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Show -FIV&CENTBEEITHELU DOOMED FOREVER High Tax Holds Suds Low in Scuttle, Says Brewer Suds will never rise as high as in preprohibition days and five-cent hr la (on forever, speakers predicted at a meeting of the UnitcdStatesBrcwrsl association hops committee with western hop growers in the Ho-tel Ho-tel Utah Friday. The meeting waa called to die-eusa die-eusa atabiliiation of pricea paid to growers in Washington, Oregon Ore-gon and California. C. I- Rsrk.r rffil. I...... who presided, said that taxea had -killed all hopes of five-cent beer a return. a - Ralph T Kettering, secretary of the aaaociation, termed beer "a poor man's champagne. but aaid the poor man was able to indulge his appetite to the extent of only ao.OOO.ono barrels during the paat year; whereas In the happy hap-py days of 1914. when betT waa Xive cents a (lau. gg.nno.noo bar- re la went "down th hatch." Mr. Kettering labeled reports that beer of a, and T per cent alcohol by weight is being sold as "poppycock." He aaid the - alrohbllc content of beer has no effect on its flavor. Fifteen persons attended th meeting. - |