A Vicious Measure

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 25, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 12.

“A Vicious Measure.”

One of the bills before the California Legislature has been rightly called “a vicious measure.” It is Assembly Bill 1620, introduced by request. The penal code now fixes a dry zone around the grounds of the University of California, at Berkeley, with a radius of one mile. The Claremont Hotel proprietors built, as they thought, just outside of the mile limit. Unfortunately, however, they failed to measure accurately, and the building is in the dry zone. In order to get within the wet zone, a bill has been introduced to extend the dry zone from one mile to one and a quarter miles in the city of Berkeley, and right in that last adjunct lies the joker of the bill. As amended, the section would mean that within the city of Berkeley liquor can not be sold within one and a quarter miles of the University grounds, but within the city of Oakland it can be sold within less than a mile of these grounds. It is urged by some that the limit shall be made a mile and a half, regardless of city lines. And so it ought to be. It is to be hoped, for the sake of the students of the university, that the bill will be dealt with as it deserves.