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While editors, lecturers, friends-of-the-President and other Washington soothsayers still struggled to interpret the Delphic Wickersham report in Washington on Prohibition (TIME, Feb. 2), public attention was fixed briefly last week on the world's only other Prohibited republic, Finland. Finland too is troubled with speakeasies, bootleggers, hijackers, et al. Finland too is faced with a Presidential election in the near future. Finland too has a growing groundswell of political Wetness. And not unnaturally, Finland too last week acquired a Wickersham Commission, officially a "committee of experts to investigate thoroughly the social conditions created by Prohibition...
...interpret the evidence before us, it established certain definite economic and social gains following national prohibition. But it established quite as clearly that these gains have come from closing saloons rather than from the more ambitious program of complete and immediate universal total abstinence to be enforced concurrently by nation and state...
...were largely responsible for subsequent legislation to reorganize the Federal Power Commission on a full-time non-Cabinet basis (TIME, March 10). The discharge of Messrs. Russell and King, stirred Senator Walsh and others to loud and threatening protest. Senator Walsh bluntly wrote Chairman Smith: "I am unable to interpret this action in any light except as punishment of two devoted public servants. . . . Not a word has ever been uttered against either implying anything more than excessive zeal in safeguarding the interests of the public...
...which leads me to remark that in my four years of subscription to TIME, I have noted again and again that you insist on interpreting news. My judgment is that your subscribers belong to a class of fairly intelligent people, as competent to interpret facts as you. Personally, I wish you might stay what you claimed to be when I first received your advertising matter: a newsmagazine.∙ I should prefer that you omit the colorings of your own prejudices...
Before an audience of approximately 200, comprised of basketball coaches of colleges in New England and members of the Eastern Officials Association, two teams selected from the University basketball squad were used to demonstrate and interpret the revised basketball rules in the new gymnasium yesterday afternoon...