'. 3. GOVERNMENT 15 BLAMED
TOR LACK OF CONTROL OVER
BEER AND iNDUSTRiAl. ALOOIIOL
w p Church Council in Latest Section of Its Report
A 0n Prohibition Declares Amount of Liquor
Consumed Is Less But the Evil Effects of
Traiiic Are Great—The Cost
.. WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (AP):—
I'fi‘alluro to apply adequate remedies
to curb diversion of industrial alco-
hol and manufacture of “high-pow-
bred” beer Was laid at the door of
,, the Federal Government last night
9 by the research and education de-
"‘ partment of the li‘etlcrul Council of
',Churches in making public an addi-
rjzionul section of its report on the
, Social consequences of prohibition.
‘ “There is no visible reason why
the Illicit removal of alcoholic beer
from ‘breweries' can not be effect-
Molly colitrullrd." said the report.
”the beer problem would seem to
be wholly soluble, although it has
, been one of the scandals of the pro-
hibition regime. ’ ‘ t
“The diversion of industrial alco-
1101 presents at, present the hardest
task of enforcement. Yet there is
no excuse for the abuses that have.
developed. and there is no reason
why the Government cannot, with
reasonable diligence, control the alt-
nation."
, Discussing at. length other enforce-
ment problems, the report declared
. that smuggling continued to present
,‘ many difficult aspects, although the
v total amount thus being brought into
the United States at present "is not
great enough to make it more than
pr minor phase of the cnfocemcnt
problem," that the home-brew in-
dustry had been virtually eliminated;
‘ that ”statements with reference to
the growth of an illicit wine indus-
- ,8}! have been much exaggerated":
that small scale manufacture of
bootleg whiskey still “is extremely
inprevalent in some sections’,, and that
‘ annual withdrawals of liquor from
bonded warehouses have been reduc-
‘ pd to “inconsiderable quantities."
T. The report also contained a com-
V'illlation of costs of prohibition on-
forcement, placing the total for the
l-gpresent fiscal year, which ends next
9 lily 1. at $19,319,817. This figure
included Coast Guard expenditures,
looCasioncd by the operations against
. rum running. The expenditures of
' the prohibition officials themselves,
including operations against both li-
ghter and drug offenders, were listed
‘ I having climbed- from $2,059,774
n 1020 to a high water mark of $8.-
135,842 in 1923; and were given as
$7,609,146 for 1024 and $6,631,213
[ox-the first nine months of 1925.
‘ In a. foreword. the report cited
atistlcs as to the effect of prohi-
ltton already made public, and con-
._il:inued:
i "The common and plausible an-
awer to all these statistical state-
"ments is that prohibition has. pro-
{Snood limited results because we
rhuv'e had only a very limited meas-
we of enforcement—that the inci-
fiime, insofar as it is ineffective. is
us to a. lack of forcible administra-
ion of the law. " ’ "' It is need-
ees to dwell upon'thc extent of non-
‘nforeement of the prohibition laws.
its more serious aspects are well
'nown and freely admitted. It would
a idle to contend. of course, that
naming like the amount of liquor
consumed in the United States that
,‘as consumed prior to 1920. No
atisties are necessary to warrant
gig assumption that with scores of
thousands of saloons closed, so far
he the free and public sale of liquor
”concerned—and the vast majority
tithem closed altogether—tho liquor
little has been enormously reduced.
Moment attempt have been made
‘estimate the percentage of such
reduction. but there is no valid or
Quthoritative basis for such esti-
MQuotes.
‘I'Moreover, the challenge of the
resent situation is independent of
the relative extent of post-prohibi-
on and pro-prohibitiondriking. The
' blem is chiefly a moral problem,
“ g out of the widespread viola-
of the law. It is noteworthy
,, t even in those inland areas
ore there is evidence of growing
moses in the neforcement of the
w. the characteristic evils arising
‘t of its violation are found in dis-
miotlng measure. From conserva-
'~' be, fairly homogeneous communi-
on of the West and South come
esvof persistent violations. The
_ ”2" " res of liquor stills in Southern
#mtea reach an astonishing figure,
' uneven the smallest communities
"1 'not free from the illicit business
Tithe social and political effects that
,iversaily Ilow tram it. The evil
I etc of the continuing traffic seem
be away out of proportion to its
"the situation in New York city
lperhaps the worst in the country
Lathe law. ' ’ ' The new
' ed States District Attorney has
”on obliged to sweep out of his of-
{be all such minor cases in order to
" ‘f' c any progress at all with the
guess of enforcement.
