Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-02-05 | Page 4 | Women's Voices Raised

Women's Voices Raised ADDING A their protests to the tile many lH heard ard i-i i before the Salt SaIt Lake Council of Women J Monday raised their yo voices voices against the state going into the liquor business Thoughtful men nd nd women increasingly oppose legislation proposes sales in iii state owned arid and operated op op- rated crated stores The hearings so far held to together with expressions expressions expressions ex ex- ex- ex heard throughout hout the tue state and particularly particularly par par- amon among legislators indicate widespread widespread wide wide- spread pu public lic opinion favoring a compromise along the lines hues sug suggested h by Representative Holmes of or Brigham City If the lawmakers hearken he to these demands the control law wille will e embody p these ideas as liS temperance promoting features A central state warehouse which will make no o purchases but hut will wiH receive liquor on consignment con con- the time owners assuming warehousing costs and other charges cs A state administrator will vill be in control The Tue state and the administrator adminis adminis- will not he be subjected to solicitors' solicitors efforts efforts ef ef- ef- ef forts to stock any particular brands branas or to invest public j u fl funds for purchases es The plan is ii designed to be bc air airtight ight against graft or possibility possibility possibility pos pos- of or attempting to corrupt a public official Retail stores won would hI be operated pr privately selling liquor j ill in s 's or by hJ the drink ni id provisions o. o of law Jaw and workable enforcement enforce ment meat regulations would insure compliance Kith ith high Ugh standards of dc decency ency ll Hotels res- res es j I I and clubs would be permitted to sell sen sento to guests and members Such features arc arti essential in any in-any any control aw which aims to lanish banish the thc bootlegger rn racketeer speakeasy keas operator and and nd other evils of the prohibition era rhe They are necessary too oo if the vices ices of heavy and find clandestine drinking arc to be bc overcome o This is not to tosny say that an any legislation which winch may be he adopted can by br any possibility do 10 away with all the tue evils ils of the liquor traffic A practical and workable law will wiIl however howe seek seck to banish the he major evils and alid make the nearest approach to o ideal conditions which can enn be realized under undera a i practical program for cooperative control ol by bythe bythe the he law its enforcers and nd the courts The legislature will err crr if it views the liquor nor lor traffic as a major Junior pro producer of or revenues to o public treasuries Excessive taxes and 1111 licenses arc hound bound to be reflected in prices Resulting high prices can only encourage e and foster the thc rumrunner bootlegger and nd all nIl their ilk including the arch foe of youth routh the speakeasy operator At the public hearing Wednesday V n a joint session of or the legislature in the chamber of f the lower Io house honse it is to be hoped realists who vho are arc capable of looking upon a practical problem in the light of or past experience will urge irge with all the thc insistence thc they can command that hat Utah's Utah s control law be workable and that it t move in iii the tiie direction of temperance Granting Granting Grant- Grant ing ng laudable purpose and intent to those who champion drastic regulation approaching the thc strictures of the thc laws enacted under the thc eighteenth amendment they must be persuaded ed Cd d to abandon idealistic and impracticable inhibitions inhibitions in- in which would perpetuate the very conditions conditions con- con from which the voters of the state sought escape when they cast their ballots for repeal in ill 1 1932 1032 The development of industrial self government has been lopsided Lewis Lewis L. L Lorwin economist