BEER IN AMERICA

Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1932, Page 5

BEER IN AMERICA

SENATE PBOPOSAL

A POLITICAL SENSATION

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

WASHINGTON, March 19.

A political sensation has been caused by a United State Senate Sub-Commit-tee recommending legalisation to allow the production and sale of beer containing four per cent, of alcohol. The Sub-Committee has advanced the following reasons for recommendation, viz:—

i (1) That it would promote temperance;

i’ (2) That it would decrease crime. ! (3) That four per cent, beer would not be intoxicating. (4) That the manufacture of .such beer would give employment to probably one million persons.

(5) That one hundred thousand farmers would derive a profit from the growing of between sixty and one hundred and twenty million bushels of the necessary barley. (6 ) That there would he a tax yield from such beer of from 347 to 80C millions of dollars per annum.

(7) That the hotels and restaurants would recapture the business that is now being diverted to the sly-grog shops.

The recommendations are in thform of a report containing exper. testimony. They will be laid before the Senate