Show U leT I S S. S Dry Law Chief Sees Doom for Big Shots in Liquor Traffic Scores Buyer for Enticing Bootleg Sales Lays Success of Past Fast Year to Better Policy and Higher Type Agents W WASHINGTON July lY s a sp aThe p The P The private violator of the liquor laws would be left to his own ovo-n conscience and the forces of or education under a policy polley advocated by Prohibition Director DIrector Di rector Woodcock In an address last night Woodcock Woodcock Wood Wood- Woodcock cock expressed the belief belie that such progress had been made by his bu bu- reau eau In the past year that eventually it t would eliminate the big Illicit liquor dealers commercial violators vio- vio The dry chief said were caught sooner or laterNo laterNo laterNo later No matter how Important nt or big the offender he said history shows that he Is eventually caught But the private violator violator the the consumer con sumer may sumer-may may very probably escape all direct punishment because of or the protection the law gives him We arc are compelled to leave him to his con con- science The pity of it is that he is la the tempter the tempter the of Inciter of the com corn mercial violators violator's acts acu Woodcock ended his first year as prohibition director July 1 He pointed pointed point point- ed id out that in that period a n total of ot cases had been prepared for prosecution in federal and state courts Of the terminated t la lit federal courts he said aId convictions were obtained in with Jail sentences Imposed ed In addition fines tines totaling were imposed im Ira posed and padlock injunctions were granted he noted A total toW of ot stills and automobiles were seized he reported No means were available he said by which the bureau could estimate the number of or violators not caught Neither could he answer satisfactorily questions as to the extent the unlawful unlawful un un- lawful traffic has been stopped Woodcock explained Four principal policies on which the prohibition bureau would work In the future were laid down by the director They included briefly briefly- the avoidance of ot all unnecessary irritation irritation tion to the Innocent the more careful careful care care- ful fut selection and better training of ot agen agents the exertion of at a n steady pressure pressure pres pres- sure against the commercial violator and greater efforts to obtain increased in creased state cooperation |