Show Utah Drys Favor Favori I i State Monopoly I See Return to Old Saloon Days Unless Policy 3 oJ Is Adopted The Defenders militant Utah dry organization Monda Monday threatened through its chairman former Mayor John F. F Bowman to campaIgn for forstate forstate state control of hard liquor if such sucha a plan does not follow repeal of statutory statutory sta- sta prohibition We W foresee worse conditions than prevailed in old saloon aloon days dars ir if the liquor business is turned over to vate business Mr Bowman said U If statutory prohibition in Utah Ulah is wiped out the Defenders certainly will support support sup sup- port state control if it Is adopted and will campaign for it if It is not We hope the drafting committee of the governors advisory committee commit commit- tee tee on liquor control abides by its tentative plan of a state monopoly ors Favors Local Option He also urged that provision be made for local option also favored bythe drafting committee in its first report pointing out that 17 of 29 Utah counties voted to retain rebin constitutional constitutional prohibition and that three counties had only small majorities for repeaL It is evident from the report of Dr Doran former head ot of the bereau bu be- reau of industrial alcohol that repeal Continued on PUP Pau Two v r M John F. F Bowman UTAH DRYS BACK STATE CONTROL See Return to Old Saloon Days Unless Policy Is Adopted Continued from Pate Pue One has not eliminated the bootlegger but has increased his activities There would be a a deplorable condition If H hard liquor is legalized and placed in private control State control would Increase revenue reve nue and tend more to eliminate the bootlegger than would any other system he argued declaring such a system has been recommended by B a committee of the Rockefeller tion Local Conditions Rapped Mr Bowman flayed local conditIons as worse than In saloon days i Anyone can get beer anywhere served by minors he said The Defenders are arc opposed to a Q special session of the legislature as being too late and believe the ques ques- tion of statutory prohibition repeal should be a political issue and placed before the people next fall Urging local option he declared a al major argument of in 1933 was that the vote then was not for repeal of statutory prohibition against Shard hard liquor and that most of the thIs in mind |