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Show Signs of Times Drift Of Events Liquor Cost Would Pay For Defense and Relief Editor Progressive Opinion: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union states that the daily liquor bill of the U. S. A. is $9,000,000 or a total of $3,285,000,000 a year. It is also stated that each day's yes, each day's- drink bill would feed one million Chinese refugee children for nine monthsf or 600,000 English Children for six months; or feed most of Europe's famine threatened peoples. Every dollar of the fifty billion spent for relief and defence during the past eight years, could have been paid without appropriating p. cent from Federal or State treasuries if the money spent for alcoholic beverages and paid out to meet the cost of liquor-bred crime, accidents, disease and premature death in the United States during the same period, had been contributed directly by the people to Uncle Sam for these purposes. This is the conclusion'' of the American Business Men's Research foundation, announcing a survey of costs t n the first 101 months of the re-legalized liquor business, from beer's legal comeback at the beginning of April, 1933 to August Au-gust 31, 1941. It appears that if liquor consumption was done away with, there would be no need for the Red Cross Drive or heavy taxes. C, V. Hansen |