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Sleighs jingled merrily through Finland's pine forests, snowplows roared up and down the streets of Helsinki (Helsingfors). In a nationwide, nose-nipping blizzard last week hardy Finns decided by ballot between continuance of Prohibition and inauguration of State Liquor Control...
...Helsinki, the capital, women cast red ballots, surprised everyone by plumping for State Liquor Control. In all, 82% of the capital's vote was for repeal of Prohibition, and of this landslide of ballots more than 55% were...
...were permitted. Previously Finns favoring continuance of Prohibition had postered the city with statements that "those who vote wet will be punished on the day of judgment." On election morn, since the Government had forbidden both Drys and Wets to distribute handbills, the Drys laid upon every doorstep in Helsinki a copy of a Dry newspaper ap-pealing editorially for support of Prohibition. In not a single Helsinki district, however, was a Dry majority polled...
...What makes us sad," commented Rev. Sigfrid Sirenius, one of Helsinki's leading settlement workers, "is to think that revenue from the sale of liquor will soon figure as the basis of the national budget. . . . The local deduction will be that it will be a patriotic duty to drink heavily, so that the State will get more revenue...
...Lumber Hells." From Leningrad to Helsinki (Finland) hastened angrily Editor-Publisher George M. Cornwall of The Timberman of Portland, Ore. He had entered Russia last week to check up on Soviet lumber production, confirm or refute rumors of Russian convicts worked to death in Soviet "Lumber Hells" (TIME, Sept. 22). Said...