Evening star., 1933-12-08
he stores there would remain ST.

pIOltJdple cOmmeFclHl COnlpetltlOu Will
Illicit liquor traffic and also giving to
the Alcohol Control Board or Licensing
Board the widest possible authority to
make regulations, sub. ect only to ap-
peals to the courts.
The report saia in part: ut was
unanimously agrc that whatever
should be done should have as one of
its principal objects the destruction Of
illegal liquor traffic by the bootlegger
and speakeasy. Our committee realized
that such could not be accomplished by
the mere passage of a law and con-
sidered that the most effective way Of
achieving this purpose was to so liberal
4 lie the legal dispensation of intoxicat-
Ing liquor as to make it both reasonable
in price and readily obtainable, espe-
cially beer and light wines, so that it
would be able commercially to compete
with the Illicit traf1c, and in SO doing
drive such traffic out Of existence. In
| order to make this further possible, our
committee respectfully suggests that
license fees should be made as low as
would be consistently possible to permit
| legally dispensed intoxicating liquor to
compete as to price with that which
is illicitly dispensed.
i Commissioners Authority.
Section 7 of the proposed bill reads:
The Commissioners are hereby author
lied to prescribe such rules and regula-
tions not inconsistent with the law as
they deem necessary to cover the pur-
pose of this act Our committee, in
| discussing this section, felt that:
81. The Commissioners of the District
Of Columbia are already overburdened
with the details Of this Office
90. That the rules and regulations to
be prescribed should be made by body
whose sole duty it was to deal with the
| liquor traffic.
| ''3. That it was particularly. desirable
| to divorce the control Of the sale Of in
toxicating liquor from the District OF
| Columbia functions in general, so that
pointed to the board whose sole duty il
was to regulate this traffic
| a. 1t is desirable to obtain the best
possible local talent as members of the
District of Columbia Alcoholic Beverage
! Control Board. There should be such
authority vested in the board itself as
to make its work attractive to our out
standing citizens"
| The report goes on to suggest that
| the control board be given the widest
| authority that Congress can delegate to
| make regulations, that it be not SUBJ
jective to interference by the Com
mtssioners except In so far as they are
the ones to appoint members of the
board that license system is prefer
able to Federal dispensary of private
monopoly, that many of the detailed
regulations In the Commissioners bill
should be stricken out and left fol
the board to handle and that the
should appear in the legislation in.
stead of the detailed regulations:
| One. That the Illicit manufacture anG
sale Of alcoholic beverages shall bs
rendered commercially improbable
Two. That there shall be no saloons:
that IS, no places licensed wherein the
retail sale of alcoholic beverages shall
be the principal business.
| Three. That those persons who con.
sumo alcoholic beverages shall be af.
forded more opportunity to obtain ane
encouraged to use non-distilled bev.
erages, such as beer, rather than dis.
titled beverages of higher alcoholic
| content
Four. That temperance shall be en-.
couraged In every way.
Safeguarding of Law.
The board suggested the insertion O.
clause providing that no authorit,
! granted by the board to any license,
should permit him to do that which
is otherwise unlawful.
Finally, the report suggested that tn,
personnel Of the control board shouls
be bipartisan and open alike to mel
or women, and therefore recommends
striking out the phrase Of the Com
missioners' bill which provides tha
one OF the members should be a woman
As Mr.. Offutt made his presentation
Commissioner Hazen pointed out tina
the political tendency now is ava,
from the setting up of independent
boards and toward a more highly cen.
tra!ized form of government. Mr.. Offutt
replied that it would not be possibl,
to obtain the best talent for the boarc
if its members felt that each actor
the board took was to be reviewed By
the Commissioners.
| James P. Cochran, business manager
OF the Night Watchmen's Association
the next speaker, suggested that liquor
be sold only by the bottle, not for con-
sumption on the premises, in Govern.
ment-owned stores or by physicians
prescriptions at drug stores. Speak.
ing from an experience which he sale
covered many years as policeman, spe.
clal policeman and night watchman ir
the District of Columbia and in Vir.
ginia, he said the heart of the LIQUOR
evu Is the sale Of alcohol by the drink
Saloon Aspects Feared.
There are about 300 clubs and hotel.
now listed in the telephone directory
he said, and to license all Of these tc
sell liquor by the drink would put us
back to the saloon days, when every
man was subject to temptation to sit
around and drink.
| He said that while he had no objec-
ton to the licensing of very high-clas:
hotels, 1t would be impossible to do SO
without adording licenses to cheap
| places which would serve as rendezvous
Tor the rif1raff, especially after hours
ne SAID that the clubs would be even
worse, however. He favored prohibit
ing the sale of liquor before 8 O'Clock
IN the morning, when everybody is safe
at work, because in the old days SO
many people were tempted by the ever
present saloon open in the early hours
OF the morning that they yielded to its
Establishments and never got to work
| at all.
Likewise, he favored no sales after 6
pm, for the reason that people coming
away from work as late as 4 o'clock in
the morning in the old days would often
drop by a saloon and get drink Look
| up at the press table, he said:
I know the newspaper boys used to
do this and hope they wont roast me
for saying what I do, for they know
it's so."
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