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Show Hard Cider Problem Put Up to Justice Department Ruling Wanted in View of Habit Apple Juice Has of Accumulating an Alco- I - holic "Kick." ' i ( Chicago Tribune Special Service.) WASHINGTON. May 6. Jf an An erica :i citizen permits nature to take its course with a keg of cider, does he violate thu ar-time ar-time prohibition law? This is a iiue;-Hon which the department cf justice h::s hern aked to dt term i no, and there are thousands of persons in as many t. ommuiv.tius w ho will be interosUd in the decision. . Can a citizen bo held to have manufactured manufac-tured alcoholic or intoxicating liquor if there is found m his possession a lus of hard cider which, when it first1 came into his possession, wes non-alcoholic und .s soft as mush ? That is the issu-?. The aforesaid citizen performed no iajor in connection with the k-jj of cidr. lie contributed nothin: to the process of na- , ture in making cider hard and ob- noxious to the general htalili and welfare I of the community. So fiir as the citizen concerned, j fru nas of hard cider arcue. he is entirc'.v ! innocent of any wr;ue: i:. tlie transaction. i The prohibition argument, however, is that the citizen is Wam.iKe because h. did not drink the cider beiore it .-reached an lmlermu state. In manv ir.stnc-s I the pi-otv.bitionist ho'ds. the citizen unquestionably un-questionably prayed for natur.r to hurrv up in its process on the eider, and m doing so. technically aith d and abetted an unlawful process. ThereJore he is tuiltv. Prove it, says the citizen. ATLANTIC CITV. N. .f.. Ma" Confidence Con-fidence that the na :ion will r.-main wet i for t kal one y.-ar afu-r Januarv ! next exists ;tn:o' tho delegates who today to-day i-ey-a.!! the t wvm y-dx t h annual L-on- i i :rence of the National Heiail Liquor L'e'ilers" association. j The organisation is forme ! of one tot three debates om c ach of t.-e wet ' states. T:it-y claim to speak for t.-;e. en-' 1 tire trade, but not for tho dis-tu'.trs and tho wholesalers. I |