| Show Says Denatured Alcohol Imbibed in Hotel Rooms By CLYDE E. E Prohibition Editor Telegram Telegram- My ly understanding is that you wish your correspondents in writing on the subject of ot prohibition to tell what they actually know I 1 am the clerk i ir In the working workingmen's workingmen's workingmen's mens men's hotel We Ve cater to men only No Intoxicating liquor is la sold on on the premises Our policy Is to keep keepIt It out of the place alt altogether gether yet et the drinking of intoxicants in the rooms Is the bane of ot our lives twentieths Nineteen of ot the liquor consumed in the rooms of ot the hotel Is not whisky either moonshine or but denatured al alcohol I Iam Iam am stating as a matter of f fact ct that can an be be proved any week that fully a bushel basket full fulI of denatured alcohol bottles are are weekly taken aken out of th the rooms Besides these there are half halt the measure of ot cans canned heat taken from the rooms as s well ARE CAREFUL We Ve are as careful as we can be and no nan man under the Influence of liquor can rent a room from fromI us We Ve cannot search the pockets or the baggage of ot those who register register register reg reg- ister with us neither can we keep men from procuring the stuff after I Continued on n page 5 6 SAYS DENATURED ALCOHOL IMBIBED IN HOTEL ROOMS Continued from page 1 they thOy rent relit rOoms The men become drunk muss up the th-a rooms and frequently we have hay t ta to appeal to the police to lo loId Old Id Jd us In keeping ord order r rIn In the houlis 1 Men lIen often become becom deathly 8 tick Ck and we have o them themon on oil our hands causing us great lOLl loss boa You ask what has this to to todo do with The tact fact 1 la h that denatured de tie natured alcohol is told sold re restraint reo me- of law ot other than that a prescribed amount o of poison polson shall be placed in ill each gall gallon 1 of alcohol The druggists of the oily city il see to to it th that the smallest amount of poZon is 11 used that t the la law Jaw IV will allow The stuff is sold ch cheal Fifteen en cents cents' worth o of denatured alcohol Wilted wt with water gives gl tl the kick of ot nearly a pint of whisky Among the bottles gathered from the hotel looms rooms are boWes bottes bearing hearing the labels labes of ot dUg drug stores all over oyer Salt Lake City the largest as well wella a a- a athe the smallest You cannot canno godown godown go godown down the street lt seeing the tile sign ign Denatured alcohol tot for sal sale Th The question l Is why is th the sale of ot pure liquor lIpor to say sayi nothing ot of light wines and beer against the law while vile this vile stuff is openly and le legally ally sold In the name o of humanity Ml lt Is time a change Chang in the law Is made I Declares Prohibition Is Unjustly Blamed B V. V Prohibition Editor Telegram Telegram- Tel gram gram- Truly it must be tha thaI one h half lf of ot tho ho world does not know how the theother theother theother other half hal lives or else the papers are re tull full of ot nonsense about the ef effects effects effects ef- ef of or the fhe prohibition law The writer having ing attained the age of 55 and having lived during tho those e years ears In a number of ot different differ differ- ent eit places some wet and some dr dry a as well as in the same place both dry and wet believes he is fully Justified In saying that prohibition prOhibitions Is s uniformly better than legalized booze While Jolly fully convinced that there has been s a d decided lowering o of moral standards during Joe l.-e ye years yeSra rs the prohibition was adopted I believe this to have been due from other causes and rather ather in III n spite pite o ot of than because of prohibition I believe too that the Increased use 0 of booze i is III confined con con- fined Ined pretty retty well to certain classes It n ii is a n. fact that I have llave not nol seen sen anybody o 3 take a a. drink of booze of Any sort ten times a n. year ear during the past paiit seven years ears I call having been offered a drink an average of once a year diring that time UNIVERSAL USE Were it not for what I read and what I hear others say occasionally I wouldn't know anything about the called so-called universal use of that which both cheers and inebriates men Inen are extremely tare rare and I have not seen l a drunken woman woman wo wo- wo- wo man anan Since ince prohibition I can only recall two cases cases where a woman has taken a n. drink in my sight during that time None Nolle of ot my family friends frends or acquaintances has changed for fOI the thoe worse The loose conduct of both sexeS which is commonly charged to pro pros pros- I J would ascribe to other othel causes such stich as the theal war al' and the th generally relaxed moral standards of ot the older generation which has probably resulted d from a a. falling failing off offin offin offin in the thoe influence of the church and reflecting Itself in the home has hal resulted re suited In lower standards among the younger oun er people The coming o of prohibition prohibition pro pro- never before In an any place where I lived had any such effect as is now ascribed to It t t. t |
