Show WILY WHY prohibition FAILS an eminent minister ot of the gospel recently gave to newspaper men an account of a visit at tha home of andrew mellon secretary of the treasury and head of the department department of prohibition enforcement he describes the secre sipping a highball and remarking as he did so that he had to be circumspect while doing so go circumspect cautious looks like sheer hypocrisy it tor for the head of the prohibition enforcement department to assume that its alright for him to have his bottle and at the r same am time pretend to try to keep the other fellow from having it should senator reed cairy carry out his threat to publish the names lot ot all those higher ups senators representatives cabinet members etc who vote dry and drink wet we venture a lot more hypo aricy will be exposed with mellon sipping his highball and heading a company which manufactures the big end of the industrial alcohol of the country much of which finds its way into beverage channels and at the same time pretending an attempt to enforce prohibition and with scores of our other political leaders from cabinet members down flagrantly violating the statutes Is it any wonder that prohibition Is failing that there are bootleggers bribe accepting officers etc there should be a from the top down and must be it if prohibition Is ever to succeed one law for the higher ups and another one tor for the man in the street never can succeed |