Show Dry Law Lav Causes Drop In Barrel Business ST ST. LOUIS Ma May y 13 P C The W-The The barrel barrel bar bar- rel business Is not what It used to be E. E A. A Powell Memphis Tenn president lent dent of the Associated Cooperage Industries Industries In In- told the or organizations organization's annual annual an an- nual convention here last night that prohibition and the tendency of the housewife to make small smaIl purchases es were largely to blame Prohibition he said took between between be- be tween and aud barrels barrels bar bar- a year away from the Industry and gave save birth to a n. tendency In mankind man manS kind to make home brew In bath tubs The housewife he said used to take pickles salt saUl sugar and other articles home in barrels but now goes to town oftener and takes the same articles home in Jn cartons and pack ages |