Word: problems
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Liquor Problem Club. The Last and Best News about the Liquor Problem. Mr. John Graham Brooks. (A member of the Committee of Fifty.) Parlor, Phillips Brooks House...
Prohibition, he said, cannot solve the liquor problem. State prohibition is already a policy of the past, for while it has been tried in fifteen states, it exists today in only five; and in these states the prohibitory laws are scandalously administered. Local prohibition has been successful in many rural districts, but has proved ineffectual in towns and cities. Prohibition has failed, because it does not represent public sentiment...
...partly to the community, adopted at the option of the voters in any given district, have in Norway and Sweden proved remarkably successful in reducing intemperance. There is every reason to believe that in this country also they would furnish the best possible method of dealing with the liquor problem...
...John Koren will lecture in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock this evening on "Wisdom and Unwisdom in Liquor Legislation." The lecture is to be delivered for the Liquor Problem Club, but will be open to all members of the University...
...Liquor Problem Club. Wisdom and Unwisdom in Liquor Legislation. Mr. John Koren, of Boston, Investigator for the Committee of Fifty. Parlor, Phillips Brooks House...