For the fifth time in 41 years, Oklahoma's wets did their doggondest to repeal the state prohibition law. Everyone would be far better off, they argued, if whisky were sold legally—and taxed—instead of just sloshing around the state as contraband, making cops greedy and bootleggers rich. This appeal to sweet reason was dramatized by the fact that the repeal group's leader, Tulsa Attorney Albert G. Kulp (rhymes with gulp), was a bone-dry teetotaler himself.
Nevertheless, the voters went right on liking prohibition anyhow. The state's church-going United Drys (many of whom fasted and prayed for victory at the polls) were fiercely...
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