Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-14 | Page 4 | Memory Lane

MEMORY 1 LANE LANET T THERE RE have hav been many beautiful songs written around the theme of ot memory Indeed memory seems to be a thing so de desirable desirable de- de that individuals and correspondence schools even offer courses designed to buttress buttress but but- tress it against the calamity of forgetting the important or the sweet things things' of life Ufe But there are individuals individualS' who wish that the public might f forget many tl things It re remembers remembers remembers re re- re members and also remember many things It forgets Politicians an and i brewers brewer ar are among these Now for a little memory test Do you remember way back when the b brewers ewers of at the country were at war with the man manufacturers of at soft drinks If you do you have a good memory for it was in 1868 in those good old reconstruction days aft after r the war between the states There was a growing feeling that the people were in need of bracing now and then In the southern temperance states the white saw the handwriting on the wall and feared that this might be the excuse for many good citizens putting on a plaster too often and too thi thickly kly So it came about that bottlers down that way developed temperance beer which was something like the near-beer near of today It seemed to face a rosy future future and and the brewers brewers brewers brew brew- ers became alarmed Th Then n it was that they prevailed upon the internal revenue bureau to promulgate a ruling rul nil ing that one-half one of one per cent alcoholic content rendered a beverage Intoxicating I Oh if this only might be forgotten forgotten or or orbe be true If it were forgotten how much easier it would be for them to go back to per cent lager today But they are being hoisted with their own petard and socked In the eye with the boomerang they hurled at the temperance temperance tem tern perance folk in those gone but not forgotten days Down memory lane softly treads the ghost the brewers conjured more than three score years ago intent upon playing a game game of for tit