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...have to choose between no enforcement of prohibition at all, or some form of check like the Massachusetts 'Baby Volstead' law, and I prefer to have the law", said Thomas Nixon Carver, professor of Political Economy in a recent interview...
Professor Carver is one of the campaign leaders against the repeal of the Massachusetts Dry Enforcement law, commonly called the "Baby Volstead" law, and has just written a pamphlet expressing his views on the subject...
...Another important fact which the wets refrain from mentioning is that the increase in arrests for drunkenness in this state all came before the so-called 'Baby Volstead' law. The entire increase came between...
...repeal of the Bady Volstead act, while it would probably have very small immediate effect as far as actual conditions go here in Massachusetts, would have the advantage of serving notice to the rest of the country that the voters of one of its most populous states had become convinced that the present Prohibition situation was far from being the best solution to the vital difficult problem of intemperance...
...would be appreciated by a large number of citizens if the influence of the W. C. T. U. could be counteracted by advertisements representing the other side of the case. A possible advertisement might be:- "Vote Yes for the repeal of the Baby Volstead Act on Nov. 4th., and help relieve our country of crime, graft, hypocrisy, racketeers, wholesale disrespect of law and order--in short, of Prohibition...