Monday, Jun. 22, 1925
Potpourri
P:Rumors circulated and recirculated in Washington to the effect that a big reorganization of prohibition enforcement work, now under the direction of General Lincoln C. Andrews, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, was soon to take place. Especially it was rumored that state enforcement directors would be abolished, all agents made mobile under divisional directors.
P:-In England, 125 delegates from the U. S. arrived to attend a W. C. T. U. conference at Edinburgh.
Said they: "Prohibition has been marvelous for America."
Said the London Daily Mail: "We wonder why people cannot learn to attend to their own business."
P:Roy Asa Haynes, U. S. Prohibition Commissioner, celebrating the completion of his fourth year in office, announced : "The big bootleg operator is making his last stand, as successful enforcement of the prohibition law closes one source of illicit liquor supply after another. . . ."
P:The Prohibition 'Director of Nebraska wrote to the state Superintendent of Education. He protested because, in one of the school textbooks of that state, was a picture of a distilling apparatus and information on how malt liquors and spirits are made.