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Show Jets will center fight to get beer 1 BREW OF FOUR PER CENT IS j FIRST OBJECT, Volstead'.? Defeat Makes Wet Head of Important Committee MEET IN ST. LOUIS Foes of Prohibition Claim Vote Gives Them Encouragement v, H rry B. m T nj snff Ootrcspoifdejtu WASHINGTON'. Nov. 30. Four per cent beer. Light wines from 12 to I'O per cent alcoholic content These are the demands now to b made of congress by organised "Vets" I as a reeult of Increased favor for modification mod-ification of th Volstead l.-w registered iv oti rs m ill. r '. ' Hi fiigrcsslonaJ Althuugli "light wines" are always mentioned in all modification proposals, propos-als, the one tiling w. ts have closest to tne-lr in-arts and thougiits, however, Is beer. It springs from a belief that the expectation and demand of the rank and file who marked wi t ballot? on November 7 was for beer. Sonic members believe it would be "cood polltbs" to give the present congress a chance to act on modification modifica-tion In the light of popular will expressed ex-pressed at lh.- congresulonal election Others ten this would bo unwise, us they doubt that defeated "dry" n,-ii-bers will feel any more kindly toward the measure. howcr much tiny might like an opportunity to drown their borrows. With th-' organization of the new Icongreas in March, however, the fight ot overhaul and "liberalize" tpe prohibition prohi-bition enforcement act will get under 1 way Immediately. OLSTE u I1 i i vrwin it i ) Th- il.-i'.-at of Andrew J Volstead. I father .,f tin preeenl enforcement act. I thi blffgeal rlngle aid to the wel program. Although Volstead s successor suc-cessor Is dry himself. Volstvad's de- Ifeat removes htm from the chairman- snip oi inc juuiciary comnuuiw aim ! puts In hi place Congressman George S. Graham Of Pennsylvania, a wet. This means that Instead of proposal propos-al to modify prohibition being buried 1 1 ii committee, the measures will be h'ard and reported to the house for action. Governor Kdward I ICdwards. newly j elected senator from New Jersey, is J expected to jump Into the fori front of the fight in the senate. As an ex-, I perlenced 1.1 and a counselor wise in 1 !- -natoria l r.ia neu erlm?. Jim Heed, or : Missouri is counted on to be his chief I assistant. In the Hi.u'Y, Galllvan of Massacbu- setts, Hill of Maryland. TinKham ot tfaaaa Husctts, McLoud of Michigan, and Babath Of Illinois are looked to as j WAN! Ml MMI vr KJIiLED "It doesn't really make any great dU feri ne whether the present con-icr. con-icr. s 1. 1 I he newly elected one passes a modification act." says G. V. Hinckley, Hinck-ley, head of the Association Against tin- Prohibition Amendment, who has ill reel ,) the BSSOCiatlon's congressional congression-al drl. -What we are out to get of course. Is the repeal of the whole prohibition pro-hibition proposition. "The Ti ult.s in the congressional election show Lbs way the popular wind S blowing Congress ought to be able to read the signs. If there is no modification, following the expression ex-pression of this election, you may depend de-pend on It the Miters will speak still more emphatically when they east their votes two years from now in I l'J24. "Iook out for a lot of the fellows 'who hav. been on the fence to fall on I the wet side. iir in- i.rr.ri'. I 1 It K( mi.lM' li nr-nwu" "For yean, members of congress In , close districts have been terrorized by j the Antl-SaloOn league. They renllz-ed renllz-ed that unless they walked the dry Chalk line the leagUC could go Into their districts and defeat them. Thera was no organization which could effectively ef-fectively combat the league In Its drives to 'get' congressmen In close districts. "As a result, these members have, evaded votes whenever possible or have reluctantly voted with the drys. iThat was .ernont rated In the vote by I which the Volstead act was passed over president Wilson's veto. Almost one-half the members In each house 'failed to vote The bill wos made law 1 We believe, however that this association as-sociation has now demonstrated that It ran flht the league In Its own field Ah a result, these hidden votes Will now in large part tCOUIC out In t In-open In-open With the avowed wet votes. WS believe there will be more than enough (Continue Fago Two.) 'brew of four per cent is first object (Continued from Page One.) of these to modify the present prohl-: prohl-: bltlon act " , .MEET EN ST. LOUIS ST. LOUIS. Nov 20. (By the Associated As-sociated Press) Stpps to organize tiio wet forces In every stato to obtain modification of the Volstead act were discussed at a two-day meeting of the National Association Opposed to the Prohibition Amendment, which began hero today. Predictions were made by delegates I that the liquor question probably I would b tho principal issue of tho i 1 9 2 4 presidential election a a result 'of claims being made that the wet . Jwon a sweeping victory in tho recent 'general election. I'enial that a third major political party favoring amendment of tho Vel-; Vel-; ctead law was planned, was made by I delegates, who said that wet candl-I candl-I dates of either the Republican or ! I.'emocratlc parties would be supported, support-ed, and whore candidates of both major ma-jor Dartles were found not suitable, an ln'! 1 1 . 1 nt nominee would be sup- i ported by tho association. PROrCIF VL ISSI E SOON William 1j Fish who assisted in the election of Governor Edwards of New Jersey, to the L'nited States senate, ' i on a light wines and beer platform, emphasised th.it the prohibition o.u tion would bo the principal lssuo in the next general election "People all over the country, are clamoring for a chance to express themselves on the prohibition ques- I itlon" he said. "When the national platforms aro constructed this ques-' ques-' 1 '" ii e. iM .-..nte in nnd neglect Im construed a.i f.n Indication -' f.-!iii'-' ' 1 rfv is 'dry' ' Th November ecUoasM that the large law-abiding gl '"ir HMHji.-itlon v.-aats a n9 tion of the Volstead act, whlZ l.crriil- beverage ofllghtiJH content. "vv have no desire to MH lik- a third party movement,; li e th-u th ' two great ptliB th' Ir v. ay '-:.-ar to settle iH and dry' question." |