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Lest Finns think the new Prohibition commission a mere pre-election gesture President Relander finished off the week by approving a bill to increase the alcoholic content of beer from 1.6% to 2.25% by weight (2.80% by content),* sent the bill on its way to the Diet where a somewhat similar measure was defeated six weeks...
...Wickersham Commission by implication set 2.75% as a legal degree of alcohol for U. S. beer when it said that 2.75% would never satisfy those who had "developed a taste for intoxicating beverages...
...have outgrown the school-boy complex of considering their teachers the authors of all evil. They apparently feel that the successful student is the one who can put one over on the professor. Accordingly, the Spectator, undergraduate daily, has welcomed the news that the test drawn up by Thomas Beer and published in the last issue of Scribners' has proved a sticker to several "supposedly" learned members of the faculty. It states with glee that the highest mark received by any of these men was 55 and that one of the students was able to amass a total only nine...
Knocked Down. The Commission set up and knocked down various substitutes for Prohibition-as-is. Repeal of the 18th Amendment would be a "backward step" to re-admit the saloon. To permit State option would be nullification. Beer of 2.75% would satisfy nobody who "has developed a taste for intoxicating beverages." Government sale would not be "expedient...
While millions in America are calling for bread and beer and the concern of every man is centered on his immediate demands, small notice is given to a grim shift in the undercurrent of the world's news. The years following 1918 found the leaders of Europe optimistic about the cause of permanent peace. Thinking men everywhere held out hope, and sound opinion declared another war highly improbable. Now, there is a different story, and the average man is inattentive...