Plank, Poll, Party

Last week chunky, affable Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis of Pennsylvania did a Dry-to-Wet flipflop. In 1930 he was elected on the customary platform weasel of "strict enforcement." Fearful lest Boss William Scott Vare of Philadelphia reject him as a candidate for renomination in the April primaries. Senator Davis has now "regretfully reached the conclusion that the results hoped for under Prohibition have not materialized." Henceforth the Repeal-&-Return plank of the late Dwight Whitney Morrow will be his political guide.

P: To 20,000,000 U. S. citizens The Literary Digest last week began mailing ballots for its third national Prohibition poll. Unlike its last ballot, scattering votes among "For," "Against" and "Modification," this one was limited to "For" or "Against" the 18th Amendment. P: After discovering 100 cases of liquor and a sub-calibre machine gun in a dwelling house, Federal Prohibition agents in New Orleans last week arrested Charles Genard, onetime halfback at Loyola Uni-versity (New Orleans), sought his brother, Dominick. president of Loyola's freshman class, and their father. College officials were amazed to learn that the Genard family was accused of being affiliated with a liquor syndicate operating along the Louisiana coast. P: After purchasing three quarts of anti-freeze liquid at a gas filling station in Springfield, Mass, last week, a number of laborers went to the shores of a nearby pond, mixed the liquid with six quarts of water and sat down to an all-day carousal. Eight quarts of the concoction were consumed, one hidden. Seven of the men died within two days. The hidden quart, police believe, was later discovered by another man. He, too, died. With most the poison worked rapidly; one, however, was up and about the following day, worked, later died.

P: Under a letterhead depicting a scantily clad damsel, apparently the Goddess of Liberty, manacled by one hand to Gangland and by the other to Prohibition, "The Compromisers," recently born in Texas, sought to substitute for the 18th Amendment an individual permit system with government dispensaries.

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