Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-01-15 | Page 6 | Beck Will Not Head Wet Bloc

Beck Will Not Head Wet Bloc WASHINGTON Jan Jap 15 is AP P AP- Representative Be Beck k n Republican Pennsylvania former solicitor general general gen gen- n eral In announcing today that he would not assume sume the leadership atthe of at the wet bloc in th the house hous said he believed ed that no legislative live expedients expedients would r result in tho the enforcement enforcement enforce enforce- ment of ot the prohibition lawI law Jaw I share the confidence e of man many thinking moo men Beck said raid that no le legislative e expedients will ever r re result ro re- suIt sult in the enforcement of oC a law which so 80 manifestly conflicts with human nature and that the tho expedients l. l now proposed and an any that can cao b be proposed propos d will bo be as Ineffective as ns it would be bo for a surgeon to ap apply apply ap- ap I ply a a. mustard 1 plaster to a So matig- matig pans nana cancer With the these e views I t shall be glad to servo sero In the tho ranks of oC the anti antl- prohibItion group even though h I 1 Iam Iam am am disinclined for many reasons reason to a assume sume the leadership