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...write a pamphlet to show that prohibition was a success, but after going about making investigations changed his mind. He sent out a questionnaire to 20,000 members of the society a few months ago and found a great change in sentiment towards modification of the Volstead Act. He declared...
...favor of a modification of the Volstead Act to permit the sale of beer and wine because: 1) the effect of prohibition has been to put an end to scientific temperance teaching; 2) it has resulted in increased drinking among young people; 3) it has discouraged the consumption of wine and beer and increased the demand for distilled liquors, which today are mostly poisonous; 4) it has brought about disrespect for all laws; 5) it is class legislation discriminating in favor of the rich; 6) it has increased intemperance...
...Carstensen, newly elected President of the society, stood behind his Secretary, saying: "As long as the Volstead Act is there, it is the duty of good citizens to obey it, but I recognize the right of good citizens to ask for modification...
...chief pronouncement in the Senate on prohibition came, however, from Walter E. Edge of New Jersey, a wet, who knows how to stir up trouble and is pretty sure he knows how the people of New Jersey stand. He delivered a long oration favoring modification of the Volstead Act. He quoted Stephen Leacock...
Across the scareheads of Berlin papers splashed a word, all curlicues and squiggles, which U. S. tourists suddenly recognized as "VOLSTEAD." Throwing themselves upon the mercy of German friends, the tourists were dumbfounded to learn that the scare-heads read, "AMERICA WET AGAIN! VOLSTEAD LAW RE-PEALED...