Evening star., 1941-03-27
'Standing-Up'
Drinking Given
D. Approval
Commissioners Also
0. K. SuIes Until
z am. Sundays


Many changes in the Districts
liquor control system, intended to
liberalize present practice in some
ways as we'll as to tighten up in
others, will result from actions taken
by the Board of Commissioners, after
an all-day session yesterday, all
though in four instances approval
by Congress is necessary.
Most of the % proposals finally
offered by the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board we're adopted. The
Commissioners rejected suggestions
for price control and for a ban on
advertising of prices.
Corporation Counsel Richmond B.
keech was directed to draft proposed
amendments to the law to permit
"standing-up" drinking at licensed
bars, to permit the sale of alcoholic
beverages from Saturday midnight
to 2 am. Sunday. to require that
applicants for permits be District
residents for a year or have been
gainfully employed here for a like
period, and to permit the Glass F
license, issued for picnics and other
such events, for places in residential
zones.
Packaged Stores Affected.
Among new regulations adopted
were rules to require package goods
stores to close at 10 pm. except on
Saturdays, when the stores may stay
open until midnight Packaged
goods stores will still be closed on
Sundays. This proposed change, as
is the case with many others, is to
be placed in final form by the COR
poration counsel He said stores
may be permitted to stay open later
than 10 pm. on nights before hoh.
days.
The city heads also ruled that
handbills and circulars may not
hereafter be distributed to the door.
steps of Washington residents, all
though they refused to ban liquor
advertising otherwise.
AS part of the change of rules on
hours the city heads ordered a new
regulation which would forbid sale
of beer and light wines on Sundays
permitted beginning at 8 am. AS a
trade for the plan to permit drinking
from midnight Saturdays to am.
Sundays the Commissioners decided
their regulations should be amended
to forbid beverage sales from Sun.
day midnight to am Monday. now
permitted Sales then would begin at
8 am. Monday.
AS. a result of these various
changes sale Of beer and light wine
would be banned from midnight
Sundays to am. Mondays.
Minimum Price" Banned.
A new proposal, offered by the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
yesterday and adopted by the city
heads as new regulation, will for
bid on-sale licensees from charg-
ing minimum prices for drinks re-
gardless of the number of drinks
purchased This does not apply to
convert charges. The Commissioners
said they believed this rule would
be in the interest of temperance,
since, under the present practice in
some places, it appeared to them
there was a temptation to take an
other drink if it came under the
minimum charge.
In the interest of protecting chill
dren of impressionable age from the
influence of seeing liquor sales too
close at hand at places they regu-
larly frequent, the Commissioners
approved a regulation which would
forbid the granting of new licenses
to places within 400 feet-measured
from main entrance to main en-
trance-from churches and schools.
Two members of the A. B. C. Board.
Chairman Thomas E. Lodge and
William P. Meredith. had sug-
gested a 600-foot rule. They said
they believed there is a substan-
tial public demand for enactment
of a regulation of this character"
The third board member Mrs. Ag-
mes K. Mason. had maintained that
such former rules have been found
difficult of enforcement and that
she preferred the current rule un-
der which the board undertook to
determine the sentiment of the
neighborhood as to a license ap-
plication.
The proposal as it came from
the A. B. c. Board would have
forbidden any new license to a
new place within 600 feet of any
public, private or parochial school,
any college, university, church, play
ground, public library or licensed
hospital, but the Commissioners
ruled that their 400-foot plan
should not apply to hospitals, play
grounds or libraries.
Sentiment Given at Hearing.
The Commissioners action on
these and other proposals came
late yesterday after they had spent
an entire morning listening to argu-
ments from the A. B. c. Board
members and from spokesmen for
the industry and after they had
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