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Fortnight ago Roy Asa Haynes, double-chinned champion of the ultra-Drys, was appointed Acting Prohibition Commissioner (TIME, April 4) to the rousing cheers of the Anti-Saloon League. Last week the victory of the League, the Dry stand of President Coolidge, the humiliation of General Lincoln C. Andrews* turned out to be equivocal. Treasury orders were issued to the effect that Commissioner Haynes must have each order approved by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrews before it is issued...
...paunchy, baldheaded, double-chinned man, whose trousers seem never to have been pressed, smiled the smile of vindication. He, Roy Asa Haynes, bright morning star of the Anti-Saloon League from Hillsboro, Ohio, had suffered two years of nearly total eclipse. Last week President Coolidge had him appointed Acting Prohibition Commissioner, under the new re-organization act. For four years after President Harding appointed » him Federal Prohibition Commissioner he held the center of the Prohibition Enforcement stage; since April, 1925, when General Lincoln C. Andrews became Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition, he has danced through...
...Coolidge Administration has taken a definitely "bone-dry" stand on Prohibition. If, there is to be any Wet parade, Democrats must organize it, the most available drummer-boy being Senator James A. Reed of Missouri. Governors Smith of New York and Ritchie of Maryland are ardent foes of the Anti-Saloon League dogma, but are not so ready to exorcise it with tom-toms...
...their minor difficulties over rewarding service to the commonwealth, but just so long as the reward is in the form of a rosette or coronel, they will be following their own best interests. They will escape the necessity of awarding public utilities jobs to loyal contractors, agencies to loyal Anti-Saloon Leagues, warships to influential trust companies...
...incident is the apathy with which it has been received. The New York Tribune was one of the few Republican papers to comment on Haines' return to grace. It stated quite baldly that the President had to make the choice between incompetence and the loss of support of the Anti-Saloon League. He chose incompetence. Possible votes twenty months from now, then, are of more importance than present and effective administration of government. And no one seems to care a great deal perhaps because no one will cavil at ineffective dry administration...