Washington, Dec. 4.
Dr. Clarence Trae Wilson, chi man of the Methodist Episcopal Church's board of temperaree, pro-on and public morals, to-lay said he would agree to a national referendum to determine what would prove sicceptable to the country as a substitute for prohibition.
It was reluctantly that Dr. Wilson said he woald be willing to have the irritating prohibition question submitted to the people. He leated that as a spokesman for the "drys" he would not be eager to obtain an expression of the pub-lie attitude toward the existing method of controlling the liquor trafic, Dr. Wilson's statement was issued when he was asked to comment on the number of bills regarding prohibition which have been introduced into the current session of Congress. Some call for complete repeal of the prohibition laws, Others seek the modification of the 18th amendment and the Volstead Act. Still others, such as that presented by Senator Hiram Bingham, Republican of Connecticut, seek to define intoxicating beverages as there having an alcoholic content of four percent. of more, The Volstead "Act defines as intoxicating any beverage having an alco. hohe content of one half of one per cent. or more—United Press,
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