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Prohibition's best friend is Kansas. In the newspaper poll of the nation just now compiled sentiment everywhere ran overwhelmingly in favor of modification or repeal except in a few southern states and in Kansas. Kansas was dry--incomparably drier than any other state in the Union. The natural query is, what manner of commonwealth is this that, alone among its fellows outside the stolid South, still stands so stubbornly beside its Volsteadian guns...
...Senate the Judiciary Committee referred five wet bills and one resolution (to repeal the 18th Amendment) to a subcommittee (which is all dry except for one member, Reed of Missouri). The bills are expected...
...unofficial straw vote was last week undertaken by the Newspaper Enterprise Association (N. E. A.) through newspapers in 375 cities in various parts of the country. Three options were given to voters: 1) enforcement of the Volstead Act, 2) repeal, 3) amendment of the Act to permit light wines and beer...
...second omission is that the passive conduct of the Democrats does not necessarily portend Republican success in coming elections. By not taking issue, the Democrats may make some very good issues. Although Democratic voters in general will approve the entrance into the World Court, the repeal of the estate tax and the mere fact of the aluminum controversy added to the perennial tariff issue and viewed in the light of a distinct Democratic Party not leagued with the Insurgents, can give the Republicans the usual trouble at mid-term elections...
Coming out of Committee of the Whole, the Senate voted a second time on several important points. Abolition of the tax on admissions was sustained 40 to 27. The repeal of the estate taxes was upheld^ 40 to 23. The final vote was 58 to 9 in favor of the bill...