LIGHT WINES AND BEER
VOLSTEAD LAW CONDEMNED. Press Association- tßy Telegraph—CopyripM. WASHINGTON, April 30. Captain W. H. Slayton (president of the Association .Against the Prohibition Amendment) appeared before the Judiciary Committee of the House, which i 9 discussing a modification. He urged a favorable report on the fifty-nine identic. Bills, advocating a change in the present. law. He said that the Federal Treasury would realise an additional 1,320,000,000 dollars in taxes through the legalisation of the manufacture of light wines and beer. Captain Slayton advocated a beer tax similar to that in England, adding that, the Volstead Act was a bad law, unfair and unsuitable, and naturally the people disrespected it. Insurance company statistics showed that, alcoholism had increased markedly since 1917, especially among youths at school and college. They could lesson this evil, and reduce bootlegging in so-called ” hard ” liquor by humanising tho law so as to permit the manufacture of healthful beer.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18623, 2 May 1924, Page 6
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