' The cities of Indiana present a
erent picture. There the Federal
‘urt calendar is well up to date
V the District Attorney has no
niplaint to make, although he has
“wary limited force. ' ' ' In-
a has prohibition problems, plen-
of them, but there the prohibi-
policy would at least seem, to
firmly established. '
Walther New York nor lndians.
" :‘gy’piml. and the average condition
the country presumably lies some-
i
,A
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" be between."
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LOCAL DRIVER
NOT GUILTY OF
LIQUOR CHARGE
Charles E. Merritt A‘c-
quitted By Jury in
S e v e n Minutes—
Keogh Wins
BRIDGEPOHT, Sept. 17.-—-Deiib-
crating seven minutes, a Jury in the
Criminal Court of Common Pleas
yesterday afternoon returned to
Frederick Huxford a verdict declar-
ing Charles E. Merritt, 17 Elm
street, Norwalk. not guilty of a
charge of driving an automobile
while under the influence of liquor.
Merritt was arrested by State Po-
liceman Stephen A. Stanton, West-
port barracks, June 30. The police-
man declared the Merritt car was
zig-zagglng through traffic and sub-
sequently Dr. William Russell Mun~
son, Westport, declared the driver to
be under alcoholic influence.
The defense stubbornly fought the
case throughout the entire trial. It
was plainly indicated that an appeal
would have been taken to the Su-
preme Court of Errors had the
jury's verdict not carried acquittal.
Attorney John Keogh flied many
exceptions, not only against the ad-
mission of certain evidence, but to
remarks made from the bench by
Judge I-luxiord and to statements
made by State Prosecutor Lorin W.
Willis in his address to the Jury.
Mr. Keogh, in his own arguments
to the jury. asked if it was going to
“back up the battingaverago" of
the state police who patrol the high-
ways on the watch for traffic viola-
tors. Young men, "over-zealous," he
called them, and declared it was
natural there should be among them
a rivalry for the making of a record
number of arrests.
A former was accused of having
libeled his neighbor.
“Did you call him a, rogue and a
liar?"
"Yes, I did!"
"And did you call him a thief?"
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PLAN TO HAVE .
INTERNATIONAL
LAWS .CODIEIED'
Interparliamen-
tary Union May Ask
Pres. Coolidge t 0
Call Session
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17. (AP.)—-—
One of the tangible results that is
considered likely to grow out of tho
twenty-third conference of the In-
terparilamcntary Union here, Octo-
ber 1 to 6, is a. request to President
Coolidge to call a conference for the
codification of international law.
This, it materlilzcd, would supple-
ment the work done along these
lines at The Hague conferences.
The headquarters of the Union
hero estimates that about half of
the members of both the Senate and
House are members of the organiza-
tion, and many among these are
keenly interested in seeing a further!
step taken in international law codi-
fication. Enrollment by a. member
of Congress is the only requisite for
membership in the Union. -
The officers of the American
group of the Interparlialneniary
Union, which is acting as host at
the conference, are: President.
Senator McKinley of Illinois; vice-
presidents. Representatives Monta-
gue, Virginia: Temple, Pennsylvania
and Oldfield. Arkansas: treasurer,
Representative Sabath, Illinois; sec-
retary, Representative McSwain,
South Carolina. Arthur Deerin Call
of Washington is its executive sec-
retary. '
The executive committee of the
group comprises: Senator McKin-
ley, Illinois, chairman: Robinson,
Arkansas, Swanson, Virginia. and
Curtis, of Kansas; and Representa-
tives Britten, Illinois; Burton, Ohio;
Cooper, Wisconsin McLaughlin.
Michigan: Connally. Texas, and
Baker, California.
Efforts to have Senator Borah of
Idaho, chairman of the Foreign Re-
lations Committee of the Senate. ad-
dress tho Union have been unsuc-
cessful, due to prior engagements.
Senator Swanson .ranking Democrat
on that committee. will be in charge
of the discussion of the Pan Ameri-
can Union. which will form one of
the features of the conferences.
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Chicago Has 4,800
CHICAGO. Sept. :7. (APJ—Ai.
though the “big taxi king" has not
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a. silver flood of 832,000,000 annu.
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The taxicabs of Chicago alone
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than 400 per cent, which is over six.
teen times the rate of ten year in-
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this period the cabs increased from
about 900 to 4.800 and this growth
is an index of how the taxi business
has mushroomed throughout in!
central west.
In thirteen western cities outside
of Chicago the toxin total approxi-
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other cities are: Detroit, 88f;
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cinnati. 350; Indianapolis. 160; St.
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