Report of the Liquor Research Commission to the 95th Maine State Legislature

To: His Excellency, Governor Frederick G. Payne and Members of the 95th Maine ,State Legislature Pursuant to the provisions of the 1949 Legislative Act creating the Liquor Research Commission, this report has been prepared for your guidance in determining the need for and feasibility of State action to deal with unwelcome conditions arising from the sale and use of alcoholic beverages in Maine. As fully as its limited resources would permit, your commission has delved into the situation with particular attention to the compulsive drinkers in our population who are often listed simply as alcoholics. Our survey has been as impartial as possible, in a deliberate effort to avoid being stigmatized as Starry-eyed Do-gooders by the intemperate, or as Secret Encouragers of Tippling by teetotallers. Indeed, the question can be approached in no other way. The nation has seen the dismal failure of attempting to promote temperance by legislative enactment; it has also seen prohibition succeeded by a rising trend in drinking, especially among women and young people, that holds an alarming portent for the future.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1096/thumbnail.jp