MUCH DISHONESTY

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 147, 12 September 1927, Page 12

MUCH DISHONESTY

ENFORCING PROHIBITION BRIBERY 3N THE SERVICE 11 y Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright WASHINGTON, Saturday. The Assistant-Secretary to the Treasury, Mr. Lowman, who is in charge of the Federal prohibition enforcement department, has issued a statement in which he says there are many incompetent and dishonest men in the service. Bribery is rampant and there tire many wolves in sheep's clothing. “We are after these men,” says Mr. Bowman. ‘On some days my arm is tired with signing orders o:! dismissal. However, there are a lot of splendid, fearless men in the service. Fortunately they greatly outnumber the other sort. It would be ridiculous to claim that so far prohibition is a complete success. The great mass of Americans do not drink liquor. “There are two fringes of society, the members of which are hunting for liquor. They tire the so-called ‘upper crust’ and the down and out’ class in the slums. They are dying off fast from poisonous mixtures. If Americans can be made sober and temperate frt 5d years a good work will have been done.”—A. and N.Z.

Most people of the name of Crompton are descended from settlers at Crompton, near Oldham, in Lancashire. Crompton occupies rugged, untven ffroud, which gives the syllable Cromp, crumpled: while Ton was originally a hedged enclosure.