Show RITCHIE WANTS j Sr A TES RIGHTS Governor of Maryland Denounces Too Much Federal Intervention i NEW YORK Feb By 6 S By Th Associated A Press Press A plea tor for set settlement of ot the prohibition question by a a return to the tho traditional American doctrine of local self government and state determine determination I Uon tion was was voiced by Governor Al- Al Albert Al AI Albert Maryland bert Ritchie Democrat of ot Mary Mary- IarY 1 land here tonight I I Governor Ritchie offered his plan at the annual banquet of ot the real estate board of o New York in a speech characterized by a denunciation denunciation elation ot of what he le termed the tendency to make law a system of social control a scheme to regu regu- late regulate personal conduct and practice rac- rac lice tice Advocates of this new era are intolerant rant of the orderly process process- processes es Cs of government and of the lona tone lon ot of others the governor charged lie He added that If It they cannot get what they want from the tho states they would take all power away from the states and give It to the federal government lie He termed the tho new trend a Do spirit of excessive federalism and ex- ex expressed ex expressed pressed the belief that It Is last fast destroying th the American system of sovereign stAtes united in a 0 sov- sov sovereign sov sovereign ov- ov nation In support of this contention the governor pointed to efforts to pass a a- federal child la Ia labor bor law and establish a federal department of ot education two subjects sub which he declared declare belong fundamentally to the tho states S I X believe o In the right of each state to settle In its own way ques ques- questions lI ns which intimately concern Its people Ils its pea peace co its order its Ita morals and Its customs said the tho governor Prohibition Is such a question and there Is grave danger In ignoring the tact fact that the ur- ur urban urban ur urban ban element is against Isra S tarn Ism he added Why Intensify the conflict be- be between between be between tween the rural and the urban the governor asked The rite south S and west are rich in achievement I and richer still in promise It if they want prohibition they are entitled to have It it but why submerge the infinity of o problems that confront them in a futile struggle to enforce prohibition in states which do do not want It |