Source: SpokesmanReview newspaper Spokane, WA Page B9 Contact: 62297 Bad Laws Discredit Law, Law Makers Never have I read a column which so convincingly urged the end of the socalled war on drugs as Russ Moritz's column of June 15 ("Unnecessary as it is unwinnable; Sue for peace," Street Level). I grew up in the small town of Mayville, Wis. At the time of World War I, approximately 90 percent of Mayville's population was of German ancestry. The citizens were conservative, with a strong belief in law and order. They did consider beer a part of their diet. With the passage of the Volstead Act, over a presidential veto, the two breweries in the town closed down their facilities. But men like Al Capone were soon leading groups willing to supply the need for beer and hard liquor that had been either produced in illicit stills or brought across the Canadian border in highpowered vehicles. The result of this bad law was a disregard of it by those who would not have their ageold customs defined by edicts of the federal government. Distrust of that government by citizens who before WW I had been entirely loyal eventually led to a lessening of respect by all in the wisdom of our legislators. Fred J. Meyer Coulee Dam, WA