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Show desperationthis new system hus been adopted. If this fails no doubt the President will place before Congress the facts, and ask for something and that something remains to be seen. It is not difficult to see the present pre-sent situation in this country is intolerable. in-tolerable. Something must be done. PROHIBITION CHANGES The official announcement from Washington that the duties of Prohibition Prohi-bition Commissioner Haynes will after Setember 1st, be lodged with 24 regional re-gional admisnistrators under the supervision su-pervision of assistant Secretary Andrews An-drews of the treasury, thus relieving Haynes of all authority over federal enforcement, is interesting. It makes General Andrews, who is more of a military strategist than a political office holder, the prohibition .czar. The plan of General Andrews to get the loan of a few of the big executives execu-tives to help do he enforcement job is also interesting but it is problematical problema-tical as to its success, even if such men would make the sacrifice to devote de-vote their entire time to such service. It does not take a Philadelphia lawyer law-yer to analyse the present drastic changes. President Coolidge is evidently evi-dently deter.nined to give enforcement enforce-ment an acid test before congress con venes. He is entirely sincere. The changes are made evidently with the earnest hope that they enforce at least a greater efficiency. The blockade block-ade of the North Atlantic failed, the blockade along the Canadian border I has failed and it appears in extreme |
