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Show JAPANESE STATESMEN URGING PROHIBITION Plan Is to Save Rice, Immense Quantities Quanti-ties of Wliicli Are Manufactured Into Sake. j TOKIO. Am:. 2:). i Py the Associated Press.) I --The prohibition movement in the ("njted J Stal.'s Iven folou-cd in Japan by the j iiMinchinc of a project to Mop the manufacture of sa t;e. .la pa a 's n; l ioiial a leoholic drink, which U distilled from rice. The end of ihe war has brought no check to t lie stead v increase in price of the neces sities of life, and the soarinir cost of rice, which is the shiple f I of the Japanese people, peo-ple, is b"coininr a pra ve prli'm fu:- the government. gov-ernment. La t yea r t lie h ih price of rice led to serious r i . t s I lironchoii t the em pi re, Tlo Ja pa nese Tern per a nee societ y has pre-senti'il pre-senti'il n hiemnrial 1o the povcrn men t lirinR the prep ib; ion of making of sake. The or-L'a or-L'a ti i 7 a t ion peinis ,.ul i lint about 15.nMO.OMO bushels of rice are coiiMimed yearlv in its manufacture. manu-facture. Willi (he pop,il:it(..n nf Japan in-cre:ini: in-cre:ini: nt the rate of c.mo.mmo rourly and (lie national rice crop f :i 1 1 i u tr mi account of t he f!ecre:i-e of rice la in! - ' I r -u ch civic and iu-dus; iu-dus; ri;i I e'.-n'-iin. ' 1 e orra ir..i ! ien a v.HTi s ttia t the eoomou:- ipravtity of ri.-.' used in ois-l ois-l : 1 litiL' s,-i ke in i ie i urn.-i 1 to a bet i er u?e in distributins it as f,v f,,r the 1(.,,Mle. I-htiperor Yo-hihilo is ; 1 1 1 lo 1- de.-ply con-..Tiled con-..Tiled over I lie livi;,- e. i ad : t i on s :,moiic his p- ople. Thr-.ii'.'h In- lord cha nil"r!a in he rp-eru:! rp-eru:! erd- 1 tiie jm'-nuvs of 1 lie different I'p'i im-.'S to in . -f i - ! . the rh;; n-i's in the thotlM of 11,.- !,.,--... the ,ovf of food for the middle :m.! ,,),,, ,-. s jm-1 the nornl ii-dusiriat si 1 t i. ,n 1 1 1 reiu-,i !! t the empire. Tlie di-cont'-i;t of !i.e m;is. . of Ihe .e, js ,,r. mi- y e. p . :- ; i - vi : :. t . v ;.-h is try trig to device n;.. ins oL" r--!:- i i ; . tc" -itnarien. |