Show war mylar department seeking a legal drink Z 60 pa A T THE war department Is looking for a beverage to take the pl place ace ot of beer and whisky at army posts the beverage must not hot bo be of the class of d by the iteen ia law W the federal courts havo have never never passed upon the question of the per percentage con tago of alcohol which will render a beverage tin an intoxicant the state courts also have been char chary of deciding the question in cases the authorities have spoken however thus in rhodo island it has been held that where ber beor contained zea percent per cent of alcohol no evidence was necessary to show it was intoxicating ld iti texas a tonto containing from 3 04 0 4 i por per cent of alcohol has been hold hij to be intoxicating liati llaudy dr by the laws of massachusetts it Is h held 0 1 d that a beverage containing more than one per percent cent ot alcohol at 60 fahren helt Intoxicating Is tholan abo law in regard to the a ol 01 intoxicants ts in post exchanges mus mithi ol of course be followed in good glod faith by b the army in the absence ot of any fed oral eral decision as to the question at Is sue the authorities must fall fallback back on the decision of the state courts these vary materially aad therefore the department may seek the bo solution lution in a practical way by ascertaining ali the view taken in prohibition states as to the sale of aej any given drink where pos t exchanges are situated in a prohibition sta is considered entirely safe to prohibit the sale in such exchanges of preparations not a allowed to bo sold under the prohibition laws ot a f the state where such exchanges chun are s situated in alon states it would be safo safe to ascertain whether any specific drink Is allowed sold in any prohibition state and let the exe exchange banga bo be guided accordingly 1 |