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That is what President Hoover said to Congress by way of comment on the Wickersham Prohibition Report...
...donging in the belfry of the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Rochester, N. H. Factory workers, puzzled by the sudden outburst, paused in the street on their way home to ask questions. Rev. Jonathan N. Armistead, all aglow with happy excitement, loudly explained: "It's to celebrate the Wickersham Commission report. We just heard about...
When President Hoover reached his office one morning last week, he found lying on his desk the Prohibition report of his Commission on Law Enforcement & Law Observance. After 20 months, Chairman George Woodward Wickersham had brought it in a large manila envelope before 9 a. m., left it with a secretary. Running his eye through its 286 printed pages. President Hoover could perceive that it was simply one colossal job of weaseling. "Let us try a little longer," was its gist...
...that the wrangling Senate has almost spent itself on unemployment. It sees that unless the administration is to be left in peace, some other question must be found on which to cast aspersions at the President. Accordingly; the Wickersham report has been welcomed with enthusiasm ill-disguised by denunciation. The commission is accused of being influenced by Hoover. When Chairman Wickersham says that this is not the case, his honesty is questioned. The report, which it seems quite clear will antagonize both wets and drys is called a dirty political move on the part of the President...
After more than a year of study the Wickersham Committee has arrived at some conservative but constructive conclusions. It agrees that the eighteenth amendment should not be repealed, that light wines and beer should not he allowed, and that the present enforcement is inadequate. But there is division of opinion on the question of revising the amendment. Some feel that enforcement is possible without any change in the law; others that revision is absolutely necessary in order to make the act effective. They generally agree, however, that, if revision is to take place, the amendment should give Congress power...