New Britain herald., 1926-02-23
MODIFIED DRY LAW NOW RECOMMENDED
Face the Facts Conference De-
 CideS on Action

Washington, Feb. .3 FD -- Sub stitution of modified prohibition system, legal2ing light wines ana beer, for the present Volstead act, is 10 be asked Of congress.
 Recommendations incorporating sentiment expressed at the second "(ace-the.facts" conference con- cluled last night by the Association nGalnst the Prohibition Amend nont, will bo drawn and presented 10 congress by a committee of e1 prominent persons selected by the conference. The committee was appointed after numbers Of speak @rs, including members of congress and mon and women well known in business and club life and th- clergy, condemned prohibition un- der the Nolstead law as failure.
 Comprising the committee are senators Bayard. Delaware, ana Broussarl, Louisiana, democrats: Representative Hill. republican, Maryland; Benedict Crowell of Cleveland, former assistant secre- tary of war; James Duncan, first vice president Of the American iel"ration Of labor; r. $. Du Pont, Wilmington. DclaWare: William r. Enc, Washington; r. Franklin, New York; Dr. Julius Frieden- wall, Baltimore; Archibald Hop hins, Washington; Rupert Hughes, inc novelist; J. M. P. Murphy New York: Henry $. Priest. St. Louis: Charles $. Rackermann, Boston; Charles T, Stout. New York; Will liam NJ. Sloane, Princeton, x. J.; i1r. J, J. Seelman. Milwaukee; M. .. Terry, Coronada, Calif.; Augus- tHs Thomas. New York; Calvert ToWnley. New York, and R. F. Wood, Philadelphia.
 The conference, after hearing at afternoon and night sessions re- pe2ted demands for rewriting of the prohibition law, concluded arter the George Washington beer recipe was read by Representative Hill. The formula had been given 10 the delegates on menus at the afternoon luncheon, after William II. Stayton, national chairman of he association, had failed to re- ccive from the department of jus tico q ruling he. requested as to the legality of making it public
 |. Mir. Hill, who was toastmaster advised the delegates that if any of them fearer that by taking nome copy of the recipe he would be violating he law ther E"the secretary of agriculture is equally guilty for having printed N recipe for unfermcntc1 grape juice" Concerning the beer formu, la. Mir. Hill said George Washing, ton was not a small bottle man he made thirty gallons at time.'
 New Jersey, known as one O he ''Wet" states. was well repre- eented in the conference, having three members of congress present They were Senators Edwards democrat. and Edge. republican and Representative Mary T. Nor ton, democrat. Senator Edwards principal speaker at the afternoon session, declared the public wa ready and willing to follow ou lradcrship' in behalf Of modiie' prohibition, while his senatoria colleague at inc later meeting sai the drive or the modillcationist was mot campaign for booze bu "ather a practical effort for tenn r"raucc Iinobscryablc today"
 S4nator Edge declared the prob
 l>m could be solved only throug a. nationwide referendum on modi tication or the NoIstcad law an amendment Of the 18th amend ment "to Q point Of common sens rcgalizing of spirits and liquor with all the safeguards which ca
 hactically be devised.'