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I f WI I l tion of the bootlegger boot I t t I J fI 1 r j i f I c legger 1 WI I f 1 II ri x t Many n y a little 1 party art Y in inan Do you drink boot bootleg eg l liquor q an c exclusive restaurant k R y If so 80 pey perhaps haps wont won't risk or hotel is the prelude to a A it tt again gain after reading what what the f visit to the hospital and often chief chemist of the United States L results in blindness for host E 1 a. a a n X y and sometimes sometime sin in T Internal Revenue Bureau has hasto to r and guest say Bay on the subject H t f F 10 death He and his associate experts are not in the least interested inthe in inthe the moral aspects of the illicit liquor question It is is their business busi busi- business rh ness nest merely to analyze samples samples- of seized liquors u c Nearly t all of the latter are fo found nd 4 r r r ru to contain dangerous poisons I Many contain wood alcohol which kills or blinds people The chief chemist Dr Linder says Bays that ordinary wood alcohol r is so disagreeable to the taste faste and smell that hardly anybody would want to drink it But purified purified wood alcohol suitably colored and arid flavored cannot be distinguished distin distin- from real whisky by o one one ne h I person in a thousand The moral is that anybody who ventures to drink illicit liquor is taking a most frightful risk There is no such thing Of 03 as a reliable reliable re 4 liable bootlegger He gets his stuff where and how he can and ana he himself usually cann cannot t know whether or not it is poiso poisonous wr Dr William V. V Linder F 9 t Chemist Chief Chemist in Chief of the Internal Infernal Revenue Rev rl f enne Bureau 1 IF F PEOPLE knew the danger they incur when they drink liquor bought t from bootleggers comparatively few t would would take the risk Many persons imagine that they can tell teU good whisky or gin by the flavor and smell but bu they are woefully mistaken Crude wood alcohol has a peculiar and characteristic taste and odor But refined alcohol suitably flavored and imd colored is so excellent a a. counterfeit of real whisky that not one person person inn in a hundred can tell teU the difference until too too late It is highly stimulating and th the fact that it is not whisky can be determined determined de de- only by chemical tests or orby by f drinking it One On n stiff stiff drink of it t may may ti kill cause hopeless blindness or c cause se About three years years ago in the e early days daya of prohibition some cr crooks ok in NewYork New NewYork NewYork York shipped a lot of wood alcohol into Connecticut It was the chemically pure f stuff per cent flavored colored and bottled with ith labels describing bing it as asVery asVery Very Old Rye Whisky Whisk The imitation I was so so good th that t nobody had any rea reason on to suspect its true character Two wo hundred hun hun- h hundred n- n dred people were vere made very ill by drinking drinking drinking drink drink- ing it and fifty of them die died The stuff fi mo mot most t commonly used for fortiz G r r denaturing alcohol under direction of the Government is wood alcohol Attempts Attempts Attempts At At- tempts to ge get rid of the poison poison poison-by by reY re re- Y i distillation are arp futile because wood alcohol alcohol al al- cohol is even even more volatile than ethyl t y I I r. r iJ T R j w eLB F r S v ar S r M iw t r i n kt 4 45 rr s Beneath his coat coat the 5 bootle bootlegger er carries a adeath a a. a yea 1 death belt filled with pints half pints of an 4 poison y alcohol and consequently passes over with it To eliminate it is virtu Virtually lly im im- possible But most persons interested in m the bootlegging business are are not not aware of this fact fact and much of of the the poisoning is doubtless due to their ig i r s sOne norance of it One easily sees then what a large chan chance e of wood alcohol P poisoning is taken by anybody who buys' buys bootleg bootleg g liquor K It it ie u an appalling risk And in SJ the line e of what what r I have just be been n saying say say- me ing ing I T might add that it is equally of the question to out eliminate te and kerosene both of which are commonly used as denaturants front denaturants from denatured alc alcohol hol by for th the e same reas n that governs in the case of wood alcohol THE manufacture of illicit c liquor 0 is today a very import important nt ind industry and being unlawful there is no J-eason J for surprise that its output should be be mostly fraudulent Much of the so so- so Q called smuggled d Scotch is is made m made de' de den in in n Cuba or on on board board- vessels of oil off our our c coast Botties Bottles of well well known distillers are are im imitated imi imi- l labels are ingeniously in ingeni 1 ly c counter counter- i and other clever tricks tricks' help out out t the deception of the gullible ultimate consumer f I Jr I I m myself self have been d deceive 1 on n on more or than one o occasion casion In a recent instance tance I examined a sample of alleged Gordon gin The bottle 1 l label bel c cap cap p eve everything h about bout it looked looked- real Odor an and taste taste aste were were satisfactory I thought the stuff I t C s a t S Y t r a aT T II rG x 1 f c y lr i F The only way to determine whether liquor is safe is by bya a chemical analysis and gallons that contain death and 1 blindness are examined by the chemists of the Internal 1 Revenue Bureau Above is a typical rum runner g genuine enuine But chemi chemical al analysis reve revealed led a li small p percentage of isopropyl l alcohol h is us used d as as' as asit it a a d denaturant t. t The liquor I or had beeri been redistilled from J I a spa den denatured alcohol and with and with a little oil oil of juniper added it it cheated cheated- m ms All ll completely denatured alcohols ar are a violent violent and deadly poisons i impossible possible t to U 1824 1921 4 by