Liquor Merchants Are Confident That Prohibition Will Not Return

Prohibition has reared its biennial head in Cambridge again, as local temperance groups are trying to have the sale of liquor outlawed here. Voters will be asked next Tuesday, as they have been every two years, whether or not liquor licenses should be granted.

Local citizens, however, seemed only mildly concerned with the prohibition attempt yesterday. In the past, all such attempts have been substantially defeated at the polls.

At Cronin's, a bartender grumbled that "Cambridge wouldn't be anything without liquor," and Cronin himself said "Were there prohibition, I would start a bus service to Boston."

A Wursthaus patron, however, thought that prohibition in Cambridge would be a good thing, for "then Harvard would have a better football team." The bartender said "I could always switch to the delicatessen business."

Referring to the dry 'twenties, when "speak-easies" and "back-yard sellin'" were rampant, a man in the Harvard Provision said "At all times throughout history there has been some way of getting the stuff."