Pennsylvania paper retracts editorial panning Gettysburg Address

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4. On a tangent....

When people discuss the failure of Prohibition, they are often ignorant of the fact that alcoholism was a big problem. And the reason that it was generally women in the temperence movement is their husbands would be off getting drunk all day, and failing to support their families. Prohibition was a failure on many levels (not the least of which it created tremendous growth in organized crime), but that doesn't mean that there wasn't a problem in need of a solution.