Evening star., 1932-12-13
Defeat of Dry Law Repeal
Creates Some Uncertainty

the Topeka Daily Capital. The Hamil-
ton Evening Journal suggests "a less
drastic proposal" while the Oshkosh
Daily Northwestern feels that later &C
ton in the House is doubtful. The
Miami Daily News declares: What
ever the outcome at this session.
Speaker Garner has chosen wisely in
standing for only one chance at re-
peal resolution originating in the House,
and Senate leaders will do well to fol-
low his example by making a single
test. Repeal is inevitable, but it can
not be permitted to monopolize our
thoughts in such times as these"
LegaliZed beer is upheld by the Okla
homa City Times, the Milwaukee Senti-
mel. the Texarkana Gazette. the Union
town Herald, the Birmingham Age
Herald. the Jersey City Journal and
the Chicago Daily News. The Rich
nond News Leader advises that IF beer
is legalized, it will be under the spur Of
the necessity for raising revenue to
meet a prospective deficit" Assuming
that such stage had been reached,
the Baltimore Sun says: 1T is the duty
Of Congress to weigh very carefully the
advisability of the S5-a-barrel tax
which the Collier bill proposes to levy
against beer. Before slapping such a
tax on beer. congressional students
will need to consider very carefully the
previous experience of the country and
the objectives they want to attain.
They may make the tax so heavy as to
encourage bootlegging and thus trans
form potential fiscal resource into q
social liability
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with the proposed amendment
shelved in the House." according to the
Cincinnati Times-Star, 1.-The substitute
proposed by Senator Glass of Virginia
comes up. 1t couples with the rejection
of prohibition a constitutional pro-
vision declaring it illegal to sell liquor
in saloons, but permitting sales in
hotels and restaurants. In effect, this
is the plan proposed in the Republican
national platform and espoused by
President Hoover. 1t is better than the
defeated House plan because it ex-
presses public opinion. which is through
with the saloon; because thus it sal
wages what was of value in the prohi-
bition movement, and because it is like
ly to secure enough support from mod
crate drys to win ratification in three
fourths of the States. Yet We do noC
believe this proposal will get through
the Senate, nor think that it should.
1t is an attempt to put regulation Of
the police power into the Constitution.
What the amendment should do is to
give Congress the right to prevent the
discretion OF Congress to exercise that
right in whatever way circumstances
may suggest"
Prospects for the Glass bill are re-
garded with interest by the Hartford
Times and the Charlotte Observer,
while the Oakland Tribune believes the
Senate will be "the real arbiter." The
Roanoke World-News feels that
strategy of professional dry leaders
has been to fight for delay" and that
paper points out that by the time
Congress acts on repeal Of the
eighteenth amendment State Legisla-
lures will have completed their work
and adjourned" The prospects of de-
lay are emphasized by the Youngstown
vindicator, the Rock Island Argus, the
Morgantown Dominion News and the
Connellsville Courier.
The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
argues that there should be Projection
OF dry States from wet invasion and
safeguards against return of the sa-
LOOM" while the Des Moines Trindn:
thinks that there was no assurance
that the Senate would accept naked
repeal" and the San Antonio Express
comments: "A repeal amendment will
be submitted to the States by the next
Congress ss-after due deliberation, Ger
tainly 80 important a measure as one
affecting the Constitution should not
be handled in less deliberate or less
dtgntfied manner" The Spokane
Spokesman Review advises: IF uron
mature elaboration, even a substantial
majority Of the States should declare
for repeal. the deliberative viii of a
majority Of the nation would not be
resisted by thoughtful leaders Of the