The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-29
1884 Finds Liquor
 Trade In Confusion
Prices Expected to Drop Soon After New Year-Wets
 Happy-Drys Revamp Staffs

The vets claim that lowered prices will drive the bootlegger out of business; that the moder- ate tax which congress is expect ed to adopt will make low prices possible, and that within a few months the quality of legal liquor again will approach pre-prohibi- ton standards.
 Periodically, the Anti-Saloon league, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the Methodist Board of Public Temperance, Welfare and Morals, and other dry organizations also maintain a cheerful outlook. They claim that the repeal of the 18th amend ment has brought the battle out in the open, given them a chance to show the evils of liquor to the present generation, and has pro- vided a definite target at which to shoot.
 Drys Revamp Staffs
 All the prohibition organiza- tions are revamping their staffs, putting on drives for members, and preparing for the biggest bat tie in their history, war which they insist will return iron clad prohibition laws to the nation be- fore many years have passed.
 President Roosevelt's demands that the democratic platform S promise of repeal be carried out obtained action in congress at the short session last winter. On Feb. 20 a joint resolution proposing the 21st amendment was deposited in the department of state
 On April 10. Michigan achieved the distinction of being the first state to ratify the amendment. Other states followed rapidly until Utah made the necessary 36 on Dec. 5. The only state which voted against repeal was South Caro- lima, one of the most impenetera- ble dry strongholds in the coun- try.
 3.2 Beer
 While the states were voting on prohibition, citizens were given beer at the express demand of the president. Congress modified the Volstead, act on March 22, mak- ing beer legal one month later.
 The brew was limited to 3.2 per cent of alcohol by weight, but achieved such popularity that practically every brewery in the country ran at capacity to supply the demand.
 Now that the 18th amendment no longer is in force, the brewers may make beer with any percent age of alcohol. Most of them in- tend to produce a product little if any stronger than 32 on the ground that good beer depends upon flavor, and not alcoholic content.
 The federal government, mean time, has promised to keep liquor out of those states where it's sale is illegal. Many states, which voted for national repeal, intend to keep their own dry laws.
 Dry States
 The dry states include Ala bama, Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa. Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missis- sippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, Yer mont, Virginia, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Me- braska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West Vir- ginia, and Wyoming. Several of these states are considering vari- ous methods to legalize the sale of strong drink within their borders.
 Wet states include Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Lou isiana, Maryland, Montana, Me- vada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Washington. and Wisconsin.
 Control of liquor sale in these states varies widely. In Nevada, saloons are operating almost as they did in the gay nineties. In New York, citizens must sit down to drink, while in several other states they cannot buy liquor by the drink, except when they order a meal.
 Capital Must Wait
 The District of Columbia, like a 'stepchild, must await congress- action before it can get a legal drink. This action is expected to be forthcoming this month, but liquor in the capital probably will not be available legally until May.
 Legalizing hard drink caused a realignment of federal alcohol su- pervision. pr James M. Doran, erstwhile prohibition director, be- came distillers' code authority, when his organization folded up. Mir Roosevelt put the whole liquor business under control of the fed-