Show NEWS REVIEW OF 0 CURRENT CURREN I 1 EV EVENTS E j I 1 W how the United states launched Launch the great experiment ot of national prohibition EMERGENCY LAW IN EFFECT president returns home to take up fight for r league of nations senator borah charges that wall street Is financing league of nations propaganda british dirigible meets with disaster when Nc Ne arEnd of voyage by EDWARD W PICKARD the united states tins lina launched the great experiment just lifter after tho the treaty was signed that nominally brought the lie war to an end our wartime emergency imer emergency gency prohibition net act nellt edit into effect and the entire country became chilly bone dry chy ch y 11 Pres bly demobilization will be completed complete within two months or so und and there the ft wee wet spell at least in s some states until tile tho ment meet goes into effect on january 10 at present there here Is considerable confusion concerning the scope and tho enforcement of tile the emergency law A federal court tins has ruled in favor of beer slid wine containing not to exceed per cent of alcohol and in many localities the dealers are taking a chance and dispensing those drinks in most states the aldand old and new laws on prohibition prevent even this in any case the alie manufacture and sale of all drinks with the greater alcoholic content tire barred and attorney general palmer has ordered rigid enforcement of the law relating to them the wets have been making a game but losing fight and the drys have bave refused to yield at tiny any point the forces of tho the latter in congress are are planning to pass measures to prevent the country from going on oil a whisk basla basis between tin the time of demobilization and rind january Jannary IG 10 and to put it stop to the sale of weak beer and light wines at once r regardless e gard of court rulings rull nga though the united states Is now the only try dry country there may amny he bo another before very long for the united kingdom alliance encouraged by the lie success of the american prohibitionists tins lias opened a campaign to put grout great britain on oil tile tho same fennie basis american ineth methods will be followed and american speakers imported london correspondents spon dents predict that to deprive tho of his fits tile ale porter and beer would almost precipitate a revolution british labor Is against prohibition but so Is american labor i and it may bo be that john bull will in the not distant future bo be reduced to drinking clenion squishes and minerals the world will vill watch the american ment ono one of the greatest ever in eco economics with intense interest |