PROHIBITION: Committee Hearings

Monday, Apr. 26, 1926

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Rev. Charles S. MacFarland of the Federal Council of Churches hailed prohibition as a "magnificent experiment," eloquently pleaded: "Give it a chance."

Hosts of welfare workers presented figures, opinions, to counteract those previously presented by Wets, but the most unusual Dry witness was Amos Alonzo Stagg, Yale football star of long ago and famed University of Chicago coach. Said he: "When I went to Yale I saw many of my college mates get drunk. They did not always get drunk on the beer, but they got drunk on the wine when they chose to drink that.

"I want to say this: that the University of Chicago from the beginning took a strong stand against drinking, and the officers of the University and members of the Faculty created a sentiment against it, so that there has never been anything like the drinking at the University of Chicago that I saw at Yale. And I can say this with honesty, that there has not been nearly as much drinking since prohibition came in as before."

There was also testimony from Canadians casting doubt upon the success of government distribution of liquor.

^{*The state which was "born dry," as there was a dry
clause in its constitution when admitted to the Union.
†The only Wet
on the subcommittee, the wittiest, and, with the possible exception of
Walsh, the most brilliant cross-examiner.}