Show MARSHAL SMYTH TAKES fEW NOTES NOTS ABOUT HOW PROHIBITION PROHIBITS IN KANSAS t s Lucian H. H Smyth United States g mn mac with h headquarters in this city has s returned from a trip to I ansas Kansis Kan- Kan sis bad is is a try dry state and Mr Smyth nn an observant man fo so o his views on prohibition pro are aro interesting tins Kansas S is it also alco Mr Ir Smyths Smyth's s former home state stat and ho h.- hois hois is acq acquainted throughout hout tho the state slate You have c heard beard it said tha that t P prohibition tion doesn't prohibit Let me relate a 1 little incident that would tend to prove c this thic in at least the tho case caso of oi Kansas While sitting in th the th lobby Johb of a Leavenworth Leavenworth Leaven Leaven- worth hotel I met the general of the tho state This official had been bren working tirelessly to stamp p out the the I I sale of liquor and was fooling particularly I I larl proud on this enin e evening over o what I he considered a complete complete success fj But within a stones stone's throw of i where we fl sat liquor was bein being passed I out ont to a bi big i crowd by two men mn as boldly bold ly y as in a public saloon I made no remarks because the attorney general seemed so 80 satisfied and sure that I thought ht a n dispute of his word would have displeased him And this blind pi pig was not the only ono one to be found without a search Police Pollee Not Very Active I certainly believe in eD enforcement of at the tho laW but prohibition is is a law that does not seem sem to appeal to a II majority In lar large e cities throughout hout Kansas tho the police poliN lice departments do not seem leem to bo be looking for violators of the prohibition law Surely when a visitor to the the city those secret cannot help but hilt see seo secret places laces the police ou ought ht to be he able abIe to know wh where r they the exist if they wanted to know Take the place I mentioned I r saw men entering and coming comin from a certain eer tain twin place one after another nother in a constant constant con con- stant stream tream The They did not appear atall at atall I. I all 11 afraid From Prom the inside ml came the tho sounds of Jau laughing hin and many persons persona talking at once There Thero W was S no secret iven could password to bo he given anyone walk in I was certain tho place was a n agin agin nJ J gin n mill and went in to satisfy satisfy- not athirst a II athirst thirst but my curiosity What It Looks Like What I saw siw s w Inside surprised me mc Beer Ber and whisk whisky were bem being pa passed across across a n rough counter bv by two men ina ini ina in i a manner which reminded me mo of payI pay pay- I day dar in some somo of the we west's ts t's wi wildest est c camps There seemed to he a boldness about the tho establishment and its patrons there thero was a nothing quiet about the distribution and consumption of the liquor liquor- And yet et the tho attorney general of tho the state the state the man who hail had been be n conducting n tho the war against the tho silo sale I Jt of liquor and who tho was proud that he had har stopped it Sit it sat t so close that had there been bem nothing between the and him bim ho hp could havo ha reached it with a a. long Ions This sort of thing do does docs s not impress one at all favorably When I lived lind in Kansas years Tears ears n ago the tho state went dry and yet t tho the sale sain of liquor went on From what what I have seen I have come com to this conclusion Prohibition is iJ a law Jaw which dot does not meet with general approval Cities themselves see seo e tho the law Jaw being evaded and M say nothing Laws are made to servo as rules and regulations for good citizenship but the prohibition law makes co co crim crimInals crim- crim out of saloons and cities This is rt a a. strong trong statement but It Is my conclusion It sion Bion my opinion I have como come to it by I living through dry periods I On Cities' Cities Revenues You ask me mc how prohibition affects the revenues revenue of cities within the state gone gono ono dl dry I talked with officials of cities durin during m my trip and they were unanimous in their declaration that revenues fall off I saw this during my residence in Kansas before I came west If It prohibition prohibited it would be a great thing As It does not something something some some- 1 thing sensible Is needed for more moro restriction re reo restriction of or liquor traffic When Kansas went treat dr dry before those authorities in whom th the states state's keeping keepin dry rested worked diligently They ran down own hidden places and sent the tho proprietors to prison Then tho the authorities authorities ties tits boasted that they ha had sent demon rum scurrying across tho the states state's bori borders bor bor- i der ders But had th they 1 Many fany times it was afterward learned a that the places were kept going goins by the wives of the men in prison And when the men stepped from prison on at nt tho the exp expiration of their sentence the they were met mot by joyous wives who had bad made handsome bank accounts This Thie startling as 38 it was helped me mo to lice that prohibition docs does not prohibit May Not Last Long I t Over in Kansas today there seems seem Ii i F to he be a popular idea that present conditions conditions condi condl will not hot last Jon long because they are arc not consistent An And if their livin living t depends upon their being beins consistent the they surely wi will die in the very cry near future fu fu- ture f Its bad this thill spasmodic attempt to do something nJ Every Evry time tinH those trying to make con conditions better fail tho opposition op position position is that much stronger It I makes the thC future future- of or any nn movement more difficult It H seems t to m me 01 the tho west will rill let ether portions portion of the country work the problem m out h before M it takes take's any am delili decisive stand tand It will wait until other er districts t have hn found out what is most effective ht r When told th that t local option h by h roun roun- ti ties for the state and a 1 rt restricted die dis triet t for Silt Salt I. I Late cc City are being discussed dis cli cussed Mr I r. r Smyth th showed great rf t in inter tr cst est I must mint t see he bt said what THE TIlE TEI TELEGRAM has haA keen boon doing relative to liquor conditions I J understand it has been carrying out 3 n Campaign of tion unlike anything ever pr instituted In in this thi state before hor because of its brn breadth tb and nd thoroughness |