Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1930, Page 31

ROOSEVELT'S PLAN IS FAR-REACHING Favors Prohibition Law Re- by peal Only to Extent of Effective Substitute. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Gov. Roosevelt’s proposal that the eighteenth amendment be revised is considered the most far-reaching of sny of those coming from the eamp hitherto known as advocating “repeal.” Until now the prohibition contro- yersy has been centered on those who “favored repeal” but did not offer a specific alternative of legislation or a substitute for the eighteenth amend- ment. Mr. Roosevelt favors repeal only to the extent of substituting effective rohibition in certain States and lim- ted prohibition in other States. ‘While the Anti-Saloon LeAgue will ice Gov. Roosevelt a distinet difference in ircles announcement and the tions heretofore, which have merely advo- cated repeal of the eighteenth amend- ment and liberty thereafter to individuals as well as to communities. One of the handicaps under which the wet cause has suffered has been that in the ardent desire to get the eighteenth amendment repealed no constructive plan has been offered by the wet leaders to take its place; and constructive is meant something which will permit those communities which wish to be dry not to be placed in the same position that wet com- munities have besn in under the required to submit to a rule imposed by other constituencies. Wants State Control. Mr. Roosevelt does not go back to | local option as it used to be known, | because under that system each po- litical subdivision could make whatever laws or regulations it desired about the liquor trafic. While in principle the New York Governor wants home rule established, he limits it to be & cific kind of liquor traffic which shall |in every case be completely controlled | by State agencies. | In other wi a dry State could pass & law prohibiting all liquor traffic and defining alcoholic content in any way it pleased and would expect the new constitutional amendment to make it the obligation of the Federal Gove eighteenth amendment—namely. being | :&n;h back up the desires of the M'tor the wet States, they would not have the right to pass a law which would bring back the saloon or which D. cost of liquor Government avoided because of the low manufacture which the would permit the retail distribution o!} intoxicants in speakeasies or drug stores or any other mercantile establishment, but liguor would be dispensed only through State-owned agencies, Also certain counties in the State would | have the right to expect the Federal| Government's protection as well as their | Btate becking in keeping out liquor | from counties or cities where public sentiment was dry and laws concerning prohibition were passed. 4 Mr. Roosevelt really goes back to the South Carolina dispensary system, which caused much controversy when it was tried in the '90s. It eventually collapsed | because at that time individuals could | purchase by mail packages of liquor | from other States. Since that time the | Federal Constitution has taken cmxze] of interstate traffic And there is no doubt | that what Gov. Roosevelt proposes i8 nof on all fours with the South Carolina experiment. Objection from the dry side is inevit- e, however, on the ground that graft and corruption will creep into State- owned agencles again, as it did in South Carolina, and that the mere existence of breweries and distilleries will make it possible for liquor to be distributed by _bootleggers. The theory, however, is that com- with the bootleggers will | “repeal” but “revision” of the | eenth amendment, though it is too early gmemey in 1932, and rnished a platform for the New Yor State Convention not much different from that which Gov. Al Smith out- lined in his campaign speeches in 1928. One of the outstanding effects of the | Roosevelt pronouncement may be & con- sideration_ by the Republicans not of eight- to tell what will happen in the Re- publican National Convention in 1832 until the battles inside the Republican Purey in various wet States in the next ew years are settled at the polls. (Copyright, 1930.) @ ULE | FLORENCE GREETS GROUP FLORENCE, Italy, September 11 (). —A group of Italo-American business men from Chicago and other Middle West points were received by Count Della Gherardesca when they arrived here in the course of an Italian tour. Count Gherardesca deliverd an ad- dress of welcome. Constantine Vitello, president of the Italo-American Union in Chicago, responded. O THL ROCKEFELLER TO BUILD 14 MILES OF HIGHWAY | Four-Million Dollar Project Wil Employ 500 Men for Three " Years on Island. By the Associated Press. BAR HARBOR, Me., September 11.— Fourteen miles of public highway on Mount Desert Island will be built by John D. Rockefeller, jr. at & cost of $4,000,000, it was announced yesterday by George B. Dorr, superintendent of Acadia National Park. The project would employ 500 men three years. Dorr sald Mr. Rockefeller has his engineers’ reports at hand, but had not announced when work on the road would be started. Mr. Rockefeller has built approximate- ly 40 miles of public motor and car- riage ronds on the island, in the Seal Harbor section, of which is situated his luxurious Summer home. FRENCH MOVIE CROWDS PROTEST 2 U. S. FILMS By Cable to The Star. PARIS, September 11.— Unprec- edented was the action of the managers Free Parking Space for Customers—E St., Between 6th and 7th “Home, Sweet Home” on the Fourth Floor Here you will ain inspiration or decorating your own home. THE HECHT CO. 5100 F Street at 7th NAtional Buy Furniture on the Budget Plan A moderate down sum and the balance in convenient pay- ments. alf-Yearly Sale of Furniture! .Two important factors in this sale. 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Despite of admission were returned after | the inflation the state coffers continue e spectators nolsily manifested dis-|to empty and 8o the government has satisfaction. announced that next year's appropria- ‘The theaters were the Olympia, show- | tion for bullding will be reduced a bil- ing “The King of Paris” the | lion rubles, which means that fac- tories and power stations will not be completed. (Copyright. 1030 POLE EXPLORER BACK Data Obtained May Reveal Fate of Party Lost 85 Years Ago. WINNIPEG, Manitoba, September 11 (#).—Ma). L. T. Burwash, on his way back from the magnetic pole and King _’ S— | COLONIAL ANTHRACITE “Avk the Man Who Uses o | Ralph J. Moore Coal Co. Williams Land, landed at Fort Momur- Tay, rl:‘nrmenz Alberta radio post, late 2y. With his pilot, W. E. 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