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...second conflict followed upon the first. Last winter, Mr. Haynes secured from Congress an appropriation of $50,000, to be expended in the dissemination of information concerning, and appeals for observance of, the Volstead Act. He lias had handsome posters designed with appropriate slogans, urging citizens to beware of bootleggers and their poisons. Last week, he took his pasters to Mr, Andrews who is understood to have cast them figuratively into the waste basket, with the observation that $50,000 could be expended much more effectively...
...beer and other alcoholic liquors are drugs-this is the decision contained in the resolution passed by the doctors, effectively reversing the stand of the Association taken in 1917, when the doctors said that liquor was not needed in the treatment of disease. "Repeal the provisions in the Volstead Act that limit the doctor to prescribing not more than a pint to a patient every ten days," the doctors demanded. The liquor resolution contained a complaint on the quality of the liquor now obtained on prescription. In a scientific paper, Dr. Roger I. Lee of Boston said that, although...
William Burnet Wright Jr., a Yale graduate of the class of 1892, gave out today a copy of a letter he has written to President Angell of Yale, charging a "conspiracy" on the part of the class of 1895 to violate the Volstead law at this year's commencement teunion, and attacking President Angell's position on the use or liquor at commencement as stated in a letter in The New York Times of May 26. Mr. Wright's letter reads in part...
...Harvard coaching launches by the Coast Guard brings us face to face with an intolerable state of affairs. Setting out to enforce one law we have virtually abrogated other laws, in glaring violation of the whole principle of law enforcement. The blame cannot be laid directly on the Volstead law. There is nothing in that act which directs reckless firing on boats, regardless of whether there is evidence of law-breaking. The Coast Guard has created this situation on its own motion. Charged with a certain duty, it has made its own rules as to how to proceed...
...somehow, war lost its glamor; and. last week, Dr. Erdman was elected Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, succeeding Dr. Macartney, signifying truce. The General Assembly set to work: An overture to excind from the Church the liberally inclined Presbytery of New York was withdrawn. Resolutions for the Volstead Act, against crime, were passed. Unanimous encouragement was given to a plan to erect a magnificent church in Washington to be the centre of the faith. Said Mr. Bryan: "It is a great pleasure to endorse something that will pass this Assembly unanimously." He added that he had had two residences...