Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 160, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1932 — Page 4

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CONGRESS WILL FACE FURIOUS BEERJATTLE Drys Will Exert Utmost Efforts to Prevent Brew Return. (Continued From Page One) gaily prepared to receive beer even if congress legalizes it. Before the last election there were six: Maryland, New York, Massachusetts, Nevada, Montana, Wisconsin. Nine states repealed their enforcement laws In the last election: Michigan, Louisiana, Washington, New Jersey, California, Oregon, Arizona, North Dakota, Colorado. Fourteen Repeal Acts That makes fourteen states which have repealed enforcement acts since national prohibition (Maryland never had any), and makes more than 40,000,000 people eligible to receive whatever congress oilers them. Byt in the other thirty-three states, even if the national law is repealed, the state law remains. Furious fights are certain in the legislatures of many of these states to repeal state laws and get them in shape to profit by any national modification. x The American Federation of Labor and the Crusaders for the wets, and the W. C. T. U. and AntiSaloon League for the drys are already active here. Bear In mind that so far as congress has power to legalize beer at all. It must do It on the theory that it is nonintoxicating. Will Kill State Laws That brings up the next problem. If congress declares 4 per cent beer non-intoxicating, it is possible that practically all the state laws (which set a Mi of 1 per cent limit) will become unconstitutional, being in conflict with a law of congress. And then all restrictions on this revivified beer are off. Beer will get a big stimulus, in addition to the definite prod of the electorate, from the fact that the government needs money, and needs It badly. Any aid beer would bring to unemployment or the grain surplus would be a help, too. Those factors are going to be important to fence-sitters in congress. There will be literally scores of beer bills thrown into the hopper as soon as the gavel falls. In fact, there are scores left over from last sssion. The judiciary committee will have to hold hearings, weed out those with very high or unlimited alcoholic content, and pick one which seems likely to get court approval. Bitter Fight Sure This will be fought bitterly both In committee and on the floor, for the drys are going to battle every Inch of the way. If modification should be blocked in the “lame duck” session, it is certain to go through in some form when the newly elected congress meets in response to an expected call from President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt after his inauguration, March 4. For the astounding overturn In the recent election completely changed the complexion of congress. The "lame duck” congress lines up: House, wet 188, dry 247; senate, wet 31, dry 65. But the new congress will line up: House, wet 323, dry 26, undeclared 86; senate, wet 61, dry 30, undeclared 5. Thus the drys lose 221 seats in the next house and 35 in the senate, almost a complete reversal. Democrats and Wet It is thus clear that in the next session house and senate will both be Democratic and wet by good majorities. The platform on which it was so overwhelmingly given p o w er promised: 1. Repeal of theeighteenth amendment by proposing a repealer to “truly representative conventions in the states called to act solely on that proposal.” 2. Pending repeal, immediate modification of the Volstead act to legalize beer and other beverages *‘of such alcoholic content as Is permissible under the Constitution. With such a tremendous majority, the new congress is certain to modify in some way, even if the •‘lame duck” congress does not. But at the root of the matter lies the eighteenth amendment. The Democratic position is clear. It implies complete repeal, turning back the whole matter to the states, and clearing the federal Constitution of any specific mention of liquor. No Substitute Implied Its demand that the federal government use its power to “enable the states to protect themselves” against outside liquor traffic, does not imply any substitute amendment to take the place of the eighteenth. Attorney-General Mitchell, however. believes that if a substitute amendment seemed to congress necessary to give the federal government power to protect dry states, such a substitute could be

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Helen Lee Worthing LOS ANGELES, Nov. 14.—Helen Lee Worthing, once a Follies beauty, will face a hearing in superior court here Tuesday, instituted by her divorced husband, Dr. Eugene C. Nelson, Negro, to set aside the decree granted here last year. Nelson declared that the residential requirements of the Mexican law were not met in their marriage in 1927. If successful, fie plans to file another suit for annulment of the marriage. either written in one piece with the repealer or submitted at the same time. In that case the states could accept or reject either or both. Thus the form in which repeal is submitted is most important. It could be submitted in such form as to make adoption almost impossible. Drys Have Hope While undoubtedly a drive for repeal will be made in the “lame I duck” congress, it has less chance than in the new one. Then there is almost certain to be a repealer, either with or without a substitute, submitted to the states. However, the “bone drys” do not concede even this. Mrs. Ella Boole, president of the W. C. T. U., says she does not believe even the new congress will achieve the two-thirds majority needed to submit repeal to the states. Varying degrees of wets seem assured of 323 in the next house, the drys 26, with 86 undeclared. That is plenty more than two-thirds. The senate will be closer. The best estimate is 61 wet, 30 dry, 5 undeclared. Thus the wets need at least three of those undeclared senators to have their two-thirds. 36 States Needed It is in the states, after the preliminary battle of submission is won in congress, that the bitterest fights will be fought. For of course the adverse vote of thirteen states can block any amendment to the Constitution, thirty-six states being necessary to ratify. The dry strategy will be to put up as bitter a fight as possible against superior numbers in congress, and then if beaten, to fail back to their intrenched position in states. NEXT: What may be expected if beer returns, in taxes, in employment, in the grain situation, in the realm of the racketeer? PENNEY TO SPEAiThERE Founder of Chain of 1,477 Stores to Address Managers. J. C. Penney, founder of the J. C. Penney Company chain of 1,477 stores, will address a meeting of central Indiana and eastern Illinois Penney store managers Wednesday in Indianapolis. Beginning his career as a dry goods store clerk at $2.27 a month, Penney has become one of the nation’s leading merchants, his stores having an annual volume of business of $175,000,(500.

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