DRY LAW FAILURE

Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1930, Page 2

DRY LAW FAILURE

AN OFFICIAL ADMISSION

[United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.J WASHINGTON, December 20.

Chairman Wickersham, President of the Law Enforcement Commission, after two years’ study, regards the education of the public for law observation, rather than the current law enforcement measures, as a better method of curtailing crime.

He stated: “No process for the education of the public into the value of prohibition was attempted. I believe that observance of the law can be brought about by education and persuasion rather than by force or harsh penalties.” He cited England’s record decrease in drunkenness by education efforts. He also attributed, in part, the growing disregard of law in the United States to the increasing number of laws and to the dismissal of offenders. He cited Great Britain, where, he said, only a few offenders were dismissed.

Mr Wickersham added that there had been an increase' in the United States in the arrests for intoxication and liquor law violation of 161 per cent, in eighty-eight cities in the ten years since' 1920. The intoxication and dry law infraction arrests had increased seven times more than the population had increased, and ten times more than the arrests for robbery.

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