in the
I nion and in foreign lands is
expected to lie the largest in the
history of the D. A. R.
So many women will be here
that the sesisons usually held in
the magnificent marble memorial
Continental Hall national head-
quarters of the D. A. R. have
been moved to Washington audi-
torium. the largest place of its
kind in the city.
The program is dotted with
addresses by important men. in-
cluding President Coolidge. Vice
President Dawes. Secretary of
Agriculture .Jardine. Speaker
Longworth. Senator David A.
Reed Representative Clyde Kel-
ly William Tyler Page veteran
clerk of the House and Dr. Wil-
liam Mather Lewis president of
(Jeorge Washington Vniversity.
conditions in his section of New York
had improved under prohibition.
"The saloons that used to do a land
office business are gone/’ he said.
“Banks and other business houses
have replaced than. There is not a
speak-easy in that section.”
In a solitary home on the third
floor of a tenement Dr. Beatty said
he had smelled home brew.
“The good lady there said conditions-
under prohibition were terrible” he
said “I then visited the D 3 other
homes in the block and I did nipt find
a single family engaged in brew-
ing.” /'
Mr«. Helen H. Green. A member of
the Ch vehmd. Ohio citu/council told
the committee that the try people she
represented wanted no modification
but wanted **te''th pise into the law/’
“Despite the in population
of Cleveland and the arrival of for-
eigners and neMross from the South”
she said ‘ is less erime in our
city today./
GET RESULTS.
“I/fcnow crime is decreasing. I
lyste sat on the bench with the judges.
T have been down to the jails and to
th* work houses.
"Cleveland has a dry mayor and it
has a dry cipr manager who has ap-
pointed a dry safety director who is
getting results in holding down crime.
“Our young people are not nearly as
bad as they have been painted. You
2*ntlemen of the committee will bear
me out that conditions today ar* no
worse than they w<re in the country
'lji*»!n a quart/r of a century ago.
"The worst things I know today are
•h* things I from the lips of
big boys when I wax in school.
GIVES FIGURES.
To support her statement about enn-
i?i n* among youths. Mrs. Green said
-M7 boys and 655 girls were brought
i: the Cleveland juvenile courts in
191 s * whereas in 1925. when the popu-
lation had increased 360000 boys
br ught in numbered I*9S and girls
121. Sh« adik'd that th* negro popu-
n -mppi? <1 15 per cent of the juve-
uib delinquency.
continued that drunkenness in
ber < itv had decreased.
“J d »n’t think/’ she said. “I have
s* r-n five drunken people on the streets
Cleveland in th" past 1$ month*.
"Th' r»- are fewer deaths in Clcve-
and from alcoholism” ah? said. r*ad-
nz an offl< i:il report showing 66
• Yh> 1919: 11 n 1920; 42 in
1921 ; 33 in 1922: 23 in 1923 and 7 in
1924.
POVERTY VANISHING.
“Pov* rty a« a result nf drink is dis-
; ij pearing.” sh" argued as sb* pro-
official of the Board of
'hariti*s.
“I am th* mother of four daughters
and twy j>ons and none of th»-m is
hip pocket flask toters and a far as
I khHw none of their friends are.”
Calling attention rhar Ohio had
.oted dry by 170000 the la»t tim"
Mrs. Green said:
’ I am sun- iV' people of Ohio do
' ’ v . nt any n cation of the drv
act.”
In th* last stat*- election sb** con-
tinued. the only Ib-publicsn to low
was Harry L. Davis a wet candidate
for governor.
DA/V MOODyTEdVES
FOR D4LL4S CONE4B
AUSTIN April 16.—OP)—Attor
ney General Dan Moody left Austin
today for 1 inline wh*ro he will hoi
a ronferencr with political fri*nd
Saturday. Froir ther" h'* will go t<
Abibme where h* and Miss Mildred
Paxton will be married April 2<X
S/MMS/TTmTORS
7R4VERSWG INDIA
DELHI. British India. April 16.—
(A*)—The Spanish aviator.*. Captains
Gonzalez-Ga 11 ana and I. Origa on
their Bight from Spain to th* Philip-
wine Islands arrived at Agra today.
Their flight from Karachi to Agra
aas SCO miles.
FEB WRSLIE
DEATHS SHOW!
re rams
Decrease in Diseases Due
to Prohibition Says
Witness.
(Continued From Page 1)
have orders to arrest all men under
the influence of liquor.”
Dr. Haven Emerson of Columbia
University presented an official re-
port of the New York City health
department showing deaths from cirr-
hosis of the liver were 24.7 per 100.-
<lOO in 1900 with a decline to 0.7 per
100000 in 1925. Another chart front
the same source showed a sharp de-
crease in death from Bright's disease
front 1918 to 1921 and a further de-
crease from 1922 to 1925.
ARGUE OVER DISEASE.
Dr. Emerson and Senator Ree*’
got into a long argument as to the
causes of Bright's disease with the
witness holding out that alcohol long
has been recognized as a chief con-
tributing cause.
Next came a chart on tuberculosis
mortality. It showed a sharp drop
during 1918 and 1919. and a steady
downward trend from 1920 to 1925.
