Show HOOVER ACCUSED At f Of DRY RY VIOLATION Of CONSTITUTION CO Citizens Citizen Not Bound to Obey Prohibition Law Catholic Priest Says HEARINGS REOPEN Butler Raps Amendment as Impertinent WASHINGTON Feb 26 United Press President Press President Hoover Attorney General Geneal Mitchell and the tho Wickersham Wickersham Wicker Wicker- sham law enforcement commission are among those thos who have joined in unusual violations of constitutional rights in conne conne connection tion with prohibition prohibition tion enforcement nt it was charged before the house judiciary committee commit commit- tee he hearing ring on bills biJl to repeal or modify the tho dry dy law today Tho TImo Rc Rev John Ryan Catholic university uni uni- sociologist who made malIc the chargo charge al also o told the the ho lie lid did not believe there was 35 a n duty o of on the citizen to o obey cy tho prohibition law Ja a Other pt prominent nt educators and amid lawyers cond condemned ed the tile eighteenth amendment In strongest cst terms to today to- to day Dr Pl Nicholas Murray l rray Butler r assailed tho timo Amendment amen m nt as an Impertinent Impertinent Im irn pertinent Invasion In of or the constitution constitution tion In a 3 letter r sent to the time com com- I o from Columbia university of or which he lie Is president Wilton J J. J Lambert nationally JI known Washington law lawyer cr Rice Hooe also an attorney at the the- capital capital capi card tal and Dr Francis J. J Gerty of or the time Chicago ao ps psychopathic hospital all attacked the law Jaw URGE CHANGES Both the time Rev w. w Mr Ryan Ran and Dr Butler Butter recommended adoption of or the tIme Canadian liquor dl dispensary 8 system while the tho th two Washington lawyers law ers both of whom hom painted conditions In tin time capital as very bad had urged adoption of a t state option system I Continued on page paSa 7 HOOVER ACCUSED OF DRY VIOLATION OF CONSTITUTION Continued from page paSc 1 somewhat similar to that of or the province pro of ot Quebec Prohibitionists have havo th the spirit oCTor of oC Tor fl m. m tho Catholic university sociologist so so- o. o n clUng citing a statement b by Dr Clarence Truo True Wilson dry leader that criminals who brow brew distill and bu buy and amid sell MIl liquor and who drink and ana t servo corvo drinks have hae no right to protection of oC the tho homo home under the tho fourth amendment The priest th the Jones five rive and ten law Jaw as tyrannical because of ot its Hs cruel and unusual punish punish- ments In n his statement that he does not nol believe the citizen is bound hy by iy conscience to obey tho dry law I Ihy tile the Kev He Mr Ryan said this beliefs belief Is s directly opposite lt to that luj he held live hc years ears ear ago 0 when h ho he said ho he thought the law was wa for tho the public rood good EXPLAINs EXPLAINS STAND In Jn c hl his statement nt concerning con con- corning violations of or constitutional rights b by Ute the president and other high officials tho the Rev Rc Mr dr Ir Ryan Ran said Prohibition sea sears ra everything it touches It confutes cs the mental processes of oC the tho higher officials I do not believe you ou realize the extent to which home brewing and is s rampant ho con con- J. J In ln Minnesota they have havo a a. particular brand of moonshine known Mown as Minnesota 13 named after aft aft- er tr a 11 famous brand of or corn Bishop Shanley of oC North Dakota told old me mo most o of the tho people in North Dakota years tars ago never knew anything anything any SUJ- thIn thing about liquor but conditions are different there thero toda today I have hao a sister r who is ia a nun at Jam Jamestown ston-n. ston N N. N D B. who tells me the tIme same ame thing thin She is a a. nun and nd should hould be sheltered from that sort ort of oC thing thinS but the information is pr practically thrust upon her CITES TWO EXAMPLES Bu Butlers Butler's tIers tIer's I letter asserted there is no difficulty in dealing with the so social so so- cial 1 problems which arise from liquor J If ono really wt wishes hes to deal with ith them Intelligently He lie cited tho the example of oC tho Scandinavian people and those thoo of or Quebec Most of oC Dr Gertys Gerty's testimony concerned the increase 1 e in tho nu numer num- num her ber er of oC alcoholic cases S since tion Tho Chicago physician also poInted to tIme the fact tact that the K KeIP H l y Institute for Alcoholics J has recent recent- nt ti 0 y built a it new building and enlarged en en- its hospital The Tue increase In drinking among oung people was waa also I stressed d by Lambert not noted d lawyer Javer who defended defend defend- ed former ormer Secretary of or Interior FallIn Fall Fallin Falln In n tho the Elk Hills and Teapot Dome oil cases casp Lambert said fald government d do I not mako make enough money to drink good liquor |