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...shown some recognition of the feeling of the people as expressed in the referendum on the Baby Volstead Act. The committee on legal affairs has reported a bill legalizing a 4.5 per cent beer. The reason given for this act, which shows such a strong sentiment against the eighteenth amendment, is that the workman will no longer have the incentive to consume the harmful hard liquors...
...thorny prohibition problem has often been compared to the "untroubled" course which liquor regulation has taken in other countries. England seems to have been consistently a subject of envy among those opposed to the Eighteenth Amendment. A few months ago the Association against the Prohibition Amendment issued a pamphlet under the encouraging title, "England's Solution of the Liquor Problem." The view taken is typical of many advocates of repeal...
...reformers have been setting the British system up as the solution to America's most virus problem. It substantiated with the elements of truth, the results of this research discredit the English type of Houor regulation and command the impartial attention of wets as well as supporters of the Eighteenth Amendment...
Reds. Ordered by the President of China into Kiangsi Province "to suppress the Reds" (TIME, Jan. 19), the Eighteenth Army Division was surrounded last week and disarmed. It promptly deserted en masse to the Chinese Red Army of Kiangsi which recently massacred with amazing ferocity 100,000 persons...
General Chang Chi-tsan, Commander of the deserting Eighteenth, was held by his captors for $2,000,000 (Mex.) ransom. Appalled, the President of China despatched four army divisions to Red, rebellious Kiangsi...