TO RESTORE SALOON

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18265, 7 December 1933, Page 9

TO RESTORE SALOON

NEW YORK LIQUOR PROPOSAL BACK ROOM, NOT BAR, CAUSED TROUBLE ALBANY, N.Y., Nov. 1. The Alcoholic Beverage _ Control Board put finishing touches on its liquor control plans to-day, and pushed preparations for licensing the liquor traffic. Tentative plans calls for distribution of the first license applications on November 15. The board was said to bo considering a plan for making liquor available, through temporary licenses, ns soon as the 18th Amendment is repealed.

Announcement of the board’s plans is expected before the end of this week. The only official word regarding the board’s * deliberations is that “careful consideration” is being given to the matter of banning the old-fashioned saloon.

Unofficially, the board has been reported to have studied two plans. One is to limit the sale of liquor in glasses to reputable hotels and restaurants which desire to serve it with meals, bottled liquor to be old elsewhere. The other is to restrict the sale of bottled IViiior dispensed from state controlled stores.

Regarding the ban on old-fashioned saloons, chairman Mulrooney, has made tins oominent

"Persnni’llv, 1 have ttevoi* felt that, drink’ng lin nor at the bar constituted * real evil in the old-time saloon. The "'iu-' that caused all the trouble was in Pin back room.” The hoard has the uower to forbid the “hack room” under a provision in I lie Liquor Control Law renuiring'a clear view of drinking esf.ah 1 islt merit s. TAVERNS FAVORED BOSTON. Nov 1. The special legislative committee created last July to "drillt a permanent liquor control law. to-day made public its report, chief among the provisions ol which was the creation of a legalised tavern to supplant the old-time saloon. The committee summarised its recoin m 'lidatioiis as follows ; - “Ahsoulte supervision and control h\ a stale commission created and continued with a minimum of political interference. “Provision lor local option. “Provision that the citizens of the Commonwealth may purchase convenient ly all forms of alcoholic beverages, edher in packages for home consumption or hv the glass to lie drunk on the. premises where purchased. “The licensing of all branches of the liquor lruffe with a limited number of |h eases, all of which _ shall he subject I i filial approval or disapproval ot the commission. Discussing Die tavern plan, the committee, which made extensive studies in Canada and lonsidered the liquor systems of other countries, including the Bratt system of Sweden, said :

“The ‘speakeasy and the ‘kitchen barroom’ will continue to do business if no nlaee is provided for the purchase of alcoholic beverages by the glass.”