AMERICAN PREPARATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 125, 23 November 1932, Page 7

AMERICAN PREPARATIONS

REVIVAL IN BUSINESS

VANCOUVER, loth November.

"Wets" control both Houses of Congress, but not by the two-thirds majority necessary to delete the Eighteenth Amendment from the Constitution. They can, and probably will, change the Volstead Law to enable beer to be sold.

The Hearst newspapers, which strongly supported Mr. Roosevelt, said editorially: "It is pathetic that the richest nation in the world' should rely for a solution of its money problems on a glass of beer and the amount a drinker can be taxed." The papers added that all foreign wines will be barred from the United States, and that California will have a great boom again. It is interesting, to note that California, Washington, and other Pacific States possess State liquor enforcement laws which expire automatically in December, so that the Western seaboard of _ America will be wet again within thirty days.

The financial pages of the newspapers of the larger cities were crowded with notices of issues of shares and bonds of new brewing companies. A great revival of the liquor business appears to be coming. Beer by Christmas promises to be an actuality almost everywhere, even if the legislation isvnot quite complete by that time. The present laws will be more honoured in the breach than by enforcement.