The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-03-21
RADIO DEBATE ADDRESSES DELIVERED BY JOHN W
LANGLEY AND O. G. CHRISTGAU FROM STATION
WJAz, CHICAGO, SUNDAY, MARCH g. 1924

Last night my colleague Christgau showed that
Congress and the legislatures and the people themselves
opposed beer pointed
prohibition opposed the modification of the
Noad Two of the have given against modfa-
ton that beer and would make impossible enforce the
law against stronger liquors, second beer
Intoxicating.
Let remind you that the question being debated
be considered standpoint whether
would be effective i'll the enforcement of the Eighteenth
Amendment and whether beer and wine would be contrary the
part of the Constitution that prohibits INTOXICATING qaor
DR. Eugene Lyman Fisk OF the Life Extension Institute said in
Safety Congress of
York state, December, 1917
alcohol is alcohol wherever found whether in beer
whskey. The laboratory has measured with instruments
of great precision the degree which alcohol narcotic
which depressing drug.
The advocates of beer claim that it taken for its ALCOHOL
the alcohol percentage being low that Well and
good then the beer question settled There the market
beer substitutes that actually beer except alcohol Why
hol If beer drinkers do it?
There much Justification for advocating beer
against whisky there is for advocating paagor against
phne Paregorc mild solution of opium beer is mild solution
of alcohol In this country, the sale OF paregoric
stricted as rigidly as the sale of morphine"
Dr. Harvey Wiley says. The present limit alcoholic
in the Volstead act is the only safe adopt propose
obey the limitations fixed by the Eighteenth Amendment
Dr. Arthur d. Bevan speaking president OF the American
Medical Association said There be absolutely doubt
that containing 2 per alcohol Intoxicating beverage
in that individual become drunk the amount that
frequently consumed"
There can be no doubt that beer and wine are intoxicating q
Intoxicating liquors prohibited by the Constitution This
makes the issue this discussion essentially law and order
We maintain that the only way beer and legally
change the Constitution If the legally majority
the people favor repeating the Eighteenth Amndmen they
have perfect right do Unless the changed
to permit Intoxicating liquors any modification OF the Nostead act
illegal Furthermore all efforts TO nuify the Constitution
of laws that would enforcement improper
unpatriotic ~
But OF opponents say that Vosead should
modified permit light and harmless beer and thereby make
it easier enforce the law against whisky II this sound
ing why not modify the laws prohibiting the theft
Permit thieves take light and harmless Fo then they
would to steal Cadllacs Peerless automobiles.
Both and experience that beer and would
the sale OF whisky Beer and wine would make
enforce Constitution Beer and wine would keep drink appetes
alive and demand Besides
law should changed permit beer and wine these liquors would
have to be sold somewhere That place would be the saloon
saloon would become headquarters for the sale OF boogged whisky
It the Constitution cannot be enforced by the Nostead act
reads the only reasonable remedy modification strengthen
law and not modification to strengthen the liquor
Our opponents that prohibition will because
the fundamental laws human They that
pie bound to drink moonsne and home brew just because the
law prohibits Intoxicating liquors How people drive their
automobiles the left side of the just because the law says
they must drive the right slde People do not drink
Of the law but in spite OF it, Their appetes acquired
old license system strong that they willing break
law and defy the Constitution satisfy this unnatural craving
The way the drink habit make it for
forget his appetite the keeping
alcohol before him in the form of beer and wine
opponents claim that the Volstead modified
because prohibition has resulted failure Let whether the
results would justify notification of the Constitution the
saloon perpetuon the drink habit in future genera
tons.
The first four years of prohibition spite of the organized
resistance of the outawed liquor traffic brought
Arrests decreased
least million Deaths from alcoholism have been
$4,000 lives
ing the four years of prohibition.
Reports typical charity societies indicate 40o0Oo0
available for constructive welfare work from funds formerly used
for restitution caused by drink.
Industrial accidents have decreased by quarter million
annually lowering production adding
The billions Of dollars formerly spent
turning many mill wheels of industry and business
Over $500O00OO0 expended for automobiles
100000 automobiles during the year
this country Drunken drivers of these machines would
prohibition had been