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Show Prohibition Here To Stay, I Says California Dry Chief r Provo Girl Interviews Volstead Vol-stead Advocate, Who Praises Law. By EVELYN" HANSEN Western Features Staff Writer. SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. Jan. 30 The 18th amendment can't be repealed. That's the flat declaration of T. M. Wright, California assemblyman $ and author of the Xt, famous "Wright I; ,lw California's I tead act. Fu r t h e rmorc, fOs v savs Wright, pro- lij: hibition is "grad- V" uilly proving ef- Y fective.-" k tV His statpmpnls :-- X were made here, v y A in answer to a i V- " .i $25,000 prize offer S for "the best plan V '"A l lo rePeal the 18lh pk. 3 amendment." Miss Hansen Wright pointed I that, "Moses introduced the Ten Commandments thousands of years ago, and some of them aren't being rigidly enforced yet.. But no one has suggested that they be repealed. repeal-ed. Yet after only nine years' trial, some people are already clamoring about the failure of our prohibition law, claiming that it is, not aiding temperance. ' "I don't believe there is any more drinking now than there was before passage of the amendment,'' Mr. Wright declared, in rising to defense of the dry bill he sponsored, "and most of the 'flaming youth' stories seem to be a form of wet propaganda." As an example, the assemblyman cited the condition of his own home town. "In San Jose, before prohibition, there were 91 . saloons, with two shifts of bartenders for each," he said, "disbursing liqlior continuously, continuous-ly, and it's hard for me to believe that the 'bootleggers' of today could carry on greater 'moonshine' traffic than that. "Of course," he admitted, "there are all sorts of tales about the young people who have taken up drinking since it was forbidden them, but the first gesture I of bravado is wearing off and most crowds are beginning to realize that it is no longer 'smart' to carry 'something on the hip,' and with the realization that there is nothing to it, they are quitting. "Some boys and girls do attend dances drunk," Mr. Wright agreed, "but if five are drung, why judge the other 95 sober ones by the same standard? "And besides all that," he added, "the liquor nowadays is getting so bad it's practically 'namingi your own poison' to venture a drink." Mr. Wright's judgment tells him that a plan of substitution for prohibition pro-hibition would be an impossibility. |