Evening star., 1933-12-06
FERVOR LACKING
IN CELEBRATION
Roosevelt Urges Temperance
and State Ban on All
Saloons.
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more. And from leading prohibition
lists came warnings that the fight was
not over yet.
o. G. Christgau. executive assistant
to the superintendent Of the Anti
Saloon League, warned that so long
as the liquor traffic exists the battle
against this intolerable evil will go
on"
Forecasts Prohibitions Return.
Edwin E. Blake, national secretary
of the prohibition party, forecast that
national prohibition will return; DR..
Howard Hyde Russell, Anti-Saloon
League founder. also promised a fight
for regulatory legislation.
1t was this regulatory problem that
caused most difficulty in the States.
Those in which. theoretically at least,
the sale of spirits became legal with
repeal were Massachusetts,, Connecticut,
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Colorado, Ari-
zona, California, Washington, Louisiana,
New York, Delaware, Illinois. Indiana,
Montana. New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon,
Maryland, Rhode Island and New
Jersey.
In Colorado, for instance, issuance Of
the first retail liquor licenses was post
poned until today; Wisconsin's first
odicc WC1C illlltCd, 1NAiOdC 4oAoAld 4dAShiJ
exhausted its immediate supply, permit
difficulties hindered the flow in In
diana, the Washington State Legisla-
ture still wrestled with the problem as
did that in Oregon, bars were polished
and polished in Massachusetts, while
sales permits were issued slowly.
Ohio Remains Arid.
Ohio, after ratifying the amendment
0.A0 49,, H4l n~td
because of State law needing legislative
action. Pennsylvania dry Governor,
Clifford Pinchot, was charged with con-
trolling his States regulatory machinery
after the State convention. at 1880
pm, approved the repeating twenty
first amendment.
Utah, No. 36 in the State lineup. at
5:3l pm. couldn't even have 80 beer
until January /, while its Legislature
must repeal the State law before harder
liquors become legal.
In New York John Barleycorn came
back-but he had restraint and dignity;
in California he was just about as we'll
behaved; in New Jersey. one of the wet
test of the wet States. Gov. Moore last
right left the State officially dry when
he vetoed the liquor control bill passed
by the Legislature. The Legislature,
however, later passed the measure over
the veto.
Nevada, openly wet, was noisy, but
orderly; the Carolinas, the only States
so far to reject repeal, took prohibi-
tion's death without notice; Ken
tuckians, hailing from one of the big
gest liquor producing States, had laws
keeping their State dry until at least
the latter part of 1885.
Little Ceremony in Capital.
Little ceremony marked Washington's
official PRONUNCIATION of repeal, Presi-
dent Roosevelt and William Phillips,
Acting Secretary of State. simply sign
ing the necessary proclamations That
by the President was necessary to end,
on January and July i. about $212,-
600 900 in various taxes. which are to be
replaced by liquor levies.
And Immediately governmental re-
alignments were ordered to make the
changes needed because of constitutional
amendment was repealed for the first
time in the history of the republic.
Among other things, the prohibition
unit of the Justice Department became
the alcohol beverage unit; the Bureau
of Industrial Alcohol was merged with
the Internal Revenue Bureau. The
1900 prohibition agents in the field will,
for the time being, help enforce the rev.
officers in enforcing the laws in those
that remain dry.
The domestic distillers, importers and
brewers already were under Govern
ment proposed codes for their control
by the Federal alcohol administration
and yesterday hearings were held on a
pact to put rectiflers and blenders under
the authority granted in the farm and
recovery acts.
Urges Federal Control.
At hearing on the rectifiers' and
blenders code, DR.. William V. Linder,
head of the technical division of the
industrial Alcohol Bureau, said:
Unless the Government takes over
control, 5000 to 10000 people could
qualify as rectifiers Immediately and
undoubtedly would produce a lot of in
ferior spirits like the bootleggers have
been producing
This would produce an outlet for
bootleg spirits. 1t would result in many
rectihers using bootleg spirits to evade
taxes"
He urged limitation of the number
Of rectifiers.
During the day, PENNSYLVANIA OH
cias arrived from Harrisburg by air
plane and motor cycle with the ofiicial
certificate that Pennsylvania was the
thirty-fourth State to ratify repeal. The
Pennsylvania convention was held de-
spite an effort of drys to prevent action
through the courts.
All the So Ohio delegates voted wet.
as did the 81 in Utah
Maine, which voted repeal in Sep
tember, holds its ratifying convention
today.
States that have had no popular
vote on repeal are Georgia, Kansas,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Ne
braska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and
South Dakota
Latest figures show 20.813,2O8 votes
have been cast, of which 15,279,216
favored repeal against 5,533,992 for
retention