The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-10-17
THE VETS SHOULD GET TOGETHER

THE VETS SHOULD GET TOGETHER
! The amount of deformed thinking that
is being done in the country on the liquor
tissue would be appalling if so much of It
twas not positively amusing. For example
there isl the novel idea advanced by the
Rockefeller committee for the study OF the
shauor traffic. This novel idea is that when
the Amendment is repealed the wet States
will have to be protected from the boot
'leggers of the dry States. Nearly century
of experience with local option proves eN-
iactly the contrary. Before national pro-
,hibition the dry States had to be protected
from the legalized liquor traffic in wet
States That was one of the big liquor con-
troll problems which had much to do with
the adoption of the federal Amendment.
However, the Rockefeller committee
roundly condemns all forms of licensing OF
the liquor traffic and advocates govern
ment manufacture and sale. No sugges-
ton of this kind has come from North
Carolina vets. They are fighting to license
the manufacture and sale. The public,
however, has not been taken into their con-
kdence, and just how they propose to con-
troll and regulate" the traffic is still a
secret locked up in the "best minds of the
wet contingent.
: Only few months ago no suggestion OF
1egalizing manufacture and sale, IN North
carolina was heard to pass the lips OF the
wets or was suggested in the most rabld
wet newspapers. Now, seeing that the
amendment will be repealed, the true pur-
pose of State vets is being manifested. 1t
Is, of course, to establish the legalized
aiquor traffic in North Carolina. The brew
ers and distillers have already announced
eheir purpose to make all of the forty-eight
States wet, and they will have the hearty
eo-operation of North Carolina vets in this
effort as far as it concerns this State.
= The vets are now, even in advance of
4he repeal election, devOting most of their
effort to attempts to convince the people
Of North Carolina that prohibition cannot
be maintained here after repeal, that wet
States will nullify our burlington law, and
swamp the State with liquor. AS this news
paper has previously pointed out, this is
the age-old alleged argument used by the
VETS against all forms of local option. 1t is
as old as the fight against the liquor traffic
by local option methods.
: There is nothing new under the sun in
connection with attempts to rid the coun-
Try of the liquor evil or to control it. The
Rockefeller committee gleefully proclaimS
Q brand new, sure-fre plan for eliminating
the profit motive in the liquor traffic by
having the government manufacture and
Sell all the liquor, only to find that plan
was proposed by the Populist party forty
wears ago.
= The liquor business is the same old bust
aess, and it is coming back in the United
States to be controlled by the same old I'M
scrupulous, tricky brewers and distillers
and saloon-keepers, and it will be run in
the same old way. Citizens like Max Gard
ner, who tearfully announce their opposl-
don to the ubiquitous 18th Amendment
and with their next breath cry out that
they will never, never, never favor the re-
turn of the saloon, are just fooling them
Selves. If they continue with the crowd
they are running with now, they will be
supporting the return of saloons in les:
than year. The only way they can avoic
advocating the return of saloons is to sevt
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