Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 249, Decatur, Adams County, 19 October 1929 — Page 3

I CALLS SECTION I IMPRACTICAL I Dry Law Author Says Part I Cannot Be Enforced At Present I indl ma poll". Oct. 19—(UP) — HepII r ,.sennitI'e Frank Wright, author of | I the Indiana 'Bone Dry" law, today adI I miitfil that the section of the law mak | Ing the purchase of liquor an offense H ■•lmpractical." This is the stand being taken by Bl several leading drys throughout the I I land since Senator Morris Sheppard of t i Texas wants to he sure the Federal I l law makes buying an offense. So far I I the courts have ruled otherwise. i "There is no questidh about the | | state law." Wright pointed out. “The F. | buyer is just as guilty as the seller of J | liquor, but it is impractical to enforce HI this provision." f Just how "impractical" it is was ■ I shown by a recent survey made by the '■ | Indiana Anti-Saloon League as disclosed bj F. A Mlles. League attorney Miles pointed out that in the last four years there has not been a single arrest or conviction in the state for

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buying liquor. League officials eeem iiellned to let the buying provision go by default. The Wright law was paeaed in 1925 at the direction of Dr. E. S. Shumaker , Huperintendent of the Indiana untlSaloon League. |t waa said to have been written at League headquarteni. . Wright, a lectuier for th' League and member of the house, introduced it and it was given his name. Like F. Mcllridtv National head of tlte League, and other profee- . elonal dry chieftains. Wright declares , that the reason buying u impractical to enforcement is because you cannot get buyers to testify concerning themselves. — _ — EXPERTS STUDY HOOVER PLAN OE ENFORCEMENT (CONTINUED FROM PAGE (INK) prohibition forces against importation of liquor to date. Other drives against importation have resulted in seizure of 115 vessels by the customs and coast guard since January 1. Prohibition killings, which have averaged 20 a year, according to prohibition bureau records, have numbered five tor the first nine months of th“ ' current year. A factor has been tlie improvement of enfoi cement personnel through

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systematic educational program, and through the gradual replacement of untrained officers by those selected by civil service examinations. •Meanwhile, the commission on law observance and enforcement Is at work on the most exhaustive study of crime and a lawl >ssness In the history of the country, seeking according to its members, the touchstone of nntion-wido taspect for law. Supplementing this long-time study, John McNab, of San Francisco, personal friend of tlie President, Is making a survey designed to facilitate transfer of prohibition machinery to the justice department. NAVAL PARLEY HEADS PREPARE FOR CONFERENCE FROM PAGE <)XB> To tlie general policy of naval limitation, France and Italy are not expected to raise any objections. Both powers feave expressed themselves as being sincerely interested in disarmament, and the complete fulfillfnent of the principles of tlie Kellogg peace pact. On the question of absolute parity as among themselves, and on the issue of submarine abolition, they are far from being in agreement with the principles on which the Anglo-Amer-

lean accord was based. Both powers have deliberately Indicated their naval problem was complicated by factors not sutficlentl.v taken into consideration in the AngloAmerican discussions. First, on the question of parity, France insists that given her extended sea coasts and her far flung colonies to defend, she could not accept parity with Italy without placing herself as a gross disadvantage from the standpoint of all round security. Her navy, she contends, must therefore always be larger than Italy's. Italy on the other hand refuses to accept this conception. So far as France is concerned. Italy wants parity in the literal as well as technical sense, and she has announced her willingness to accept the “lowest ratio" of armaments only if it is not to be exceeded hy that of any other continetal European power — specifically France. On the question of submarine abolition, France, and Italy take the common position that the submarine fleet constitutes an absolutely indispensable part of their naval armaments. Unable to afford the extensive building of cruisers and battleships; they argue that if they are to have a navy at all, it must be through the maintenance of an adequate force of submarines and destroyers and other vessels of the minor categories.

“ ' Both Italy and Franco are also Inclined to insist that any agreement should l>e subject to approval and possibly revision by the League o( 1 Nation's preparatory disarmament 1 commission. In other words, they would have five-power conference considered only us a step toward a general disarmament conference under the .auspices of the League of Nations. In the last analysis both powers, ‘ either at H>e five-power conference or at any subsequent general conference 1 will be iirepared to in.iiniain the position that naval limitation must be considered in conjunction with the ' land and air armaments which con--1 stitute such important factors in the 1 refense programs of European states. Japan's position presents no serious 1 obstacles, she does not seek parity with tile United States and Britain, and thus far has made but a technical gesture toward an increase of the 5-5-3 ralo to 10-10-7. She also favors immediate reduction of naval armaments. While, a section of expert opinion contemplated the situation with a certain degree of skepticism today, official circles regarded the move already uMMIe l>y Italy to begin preliminary ..dthenssions with France, as a hopeful J. D. tlqiiey of Paulding, Ohio was visiting here this morning.

HOOVER SCORES PLAN Washington, Oct. 19. — <U.R>— The efforts of Whitney Warren, American architect, to inscribe tlie phAtse*. “Destroyed by German fury, restored by American generosity," upon the 1

It Is Worth Consideration If you will deposit one dollar a week in our Savings Department for your child, at date of birth he will have $1,500 when he is twenty years of age. And SSOO of this will be interest. Is it not worth while to give this your thought and consideration? Where can you establish his educational fund more easily? DON’T PI T IT OFF ANOTHER DAY. — The Peoples Loan & Trust Co. Bank ol Service

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new University of Louvain Library In Belgium have been termed "offensive" by President Hoover. At his regular press conference yesterday, the president in a formal statement disclnlmed approve! of the attempt.