Show Pry ry Law Repeal Advocated by Ex-Bar Ex Leader I Lawyer Appears Before Senate Senate Senate Sen Sen- ate Committee in PerI Personal Personal Per Per- Capacity JURIST RAPS REFERENDUM REFERENDUMS S Barrister Declares Amendment Amendment Amendment Amend Amend- ment Americas America's Mistake 1 Hy United Press WASHINGTON Jan 18 18 Charles Charles CharlesA i A. A A Boston of New York former pres- pres i ident dent of the American Bar association today oday denounced the eighteenth amendment and the act as failures allures which had promoted vio- vio lence ence contempt for or law and a asp spy system of law enforcement Testifying In senate hearings on the he four per cent beer bill Boston said aid these factors had combined to educate the young of the next gen generation en- en to use intoxicants Boston advocated complete repeal of f the eighteenth amendment He believed be- be the four per cent beer would not violate the amendment but he regarded it merely as a palliative PERSONAL CAPACITY He said he was appearing in a personal personal per- per onal capacity and desired to contradict contradict contra contra- dict the statements of the ecclesiastical cal proponents of prohibition that none but persons representing the liquor liquor liquor interests opposed prohibition Prohibition is abhorrent to me said aid Boston and disastrous results have lave flowed from the methods of en- en He said organizations sponsoring prohibition had descended from a alove alove love ove of humanity to a hate of those who disagree with their views Anti- Anti prohibitionists in the United States are ire numerous beyond enumeration he le said The greatest mistake made by the United States since the Civil war he declared was the adoption of the eighteenth amendment REFERENDUM URGED Boston advocated a referendum on prohibition by means of special states tates conventions He was president of the bar association last year and said aid he had traveled widely and had found a general disregard of prohibition tion ion except in North and South Dar kota where a combination of drouth grasshoppers and other misfortunes apparently occupied the attention of the he people I 1 come here from two separate communities in South Carolina Boson Boston Boston Bos Bos- ton on said and sentiments expressed to tome tome tone me ne there were identical with those I have ha just stated to you He said he had been told that prioro prior to o national prohibition there was no illicit licit distilling in South Carolina but that hat stills now are reported abundant In n the state WASHINGTON Jan 18 UP UP- UP President resident Hoover was cheered wildly wildy wild- wild ly y toda today at the League Continued or on Page Pue T Two o REPEAL OF DRY LAW ADVOCATED Continued From Pare Pace One convention when he was referred to toas toas toas as a sincere dry The Rev Hey John H. H Phillips of or Hartford Hartford Hart Hart- ford lord Conn told the convention that with Mr Hoover in the White House the drys can hold the fort until th the Du Ponts Fonts and John J. J Raskob get tired of throwing their money away avay The delegates arose and md cheered en en- The Rev Henry II 11 Crane Scranton Seran ton Pa pleaded for tor an nn awakening to prohibition as a moral rather than an economical Industrial or political Is issue uc SYSTEM FAILURE The Canadian system of controlled liquor traffic put forward by many AS ns a method which the United States Stales should follow was described as a failure by two Canadian Canadian Cana Cana- dian temperance workers who addressed addressed ad ad- dressed sed the convention Ira A. A Pierce secretary of ot the Quebec League Against Alcoholism said that consumption of ot hard liquor in Quebec has increased 38 per cent In the pa pst past st six ix years The increase II for lor wine and beer was per cent he said A. A H. H Jarvis of Ottawa told the delegates that temperance advocates in his city were sound asleep He cited government liquor board figures showing expenditures o of 52 a a million dollars a week week- eckfor eck for liquor In Jn Ontario alone e I |