Show Th The Cup That t Kills hills THE HE wood alcohol death list of tho the recent holi holidays nys S 2 has bas probably been a greater preachment for tern tem prance perance erance than the prohibition laws Persons addicted to the use of strong drink who resented the enactment of the laws as an infringement of ot their constitutional rights and continued to rejoice in the tho bootleg cup 1 t ti that cheers will be chary about further indulgence l li iri i 1 the knowledge J that there is no way of telling elling whether t i they arc are drinking grain or woo wood alcohol except that in L r lU- lU lUko the ko one ono case casc case it stupefies and in the other it kills i z H. H All contraband liquor is under suspicion for the reason reason reason rea rea- son that having ing no governmental ins inspection it is as ns liable r to be a deadly poison as not Experts declare that the J common supposition that wl whisky J. J made from wood alcohol alco- alco hol hoi may be detected by its odor on taste o is not founded found found- ed on fact Nor is it true they assert that mortality l s h-s i among wood alcohol victims has been due to impurities r generated in the process of manufacture re- re reIt It is ig now no known that is inherent in wood alcohol It is as impossible says Dr Reid Hunt head of the department of pharmacology of Harvard medical 1 1 1 ft ft ft 1 1 ft 1 ft to 10 LV prepare nonpoisonous wood a co o U as it 1 1 is isto to prepare prepare nonpoisonous prussic acid The only wa way therefore to avoid danger is to let let wood alcohol alone o v and inasmuch as it has come to tho the point where tho the 11 Y user of intoxicants of unknown origin cannot tell one from another safety lies only onI in total abstinence Dr Hunt places emphasis on the thc necessity for discrediting discrediting dis dig I r so-called so who tell crediting c c. pretend they can whether a beverage is safe or rot not He ITo adds There is not a single prone property ty of or wood alcohol except ex ex- its poisonous effects by which anyone but a chemist chew chem 1st can enn dl distinguish between purified wood and ordinary grain alcohol The appearance odor and taste of or th the I two to aro are BO so strikingly alike that even chemists who e have havo had much experience nce with t them em aro are unable b by fa these properties to distinguish between them with cerf f Tho The difficulty is of 01 courso course greatly increased k when essences flavors Javors or coloring matter arc are ad added added CJ as ft n. n f is tho the case caso with spurious drinks The consumer how- how t r t rv ever great his tam familiarity with alcoholic beverages m may be tic not only cannot trust his own o Judgment t In this matter mat mat- r iter Iter ter but he cannot trust the tho Judgment of ot an nn experienced saloonkeeper r It t is is probable that laws may be enacted to tighten v t i the poison pOlson laws both by federal and state enactment I 1 but as the bootlegger is is an outlaw an anyway way the chances T r are are re he hc will continue to use the ehe pest article ho c Can can ti get for the manufacture of his illicit spirits and so the j f only sa safe e. e thing to do is IS t to leave tho the stuff alone unless I y a as ns the Irishman says say's you HOU want to wake up dead some bright morning |