| Show Hoover Target for Prohibition Criticism Position Difficult Congre Bu Busy y Now By RODNEY DUTCHER WASHINGTON J N On Christmas day F. F Scott McBride ho tho superintendent nt of ot the th Sa Antl-Sa- loon oon league proclaimed in mimeographed mimeographed mimeo mimeo- graphed handouts to th the press that thu prohibition wa waA th the great rent of oC the Am American people Ru But t to President Hoover prohibition hl much more moro resembles Mac Mac- th 10 the tha gent who murd murdered sleep Specially p of lC late lato The Time rec recent nt ballyhoo about enforcement en en- has bas been ben singularly COT ert cred I with aspects s of Ignorance hypocrisy and cowardice but doo nt let air Z lr Hoover out Ibe 11 Great Greal White Father is al aJ Wa ways tho the goat on this Issue H He liIs ItIs li It Is Is who Is b supposed d to and enforce the laws Agents a nn coast guardsmen have havo to do 10 raiding and shooting and boVI a-boVI them there are arc administrators com ml loners and oth other r officers offIcer to se St that the they do it Jt It but in comm command nd is the prel president HES HE'S ALWAYS A TARGET The sad Md state te of ot prohibition enforcement en makes him a mark For anyone anono who wants t take tako a a. l few shots at him it 1 brickbats always S 'S at nt hand When 11 n h hIs hIs hI Is charged with tailing falling to satisfactory enforcement nt tho the char cant can't b be denied All a a. poor peed dent cart can do Is to assure of oC hl his good intentions and prom It to 10 t-r t try to like the dickens to do a. a lt Job It doesn't make any whether hether a a. law can be enforced o not As regards regarda prohibition ther thee are aro two schools of thought on thaI tha Mr Ir Hoover ml might ht b believe lh e It Il couldn be enforced nut hut he wouldn't d darr du dar r pay so 0 He lie would have e to carT carr carron caeton on just 3 as if It he h thought it Jt c The notion that the pre l en enn n needed ded Senator Borah to tell biD that th the law Jaw wasn't being enforce is tinged with absurdity The In Incident was WM chiefly chien valuable as 8 dem demonstrating the value of ot After Arter Borah's Borah blast Mr Jr Hoover Gr hato hato ha M to pretend a sudden n excitement eve ovi such ast astonishing revelations rG and aas u ac as if it the wool had Just been pull pulla from his eyes It ma nay may be too mud muc to suggest that Senator Borah Bomb d de deliberately sought to embarrass tt th p president sl ent but it was ob 10 obvious s enous enous' that he didn't mind if it he did The nto contrast In th the attitudes f Harding Coolidge and Hoover to U toward toward ward prohibition p enforcement seem seen to bo be that Hoover Is more mor con len tiou about It One can also M as asfor for Hoover Hoo that he has baa not been 1 I office very ery long and can hardly 1 1 expected expect to do In less Ies than a a. ye what hiss his predecessors failed to d dIn din In eight He Is Js fortunato fortunate In tn retaining tl th support of ot the dry organization with their control of congress Tl Th organized drys ore are not those ei eD in hectoring him now nov The Th havo have even come to the defense his chief enforcement officials In tl tim face faco of or Borah's demands for a t tto toto to to bottom cleanup Some of ot the think all an this hollering from the tho sen sei senate ate ato Is timely and ought to be heIr ful rul in prodding tho the president bi bt most of ot them are convinced th thE Mr rr Hoover has always meant t do right by their cau cause e. e They don doc dare are believe bellee anything else u as a matter of or fact tact because they pa pawn pane ne their clothes on him him in 1928 Temporarily tho tIme buck is beth bell eln passed back to congress whit will make mako more little laws to he hel enforce th the big one A A. joint coi committee will have tl U ti Job of or preparing tho the program Gen Gei cral eral agreement calls for transfer i enforcement from the treasury t the Justice department nt bett better r boder boder bo bor border der patrol relief relict of or federal cou cour congestion through of or procedure and codification of ot c u laws Jaws relating to That doesn't sound like much of program considering the tho l size of tho the problem m. m but it appear r to be the b best t. t product of the be bc minds to date at |