“I don't say that alcohol causes
tuberculosis” Dr. Emerson said ‘‘but
improved economic conditions among
the people under prohibition have con-
tributed to the decrease. "
A chart showing alcoholic deaths at
Bellevue hospital in New York City
was placed in the record. It showed
223 yearly from 1910 to 1914 : a drop
to 26.5 yearly in 1921-1922: and a
rise to 250 in 1925.
SHOWS DECREASE.
‘ The purpose of exhibiting tuts
chart" Dr. Emerson said “is to
show the drop when alcohol wus dif-
ficult to get and the return to the
normal level b«t year when alcohol
again was available iylarge quanti-
ties.”
‘"The lesson we o f these
figures i« can get booze as
easily in New' York today a beforv
prohibitioD.y observed Senator Reed
'That's one lesson" broke in Sena-
tor W»ish. Democrat Montana ‘‘the
other ’ 1B —
jßbt Reed cut him off.
REED ANSWERS.
“The other is” said the Missourian
“that you can’t die from alcohol when
yon can't get it.”
Dr. Emerson presented another
chart showing a. drop in mortality
with the drop in the consumption of
liquor in Great Britain during the
wnr.
"You don't mean to say they ever
had prohibition in England.' asked
Reed.
"No but there was sharp curtail-
ment in prohibition and sale because
of need of for food."
11!"’ ’uggeOTed that during the war
millions nf Englishmen were on thv
fighting front.
FEWER hospitals.
Questioned by Senator Reed. Dr.
Emerson said one of the things ac-
companying prohibition was the re-
duction in the number of sanitariums
for the treatment of alcoholics.
“Has there been an increase of the
use of drugs since prohibition?”
“There is no evidence of an in-
crease of the drug habit” replied Dr.
Emerson. “On the contrary there is
evidence of a reduction.”
As the morning session ended there
was filed for the record a statement
against prohibition by 20 member-
of the Honse from New York who
have introduced a bill to repeal the
Volstead act.
GILLETT SELECTED.
“The sentiment of our people has
been conveyed to us in no mistakable
terms” the statement said. “They
demand beer. wine and fermented
beverages. To attain their desires
we believe they are willing to abide
by the Constitution and forego dis-
tilled liquor and ardent spirits.”
At the opening today it was an-
nounced that the continued illness of
Senator Means Republican. Colorado
the chairman had compelled him to
withdraw from the committee. Sena-
tor Harrold Republican Oklahoma
was designated chairman and Senator
Gillett. Republican Massachusetts
another dry. was named to replace
Senator M<-ans as a committee mem-
ber.
The drvs hnvo 22 hours in wh : <h
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day with the hearing of scores of
women who were here at that time at-
tending the convention of the Wom-
en's National Committee for Law En-
forcement. •
The wets still have two hours of
their 24 left. They want to utilize
this for summing up arguments after
the orys conclude but there is a di-
vision of opinion in the committee on
that point.
The Senate hearing as it has fe-
veloped thus far and the testimony
Wednesday of Assistant Secretary
Andrews meanwh’.'e have come in for
more or less hatted comment from
ardent prohibitionists in various parts
of the country.
Pat Neff former governor of Tex-
as in t speech last night before the
International Council of Religious
Education at Birmingham in his ref-
erence to the hearings expressed the
opinion that the liquor interests were
using Congress as a “sewer to flood
the nation with’propaganda for read-
ers of the press.”
Despite the statement by Mr. An-
drews yesterday that in giving his
opinion in reply to a hypothetical
question that sale of non-intoxicating
beer for consumption in homes and
hotels with meals might aid enforce-
ment he was not advocating a change
in the prohibition law Dr. A. C. Gra-
ham. superintendent of the Kentucky
Anti-Saloon League has announceo
that his organization will "demand”
that the President remove the enforce-
ment chief from office.
TO TAKE SAME ACTION.
He quoted Mrs. Udide Gray Pickett.
Kentucky state president of the
Women’s Christian Temperance
Union as saying similar action would
be taken by her society.
Former Governor Neff touched on
the same subject in his speech but
did not mention by name cither Mr.
Andrews or United States Attorney
Buckner of New York whose testi-
mony also has aroused the ire of some
prohibitionists.
“No one” he held “should be in
charge of prohibition enforcement
who does not believe the law can be
enforced or who is not in favor of the
law.”
Mr. Andrew made it clear that “it
is my task to enforce the law as writ-
ten. nnd to that end I am giving my
sole attention.”
DETECTIVES GUARD
CINDERELLA MAN
(Continued From Page 1.)
day dropi>*d its action started before
the marring* seeking to remove the
girl from the guardianship of her
mother Mrs. Catherine Heenan other
worries appeared on the couple’s
matrimonial horizon. After Brown-
ing had received several threatening
telephone rails he hired six private
detectives today to keep guard in th*
hot*! at Bronxville N. Y. where h*
hes been staying (hiring the past two
days with his bride. When h* was
considering adopting Mary Louise
Span last year he received a some-
what similar threat in a letter. He
succeeded in having the writer of the
letter arrested.
Driving with Browning In hi*
azure imported automobile to a br»ard
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girl adopted by Browning several
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