MORE SOBER.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20650, 26 June 1935, Page 5

MORE SOBER.

America Since Prohibition’s Exit. FEWER WILD PARTIES. “ You don’t see so many wild parties There is not much drunkenness apparent, and, if anything, America is soberer than it was in prohibition days.” said Mr David Latimer, of Auckland, New Zealand representative of the National Carbon Company, U.S.A., and a frequent visitor to America, who was a passenger in the Maunganui which arrived at Wellington from San Francisco. In some States, where the State Governments controlled the liquor stores, the liquor was good and prices reasonable. In New York and Chicago, however, practically every eating house supplied liquor, and as far as he had seen, it could be procured up to 2 As far as the administration of the unemployment funds was concerned, he had heard it stated that 60 per cent of the funds were expended in distribution, and that only 40 per cent actually reached the worker. The Supreme Court’s blow at the National Recovery Administration had been a hard thing from the point of view of the big manufacturer, but good from that of the small employer, who had found it difficult to comply with the N.R.A. provisions. Labour in America was definitely out to make President Roosevelt carry out his original scheme of increased wages and shorter hours. When Mr Latimer was in Chicago once, 20 years ago, he saw a gangster fight in the street. This time he had no such experience. “ Chicago has been well cleaned up.” he said.