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Show STATES ARE URGED TO ENFORCE LAWS PRESIDENT CONSULTS WITH MORE THAN THIRTY GOVERNORS Prohibition Statute Contemplates No Surrender of State Re-, Re-, sponsibility, Executive Execu-tive Declares Washington, President Coolidge called on the governors of the several states Saturday to assume their full share of responsibility for enforcement enforce-ment of the prohibition laws. Meeting with more than thirty state executives who had responded to his invitation to attend a White House conference on law enforcement, enforce-ment, Mr. Coolidge flatly declared that no provision of the Eighteenth amendment or the national prohibition prohibi-tion act contemplates any surrender of state responsibility. The provisions of the Eighteenth amendment and its supplementary statues the president said, are "perfectly "per-fectly plain" in the directions they give both to the president and the governors of states. He added that the country ' ought to comprehend that when laws have been made, there is, and can he no question about the duty of executives to enforce en-force them with such instruments, and 'by such means, as the law provides pro-vides for securing enforcement. |