Show ETTER BEETh to bI A ANDREWS WARS WAR ON 0 CAPITAL C MOO By Br CHARLES CIL X P STEWART Service Writer WASHINGTON March larch 20 General Lincoln C Andrews as- as as assistant secretary of the treas trees treasury ury especially in charge chargo of pro pro- pro prohibition enforcement has baa been concentrating on Washington Wa late lately I This Is on the strength of rep rep- rep representations to him from wets and drys alike that If It he can ean clean up any place he ought to tobe tobe tobe be able to dry up the capital his hll own particular bailiwick Judging from the number of captures his men have havo made mailo and the stills they've celled and the liquor an and l mash they've they're de- de destroyed de destroyed It would seem as If It he h must be getting results The The- significant fact tact remains however that bootleg prices haven't advanced locally which I iY seems as It if they'd thoyd have done doneit doneIt it Gen Ceo Andrews had bad created a serious shortage The truth i la ii a a considerable thinning out In the tho rank ranks ot of Washington bootleggers bootle wouldn't bo be at all to the disadvantage vantage of those who didn't happ happen n to bo be included in tho the thinning out process There are more on the tho Job now than can en make a living As Assistant United States District At torney At torney David A A Hat Hsi who liP ape specializes on prosecuting bootleg eases cases S estimated number Rumbel at A As one bootlegging acquaint acquaint- acquaintance acquaintance ance of mine remarked to roe me meThis This business is exactly like any other A merchant hlll has no trouble getting He Ha has trouble getting customers Just so ao with A bootlegger Thus General Andrews Andrew activities activities ties arent aren't regarded altogether with disapproval even In bootleg except circles except of ot course by the bootleggers he catch catches Indeed he be hasn't hunt caught enough yet All As previously noted prices price arc sta- sta stationary sta sto stationary The value alue ot of straw polls polla on the ther r prohibition question such as have hare been en in progress recently through through- throughout throughout out the country is hotly dIsputed disputed ed between wet and ana dry Cry eon con con congressmen gressmen Net results of of o these poll polls hav bay baylog having log ing been distinctly wet the drys drs naturally contend that they dont don't amount to much The wets weis equal equal- equal 1 naturally speak of ot as highly significant The middle who grounders grounders who are prepared to vote either way as a they believe bellevo their constituents want them to o yote vote frankly are worried They undoubtedly will try to soft pedal the tho Issue in the coming elections Happy the congressman whose whole district Is so strongly one way or the other that there Isn't any question about it He fe can come right out In meeting and courage courageously declare which side aide Ie hes he's on The wets arent aren't banking very heavily on getting prohibition modified in the next congress True they'd like to win but art all th they y really hope for Cor is a larger wet et bloc than they have at pres- pres present pres present ent Their theory I Is that this would scare care care the tho middle grounders so eo badly that they could score a cut cut clean victory In 1928 A gain cain of about 20 congressional votes next November will suit them What they want Is to sweep all other political questions and to elect wets a as wt wets and nd beat dry as the drys drys tho same policy reversed that the dry drys have found so eo successful The Tha dry drys dryl contention that 75 per cent Isn't the tho wets real aim aimIs aimi aimIs Is i well founded generally speak log Inc Im I'm convinced of o It It from talking with a good food man many ot of them They the states stat 41 should hould be b left leet to fix their own contents contents- perhaps within some Iome ted ral limitation limitation- considerably higher r tho than thag one half one one-haltof of 1 per cent however hover |