Show I K KRAMER RAMER GIVES RUMS RUM S ONE GENERATION OF EXISTENCE HEpE Prohibition Commissioner r Says Drink Appetite Will Last That Long NEW YORK Nov O 13 Prohibition n will be real in a generation it has has' hasal al already al- al ready a f d wonders many per pCr sons Bona formerly accustomed to their r drinks s have cut them out the saloon ilka ra i gone cone forever but It will bo be another r generation g before the appetite for drink drin k rk rr will be entirely eliminated from ou our r people through the operation of th the e eighteenth amendment is the tho substance sub sub- s stance tance of or the message brought fro from m Washington by Prohibition Commis stoner John F. F Kramer who was th the e speaker at the West Nest Side Y 1 M. M C. C A A. o on n the question of What Does Prohibition n Prohibit In n the outset answering g the query of his topic lie he read extracts extract from the act showing the ex extent ex- ex tent of the law At one time In hi his s address he ho declared that the tho so man wh who o buys bus over the bar was equally guilty guilt with the seller y TO DE DO E. E The main motif thought of Commissioner r Kramers Kramer's address was that though h ne great In this su progress had been accomplished d country In the way of or prohibition tion there Is yet much work that to be bo done don e. e ference terence another year will see sea a vast dl dif dlf- f and that through education fn n prohibition will eventually win I Ian an and There hr a sprinkling p was a large a of w women audience Comm Commis of me men I 5 n i Kramer said that I he knew of or n subject no about which so many I gant statements are arc made lie from rea read d the law Jaw to show that prohibits prohibition n nor beverage the manufacture and sale f for or tams purposes anything that con con- i mor more than one half of l per ce cent nt of ot alcohol I We all kno beverage purposes pur pur- poses knew means he said but If we a all ll what prohibition means none of or would lieve discuss If for a minute I believe be be- be that every everyone one of you people he here I know re n w what I what prohibition means b but ut practical you have In your minds Is t the he working out of It You a appreciate ap ap- P ference as much as I do the vast dl dif dlf- Pe allty between the tho law and the r re e- e which liquor question applies to not only the t re-I re he but to every other la law w on the statute S l He Illustrated his o of the Ten point by remarking g Commandments years that in t the he since the hem Lord down to Moses loses handed the them m has been every genera generation lion sin since In stressing consistently the breal breaking the them point that can be brought no reform m about in l a day or a year after having eighteenth declared that t the he hest radical action amendment wa was wal the m mo most st this taken Commissioner country had ev ever er Lincoln's Kramer said th that at proclamation slaves was not freeing t the he heter four accomplished until after of ter years o of terrible South and the fighting between en ened North lie ale also that a stubborn battle assert asserted ed be fought to make would have to complete the p pro pro- triumph It has been the ha of man to take I the beginning strong drink ever since of the world he ho sad d therefore th of this sa sai the country was most radical world in the history of t the he r Commissioner Kramer that prior to pointed o out ut was spent prohibition AOU annually for liquor However the liquor er longer an question he said was no economic one as the I Industries v very anti that It had expected to be hurt by profited most by its operation Ion KOIl F OR GI S. S I While prohibition thousands would rede redeem em of men he beneficent said its m most result and the h made him one which wh ich fight for It for the l le last ast thirty years would be In the th the e coming saving of or stoner generations The tom Commissioner commis Commis- min min- predicted that while prohibit prohibition ion would not be an accomplished til ill the fact un- un until un un- next generation not many pars persons ons flue five know any of the file big cities citie cit ies t be the years e effacement a from n n now o of i the so e c complete saloon alJ e t will viii ol old that He ej just said l as that hf full uh he or of had life a as boy any 20 10 boy ye years a ars of 11 f age but that he afraid or 01 Philadelphia to send him alone would to not New now Y York be I or any of the fife big cities titles as he lie knew well that ot other her hech he would e antes eries of not the fall faU a prey to the debau debauch chaid ch- ch I saloons Vh which no longer existed Ich he said s aid I ever e ver that he considered He lie admitted h how hOW- owe ow- ow get a drink in to almost it possible e to any saloon the w where here person i that there was well known but den denied led i j I was any wholesale of or the law in the Violat violation ion so-called so saloons OUT O UT OF or POLITICS One great great difficulty in enforcement ent of or the law he said was getting the o officials In the right attitude plied he said This applied ap ap- to the federal state city officials and I for them It took tool time he s said aid to get educated to their re re- re He lIe had never found fo und fault with any officials because he realized realize the strain under which t th have to work in their they hey I respective ive c com com- The C commissioner I r said that t the tI time lne political p would soon come when the two o big 1 parties would be running I race to see g a which into its platform first one gets prohibition tion I would like to know added speaker wh why the any party for far should no not be something that Is in our co nail nail- Something that Is going to stay there them and is He fie declared never coming out eit either her that of prohibition is the political as aspect pact fled now practically set set- |