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...wets," and stating with commendable simplicity that "the majority of students, at least in the East, have been breaking the (prohibition) law," The Harvard Crimson has enlisted the aid of the Harvard Debating Council in a crusade to rid the country of the existing enforcement laws for the Eighteenth Amendment. The debators have formulated their own "plan for the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment," and the journalists are laboring mightily to crystallize undergraduate opinion behind a definite plan of prohibition reform...
Item 1. It does not repeal the Eighteenth Amendment (that requires a two-thirds majority in the legislatures of three-fourths of the states, as well as a two-thirds majority in Congress...
Provides a means of creating and increasing public sentiment necessary to the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment...
Item 5. Places the burden of federal enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment upon people who drink beverages which are not necessaries, but are luxuries. If alcoholic liquor in itself is an evil, it makes the traffic pay for its own eradication...
From no less an authority than Dr. Clarence True Wilson, executive secretary of the Methodist board of temperance, prohibition, and public morals comes the revealing statement that prohibition is not designed to prevent drinking. Defending his unique interpretation of the eighteenth amendment Dr. Wilson says. "The prohibition laws were enacted to regulate public matters like the licensed sale of intoxicants. Prohibition was not designed to prevent you or me from drinking. That is a matter for our personal tastes...