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Show in greater activity, but sooner or later there has been relapse and conditions have again become be-come scandalous. While the national director complains that "it is impossible to get the right kind of men to do the work that has to be done," his explanation does not explain as long as the Volstead Act is law, and all law should be enforced. Just why there should be a scandal in law enforcement of any kind is not clear, There may be laxity of law enforcement in other dii'ec-tions dii'ec-tions but it i3 due to inerta rather than to crookedness we imagine. It may take a thief to catch a thief, but the thief who is an officer of the law will not do much catchinc if he is stealing himself The whole matter seems to sift down To a question of citizenship, if it be true that good men cannot be secured to enforce national and state prohibitory laws. Editorial ENFORCEMENT SCANDALS Ever since the enforcment of the Volstead act was undertaken undertak-en there have been scandals of one kind or another involving enforcement officers. While many of these scandals have in their details not been publicly discussed, the fact remains that they have resulted in the shifting shift-ing of enforcement officers, the .( re-organization of enforcement forces, and occasionally in the dropping of men. Transfer of officers has for a time resulted |