Show T f Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer Dyr Sanest of Wet Wt Crusaders 1 I IBy Bv By HERBERT PLUMMER W WASHINGTON June 2 26 26 onidas' onidas Carstarphen Dyer of Missouri was suggesting nothing new recently when he told the president the legalIzed legalIzed legalized legal legal- sale of beer was worth a billion dollars to the country For the portly representative from St. St Louis has been crusading for beer beera a long time time since the eighteenth amendment as a matter of fact Theres There's nothing of at the wild eyed however Mild wet about Dyer calm and deliberate he is known on the hill as one of the sanest members members members mem mem- bers of or the wet bloc in congress He conducts his beer crusade in much the same fashion that ho hc seeks other legislation His creed is simply that the American Ameri Amen can people have a right to drink beer beeri i if they want to that a mans man's capacity is is too small to get drunk from drinking drink drInk- tug ing per cent beer and that such sucha a a. beverage is the only thing that can make enforcement of the eighteenth amendment possible His constituency is 15 a a part of or the I city of St. St Louis He has represented that district in congress for nine terms Except for a a. period of about one year when he lost loot In an election contest his service has been con con- Observation of ot conditions in his district is responsible for lor his beer crusade He says that before prohibition his constituents had no use for hard liquors They were cont content nt with beers been and wines Now he says eake ies bootleggers and rotten whisky are I everywhere in evidence And those who have havo no money to buy whisky have a beer crock going In their homes at all times Beer with an alcoholic content that runs runs from 8 to 10 per cent is being made and consumed And every member of the family from the old man to the baby helps with the brewing He presented his beer pro proposal e to the Wickersham law enforcement commission and personally appeared before that body for an hour and a a half to explain it Convinced that his plan Is th the only one that can weather the courts he heaL also aL believes that it would bring the tho modifications and those who insist in in- on outright repeal of the eighteenth eighteenth eight eight- amendment into the tho same camp m If II beer is denied he sees the modi modi- in iii great numbers going over to those who would repeal the eighteenth amendment Then where will the drys be he asks Of Scotch English-Scotch origin he Is Is proud of or his ancestry His name Is familiar to those who never heard of or his interest In beer The national automobile theft act bears his name And the famous Dyer bill has kept him himIn In the publics public's eye for years t |