Addressing the annual dinner of the American Society of Newspaper iters here to-night, George W. Wickersham, chairman of President} Hoover's Law Enforcement Commis-pleaded with the newspapers Jof the United States to use their Influence in favour of observance the national prohibition Jaw.
This, he declared, is as much a part of the federal constitution as the Bill of Rights.
He said that violators of the pro-ition law are "inviting revolution promoting anarchy whenever they indulge in such law-breaking." 'He admitted, however, the right of objectors to organize' and to work] Jconstitutionally for a change in the system.
Mr. Wickersham declared that Hiquor is evil but that the time to begin a campaign for a different] method of dealing with it is before an election. He concluded that in order to obtain the maximum of ab-
Jstinence from alcohol, "it might be found desirable to' modify Eighteenth Amendment or the national prohibition laws."
express no opinion on that "he added
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