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This is the first time in a somewhat long public career that I have been characterized as a "Dry." I am not a "Dry"; I have never been a "Dry," and I believe fervently in the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment...
With the platforms of both Republican and Democratic parties in New York State advocating Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, it seems apparent that the people of the Empire State are sufficiently dissatisfied with the present situation to take their interest to the polls. Only a question which involves personal tastes and habits could so pierce the political apathy of the United States. Undoubtedly its citizenry will display the same unanimity of choice next Monday when President Hoover's Boston speech to the Federation of Labor will compete with the fifth of the world baseball series over the radios...
...physical comforts, have built for him a cloister and a hearth, have provided him with unprecedented athletic facilities. Now they only have to ask that he refuse to stifle. With respect to creating a zest for knowledge and, above all, a zest for life, they remain with their eighteenth century predecessors, waiting for the horse to drink of the living water...
...difficult to comment editorially on the words of Gaspar G. Bacon, president of the Massachusetts Senate, to the Freshman Class last night. What he said has been said before, but perhaps, in the eighteenth century measure of success, neither so well nor so timely. Fully aware of the fact that all freshmen classes the country over are being snowed under with blizzards of advice, he spoke briefly and on a topic about which his public service has given him a rounded knowledge...
...public office in the history of the United States, have all been heaped helter-skelter in the crucible of the experimenters, with a new code of lawlessness and immorality as the only product, "the time has come" for a true test of the continuance or disappearance of the eighteenth amendment. The November elections are the battleground...