| Show i BY UI Y RODNEY BUTCHER yE NEA Service Writer rILet WASHINGTON II March arch 14 John U-John John Philip Hill has gone gono away He made tho the House some somo wet ter te r It he had been allowed to stay sta Ho might have e done some lome better Dette In Iii making the House some wetter In case his career here hero Is over ono one may at least put some such homely epitaph on Hills Hill's tomb tomb- tombstone atone Barely voted out ot of Congress when hen he sought election to the Senate last November ember Congress Congress- Congressman Congressman man Hill Hili has left Washington with au d record of lar la her work for lor the cause of the tho wets ets When ho he came sIx six x years ago thi die hards had land virtually glyen up trying to make an any dent In the solid dry phalanx In the House On his first day In Congress Hill promptly Introduced a II bill to the Act Aci In that Congress the blaty- blaty seventh seventh se he the wet wel bloc consisting of favoring ta mo modification of oC the Yol Vol stead Vol-stead was stead Act Hill was as made chair chair- chairman chairman chairman man of this committee and tune tune- functioned In that position d during ring the thc seventh seventh sixty eighth and ninth sixty ninth Congresses ses Today the committee has 63 members The optimistic Hill even belIeves modification has haa all an cx ex chance next year I This committee will III be a com corn committee of oC 80 SO In the the- next House said as he started p packing UP and had turned over the affairs of OC the valiant little group to his hla successor S We hate haic th that t many definite promises of ot membership There will be at least a hun hun- hundred dred tired more congressmen who wio 10 will vote for a bill to allow each state to 0 determine what con con- content con content tent in beverages Is intoxicating intoxicating- In iii In the sixty seventh Congress rc there were members who nc ac- ac actually ac voted wet on a test vote In the sixty eighth Congress If had been a test vote there thore would have been votes otes for tor modification In the sixty-ninth sixty Congress If modification had been Drought brought uP there would have been more snore than votes otes tor for It It In the seventieth Congress 1 estimate that votes will t or ornu nu modification and I believe there thero Is 11 atine afine lne chance to change the Vol stead Vol-stead stead Act for lor the better belter Many of ot the New York and people have ha seen een the the- theli li light ht In the last year ear and ana our modification is growing so ra In each succeeding Congress that modification Is l Ine Inevitable table It was Hill of ot course who nho made It possible tor for ono one no to make wine In his home for lor domestic ana get awa away with it unless a 5 Jury should decide that this wino was Intoxicating His Ills famous lamous cider elder party a ai at his hb home In Baltimore to which he h Invited everyone everone everyone Including g g proM proM- prohibition prohibition agents will go down In Maryland's history was his corn com ee which effected the Ule 16 beer bill hearings which led In turn to the Senate prohibition hearings At both of ot theao hear hear- hearIngs hearings ings the subject of 01 o prohibition and It its II enforcement was 1 glien ghen en a a thor thor- ough airing in public for lor the tM first time We haven't r passed assed any of our Ideation measures during this critical period Hill lUll concluded but we stopped topped the they arys-they arys ba haven't got anything through either Ither |
