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Show Let Durant Do It Mr Durant might make an effort to capture his own $5 000 prize for "the best and most practical plan to make the' 18th amendment effective." He has some mighty fine tools for the making of a near prize-winner, at any rate. "Big business leaders," says Mr. Durrant, "who have the largest stake in law observance publicly and privately violate vio-late this law and countenance its' violation by others." Instead In-stead of using their wealth and influence to create public opinion demanding law enforcement, they are the chief support sup-port of the master criminal class, the bootlegger. - - ; Surely it is wise to go after the "chief support of law violation, first thing. Enforcement has, very largely, been directed in the opposite direction. The net has slipped over the big business and big social leaders and caught the small ones. In other words, there has been one sort of enforcement en-forcement (justice) for the big and another sort for the small. It is a policy that, very rarely indeed, gives anything like full satisfaction; never, when the object sought is a standard of national morality. A people 40 percent foreign born or near foreign born has great difficulty in realizing that "All men are born equal," when justice is partial toward criminals because they are big. |