Show 00 up OUR UR PRESIDENT AND LIQUOR Legislation to make jail il sen sen- sen- sen sentences sentences sentences mandatory mandatory- for tor prohibition lass la offenders l Is not favored by President Coolidge according to a Washington dispatch The Time measure will 1111 In e excess punishment In some cases But Dut noh the tho pr presidents president's opposition to the tho Stalker bill ll David Lawrence tIme correspondent Informs us Mi It Coolidge is Ia now non considered by the drys as sit the first president In five years to firmly meet the Is- Is Issue is issue sue in a manner to gain their con Cnn Mr Lawrence rence gives a lit little tie tle Inside history history- hl In the follo following log Ing Mr Mr Coolidge In his lila early days daS daSIn da In was counted as not al altogether dry but bul whatever he have been before he be stands today as ns the only president In the thelast I last st five live years carsI cars I who has bas won the tho a ab b confidence of othe the dr dris drys s For several w there have been whispers that Mr Coolidge had taken the prohibition problem Into Inlo lila Ills own hands and was as watch watch- watchIng watching ing lug enforcement s Cry lery cry closely The Tho dos drys have havn been Mr Coolidge lIa lint hai had little to say about pr prohibition since lse be took office He lie Is represented er as viewing th the tho matter from Cram the l viewpoint of at law and or- or ore or order e der An amendment forbidding the and sale of Into cants Is a II part of at tho constitution Such a list 11 ha has been pissed ld pro 10 log Ing pen penalties for tor violation and there Is nothing for tor an honest and I sincere public official oC to do but butto butto butto to enforce the la law laa Some of the feeling expressed b by the M dos drys s that thal they have not been gh ghen gisen en co operation by b the gov gov- government government eminent is duo due to the presence In high administration quarters of pronounced wets wEls The secretarY of the treasury Andrew W Mellon lOt Is called a wet et having had bad large largo Interests In a distill distillery ry before pro pro- prohIbition prohibition came caine Tho Time dr drs dry s 8 has ha haio a 0 been besieging e eer emery er president since Binco the eight eight- eighteenth e amendment was adopted President Wilson was vas as not In S sym sympathy m pathy with the act in fact isa he vetoed it on a technicality hut but plainly did not like the measure an anyhow how Mr harding neier neer ne er sensed liquor at the White House table lable but took tonk n a drink regularly aftem Isis golf game until someone reminded him tha that l his act in carrying any liquor from his own rooms in the thew the w bite hite House to the golf gale wa was a n vio vIo- vIolation violation lation of the tho law unless he se obtained a permit After that Mr refrained retrained and to ard tle end of f his career became a tee tee- teetotaler teetotaler and made mado at De Denser Denier er a plea for law enforcement 1 If It a president of ot the United States Stales does not respect the law how can It be expected that the great body bod of ot the people will eonS com comply ply with prohibition |