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Show EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR REPEAL i 1 The campaign for repeal in Utah which culminates on November 7, will be educational in every respect, res-pect, it was announced by Franklin Frank-lin Riter of Salt Lake,, president I of the Utah League for Prohibition Prohibit-ion Repeal, in opening the cam- paign. "We expect to show the people of Utah that prohibition has fail- ed to encourage temperance and ' that it will be decidedly to their 1 advantage to vote for repeal of the Eighteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States and also for repeal of the prohibition prohib-ition clause of the Utah state constitution" said Mr. Riter. "Utah cannot afford to vote against repeal re-peal in view of the attitude taken by thirty-two other states who have all voted for repeal" he continued. con-tinued. Mr. Riter announced the appointment ap-pointment of R, L. Olson of Ogden as campaign director for the repeal re-peal forces. Mr. Olson is a past department commander of The American Legion and is well known over the state. He has been active for months in the lea- ( Continued on Page Six) EDUCATIONAL - CAMPAIGN FOR REPEAL (Continued from page 1) gue which sponsored the repeal of the state constitutional prohibition. Mr. Olson made the following summary sum-mary of the situation: "Many have gained the impression impres-sion that those opposed to prohibition prohib-ition want liquor and nothing else. That is entirely wrong. We have order to vote for ratification of the twenty-first amendment to the constitution of the United States, it is merely necessary to vote for the twenty-one delegates pledged to vote for ratification at a constitutional con-stitutional convention to be held in Salt Lake, December 5. In order to vote for repeal of the prohibition pro-hibition clause of the state constitution, con-stitution, it is only necessary to vote for a constitutional amendment amend-ment which will repeal Section 3, Article 22 of the state constitution. constitut-ion. If this amendment is voted and the prohibition section of the state constitution is repeal, the liquor laws on the statute books of Utah will still continue in force and effect, and law enforcement officers will have sufficient means of bringing liquor law violators to justice. Also, if state constitution constitut-ion prohibition is repealed, a new law will go Into effect January 1 permitting the sale and manufacture manufact-ure of 3.2 beer. Ition made crime profitable. "From an economic standpoint it would be foolish for Utah to remain re-main dry while states surrounding surround-ing us are wet. Liquor would come over the borders from four directions and this state would lose hundreds of thousands of dollars dol-lars each biennium in revenue. We must therefore vote to repeal the prohibition clause of the state constitution con-stitution and leave it up to the people, through the legislature, to enact good regulatory measures. When this is done, the forces now organized for repeal will join with those opposing repeal for strict enforcement of liquor laws. By no means should we let the bars down on the enforcement of good strong laws." Mr. Olson pointed out that In liquor now; plenty of it and it is not hard to obtain. In 1916 I voted for candidates pledged to prohibition because I believed prohibition pro-hibition would improve conditions morally. I continued a prohibitionist prohibit-ionist until a few years ago. I discovered that prohibition did not prohibit the use of intoxicating liquor and it did not promote temperance tem-perance but on the contrary it encouraged en-couraged promiscuous drinking because be-cause liquor was driven into the homes and in social circles where it was unknown prior to 1918. "The Utah League for Prohibition Prohib-ition Repeal is not interested in liquor but it is interested in good government. We now have throughout thro-ughout this and forty-seven other states, a disrespect for law and order that is shocking. Prohib- |