Show 1 ly 15 PROHIBITION A JOKE 1 Present enforcement is a joke i These arc ale the words of John A Cashin Cashin an attorney employed by the United States Government to prose prose- prosecute prosecute prosecute cute violations of the Act in New York He was talking not to enemies of the dry law but to a conference con con- ference of those interested in law en held at Columbia Columbia University University sity The remedy for lack of ment ment ment said s that speaker lies in the community The national prohibition prohibition tion act act nee needs s both teeth and sufficient sufficient appropriations to carry it on A Admission mission that the lawyer was not taking too gloomy gloomy a view came from the dir director tor of the Prohibition Unit nit who said Let us wait about twenty twenty- twenty one one years rs If it has not been a suc- suc success suc-cesa suc cess in fn that time then it may I Ic L designated a failure It may be that New Nev York and Chicago and San Francisco and the great cities generally pay less at at to prohibition n nan han docs does there the there there re a c I of the country The votes from these e Cities were not cast in favoro favor th o- prohibition The law was written into the Constitution and md on theto the theta ta to ute books by representatives es of he smaller maller cities an and of the rural u A sufficient number o 81 rs 15 and of members of Congress however favored red prohibition and it ita a as ai adopted by the American legis legis- legis- legis legislature legislature I lature method majority rule I Il 1 l I r all that prohibition may sUI stilt b s juke Many laws are honored lor or in the breach than in the ob- ob rv nc The blue laws of early l ew England are arc commonly ignored herc here the laws forbidding Sunday 1 l IJ do not reflect the sentiment I Ic c the community they the are not en- en enforced en enforced I en-I forced Amendments to the United S e es Constitution C passed passe in inthe the i fary of Reconstruction passions have been practically nullified in certain i Oates ate Is this to be the fate of the thep thep IJ p tion act The new Congress is dryer dryer ry r than ver thant-ver vel The prohibitionists have three our our-hs our hs majorities both in the House Housend 11 nd 1 in the Senate It would be nb- nb absurd ab aboard surd oard urd to expect these men to vote to weaken the prohibition act They cra ml r- r would not be inclined to to repeal the Eighteenth Enforcement may bei bet be i t JoL jo- jo o but the law is a serious rious w vv P r i What is to be done done- Waite twenty one ODe J ears in hope that something will turn turn up Colliers up-Collier's Colher's Colliers Collier's |