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Show 00 'Dry9 Rule Strains Respect for Law, U. S. Justice Says NEW YORK, Feb. 4. Respect for all laws In the country has been put under a "demoralizing strain" by tho national prohibition amendment. As-SOCiate As-SOCiate Justice John Q. Clarke of the United States supreme court said in an address tonight. "The eighteenth amendment, " ho said, "required millions of men and women abruptly to give up habits and customs of life which they thought not immoral or wrong, but which, on the contrary, they believed to be necessary to theii reasonable comfort und happiness, hap-piness, and thereby, ns wc all now soo, respect not only for that law, but for all laws, has been put to an unprecedented un-precedented and demoralising strain in our country', the end of which It is difficult to see." |