The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-05-10
REPEAL OF PROHIBITION

Last autumn VIM Durant, the automobile million
are startled the world by offering prize of $4,000
for the best plan for the better enforcement of the
18th Amendment
The prize was awarded to from New York,
Major Chester P Mills, formerly prohibition admins
traitor for New York City Another prize of $5,OOOOO
went to Malcolm D. Almack of Palo Alto, California
for the best high school student essay. The prizes
were awarded about New Years.
The awarding of these prizes aroused the attention
of VIM. Randolph Hearst, and controversy developed
between the men which resulted in Hearst offering
prize of $4,000, and second prize Of $5O0O for the
best one thousandword plan for the adjustment of
prohibition This subject afterwards revised to
the best plan or substitute for prohibition that will
actually promote temperance" Any number of $1,000
third prizes as the judges may award will be paid The
contest closed April 9Oth The results of this contest
are awaited with interest
Durant published a book containing all of the best
plans for the enforcement of prohibition which he
ceived The book is a veritabe mine of ideas the
subject. Mr. Hearst will probably publish book con-
tanning the best plans submitted in his contest The
two contests will bring out about all there is to know
about the liquor problem out of which something con-
structive should result.
The great blunder of the temperance advocates was
the enactment of the 18th Amendment in the form
which it the triumph of rampant tetotasm, name
ly:
portation of intoxicating liquors with
in, the importation thereof into or the
expectation thereof from the United
States and all the territory subject to
the jurisdiction thereof for beverage
purposes is hereby prohibited"
By this act a police law was written into the con
stitution
Before any substitute for prohibition is possible thi
amendment must be revised.
The revision of the 18th Amendment is a big under
taking but of course in time it will be done for pro
hbition is such farce that the people are bound i
time to do away with it.
The article must be revised to read:
"The power to regulate or prohibit
the manufacture, sale or transporta-
ton of intoxicating liquors, regulat-
ing the importation thereof into or
the expectation thereof from the
United States and all the territory
subject to the jurisdiction thereof for
beverage purposes is hereby delegated
to Congress-"
This revision of the prohibition article would pac
the whole matter of either prohibition or regulation
the liquor traffic into the hands of Congress- where
belongs Congress could then experiment and develo
the best way Of handling the traffic If one wa
failed another could be tried This revision wou
be necessary before the dispensary system could
tried out.
If the 18th Amendment were repealed instead of r
vised, it would return the whole matter of regulate
of the liquor traffic to the several states opening
issue of the return of the saloon local and county
ton and as many kinds of regulations as legisato
might think Of
This, we believe, would be a serious mistake-tl
Amendment should be revised and Congress should t
the dispensary system as a substitute for prohibtio
1t is believed Mr. Hearsts contest will help bri1
about the revision and the end of prohibition and
attendant corruption and crime.