Show THE PROHIBITION AMENDMENT A By L. L A. A Hollenbeck President Coolidge had a confab with the governors at Washington and now the governors have had hadi conferences with the county and state officials to try and enforce the prohibition law This Is as it should be The people generally should stand for the prohibition amendment to the constitution And the tho Vol Vol- stead law should be tried out in n good faith and there is no fault to find with the officers in trying to enforce It but rather rathor commendation I IThe The act Is a venture in now legislation Th There re nev never r was wasa a new venture like mee that where the law was perfect The endeavor to enforce It will show its strong points and aud its defects All good laws finally finally final final- ly Iy come through the crucible of or exe experience ex ex- e as a piece of ot patch work J Every legal definition or words that are used peculiarly in law such as perjury perjur Y forgery contract and the like Uke have run the gantlet of construction by the courts of oC England England England Eng Eng- land and America for a thousand years and such a definition has not nota a superfluous word in it There can be none added nor none left out Well VeIl the law is running the gantlet Some courts have al already already already al- al ready held that it is unconstitutional al to tell a a. doctor how much whisky he shall prescribe to his patients and now President Coolidge is try try- ing mg to change it oy by letting foreign vessels come into American ports with sealed whisky In order that ho he homay homay may have haTe the right of seizure for Intoxicants intoxicants In In- toxicants extended from three miles from the coast to twelve miles Itis It ItIs Itis is a trade and by this trade the president If It the senate concurs will have repealed a part of the law J J Well that Is growth and and- andas as as It It t should be and It if the law doesn't doesn work Just right we will have It I amended so that it will work Noman Noman No Noman man can tell Just what the American constitution is by reading It He must also read the decisions of or the courts on the constitution before he knows just what the constitution is The constitution Is growing all aU the the 1 while and adjusting itself to human humal rights and to the truth The prohibition prohibition laws are are In the throes of ot adjustment adjustment ad- ad and they will come out allright all rIght ight a little modified perhaps but the modifications will finally adjust themselves to tho the forward move move of or law Jaw and order and the tho progress oJ o tho the country |