Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-22 | Page 9 | Governor Blames Dry Law for Crime

GOVERNOR BLAMES DRY LAW FOR CRIME HUNTINGTON. W Va.. Feb. 22 flov. J. J. Corriwell last night. In an address before the Men s1 Service chapter chap-ter of Trinity Episcopal church, declared de-clared It his bell.f that the prevalence preva-lence of Crime In the United States Is due primarily to national prohibition prohibi-tion and attempts to enforce the Volstead Vol-stead act. "There Is more crime In the. 1'nlted pcttics now tnan ever berore In her history," he said. "This is due to our ! national prohibition laws, and attempts at-tempts at their enforcement ajid much of our crime is due to violations of tiirso Inws. The number of violations ; of these laws is astonishing, and the , number of arrests as well us the ' number of flagrant cases In which I there are no arrest? Is astounding. "Men have not accustomed themselves them-selves to these new lows. When the quart a month law was effective, I I pardoned men by the hundreds There were several reasons for this. Chief of which was the jail census which showed show-ed that there wore eighteen hundred men In the jails of Ihe slat. Son ( , business Institutions were unable to operate on account of the number of their employes In Jail. This condition had to be relieved. "It is not possible to eliminate or to 1 reduce crime by the pyramiding of ; penalties. The only way q through educutlon and Chrltlanlzation."