PROHIBITION IN AMERICA

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4930, 25 January 1926, Page 2

PROHIBITION IN AMERICA

HIGH OFFICER’S REPORT.

LAW CANNOT STOP DEMAND.

NEW YORK, January 22.

General 1 Andrews, in charge of Federal prohibition enforcement, addressing a’ number of prominent citizens', cited numerous demoralisations following the Enforcement Act. He doubted if beneficial results had been obtained.

Prohibition lias wiped out the source of the liquor supply, but not the demand ; so there has sprung up new source of s,uppity called the "bootlegger.” The latter is represented in Court by the best legal talent. CORRUPT SLY GROG. “The bootlegger is rich beyond the dreams of avarice, because of the price you’ pay him. 'He bribes and corrupts Government agents. I don’t mean just policemen. I mean all! the way up and down. You are financing a very rea,l menace. Society is not obeying the law.” Personally General Andrews advoc.ataed determination of the true state of affairs by a scientific, statistical congressional investigation. Mr R. Fulton Cutting, the financier, presiding, pleaded obedience to the law until it was' repealed. 'He said: "This indifference ,to enforcement is gravely perilous. The subterranean practice, the hidden disobedience, the questionable expedients employed to avoid exposure, menace the virility of American life.” Meantime Dr. Jackson,, State Commissioner of Education, addressing New 1 Jersey school officials, at Atlantic City, stated that pupils of schools and colleges in the United States were drinking proportionately as much liquor as adults were. He blgmed the latter’s example.

A novel test was concluded at the Invercargill North School recently, when the pupils were put through what is officially called an “attainment test” (reports the Southland Times). Each student is served with a set of papers on the various subjects taught throughout the year, and a time limit is s,et for each paper. The results, together with the employment of the -child’s parents, are tabulated and forwarded to Wellington, when they will be analysed with a view to ascertaining the success of the present system of teaching. The North School was chosen on account of its general proficiency, but the final I'es.ults will, not be known until the papers are analysed in Wellington.