DRY LAW’S FAILURE
OPEN ADMISSION
BY ENFORCEMENT HEAD
[United Press Association.—By Electric
Telegraph.—Copyright.]
NEW. YORK, June 9
■ Boston reports suite that - five thousand social workers were astounded when Mr Wickef-sham, of President Hoover’s Law i. (Enforcement Commission, following ian address in which he ayoided the prohibition question, suddenly resumed, and declared, with measured deliberation.: . “The English system; of promoting temperance by education and byv the restriction of sales is far more effective than the American system of absolute prohibition. V* • *
His ■ listenersn .applauded heartily when he stated, that Prohibition had failed, and that, •this was due to the overstressing of penalties and to the disregard of education. He concluded his first public statement on the question by saying* “All this furnishes a very cogent suggestion as to better methods of attaining the object of the Eighteenth Amendment than those which .the past decade' has seen pursued. . r- ;b .
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1930, Page 5
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