A cloud, black and bitter, but not ithout a silver lining ' through which the salubrious rays of a day without alcohol sometimes may shine—to Mabel Walker Willebrandt, who for eight years was in charge' of prohibition "enforcement fas Assistant Attorney-General, pi tures the "noble experiment."
She has written a book which should please both the dry and the wet—the former by her belief the situation can be remedied through changes in the enforcement] organization, and the latter by the unsavory and dark story of the Eighteenth Amendment's first ten. years.
She joins the critics of prohibi tion in the ery of corruption in high places. A new class millionaires, the boot-leggers,, has been. created. All branches of the Government that are in contact with the problem are busy "passing, the buck," Congressmen who vote dry do drink. Several States, Ne York among them, have "nullified the law. There have been many] unwarranted killings by prohibition officers. And contrablind liquor slushing through the streets. of American cities as water through the canals of Venice.
Incidentally, five of her speeches made in the last Presidental campaign re added in an appendix, the famous "Speech which the Demoerats said injected religion into the campaign. In a defense of those speeches, published as 2 preface, Mrs. Willebrandt has some interest: ing things to say—T.P.H. if these will be enough to recom readers. 9 mend it to her many enthusiastic;
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