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BY IDA GILBERT MYERS.


IN QUEST OF THE PERFECT
BOOK. BY William Dana Orcutt
Boston: Little. Brown q Co.
- VERY man I'D hunter. some
- kind of Quarry, some sort Of
ques~1s al instinct with him.
- rd as hunger is. Indeed. this
.forfh-driving impulse of life is
a%eAl hunger second only to the urge
Cor food itself. So. either in the open
or in secret, every one il upon, some
quest. according to the nature and ca
oacity and taste of the hunter.
William Dana Orcutt is in pursuit
II the perfect book. An odd pursuit
maybe, to the lion hunter. to- the ex-
plorer OF far places. to the money
grubber. to the once seeker-but
every man TO his own, and this par
ticular mans own" is the" perfect
book. That's dead easy search" +"
volunteers the one whose mouth Is
merely quick-trfgger contrsBtion.
There's the Bible, and splendid po-
atry, and elaborate PHILOSOPHERS, and
monumental histories. and an expand
ing science" But. you see. Mr.. Ready
speaker. you're off on the wrong foot
here. You've missed the starting
point OF this hunter. Il He Is looking
something to hold in the hands and
n the eyes. a thing Of perfection sat
kfying ones deep inner sense of beau
" by its fine quality Of material. by
its proportions and design. by its one
ness Of consistency with purpose, by
the balance and harmony OF its parts.
In a word this seeker Is pursuing art,
pursuing architecture itself applied
10 so small a thing as book.
Now. TO the ma jority OF us book
is a book. Its coat is gay with lure
Ms Is the raiment of woman. It's
covers suffice II they hold for a single
reading and it's leaves do well If they
remain steadfast for the same length
IF treatment But this is something
different. AS pure art, book is
1omething new. save to the exclusive
md selective few.
Let's go along with Mr.. Orcutt. any
way. The hunt may prove more eX-
citing than we imagine. 1t does. In
the first place, any reach toward per
lection stirs even the s!uggsrd. be
sides, this invitation from the autnor
for US to keep him company while
promises adventure of a new KIND.
Any way, we go into European mu-
seums and libraries. back into past
centuries when a single piece of print
ing handicraft represented the work
ing lifetime of a man. Spread out De-
'ore us are beautiful illuminatlons and
perfect manuscripts. Touches OF his
tory itself and examples Of the history
of art lie in these exhibits from the
past. Then the author takes us for-
ward to meet Gutenberg ana ms I'M
mediate heirs In the art OF printing.
Thereafter the quest narrows TO that
of various kinds Of type. of paper and
bindings. Of title pages and fit orna'
mentations. And gradually book
Is becoming to us more than mere
bundle of leaves insec'Wely bound to-
gether Instead, ii is opening up as
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Of its telling is quite beyond descrip.
ton. Here is homesickness. EN-.
bodied in words. so deep and consum-
Ing as to communicate itself to the
reader. driving him back upon the
most desolate hour of his life-longing
for home. And a childs homesickness
is the most terrible OF all. Little
Saieh's journey across the seas TO
England is a tragedy that YOU cannot
forget A silent child. Nobody to talk
to, for nobody knew his ways Of
speech. But he wouldn't have talked
any way. Sorrow and loneliness pos.
sessed every mite Of his small body
and heart. Then. after while, in
England he grew happy. came 70 leve
Evening star., 1926-11-07
BY LEILA MECHLlN.

.HE exhibition OF WoOdblocK
prints In color by Bertha Lum
in the Smithsonian Building
i will be found of great interest
Evening star., 1926-11-07

but irresistibly funny. So we all cry
again gladly. strip off his clothes;
no better than the rest Of us-not so
good. in fact
AS A MAN SOWS: And Other Stories.
BY Grace Denio Litchfield, author
Of The Burning Question" etc.
New York: g. p. Putnam's Sons.
A DOZEN reprints from various
( magazines come together in this
book. Here are a dozen short stories
that possess the value Of being short
stories. a literary invention involving
much more than mere length or brew
Iity. In every instance here the theme
Evening star., 1926-11-07

