UNDERGRADUATE BODY VOTES OPPOSITION TO PROHIBITION

Dartmouth undergraduates voting in a poll taken under the auspices of the National Student Federation recorded strong opposition to the present prohibition law according to figures published in The Dartmouth recently. Two- thirds of the 1,120 students voting registered a preference for the Canadian system of governmental regulation of the sale of liquor, less than 10% of the voters desired enforcement stricter than at present, and only 21 votes were cast in favor of the present enforcement laws.

According to the poll the freshman class expressed the most approval of the prohibition system while the senior class went on record as being strongly opposed. Only nine seniors voted in favor of the Volstead Act and the Eighteenth Amendment.

The Dartmouth's summary of the poll was as follows:

National Student Federation Ballot

Are you opposed to the use of intoxicating liquor by individuals for beverage purposes, (no question of le- Yes gality)

If opposed, check the grounds upon which your opposition is based. Moral principle Economic consideration 05 Considerations of Social Welfare. . .288 Other reasons •

Does the interest of society require stringent restrictions? V.

To leave the question of drink to individual discretion and to the action ot public opinion with only minimum legal restrictions? °w

Regulatory liquor laws for society as as a whole and yet not bound to obey them 6,5 yy4

Can the present acts be enforced effectively? 179 902

Pre-18th amendment system 133 With saloon Without saloon •'J'.' With local option T: Without local option

Present system (Volstead Act and Amendment) *29 Stricter enforcement No stricter enforcement Z1

With light wines and beers only, sold by private interests 15° With saloon brought back Without saloon brought back 128

Government control and dispensing of liquor (Canadian system) 708 Spirit (hard) liquors allowed 419 Light wines and beers only allowed 289