The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-01-23
Prohibition Will Be q Fact in Every
State.-Nebraska the Seth
State.

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ty-eight States in all which have ap-
proved dry America. Affirmative
action by some of the ten State Legis-
latures yet to act is predicted by pro-
hibition advocates.
Prohibition July 1.
Under the terms of the amend
ment, the manufacture, sale and i'm
portation of intoxicating liquors must
cease one year after ratification but
prohibition will be fact in every
State much earlier because of the
war measure forbidding the manu-
facture and sale of alcoholic bever-
ages after June 80 until the demobi-
ization of the military forces is COM
pleted. Under the war time measure
expectation of liquor is permitted,
but the great stocks now held in
bonded warehouses will have to be
disposed of before the federal amend
ment becomes effective.
Effective at Once.
Discussion as to whether the new
amendment becomes a part of the
Constitution now that thirty-six
States have ratified it or whether it
becomes5a part of the basic law only
when each State has certified its &C
ton to the Secretary of State, led
today to a search for precedent which
showed that the only two amend
ments ratified in the last half century
providing for income taxes and di-
rect election of Senators-were con-
sidered effective Immediately after
the thirty-sixth State had taken af-
frmative action.
Senator Sheppard, author 6f the
prohibition amendment, held that ma
tional prohibition becomes a perma-
3nent fact Jan. 16, 1920.
Fourteen Certified.
Only fourteen of the States have
certified their action to the State De-
partment. The vote of the Mississip-
pi Legislature, the first to act, has
not been received at the State De-
partment. The Mississippi Secretary
Of State said today at Jackson that
the certificate had been mailed to
Washington Immediately after the
Legislature acted, and that dupli-
cate would be sent if the original
had beer, lost. Proclamation of the
ratification of new amendment is
made, but this is said to be formali-
ality and not requisite part of
changing the Constitution.
New Problems.
New problems of government are
raised by prospective stoppage of the
manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquor as hundreds of millions of dol
lars derived from internal revenue
will have to be obtained from other
sources. Laws for enforcement of the
amendment, will also have to be pass
ed by Congress.
Only minimum of unemployment
is expected to result as the cumu-
lative severity of successive restric-
tive measures adopted since the war
began already has caused many dis
tillers and brewers to seek other
uses for their plants. Hundreds of
millions Of dollars. are invested in
distilleries and breweries.
Already Half Dry.
More than half the country of the
United States already is dry through
State action or local option elections.
Until recently, the movement of lin
tied quantities of liquor for personal
use was permitted, but the Supreme
Court ruled several days ago that the
Reed "bone dry" amendment made
such traffic illegal.
Western and Southern States took
the lead in prohibition. In the West
onlv California, Nevada and Wyoming
still license the sale of intoxicants
and in the South only Louisiana. The
rem aiming wet States form a belt
through the Mississippi and Ohio riv-
er valleys to New England, the States