Show ARMY CANT CAN'T ENFORCE DRY LAW CLAIM Dry Law Causes Drinking by Young People Former Former Former For For- mer Judge Says CHICAGO'S PLIGHT DRAWN Murray Speech Startles Anti Anti- saloon League Br By Associated Press WASHINGTON Jan 19 Another 19 Another group of oC congressmen went before a senate committee today today to to- day to advocate the Bingham 4 per percent percent percent cent beer bill Representative Dickstein Democrat Democrat Demo Demo- cr crat t New York contended employment employ employ- ment of the whole army couldn t stop this thing going on today Give Ghe us back beer he said and and stop this bootlegging and lag ing Let us have law and order Dickstein said Before prohibition if you ou asked a girl to take a drink she would smack you ou in m the face now if you ou haven't one to offer oHer she will kick you Representative Cochran Democrat Missouri replying to questions by Senator Bingham Republican Connecticut Con Con- said wartime prohibition was voted to release men for the munitions plants and shipyards and to acquire the food going into beer In future wars he said he would I vote to prohibit the manufacture o oice of ice lice cream and soft drinks if necessary necessary sary to win the war I NEVER DRANK DRANE BEFORE Cochran who planned to address addres the house today on prohibition said sale he never Old drank rank whisky until after prohibition Representative Sweeney Democrat Democrat Demo Demo- crat Ohio a former municipal judge judg in in- Cleveland said the average ag age of persons who came before him in 1929 charged with intoxication was 25 These were the bo boys s 's and girls ou oudry our dry friends told us would never taste tast alcohol under prohibition he said And what are arc they drinking They are iare drinking canned heat corn liquor raw alcohol and raisin jack i Sweeney said youth would gradually gradual gradual- ly develop a taste for beer if it were nade lawful Representative Sabath Democrat Illinois said Chicago was the the- mos most law abiding and sober city in the United States before prohibition notwithstanding notwithstanding not not- withstanding it had saloons Now he said the city has speakeasies DEPEND ON CHICAGO I Chicago has suffered he added because the large prohibition terri tern tor tory of Iowa Missouri Kansas anc and Nebraska depends upon Chicago fo for lor its liquor supply You dont don't mean Kansas Senator Bingham said The demand from Kansas is tremendous tremendous tre tre- Sabath abath replied I Oil honestly believe he said thano that tha no city has suffered so much in the thelast thelast thelast last 12 years ears due to prohibition a athe as the city of Chic Chicago go for it has suffered not only in reputation but it has ha been subjected to scorn and ridicule of the entire world And why Only because of this crime and corruption corruption- breeding law Dry Group Startled By Murray Speech WASHINGTON Jan 19 F A P-A A startled league convention weighed today a surprise suggestion from Crom Governor Murra Murray of Oklahoma that a more satisfactory form o of liquor control might be substituted for existing prohibition Recognized as a dry the picturesque picturesque picturesque esque Alfalfa Bill was given prominent nent place on last nights night's program of the big biennial convention following following fol fol- fol lowing close upon lIpon a stirring address by Bishop James Cannon Jr defending defending defend defend- ing the prohibition part he and other southern churchmen had played in political campaigns and promising more of the same if necessary The Oklahoman h had d distributed to the press a speech which among other things asserted he believed that prohibition will not prove the wisest legal solution of the control of the liquor traffic This sentence and some others like Continued II on Page Pase Two I ARMY CANT CAN'T ENFORCE DRY LAW CLAIM Continued From Page Pasc One it t he left unuttered when he mounted the he platform but the general tenor of f the original draft was maintained and afterward he explained he would stand absolutely back of the written version I 1 got started off oft wrong and never could get back I kept a close eye eyen knew they on n that crowd and I weren't in ln sympathy with my views The mentality of the crowd wasn wasn't t IThe what I expected With that he let lethe the he matter pass His analysis of the audiences audience s sym sym- athies apparently was correct They followed his words closely but with almost no applause Afterward the chairman of the leagues league's executive committee ommittee Dr A. A J. J Barton o of Wilmington Wilmington Wil Wit N. N C. C said he might have some ome comment later There was much informal di discussion among the leaders but no action was taken Former Representative W. W D. D Upshaw ot of f Georgia however was outspoken terming the incident most unfortunate nate ate I fear he added it will vill be unduly un un- duly uly interpreted as a fundamental proposition |