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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 227, 24 September 1943, Page 7

Which? The Party that turned a slump or an apologetic National SParty that borrows Labour's policy to cloak a sorry past... HOLD ON TO SECURITY - VOTE AGAIN 29.24

After experiencing fourteen years of prohibition, the American people repealed it by the greatest majority ever recorded on any issue. Shortly after America adopted the Eighteenth DETAILED VOTING IN 38 STATES Amendment (prohibition), the Nineteenth (Omdl,us - Fi « ures) Amendment, granting women the right to State For Repeal Against Repeal vote, was ratified. This step was considered Michigan 850,546 287,931 l ■ • j. i •. ' 't ■ r Wisconsin 648,031 141,518 by prohibitionists to make it impossible for Rhode island 150)297 20)927 prohibition to be repealed. . Wyoming 52,957 21,015 L. . . r New Jersey 573,532 90,733 To carry repeal it was necessary for a two- New York 1,946,532 247,450 thirds majority to be obtained in the Senate **£*• Jfi™ and the House of Representatives, followed by Indiana 550,902 304,563 approval of thirty-six of the forty-eight States. £8% VSXI Prohibition had become so devastating in its New Hampshire 76.044 30.409 .. , 1 ♦ 1 • lowa 376,661 249,534 consequences that repeal was carried by over- west Virginia 218,638 136,552 whelming majorities. It must be clearly Alabama* ''fdo.'l'l understood that every man and woman of Arkansas 67)607 46,242 —. —-—— — £ Tennessee 126,948 120,154 voting age in the thirty-eight States which Oregon 136,713 72,854 2 *>_ . — '— H - — Arizona 37,643 11,323 voted on the question had the opportunity to Missouri 503,642 156,96! -: — ~ : . — r^yr- — Texas 310,710 195,341 secretly express their opinion on prohibition. Washington 51.6,457 211,175 The result was that with only thirty-eight of iS™"' iti)!!! sS&J the forty-eight States voting, the majority for North Carolina 115,482 300,054 repeal (9,767,974) was millions of votes larger | 0 0 " or ado aro " na illloS If^el than the majority ever obtained on any other Maryland 204,460 45,776 issue with a!! the States voting. JSSZ"* 3 R£2 a SBSS The voting in the separate States indicates vKiilfa exleo 11.410 sejfe the wide-spread revulsion of feeling. These Florida 98*851 42)532 are the votes of the people who knew what i.eftSi? IS^f prohibition really meant. This should be a Utah 101,665 67,234 warning to New Zealand to keep prohibition Kentuck * . 386 > 653 234 - 417 OUt Of this COUntry. 15,344,950 5.576.976 Remember America—the facts are clear STRIKE OUT THK TAVO BOTTOM LINES "HOLD FAST TO LIBERTY"

"Listen Eden ,, «Bfißßflf|. ¥ tl^Bi^^B^Hfl ■ . .. .. , ~--w If our Man for To-morrow is J MAJOR WILSON, E J. A FIGHTING MIDDLE EAST SOLDIER -