LIQUOR IN AMERICA

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21347, 23 November 1932, Page 11

LIQUOR IN AMERICA

RESTORATION BEFORE LONG

PROBABLY BEER AND WINE

VANCOUVER. Nov. 14

The " wets" control both Houses of Congress, but not by the two-thirds majority necessary to delete the Eighteenth Amendment from the Constitution. They can, and probably will, change the Volstead Law to enable beer to be sold. The Hearst newspapers, which strongly supported Mr. Roosevelt, for the Presidency, said editorally: "It is pathetic that the richest nation in the world should rely for a solution of its money problems on a glass of beer and the amount a drinker can be taxed." The papers added that all foreign wines will be barred from the United States, and that California will have a great boom again.

It is interesting to note that California, Washington and other Pacific states possess State liquor enforcement laws which will expire automatically in December, so that, the Western seaboard of America will bo " wet" again within 30 days. The financial pages of the newspapers of the larger cities are crowded with notices of issues of shares and bonds of new brewing companies. A great revival of the liquor business appears to be coming. «£. Beer by Christmas promises to be an actuality almost everywhere, even if the legislation is not quite complete by that time. The present laws will bo more honoured in the breach than by enforcement.