A Malay?--that clean, well dressed
quiet, dignified person u Ma lay? Not
on your life! Only an outlander, much
more hated than the true alien set to
rule over them. And what about Saleh
In the midst of the squalor and the
tawdry frippery of his fathers court;
in the midst Of the ignorance and In.
trigue and lying and filth: IN the midst
of the solicitouS women, who ended by
hating the fastidious stranger? No.
Saleh was no MALAY What could the
miserable Saleh do? Well. he did it
Nothing else to be done.
That's the story. But the manner
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office year In. year out. So he takes
a holiday by digging into his records
and bringing out few warriors,
mother naked all of them. Here Is
Wellington, and here is Frederick
Augustus, with Garibaldi and Baron
Won Steuben and others who have for
many a year now been pilioried on
monuments of fame all over the world.
And here, with his uniform off. Wei
lington IS an arrogant snOb, brute
OF discipline. an incorrigible philan-
derer among the ladies'. an amazemsnt
Of plain vanity And the others fare
no better. oh. shocking, of course,
Evening star., 1926-11-07
BOOKS RECEIVED

THE WIDOW OF EPHESUS: A
Novel. BY Mary Granger Ne"
York: C. p Putnam's Sons.
WORDS TO THE DEAF: An His
torian Contemplates His Age. BY
Guglielmo FerrerO. Translated by
Ben Ray Eedman. New YORK
G.. r. Putnam's Sons.
THE HILL or HAPPINESS. BY
George y. Shuster. Preface by
Padriac Colum. New York; ID.
Appleton & Co.
THE DANISH SOUND DUES AND
THE COMMAND OF THE BAL
TIC; A Study Of International Re-
lations. Ey Charles r.. Hill pro-
fessor OF political science in George
Washington University. Durham:
Duke University Press, .-.
SEEK THE Truth A Book on
Responsibility Tor the War. by
the exErowr Prince William of
Germany. Translated from the
German by Ralph Butler New
York J. III. Sears & 60.
eTAMNERING AND ITS TREAT
MFNT. BY Samuel d. Robbins,
A.R.. AN. etc Boston: Boston
Stammerers' Institu'e.
YEHNEY'S JUSTICE. BY Ivan
Canker Translated from the Slo-
yenian by Louis Adamlc. New
York: Vanguard Press
TALKS ABOCT T!Ir. BIBLE AND
RELIGION: \ Modern View. BY
Rev. Francis L. l.. iitiier, An,
Washington Published by the
author.
TRAMPING THROUGH PALES-
TINE: Impressions OF an American
student in Israeland. BY Milton j.
Goell. New York kensinston
Press.
COMING WORLD CHANGES. BY
Harriette Augusta Curtiss and F.
Homer Curtiss, B S. ". d.. au-
thors of THE Key to the Uni
verse;" etc Washing gton: The Cur
tiss Philosoph:c Book Co.
ADVENTUROUS RELIGION: And
Other Essays. BY Harry Emerson
t'osdick New York; Harper &
Brothers.
GREAT SERMONS OF THE WORLD.
Compiled ard edited by Rev. Clar-
ence Edward Mccartney, d. d.
Boston: The Stratford Co.
OUR MISSIONS IN INDIA. 1894.
1924. Ry Rev. T. NJ. Wherry, NJ.
A.. D. D.. author OF The Sinless
Prophet of Islam etc. Forty SIX
years a missionary OF the Presby-
terrain 1nuTCn. L. =. r.. III
Boston: The Stratford Co.
VITAL NOTIFICATIONS, OF RE
I.IGIOUS THOUGHT; Contribu-
tions by Science to Religion. BY
Granville Ross Pike. author of
THE Divine Drama" Boston: The
Stratford Co.
ANIMAL NATURE AND OTHER
STORIES. BY Stanton Davis
Kirkham, author of 'Half-True
Stories etc. Illustrated by the
author. Boston: The Stratford Co.
.N6Y IDEA OF GOD; A Symposium of
Faith. Edited by Joseph Fort
Newton. Lift. D.. D. H. L.. author
of Preaching in London" Boston:
Little, Brown 4 Co.
SWEET AND Low; A Smashing In
dictment OF the Younger Genera
tion. BY Liggett REYNOLDS New
York: Simon & Schuster.
MHE BOOK OF MARRIAGE; A New
Interpretation by Twenty -Four
Leaders Of Contemporary Ihougnt'
mann Keyserling. New York: Har'
court, Brace q Co.
UxiE PRINCES LOVE AFFAIR. BY
A. III. Bennett. New York: Long
mans, Green & Co.
CHE LITTLE GARDEN SERIES
THE LITTLE KITCHEN GAR
DEN. BY Dorothy Giles. Mrs
Francis King. general editor. IL
Illustrated. Boston: Little. Brown
q Co.
go THIS IS JAZZ. BY Henry o: Os'
rood. illustrated. Boston: Little,
brown q Co.
AN OPTIMISTIC JOURNEY. BY
Cecilia Forester. Boston: The
Christopher Publishing House.
UNCLE Jim; A Pioneer Tale. BY L.
Addison Bone. author of Behold
Man" etc Boston: The Christie
phsr Publishing HousA
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shifting as 1t does from Greenwich
Village to a farm up in Maine. And
these places are treated with feeling
and a good ability to turn that feeling
into scenes and backgrounds. Never
theless, the main preoccupation Of this
author is with the character Of the
girl upon whom these different Sec
tons react, each in its peculiar con.
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Los Angeles Gem
Style Center
Of World

