ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED T ' :v LARGER
THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLIt TI< «
THE NEW LIQUOR REGULATION
Considerable comment has been created In some
sections of the Territory over the closing regulation
which is scheduled to go into effect on liquor sales to
morrow. Under the new rule, no sale of liquor, which
includes beer and wine, will be permitted between the
hours of 1 a. m. and 7 a. m. To clarify the question
which some have raised as to whether the Board of
Liquor Control meant beer and wine it might be well
to quote a paragraph of tire liquor act amendment
passed by tire last Legislature. It reads: ‘ Whenever the
term intoxicating liquor is used in this Act if shall be
deemed to include all spirituous, vinous mall or othr
fermented or distilled liquor intend''! lor human con
sumption and containing more man one per cent
alcohol by volume.”
The action comes, as the Board has pointed out,
as the result of complaints irom various parts of the
Territory which appear to represent a majority senti
ment. The merit of the rule is a matter of opinion,
but no opinion is worthwhile which does not look at
the whole picture.
It cannot be over looked that the 1933 Legislature
put the entire liquor problem in the hands of the
Board of Liquor Control, which includes the Gover
nor, Attorney General, Treasurer, Auditor and the
Highway Engineer. The last Legislature made con
siderable noise about the liquor issue and finally
wound up by leaving the situation virtually the same
as before, with the addition of a local option clause
and setting up $30,000 for enforcement.
