AMERICA’S DRY LAWS.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17974, 20 March 1930, Page 5

AMERICA’S DRY LAWS.

COMMITTEE'S INVESTIGATION. PROHIBITION ENDORSED. BUT IMPERFECTIONS ADMITTED. United Press Assn.—Ele 1 - Tel.—Copyright. (Received March .20, 9.45 a-m.) NEW YORK, March 19. The ex-Secretary of the Navy, Mr E. C. Daniels, testifying 'before the House’s Prohibition Investigation Committee, said there was but one alternative to national prohibition, and that was a return to the old saloon, with its heartbreaks and products, drunkenness and poverty. He admitted there were imperfections in prohibition, but it was preferable to the saloon. He decried light wines and beers as a solution, declaring that most anti-prohibitionists “wish their drink to have a kick in it.” Mr Horace Taft, brother of ex-Presi-dent Taft, and .head of a noted hoys’ school, in testifying, declared that his brother, while at first doubtful of prohibition, later found the results “glorious.” The witness said the schools showed the benefit of prohibition.

Under questioning, he admitted that Baron Demumm had “belittled” the accusations that millions of dollars were being spent by foreign liquor dealers to urge the repeal of prohibition iu the United States.

AN AMBASSADOR’S LIQUOR. SIR R. LINDSAY’S ATTITUDE. NOT YET DECIDED UPON. United Press Assn. —Etko. Tel.—Copyright. (Received March 20, 10-30 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 19. The new Britisli Ambassador, Sir Ronald Charles Lindsay, has arrived. He said lie was not certain whether to follow Sir Esme Howard’s example in not importing wines for use at the British Embassy. He added: “It is a severe question,” and he had not made up his mind about it, and would rather look about a bit before discussing it, but lie would probably not follow the counsel of his predecessor. *He had bought what stocks of liquor remained in the Embassy’s cellar. Sir Esme Howard, the late Ambassador, declared some time ago that as prohibition was the law in America it should be observed by the British Ambassador, and lie renounced the right to import liquor for consumption in the Embassy.