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Show driven out of the wettest centers of the state. The Wickersham report may 're j expected to expose frankly the evils that have developed. But mature per- j sons whose memories have not been i dulled, will remember the far greater j evils of the pre-prohibition days. The' choice is not between a blissful age of good old days of saloon domination, domina-tion, and the modern age of the bootlegger boot-legger and hijacker. It is between an era of ghastly evils, and an era in which the most serious of these evils ! have disappeared, although ideal conditions con-ditions have not been reached. There is every reason to believe that the present evils will be minimized mini-mized through the continuous tightening tight-ening up of enforcement in accordance with policies of the Hoover administration. adminis-tration. Kansas City Star. THE PROHIBITION QUESTION. Since the adoption of the eighteenth amendment much of the time politics has interfered with enforcement of the Volstead act. There has been consequent con-sequent graft and laxity. Prohibition has not had a fair trial. Naturally, the sensible conclusion is that such a trial must be made over a period of years before there is just ground to urge that the great experiment be abandoned. It took thirty years to make enforcement effective in Kansas. Kan-sas. But in thai end the joints were |