Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-09-19 | Page 2 | Hope of Bringing Back Beer Declared Thin by White House Official

Hope of Bringing Back Beer Declared Thin by White House Official Figures on Brewery Employment Employ ment Before Dry Law Made Public REFUTE CLAIMS OF WETS I Request for Statistics Causes Minor Uproar By Dr RAYMOND RATMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON Sept lO 19 Beer lovers might as well eo go o back to the cellar lIar and work over their crocks crockr forthe forthe for forthe the latest hopes of or those who have been predicting that thai somehow President President President dent Hoover would restore the roaming foam foam- ins ing beverage bc to legal status apparently apparently apparently have hae been dashed A White House official asked what the chances for br legalizing beer were ere replied You know and I know they are thin The White hite House has made public census statistics which answer as assertions assertions as- as of beer r advocates that restoration restoration restoration of brewing would give employment employment employment employ employ- ment to a million mUlton or more men and stimulate Industry These figures show that at the peak of the brewing brewing brew brew- brewing ing Industry in 1914 Just before prohibition pro pro- began to gain ground a t to total total to- to tal of men men were employed This fell to in 1919 Just before federal federal fed fed- federal eral prohibition became effective Payrolls were in 1914 and in 1919 NEAR BEER FIGURES To show that the entire business was not wiped out by br prohibition the White House obtained census figures on the near-beer near industry in 1929 which showed men engaged with a total pa payroll roll of As reported by the United Press Press- 10 days ago President Hoover believes arguments for tor restoration of beer are illogical and that It has no chance of or coming back but he has been re reluctant reluctant re- re to make any public state state- ment The tide Ude of propaganda continued continued continued con con- con con- to rise in the form of provocative provocative tive tire statements by beer advocates rumors from every ery quarter Inside tips Ups a of every degree and direct InquirIes in inquiries In- In quirles all to the general effect that President Hoover would or should do something To check it the administration at attempted attempted attempted at- at tempted a stratagem which has gone awry The plan was to employ the administrations administration's favorite weapon statistics gather them and h have ve some someone someone someone one else put them out But another piece of the premature publicity of ot the kind which has so sorely vexed the White House lately up upset et the plan SCURRY TO OFFICE A report that Mr Hoover had asked the census bureau for the figures sent rent two of the White House secretariat WalterS Walter H H. Newt Newton nand and Theodore G. G Joslin scurrying into the presidents president's office When they came out Newton Newton New New- ton said he had received an from outside the White House Rouse for the data and had asked the census bureau for it One rumor is that the figures were to be used by Secretary of Labor Wil Wil- liam fam N. N Doak when he speaks early next month at the convention of the American Federation of Labor which is a agitating a restoration of beer as asan asan an economic relief measure Doak de denied denied de- de nied flied this to the United Pr Press