THE MICHIGAN DAILY N DAILY thority to pass laws on prohibition; while others hold that since the repeal of the constitutional provision, the statutes on the subject are ipso facto unconstitutional because they do not con- _. The Theatre L ~- --, ~ '^ri r form to the newly adopted amendment providing for a liquor commission. However, repeal of the state laws in the near future will clarify the sit- uation, and conform to the will of the people. At Washington, President Roosevelt has urged the adoption of a law replacing the Volstead act and legalizing beer. The 18th Amendment made manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicat- ing beverages illegal. The Volstead act defines in- Published every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of the Western Conference Editor1al -Associa- tion andi the Big Ten News Service. Mon an E g OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatcheb credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches are reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Postmaster-GIenera1. Subscription during summer by carrier, $1.00; by mail, $1.50. During regular school year. by carrier, $4.00; by mrail, $4.50. Offices: Student Publications.Building, Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Phone: 2-1214. Renresentati es: College Publications Representatives, Inc., 40 East Thirty-Fourth Street, New York City: 80 Boylston Street, Boston; 612 North Michigan Avenue, Chienago. toxicating beverages as those containing more than one half of one per cant of alcohol. Modifi- cation of the Volstead act, in other words a re- definition of the meaning of intoxicating bev- erages, will legalize beer prior to the repeal of the 18th Amendment. As soon as the Volstead Act is modified, Mich- igan will morally be free of any compulsion to enforce a state prohibition law. While the 18th Amendment and the Volstead law are in force, Michigan legally does not have to enforce state statutes on the subject, although it has been maintained 'that morally, the state is bound to supplement the federal laws. Legal questions could be raised now which it would take years to settle. But our legislators can cut the Gordian knot im- mediately by modifying the Volstead act, repeal- ing the state statutes on prohibition and then rat- ifying the 21st Amendment repealing the obsolete 18th. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR...........XRANK B. GILBRETH CITY EDITOR ....... ..... ... ......KARL SEIlFFl:RT SPORTS EDITOR................JOHN W. THOMAS WOM~EN'S EDITOR........ .......MARGARET O'BRIEN ASSISTANT WOMEN'S EDITOR.....MIRIAM CARVER NIGHT EDITORS: Thomas Connellan, John W. Pritchard, Joseph A. Renihan, C. Hart Schaaf, Brackley Shaw, Glenn R. Winters., SPORTS ASSISTANTS: L. Ross Bain, Fred A. Huber, Albert Newman, Harmon Wolfe. REPORTERS: Charles Baird, A. Ellis Ball, Charles G. Barndt, Arthur 1V Cvrstens, Ralph G. Coulter, William G. Ferris, Sidney F ranel. John C. Healey, Robert B. Hewett, Georgek M. Holmes EdwinrW. Richardson, George Vain Vleck, Guy M. Whipple, Jr. Barbara Bates, Marjorie E. Beck, Eleanor B. Blum, Ellen Jane Cooley, Louise Crandall, Dorothy Dishmian, Jeanette Duff, Carol J. Hanan, Lois Jotter, Helen Levi- son, Marie J. Murphy, Margaret D. Phalan, Marjorie Western. BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 2-1214 BUSINESS MANAGER..........BYRON C. VEDDEB CR~EDIT MANAGER... ......... .....H#AR