The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-24
RACKET FEARED
IF STATE BEER
BILL is PASSED
OryS and Vets Appear to
Present Arguments to
Committee.
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ed to application Of a Accent tax
on malt, manufactured in Indiana,
but shipped out Of the state.
Retail and wholesale druggists
then presented their views They
favored S25 a year license fee for
druggists dealing in whisky for
medicine. instead Of the $50 fee set
in the proposed legislation A fed
eral fee Of s25 year also is re-
CURED.
Druggists Give Views
Among the drug men heard we're
Frank Mccullough of New Albany,
secretary of the Indiana Phar-
maceutical Association: Albert
Fritz, representing indianapolis re-
tail druggists, and Edward Mayer
Of the Kiefer-SteWart Company In
olanapolls wholesale drug firm.
Mayer expressed a belief that le-
CALLING trade in medicinal whisky
would not cause any rush among
Indiana druggists and estimated
that not more than 600 Of the states
l,400 retail druggists would seek
permits for selling whisky.
Average sale daily among $4,000
drug stores in the country in states
permitting medicinal whisky is only
IA pints, he said
L. f. York, superintendent of the
Indiana Anti-Saloon League, was in
charge of the dry cohorts. York
declared that prohibition is backed
by church declarations, the Y NJ c.
A, Y w. G. A., Parent Teacher As
ISOLATION, Federation of Women's
Clubs, National Education Associ-
alton and the Indiana State Teach
erS' Association.
York Threatens Reprisals
without mincing words, ne told
the committee that if the Wright
law is repealed and beer returns,
the people of Indiana will take re-
prisal in the next election.
You will hear the greatest storm
in history two years from now"
York declared
The speaker, as did others on his
side, denied that result of the cleo
ton last November was a mandate
from the people for return of liquor,
but asCribed the outcome to de-
sire for change in Presidents.
Reelection to congress of Rep
resentative Louis Ludlow of Indi-
annapolis, despite his dry stand, was
cited by York as one proof of dry
sentiment.
f. A. Miles, nti-Saloon league
attorney, declared that no wet law
passed by the Indiana legislature
could be effective until congress acts
on the Eighteenth amendment or
the VolStead act He complained
that he had been unable to get a
copy Of the beer bill.
Passage of the beer bill would set
paralelled in this state or any other
parallelled in this state or any other
state" he asserted, and added that
"the most corrupt and corrupting
influence was the organization of
brewers in Indiana before prohi-
bition."
Mrs Elizabeth Stanley Of Lib
erty. state president of the w. G..
T. u, raped the wet bills from
every angle in a spirited address, in
which she aSsailed the theory that
beer is a temperance drink. Recall
ing her experiences as a Keeley cure
manager. she said she had seen de-
lirium tremens patients who had
consumed only beer.
SCOTS at Prosperity Talk
Return of beer would not bring
prosperity. she continued.
For every man It would give a
lob. three would lose jobs" Mrs.
Stanley said.
THE babys milk will suffer so its
father can buy beer and pretzels,"
she asserted.
The press. literature, and the
drama have been sources of wet
propaganda, Paul Duncan, Butler
university graduate, charged. He
said he had been on the campus of
every Indiana university and college
as we'll as several others in the mid
dleweSt, and had seen only four men
drunk.
Attempt of the Indiana legislature
to change the dry law would amount
to notification of the United States
Constitution, according to Herman
Seeger, prohibition party legislative
representative. No court will rec
ognize any liquor law so long as the
eighteenth amendment is in force,
he told the committee.
Other dry speakers were Harry
Rowe, representing the young peo-
pies department Of the Indiana
Council of Religious Education, and
Mrs. Ralph T. HudelSon, president
of the Indiana Woman's Law En-
forcement League and also repre-
senting the State Federation of
Church Women.
William Wildhack, an unsched-
uled speaker, who said he was IA
miliar with conditions on campuses
of Indiana universities and colleges,
declared youth of the state favors
Wright law repeal
Bold also spoke for the wet side,
declaring conditions under prohi-
hilton are worse than in the worst
of saloon DAYS. He said Evansville
high school students, both boys and
girls. had appeared in classes un-
der the influence of liquor pur-
chased IN speakeasies a block from
schools.
William D. Hardy, Democratic
state senator, who is an Evansville
attorney, defended legality of the
wet bills. Speaking from his eX-
,,orierce as a deputy prosecutor in
Vanderburgh county, Hardy de-
clared moral conditions are worse
under prohibition than during the