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...speakers have matched arguments successfully with Yale and Princeton earlier this year. In the match with the Elis the audience sustained the affirmative in maintaining that the United States should ratify the Pan-American arbitration treaty without reservations. The subject of the debate with Princeton: "Resolved, That the Baby Volstead Act in Massachusetts should be repealed," was one which the Council's analysis of the situation had fitted it to deal with...
...returns of the Prohibition Poll indicate that the net result of the attempt of the older generation to solve its liquor problem has been a new problem which younger hands must someday unravel. Legislation of the Volstead Act and Jones Law calibre is no way out of the alcohol tangle. 24,000 college men and women in eighteen different colleges have examined. Prohibition and found it wanting...
...undergraduates. What the results of this poll may prove, we cannot definitely say. But we hope that it will be of some slight help in causing something to be done about what, in our opinion, is a most unsavory condition--the disrespect for law in the form of the Volstead Act and the terrific corruption in city and town governments resulting from efforts to "beat" that law. --Brown Dally Herald...
...Peabody presented a Dry credo of 14 points. Excerpts: "We believe in the Volstead Act which limits alcoholic content to one half of one percent. No other standard would be safe for children"; "we believe the buyer is equally guilty with the seller in illicit transactions in liquor"* "we believe that the press . . . ought to give fair representation of the views of law-abiding citizens rather than continue attacks on the law" "we believe there is no authority for submitting the Constitution, in whole or in part, to a national referendum...
...that workmen are more efficient under the Volstead Act is to pay a compliment to the virtues of home brew and dago red. . . . Prohibition has failed to prohibit...