PROHIBITION: Next: Control

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From Dec. 5, when a ratifying convention in the thirty-sixth State (Pennsylvania, Ohio or Utah) puts its formal seal on the 21st Amendment and Prohibition is finally, actually repealed, until after Jan. 3, when Congress meets, the sale of alcoholics in the U. S. will be conducted under State laws which in many cases have not been changed since 1919. Under the Federal code of that date the only U. S. laws touching liquor are those levying import duties and internal revenue taxes. Only authority added by the 21st Amendment is extension...

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