Public IAl Led Ledger Company nr Company drink Specially denatured alcohols are are r for use by manufacturers of various commercial products and are are merely drink So unfit indeed that it tak takes s' s sa a mighty hard hard-b hard boiled b booze o e hound to stomach any of them Such an in individual individual individual in- in might find hair tonic good goodenough goodenough goodenough enough when nothing better was to be had had- but the quinine bisulphate contained contained con con- con stained in it gives the stuff a nasty taste and and another ingredient isopropyl is unwholesome unwholesome unwholesome un un- wholesome for his liver and kidneys It should not be imagined that makers of bootleg deliberately put poisons into the liquor they manufacture to give it a kick or for other reasons They are usually more or less ignorant anc and as to the physiological effects effects' of their product upon the consumer they are not much interested so long as astro tro trouble bl for themselves is not likely to ensue There have been cases however where bootleggers ers have bought completely completely completely com com- denatured alcohol colored it and sold it as whisky Half a pint of it is enough to kill or blind One day not long ago I examined a sample of liquor that looked like Scotch It It smelled rather queer however and analysis showed that it contained only cent of ethyl alcohol with a little iodine added to give it the right slightly yellowish color A slight iodine odor also contributed a a. bouquet s suggesting the smoky smell of Scotch whisky I need hardly tell teU you that iodine is a very deadly poison A A GREAT GREAr many persons alarmed by the common occurrence of poisoning by wood alcohol in bootleg have deemed it expedient to fall faU back upon upon pon the pure corn liquor distilled lo locally lo- lo ally cally the origin of which is more or orless orless less known B Being ing pure it must be safe safet to t drink Unfortunately this idea is wholly a a mistake mistake- as has be been n proved by thousands thousands thou thou- sands of analyses made in my own labo labo- The stuff stuff otherwise known as moonshine o n hine or r white mule is anything anything any any- thing ing but pure and very far from being harmless Which is sufficiently evidenced evidenced evidenced evi evi- by its peculiar effects A person who vho drinks any considerable quantity of it becomes stupefied He ml may y fall suddenly unc unconscious knocked out For generations the moonshine moonshine- of the moun mountains ain no matter how ho illiterate has known that the he heads ds and tails the th first and last of distillation distil distil- t lation must lation-must must be thrown away He also kne knew v that tha he hc middle the run must be redistilled re re- re- re distilled several seve-al times in order to pr pro pro pro- 1 I duce even ven fairly good corn liquor It was not necessary for hinr hino know that the heads were high in poisonous alde aId hydes and that the tails were rich in fusel oil oil Neither did he know that that repeated repeated re r- re- re redistilling still further eliminated eliminated and fusel oil Yet e experience ex ex- experience had taught that unless he did these things even the strong man of the hills could not stand up under the load New whisky even when made by a afi fi fist class fist class distillery by by the most improved improved im im- im proved methods is not c considered fit to drink It contains certain products by-products of fermentation which are unwholesome and even poisonous Before it is fit to pass into the hands of the consumer it must be aged for years in wooden bar bar- Thereby in some way not well understood by the chemist the objectionable objection objection- able ingredients are gradually One of those ingredients is acetaldehyde acetaldehyde acetaldehyde acet- acet J which is by Hollond's Medical Chemistry a a. st standard textbook I as a a. rapid intoxicant inducing profound stupor and deleterious after affects THE white mule of prohibition pre-prohibition days was bad enough being usually usually ally sold raw and fresh from the still but it was a superior article compared with the pure corn marketed by bootleggers bootleggers bootleggers boot boot- today Eager for more profits the his his outfit often hidden in a city cellar though it may be in a secluded d rural barn or shanty shanty no no longer bothers to discard heads and tails He has no time for distilling his product over and over again Hence the samples that come to us through seizures seizures seizures seiz seiz- ures show a a. high content of of acetaldehyde hyde and acetic acid Two or three drinks of the stuff will render a man unconscious The only way to get s safe fe liquor nowadays is to buy it at a drug store with a doctors doctor's prescription The druggist druggist druggist drug drug- gist files a a. bond with the Government and is allowed to withdraw a stated number of gall gallons ns on application to the prohibition director Ordinarily he asks for one hundred gallons and a fresh permit permit per pet mit for such withdrawal may be granted him every ninety days But he must show by his books that he has filled enough prescriptions to cover the quantities quantities quan quan- received by him In purchasing liquor from a druggist however one should be sure that he is 13 isa a reia reliable le man An un unscrupulous crup lous drugstore drugstore drug drug- drugstore store proprietor may draw the corks and dilute the stuff with ordinary grain alco- alco al o- o hol nol an and ana i water Of f all aH the thirty d samples of seized liquors examined in my laboratory laboratory labora- labora tory not more than 1 per say cent-say three hundred out of the lot lot have have been found to be genuine stuff aged stuff corresponding corre corresponding corre- corre ing i in quality to what c could uld ha bs bought before the war I give you that figure figur just as food for thought j |