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North Carolina, "valley of humility between two peaks of conceit," was not the only Southern State where Prohibition was making a strange new political brew. The South Carolina delegation last week startled the Democratic Convention by voting for Repeal. In August, South Carolina will hold a Democratic primary for the Senate nomination at which the electorate will have its first real chance to vote Wet or Dry. Senator Ellison Durant Smith, a personal Dry stumping for renomination, stands shyly by the Chicago convention's plank. Ashton H. Williams of Florence is aggressively championing Repeal. Leon Harris of Anderson keeps...
...normal times Fidelio Brewery, Inc. could brew 400,000 bbl. a year. Since Prohibition it has been operating at about 15% of capacity, losing money. Last year it sold 15 million bottles of near-beer. With the new funds it could easily, upon legalization of beer, build its bottling capacity up to five million 24-bottle cases per year...
...Approved stiff taxes on home-brew ingredients...
Upon automobiles was placed a 3 % levy and upon trucks 2%, for an estimated return of $48,000,000. Taxes on the "makings" of home brew and wine promised a $46,000,000 yield, whereas soft drinks were to contribute only $10,000,000. The Treasury anticipated $40,000,000 in revenue from a 10% tax on amusement admissions over 45?...
...Powys confines the 1,174 pages of his latest fanciful vignette within the covers of a single book. Hard on the reader's wrist, its insistent author's perverse philosophizing is liable to be hard on many a reader's patience too. "Folks 'ud rayther brew their own broth theyselves then be fed wi' all the Milk o' Paradise" is a bit of Penny Pitches' Glastonbury wisdom that fits the odd-lot characters in Author Powys' romance. Glastonbury's broth begins to bubble & boil at the reading of the late Canon...