Williard, Glass, Tesla, Join in Fire On Dry Law Status

Railroad Head, Senator, Inventor Favor Change to End Existing Evils

Further evidence of dissatisfaction among the friends of prohibition with its present status is contained in statements issued last night by Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and Senator Carter Glass of Virginia.

At the same time, Nikola Tesla, 75-year-old inventor, vigorously attacked the Volstead law.

Declaring that an increase in crime has been a by-product of prohibition, Willard said:

"There are those who hold that before we can have an entirely satisfactory condition, some modification must be made of our prohibition law and I am inclined to be sympathetic with that thought.

"It should be possible to so amend the law that not only would the saloon be forever abolished, but the control of the liquor traffic so established as to remove the most serious objections which exist today, and that too in such a manner as to really promote temperance, and I doubt very much if the existing law has done that."

Senator Glass, a life-long abstainer, asserted that the issue of repeal should be resubmitted to the States for determination through State conventions rather than by the State Legislatures.

"I don't think prohibition is a party question," he said. "I am profoundly convinced that no one party can do anything with repeal or with modifiction of the Eighteenth Amendment. The question of repeal is one that should be determined by the respective States and it should be submitted to the States."

Tesla said the present law "imposes restrictions on the most needed and harmless of stimulants, while permitting unlimited consumption of poisons by all classes, from childhood to old age."