LIQUOR IN AMERICA
SALE OF LIGHT BEER RECOMMENDATION TO SENATE. WASHINGTON, March 19. (Received March 20, at 9 p.m.) A political sensation was caused by a Senate sub-committee recommending legalisation for 4 per cent, beer, advancing six reasons for the recommendation, as follow: 1. It would promote temperance and decrease crime. 2. The beer would not be intoxicating. 3. The manufacture of the beer would give employment to probably 1,000,000 persons. 4. One hundred thousand fanners would derive a profit from growing between 60,000,000 and 120,000,000 bushels of necessary barley. 5. The tax yield from the beer would bo from 347,000,000 to 800.000,000 dollars.
6. Hotels and restaurants would recapture business which was now diverted to sly grog shops. The recommendations, in the form of a report containing expert testimony, will be laid before the Senate.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21599, 21 March 1932, Page 7
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