Los ANGELES, April 10
P)-New styles created to salts
fy the desire of motion picture
players and others for something
new in personal adOrnment has
brought Los Angeles and Holly
wood rapidly to the front as
world style centers in jewelry.
This belief was expressed by dele
gates here for the sixteenth an
nual convention of the California
Gold and Silversmith's assOcia.
tiOns.
New styles in bracelets, tiaras,
armlets and lavalliers are made
up for picture actresses, the jew.
elers declared, and are introduced
throughout the world in screen
productions.
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ADVERTISEMENT
YOU JUST OUGHT TO SEE
WHAT PLANT JUICE DID

backachcs and just felt bad all the
time. tried various remedies and
medicines, but got no relief what
ever.
Then my wife who wa suffering
from stomach trouble began taking
this Plant Juice, and it did 50 much
for her that / decided To try il, too.
Well sir. the first few doses con
WINGED me Of its merits. aud rs I
continued taking the medicine | kept
improving; and now never have
those spells Of Indigestion. and
neither am / troubled any more witt
backache or headache. Ny bowels
are as regular as clockwOrk, and !
Just feel like a new man all over.
My wife just eats hearty at
every meal since taking Plant Juice
and isn't bothered now with food
fermenting on her stomach or with
"as blOating or that sour acid condi-
tiOn.
Why, you just ought 70 see for
yourself what Plant Juice has done
for US"
Plant Juice - sold in San Antoui.'
by all Of the SOmmers drug torres,
and is sold By all druggists every
where.
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''When a Medicine Fixes Up
Two IN One Family Like
This Has Done Us, It's
Bound to Be Good" Says
Shreveport Man.

"Yes sir, my wife and mysfH both
lust can't say enough for this Plant
Juice medicine. Why, when any
thing will fix two in one family up
like this Herbal medicine has done
us, its obliged TO be Of exceptional
merit"
That's the way $. c. Caldwell, well
known contracting painter, living at
1854 DuPont ST, Shreveport, La,
talks about this great health builder
that is being so widely distributed
here in San Antonio at the SOmmers
drug stores.
For years / suffered with iHdi-
EestiOn and chronic constipation, AMI
had 70 take strong laXatiYes most
every night" says Mr. Caldwell. Il
had awful spells Of headaches and
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-16
D. A. R. Leader
Will Ask Meet
To Back Dry Law
BY Universal Service.

