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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

Questions of constitutionality aside, the Harvard Debating Council Plan seems to me an eminently simple and sensible project for debate. As a plan to be urged upon Congress it is premature, because all plans to add a dash of common sense to the Prohibition mass of emotional pottage are premature. A Congressional majority theoretically (and in part hypocritically) in favor of strict enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment and existing legislation under it we will have with us until public opinion shifts far more pronouncedly than it has as yet. And I see no probable cause of such a shift until the fallacy, tyranny, and essential unconstitutionality of the Eighteenth Amendment are made generally evident by the most drastic efforts to enforce it.

Meanwhile, as to the Debating Council Plan, the only question I would raise concerns Item 4. How could such education be carried out except by a Bureau of Propaganda that should have no place in our system of government? Very truly yours,   Kenneth W. Payne,   Editorial Director,   The North American Review.