Show Cooperative Liquor Stores Urged by New Jersey Judge NEWARK N. N J. J Jan 16 ff JP Co Co Cooperative Cooperative operative liquor stores to abolish private private vate profit and at the same time avoid the possible political mismanagement mismanagement mismanagement and the scandals of or government government govern govern- ment ownership were advocated today today today to to- day by Federal Judge Federal Judge William Clark In a letter to State Senator Albert S. S Woodruff of at Camden chairman of the senate judiciary committee Judge Clark author of the famous famous' decision which held the eighteenth amendment unconstitutional said In every country which is now regulating the liquor traffic the basic principle underlying the various systems terns is the elimination of ot private profit prof pro it The difficulty there there- Is is of course the he balancing of the good and evil fairies incentive and avarice I 1 am wondering if it it would not be ic possible to sell liquor on a coop cooperative cooperative ern- ern tive live basis I am not aware of this principle principle principle prin prin- ciple having haying been applied to the liquor liquor liquor business There is too much m money in it but o of course it h has been widely used in In inthe the sale of or other commodities When I was in college we bought nearly neD everything from a cooperative which we we paid a dollar to Join and from which we received dividends when the books were balanced balanced balanced bal bal- and the and the ex excess e s of at earnings di di- vided among the consumer consume members Cooperative liquor stores would thus abolish private profit They would at nt the same time avoid the possible possible pos pos- 1 sible political mismanagement and the scandals of ot government ownership because because be be- cause they would be run by bYe a board selected from their members Cooperatives Judge Judg Clark declared would have another advantage in eliminating smuggling and tax eva sion |