WASHINGTON, April 16.-
-Four thousand Daughters Of the
American Revolution, who gather
here in national session next
Monday, will be asked by Mrs.
Anthony Wayne Cook, their
president.genersl, to pledge them
selves against any possible ef-
forts TO repeal the Eighteenth
amendment and 10 stand for its
enforcement.
Mrs. Cook made ii known to-
day that she would include that
appeal in her message TO the
thirty-fifth continental congress
Of the ID. A. X.
The coming meeting, attended
by representatives Of more than
1000 chapters of the Organiza.
ton located in every state in the
Union and in foreign lands. is
expected TO be the largest in the
history of the ID. A. X.
So many women will be here
that the sessions, usually held in
the magnificent marble memorial
Continental Hall, national head
quarters Of the ID. 4. r., have
been moved to Washington audi
tUrium, the largest place of its
kind in the city.
The program is dotted with
addresses by important men. in
Guiding President Coolidge, Vice
President Dawes, Secretary OF
Agriculture Jardine, Speaker
LOngwOrth, Senator David A.
Reed, Representative Clyde Kel-
ly, William Tyler Page, veteran
clerk Of the House, and DIR. Will
liam Mather Lewis, president OF
George Washington University.
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DETECTIVES GUARD
CINDERELLA MAN
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day dropped its action, started before
the marriage. seeking to remove the
girl from the guardianship Of her
mother, Mrs. Catherine Heenan, other
worries appeared on the couples
matrimonial horizon. After Brown
ing had received several threatening
telephone calls, he hired six private
detectives today TO keep guard in the
hotel at Bronxville, Y. Y, where hc
hes been staying during the past two
days with his bride. When he was
considering adopting Mary Louise
Spas last year he received a somr.
what similar threat in a letter. He
succeeded in having the writer Of the
letter arrested.
Driving with Browning in his
azure imported automobile 10 n board.
ing school in Riverside drive ycstcr-
day, Mrs. Browning met for the first
time Dorothy Sunshine" 11-year-old
girl adopted by Browning several
years ago. browning had said that
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Churchn1en Demand Stronger Liquor La.vs
HERE'S ONE TINE
A WEDDINGS HANDY

NEW YORK. April 16.-R-Po-
lice found Cornelius Fitzgerald, 81,
trying to sell a dilapidated car 20
day with license plates that didn't
match. In court he announced II
was his wedding day. I'm that case. s.
said Magistrate Glatzmayer, land be,
fore 1 fine you, how much money
have you?"
-Four dollars"
IL wish you luck the magistrate
remarked. Sentence suspended
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SCHUMANN-HEINK
Ill IN FORT WORTH

FORT WORTH, April 1G.-P)-
Nine. Enestinc Schumann-H eink.
stricken with laryngitis here Tuesday
night. resulting in the cancellation Of
Ill engagements for the remainder oj
the week, was much improved today.
The famous contralto seemed great?
concerned because Of alarmed mes
sagcs received from widely scattered
friends and expressed desire to as
sure them that she will be singing
Ggain Monday night.
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MOODY LEAVES
FOR DALLAS CONFAB

AUSTIN, April 1G.-P)-Attor
ney General Dan Moody left Austin
today for Dallas where he will hOi.
conference with political friend
Saturday. Fror there be will go e.
Abilene where be and Miss Mildred
Paxton will be married April %
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SPANISH AVIAT0RS
TRAVERSING INDIA

DELHI. British India, April 10
LPl-The Spanish ayiators. Captains
Gonzalez Gallarza and l. Origa. on
their flight from Spain 20 the Philip
pine Islands, arrived at Agra today.
Their flight from haracbi to Agra
was 500 miles.
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OBJECT TO CHANGES.
ONLY ONE PATH.

