"Soldiers Now Idle . . ."

Dr. Clarence True Wilson, General Secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, arch-lobbyist of the U. S. Drys, Consolidated (TIME, July 1), last week hinted, in an article for Collier's magazine, at a new way of enforcing Prohibition. Excerpts: "Every soldier and sailor has taken an oath to sustain the laws of the land. We already have a standing army ready and able to enforce all laws in every foot of the land and a man at the helm--Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy--who has taken a solemn oath to protect, defend and enforce the federal Constitution and the laws of Congress enacted thereunder. . . .

"Soldiers wearing the uniform of our government now leading an idle and useless life, violating their oaths and obligations, drinking and carousing even in foreign ports, would be explaining how the law had always had their respect. . . ."