The Washington times., 1932-09-23
Looking For Leaders

saw the letter which Republicans sent out with the
Who's Who ballot 1t the kind of letter 1t SAID
that the situation serious and added tnat the great ma
iorv of Americans earnestly looking toward their
leaders for guidance in these difficult times Words to that
effect felt skeptica The American people having looked
for three and years directly into the face of Mr. Hoover
are no longer looking guidance to the upper segment
Merely have been rch prominent successful is no longer
recommendation obviously the American people look
ing guidance those who not responsible Tor the
errors of the pas especially to those who do not insist
that they bamess in the past and did the best they
could in crisis for which they weren't at all Responsible
Little Pests
These straw votes mosquitoes you can't trust them
and you put end them when they carried OUT
on large scale the Hearst papers poll the Digest poll
is carried they important because they cut through
classes preudices But the Democratic
that Mr. Roosevelt led IA to passenger plane Is as
significant the Republican rejoicing over Who's Who
Thev say the stamp collectors will for Roosevelt because
he is one of them so suppose Hoover will the votes of
all living Republican exPresiden-on the same basls
Free Liquor
submit that no lquor-cOntro plan has yet gone far
enough; admirable the suggestions Of Dr. Nicholas
Murray Butler, they miss the fundamental point.
The point is this: returning to the more Or less
free sale and uninterrupted drinking of liquor because we
believe that drinking liquor is good thing not CRIME
Let's have that straight If the American people still be-
eved all the goblin stories Of the w. g. T. U we would
be on the high road to repeal
Since drinking good liquor good for man. IS up to
the Government that the liquor available to the
poor as we'll the rich
The general direction of Government activity at present.
So that the end the solution of the liquor problem is:
free liquor prime advantage of free liquor is that no
one will have any incentive to make anyone drink more
than little; liquor for profit (private Government
profit implies high pressure saesmanshp; free liquor
escapes that pest.
Tax the Sober
To pay for the liquor free Government dis
pensaries will be necessary only reason
able that the tax should be paid by nondrlnkers
For past drinkers have paid taxes out of which non
drinkers prOed the drunkards dime has sent the
chi chOO Lot the he
and let the good faith of the drys be tested Will they
remain teeotaes if costs them hundred dollars year
in fines axes Or will they yield to economic pressre1
Free liquor would abolish the salOOnwhich for some
every anxious to promise Ii liquor IS
available Government Offices and is Free it will also be
available at drug stores, there's idea pool rooms,
hat shops and filling statons it will be the counter OF
every every block in every city Who would start
saloon against this competition?
Among other things, free liquor would put an end to
drunkenness That however prophecy which cannot
prove the And do not need to; because If
it proved would follow my banner for free
liquor No enough about liquor to go quite that