~Bootlegging in stronger liquors
+ would become more menacing because
81 weuld tend to operate through the
places where the milder intoxicants
were sold. Moreover. there is no evil
: deuce 10 justify the contention that 10
permit wine and beer would reduce
p The consumption Of ardent spirits. The
. ieaching Of experience is 70 the con-
Z trary.
Methods Of control short Of pro-
Z Li5ifinn. such ar taxation. regulation
. anu the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS sys-
. trins Of some 81 the Canadian prov
Norway and Sweden, have all
s liS7yTzf Inadequate TO cope with the
! on
'rrr one path Of advance is for all
% citizens personally 10 observe the
I Isv ard 70 support tine great enter
: -i-e. born Of the idcalism of the
j. c.,e. OF completely Kidding the ma
I. tpa # as Gcmlralizing d business as
: the liquor traffic has always proved
{ sclf to be-"
T-ay@c i. whrrIcr. general counsel
I. ~ The Anti-Sulrun League: Bishop
{ Ia es Cannon Jr.. rf the Methodist
:, ,-r5pal Church. South. and Mrs.
3 D.. g. Yost. legislative supcr.utend-
~, ~ the W0men's Christian TEN
= i.c.aura Union, sat at the end NJ tho
t1-1riittac table nj to-day session IN
Z Greet the presentation for the Grys.
ROOM CROWDED.
z The committee room again was
7 u vdol. with hundreds iUrr.a away
lar want Of room. Only a few Of
Sc wet leaders in Congress were on
bend.
Dr. Haven was sworn and stood
: r.ifile he read the statement Of the
federal council.
The statement described as n d..
lEaon and a snare" the personal liD.
rrty plea Of those who oppose pro
hibitign.
~An law is infringement ~ per.
e1nal liberty for the saEu Of the pub
lir welfare" the statement continued
DR.. Haven also presented a rr-0lu'
ZION from the Chicago Church fedora
ton petitiouiug Congress 't0 eua"
auch additional legislation as will hrII
IN the stricter enforcement Of tn,
prohibition laws"
FAILURE IN CANADA.
. Dr. Charles $. MacFarIaud secre
iary Of the Federal Council O.
CHURCHES. read a telegram from 7
.klbert Moore, secretary Of the Unite,
Church " Canada, saying that unde
restricted licenses in Canadian prov
iuccs consumption Of liquor and boot
begging had increased, and that hOm
conditions were worse than they hat
been under prohibition.
DR.. Ice W. Beatty, superintendent
u the Madison Square settlement
New York, told the committee tina
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FEW ALCOHOLIC
DEATHS SHOWN
BY CHAR IS
Decrease in Diseases Due
to Prohibition, Says
Witness.
CONTINUED From Page u

have orders to arrest all men under
the influence of liquor"
DR.. Haven Emerson OF Columbia
University. presented an official re.
port of the New York City health
department. showing deaths from crr
hosts of the liver were 247 per 100
900 in 1900, with n decline to 81 per
100000 in 1925. Another chart from
the same source showed a sharp de-
crease in deaths from Bright's disease
from 1918 TO 1921, and a further de-
crease from 1922 10 1925,
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to offer testimony, as two hours Of
their time was taken up last Mon
day with the hearing of scores of
women who were here at that time at
| tending the convention of the Wom-
ems National Committee for Law En-
| forcement.
The vets still have two hours Of
their "a left. They want to utilize
this for summing up arguments after
the drys conclude, but there is a d.
vision of opinion in the committee on
that point.
The Senate hearing. as it has de-
veloped thus far, and the testimony
Wednesday Of Assistant Secretary
Andrews, meanwhile, have come in for
more or less heated comment from
ardent prohibitionists in various parts
of the county.
Pat Neff. former governor of Tex
as, in speech last night before the
International Council of Religious
Education at Birmingham, in his ref
erence to the hearings, expressed the
opinion that the liquor interests were
using Congress as a "sewer to flood
the nation with propaganda for read
ers of the press"
Despite the statement by Mr.. An
drews yesterday that, in giving his
opinion in reply TO a hypothetical
question that sale of notwithstanding
beer for consumption in homes md
hotels with meals might aid enforce
ment, he was not advocating a change
in the prohibition law, DIR. A. c. Gra-
ham, superintendent of the Kentucky
Anti-Saloon League, has anuUunseO
that his organization will demand
that the President remove the enforce
ment chief from office.
TO TAKE SAME ACTION.
He quoted Mrs. Udide Gray Pickett,
Kentucky state president Of the
Women's Christian Temperance
Union, as saying similar action would
be taken by her society.
Former Governor Neff touched on
the same subject in his speech, but
did not mention by name either Mr..
Andrews or United States Attorney
Buckner of New York. whose testi-
mony also has aroused the ire Of some
prohibitionists.
mo one" he held, SHOULD be in
charge Of prohibition enforcement
who does not believe the law can be
enforced or who is not in favor of the
law"
Mr.. Andrews made il clear that ait
is my task TO enforce the law as writ
ten, and to that end l am giving my
sole attention"
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Tree. hddrssE Arieu's Foei-fsss, Le Roy. y. Y.
So - .1yEg 80 LssaUi1eEg Si0Tes.
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conditions in his section of New York
had improved under prohibition.
THE saloons that used TO do a land
office business are gone be said.
Banks and other business houses
have replaced them. There is not q
speak-easy in that section"
In a solitary home. on the third
floor Of a tenement, DR.. Beatty said,
he had smelled home brew.
THE good lady there said conditions
under prohibition were terrible" ne
said, II then visited the % other
homes in the block, and did not find
a single family engaged in h9Fhe brew
ing"
Mrs. Helen H. Green, 4 member of
the Cleveland. Ohio, city council, told
the committee that the 6ry people she
represented wanted 10 modification,
but wanted teeth put into the law
Despite the INCREASE in population
Of Cleveland and the arrival Of for
eigners and negroes from the South,
she said, "thsre is less crime in our
CirV rodav =
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REED ANSWERS.

