Evening star., 1933-11-12
CALF ORN|A RUM
LAW MACHINERY IS
READY TO FUNCTION
Amount of License Is Fixed
Under State Law Aiready
Passed and Approved.
BY WALLACE C. BLAKEY.


LOS ANGELES, November Il.-De-
spite rumors to the contrary, there
should be no confusion in establishing
the machinery for the legal sale and
consumption Of alcoholic liquors in CAL
nornia as result of repeal of the
eighteenth amendment and ratification
OF the tWenty-flrst. Such is the opinion
almost unanimously expressed by re-
sponsible attorneys, who have familiar
Zed themselves with the initiative con-
St1tutional amendment for State liquor
regulation adopted at the general elec-
ton in November, 1892, and the ena-
bling State liquor control act passed. at
the last session of the Legislature and
approved by Gov. Rolph on June 3 Of
the present year.
The machinery for licensing and
regulation has been prepared In ad-
vance. The amount of the license is
liked in the State liquor control act, the
dl1erent grades and kinds of intoxicat-
ing liquors are defined, the State board
or control Is named as the licensing
body and its powers, duties and linaita-
tions are fixed in almost minute detail.
State to Issue Licenses.
Under the new State control all IL
censes Will be issued at the offices of
tests against the issue of a license at
any particular location must be made
before that body. Counties and munici-
pal1tles will no longer be able to control
the liquor traffic within their luris-
dictionS.
More than three -fourths Of California
was dry under local option prior to pro-
hibttion, but under the new laws there
VIII be no varying degrees of moisture.
Under the new laws only light wines
and beer can be consumed on the prem
ises where they are sold and only as
part OF regular meals. But these
mountaineering drinks may be sold In
original packages 70 the diners to be
carried away.
There Is no provision that hard LIQUOR
shall not be consumed In a place where
meals are served, the only restriction
being that hard liquors may not be
consumed on the premises where they
are sold.
Five Gallons Is Limit.
Under the legislative control act a
retail liquor store means an establish
ment where goods, wares and merchan-
disc and liquor in original packages in
quantities Of not more than five gallons
at one time are sold. There Is no stat
uSOiy 1lii1LdtlOu as 10 the number oil
licenses that may be operative at any
one time and place within the State
That Is left to the Jurisdiction of this
State board of control
Inere Is specific provision that II.
staff and employees Of the State boa.
OF control are exempt from civil servicc
qualifications. The only test of II!
qualifications Of the applicants will b
made by the board itself.
Expecting to step quickly into its Q.
role Of chief vintner to the Unit
states. California has stored UP rub
and amber beverages.
1t IS estimated that California wine
ries will have produced about SO, coo .0o0
gallons by the end of the present vim
tage season. Some 10000 men and
women have been put to work in the
wineries and vineyards where but a few
hundred had worked in previous years.
In the casks of the California Vint-
ners, when the 1893 crushing season
began, were about 81 1,00o. 900 gallons of
wine, ranging in age from / to II years.