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When a national referendum last month defeated Prohibition by 3½ to 1 (TIME, Jan. 11), Finland's Cabinet was faced with a serious problem: to legalize liquor traffic and provide machinery to control it before spring, when reopening of navigation would make it feasible for smugglers to resume their operations. Last week the new bill was ready for Parliament to vote on. Key points...
...charge of Finland's liquor traffic will be a control board of seven members selected for three years by the Cabinet...
...Home-brewing (which goes on in Finland at the rate of 500,000 gallons annually) will be legal, taxfree...
Naturally U. S. Wets were immoderately jubilant last week. But there are, after all, only 3,600,000 Finns. Making the most of this incontrovertible fact, Research Secretary Deets Pickett of the U. S. Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals released a press statement headed Little Finland vs. A World of Greed...