Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-09-06 | Page 5 | Author Favors Better Beer at Lowered Price

I Wants Cheap Brew I S S 5 5 a t H. H L. L Author Favors Better Beer Ber at Lowered Lovered Price Tax Reduction Would Increase Revenue and Fight Whisky Evil Writer Says By MILES l II WOLFF As Associated Press Tress Staff Writer BALTIMORE Sept 6 6 HL H. H L. L ken Baltimore's authority on beer and books today urged better and less heavily taxed brews to prevent the revival of whisky drinking which he described as ah ati unmitigated evil Beer he hc said in giving his views on the subject is here but a II good deal of it is inferior and all of it is too Loo expensive The federal tax of 61 5 a barrel has been borne so far without public tumults but that is only because as heavy as it is is it still seems light beside the fantastic ex ex- of or the prohibition agents during during dur- dur ing ng the 13 years of the league Sooner or later he said the beer drinkers of the country will revolt against the tax and demand a reduction reduce tion ion This he opined is far more likely to increase the national revenue revenue revenue reve reve- nue than reduce it If U the tax were lifted to 10 millions mil mil- lions ions of Americans would quit beer altogether But if it were reduced I to 2 every beer bee drinker would drink much more and millions who v still stick to home brew would begIn begin begin be be- gin ginto to patronize the breweries NICKEL BEER NEEDED Plainly enough the consumption of beer ought to be encouraged as much as possible especially in view of f the early repeal l. l of the eighteenth amendment The ne thing we we have 10 tD fear rear fearis is th the revival l of whisky drinking drinking drinking drink drink- ing an unmitigated evil Make beer cheap and good good give give us a really big glass for a nickel nickel and and very few will turn to to whisky But keep it ex ex- pensive and the distillers and the bootleggers bootlegger will wiil do a busi bus ness nets said he hoped the thc pure food lood and drugs act would be amended amend amend- ed next winter to drive bad bod beers beer off the market It will wm be difficult technically for very few of them are actually deleterious deleterious dele dele- but nevertheless I believe that it can be done What we need is a code of brewing standards as high as those now set for the meat packers The incompetent ter should be driven back to driving a garbage cart and the brewer who buys inferior materials and markets green beer should be put out of busi bus ness DUTY TOO HIGH Most of the great national breweries brew brew- eries erles are now brewing sound beer but it is naturally more expensive than the local brews During the past four months I have conducted personal Investigations in five American American Amer Amer- ican cities and got reliable reports from ten more In only two of the 15 are arc the local brews up to the thc mark Elsewhere the people are being debauched debauched de de- with watery gassy preposterous stuff maybe not downright poisonous but still very upsetting The 1 a gallon duty on foreign beers is another outrage It should be reduced to 10 cents as it was before before be bc fore lore Any American brewer who says he needs a 1 a galIon galIon gal gal- Ion duty to protect him is simply a brewer who confesses openly that he cannot hold his own in fair lair competition tion with men who really understand the noble art he professes to practice tice