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Show WHAT THEY DRINK J. B. Jacks, of Chicago, an employe of the government's dry enforcement en-forcement staff, has made careful analysis of many specimens of the "whiskey" now being sold by bootleggers and he announces that 99 per cent of it is made of denatured alcohol, redistilled, colored with caramel and given a "bead" by fusel oil or soap. "Only a human with usper organs could use alcohol of the bootlegging variety and live," declared Mr. Jack. He gives out a lengthy interview showing show-ing the effect these concoctions have on the tissues of the stomach, and after reading it we come to the conclusion that the man who drinks it has about one chance in a hundred as compared with the fellows who drank whiskey bonded under government supervision in pre-war days. Mr. Jack says the hundreds of samples he has analyzed are not all from Chicago alone, but represent every section of the country. So maybe if there is a patron of bootleggers around he would do well to get into a little closer touch with Mr. Jack's department before he goes very much farther. |