Prohibition in America
The first steps towards the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment and the ending of Prohibition in the United States have now been taken by Congress, the House of Representatives having carried by 289 votes to 121 the repeal resolution already passed by the Senate. The next stage will be a longer one, for the resolution will now have to be submitted for ratification to special conventions called by the forty-eight States, and the assent of thirty-six of them is necessary before the law can be changed. The result is far from certain, for the adverse vote of thirteen States will be enough to veto the change. But whatever happens it ' is' probable that America will cease to be dry in the fullest sense of the term, as Congress is likely to get round the Eighteenth Amendment by legalizing the sale of light wines and beers. In any case any one of the forty-eight States will still be able to remain dry individually, as many did before 1920. But Prohibition as a national policy hai
definitely failed. * * * *
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