'The other is" said the Missourian,
that you can't die from alcohol when
you can't get it."
DR.. Emerson presented another
chart showing a, drop in mortality
with the drop in the consumption OF
liquor in Great Britain during the
war.
You don't mean TO say they ever
had prohibition in England. asked
Reed.
No, but there was sharp curtail.
ment in prohibition and sale because
! Of need Of grains for food"
Reed suggested that during the war
millions Of Englishmen were on the
| fighting front.
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DRY LEADERS.
!. PLEAD FOR
REAL TEST
'ezsonal Liberty Cry Of
Vets Declared Snare
and Delusion.'

: WASHINGTON, April 1G.-GP)-
sThe call Of the hour is for such a
.-shoroughgoing work of moral persua-
: sion and legal enforcement as will
. give the policy Of prohibition an ade-
: euate opportunity 10 demonstrate its
( full value TO the nation and the
: world. said a statement presented to-
) day to the Senate liquor committee
! by the administrative committee of
: tie Federal Council of Churches.
) TINS declaration by the spokesman
!. for 2S Protestant communions marked
.tao opening Of the drive by the drys
! ~ re- ponse to the assaults on prohi-
L.tion which have been made by the
Z we:s during the past Ten days. The
So, ,mcnt was read by Or. William J.
I-aayn OF New York. secretary OF the
!, :. inerican Bible Society.
FEW EVILS TODAY.
III serious evils have sprung up
$50 prohibition he statement said
".aey are far less than the evils
I, sch arose from the liquor traffic
Il ar TO che EigRte,uth Amendment.
= !. EqaOr traffic with the accompany
sa.s saloon was allied with political
Eruption. crime, gambling and pros
tisufion. IL means the wTcCkaEe OF
i.a and the degradation Of families.
The policy Of prohibition was not
;a0ptcd hastily nor vas il fOisred up
cn the country by a Puritanical mi
Eority. 1t was first voted in most Of
Tie state separately and then nation
ally. because the people had become
, Convinced that the liquor traffic was
. IN evil Of such magnitude that il had
10 be destroyed.
OBJECT TO CHANGES.
The Eighteenth Amendment was
made a part of the Constitution by
the regular methods which the found
efs of the republic devised with q
view 10 making the amendment OF the
! Constitution difficult rather than
easy. Yet this amendment was adopt
ed more promptly than any other
change in the Constitution ever pro
posed.
''The proposal to modify the Vol
stead act SO as TO permit the sale Of
light wines and beer presents insup-
cradle objections. 1t would make en-
forcement more difficult. IL would in
tvitably mean the return either Of the
saloon or something equally undesir-
able