Show W From where I sit WIk Gf by J Joe o Marsh k f DONT DON'T ever eyer argue arQue with Grandma Hoskins about American history unless you know what youre you're talking talk ing lag about Because wh when n Gran Grandma ma states a fact it leall really is a fact The other day we got ot to talking about Washington ashin ton who besides being being- a great reat ge gC rat nal was wasa a public surveyor a successful farmer and a wise statesman And ne made mighty good beer too says Grandma That was news to most of us Y You ou can see his private recipe for beer right in the New t York Public Library Grandma fibs Hos- kina keno tells us us In uIn his own handwriting handwriting handwriting hand hand- writing at that And then she opened up on how Washington Wahington and those others who founded America believed in beer and moderation Told us about William ViI Wil liam Penn who had his own brewery brewery brewery brew brew- ery down in Pennsylvania and Is Isra Israel Is- Is ra rael l Putnam Samuel Adams of Massachusetts and James Oglethorpe Oglethorpe Oglethorp Ogle- Ogle thorpe thorp of GeorgiaBe Georgia I r Be Beer r Grandma goes on has h grown up with the country because 1 r its it's o a symbol of good fellowship and moderation Vr back in 1789 she sho told us 1 Tames Tamea Madison stood up in thet the t House Honse o of Representatives and made the motion urging the manufacture of beer in every State of the Union And that same year Massachusetts passed an act stating stating stat stat- ing that the wholesome qualities of malt liquors greatly recommend them to general use From there on until early in 1918 the brewing industry kept growing rowin and beer and ale kept getting getting getting get get- ting better and better Then came prohibition thirteen thirteen thir thir- teen dark years vears that bred vice and crime Grandma says it taught us something though something that tha t George Washington and all those other early American statesmen statesmen statesmen states states- men knew all along that no law ever takes the place of restraint and moderation I That's wh why the they were friends of beer and made moderation a m crr- crr of American freedom freedor They were right about n a lot ef d f thin things s Washington and Adana and Penn And from where I Ithe fit the they certainly were right about moderation too t. t |