Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-07-03 | Page 2 | New Dry Regime Not to Bor Citizen Who Drinks

0 n 11 iv Uy s other Bother Citizen th ii Not No to NeW leth Dry Regime I I Mitchell to Confine 4 i Efforts to Campaign t On Organized Org Traffic Emphasis to Be Turned Turne From Personal Issue to Commercial I. I By THOMAS L. L STOKES United Staff WASHINGTON W. July S 3 UP- UP Attorney General Mitchell lias hu ha in hi In- In muted a new th theory ory ot of prohibition enforcement which takes no ac account account account ac- ac count of ot the uze Individual In citizen who wb drinks The Tub government will no not noi concern itself with him nor open oper any IY campaigns to Instruct him or on as a I. I moral Issue It was Vas Indicated t today joday da Mitchell's Mitchells efforts will bo devoted to the suppression of or th the organized liquor traffic and It T III bo be a a. alg lg vIg campaign backed by the jus jus- justice tice tite departments department's widespread spread forces force of detection and prosecution The department t took oK over oer over prohibition enforcement work from the tho treasury treasury treas treas- ury on July Jub 1 I. The Th emphasis ot of tho Hoover administration ad ad- ministration has hILS been gradually away y from tho thc moral l and personal elen element ent In lu the tho prohibition problem TO ro T QUIET ISSUE Tho whole effort of ot th the th Justice e the department win will b be to quiet by Ih keeping prohibition n controversy ly y hands off the th individual clUren since Inco federal red ral efforts along this lineIn line lIno lineIn In the tho 1 past lat lt have stirred BUrred up tho controversy con con- to Its pre present ent pitch Exemption at Lf tho one-gallon one or orless orless less Jess offender of oC the prohibition law has lias been voted by congress with senate passage pas sago of one of oC the Wickerham Wickersham Wickersham Wick- Wick reform bills bUls yesterday The senate still sUII is to oct ct upon two other ether Wickersham proposals complementary tary to this measure for modifying the Jones five and ten law The senate was as to vote today on the house proposal to Increase ap- ap app appropriations ap ap- p for tor President Hoovers Hoover's la law enforcement commission from the voted by the lJ senate enato nato to with th the removal remo of senate restrictions that tho the money money could b bo be used only for prohibition hives hives- ion Back Dack of ot the new federal prohibition prohibition tion tio enforcement ment theory Is not net only the tho desire to quiet the controversy ersy but the conviction con con- as much as s possible from ten years years' experience that it Is impossible practically to t enforce the law upon the citizen clUzen drinker WOULD FILL J JAILS iLS I Tho jails would be filled f and the courts COuta congested far more than now now flow officials believe The supreme c court urt held recently too that the purchaser cr cannot bo be punished under tho act The new theory was set forth b by bythe bythe the treasury de department In Its last word upon the subject before the transfer I Enforcement officers assume I that It is 18 quite as wise Iso to use use the process of ot law ond powers of ot the court to prevent an evil e as asto to punI punish pun pun- I ish Ih h a crime after it has hB be been n committed corn coma mUted the treasury statement said In iii describing how padlock proceedIngs proceedings proceed proceed- ings had been rev rt d to on a 2 large sc scale Je to clo close e up up places where liquor was sold Old The Tho thought at the the- bottom of this a assumption Is that the congress of tho the United States in debating the eighteenth amendment and arid passing the national prohibition act had in mind primarily the suppression of transportation and salo sale o of dc alcoholic h ft II w i u SOUGHT BETT BETTER R ORDER I The main maln idea wa was not to catch citizens in the infringement of the i ilaw law for the sole purpose e of fining I and and- punishing them but seriously and consistently I to try to bring about a better hetter social and moral or order order order or- or der by the tho suppression of beverage liquor r. r it It is hs explained that when the prohibition prohibition pro pro- bureau first began en enforcement enforcement enforcement en- en It a arrested offenders to such auch an extent that Jails jalli were crowded and nd courts congested ted It qt wa was a apparent It said that tho government did not need the money derived from fines tines that prisons already were full of lawbreaker lawbreakers lawbreakers' law law- breakers breaker of all and that when hen one violator of 0 tho tho prohibition law was apprehended another took lav his place j Who Wha Drin brin