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Show NLSTEH! ELL 15 BErafMiiisa BOOTLEGGERS SHOULD GO 3AY8 MAKER OF EXTRACT AND MHD- ICINE CONTAINING KICK But Little Opposition Shown to Manufacturing Manu-facturing Beer. Makers of Medicines Medi-cines Fight Hard To Protect Their Wares Washington The extremes to which some men go to satisfy the craving for strong drink since the country wont dry shocked the house Judiciary committee com-mittee Monday at a hearing on the Volstead bllll bill make the prohibition enforcement law more drastic. Representatives of manufactures of flavoring extracts, patent medicines' ndded restrictions, which they claimed and perfumes, in protesting against would Interfere seriously with their business, were outspoken In opposition to medlcnl beer und tho sale of con-butcoctlons con-butcoctlons musqueradlug as medicine but uctunly used as beverages. The story of the mnn who became drunk nfter drinking liuir tonic, Jamaica ginger gin-ger and similar things crept in continually. con-tinually. A list of more than 100 products, branded as "booze medicine," some old bottles that had their place on the sholves of country drug stores for more than half a century were paraded par-aded In full vlow of the committee nnd denounced by spokesmen for propriety prop-riety medicine associations, who declared de-clared thoy had begun medicating nl-cobol nl-cobol used In all their preperattons Jong bofore the eighteenth amendment swept out the bnrs. There wero frequent clashes. No-body No-body said a word In favor of beer. Patent medicine men told Mr Volstend thut bo far as they were concerned, ho could go so far as ho liked with boor, but thoy dill not ngreo with his announcement that he would fight to prevent the use of wine as an alcoholic baso for any remedy. Extract manufacturers were more pronounced In their opposition to the now tightening up measure, ono witness wit-ness reminding the chairman that his enforcement net had to be amended In tho house to give them a chance to" live. Chnrles D. Joyce, president of a flavoring fla-voring extract association, declared no man had ever been able to drink lemon extract In sufficient quantities to make hlra drunk nnd live. "The only man who ever tried to do It, to my knowledge," he snld, "had to lino IiIk mouth and throat with talcum powder bofore taking the first swallow. The witness was asked If he knew anything of the practice of tnk'ns tho fire out of extracts through n pelco of bread.whlch soaked It up like n sponge, but he never heard of it. Nor had lie ever heard of "Jamaica gingor drinking friends," he added. "Well,"I seen droviof them," snld Chairman Volstend. Everybody wanted to get rid of the medical bootlegger, some suggesting that his products bo taxed If ho could not bo suppressed. Ropresentntlvs Hill, Republican, Mnryland, who has Introduced a bill to ropenl tho Volstead Inw, urged an uniendment which would put prohibition enforcement in tho hands of tho nttorney general. Asked If he thought It would lend to more ri gid enfrcemet, Mr. Hill replied ho thught It would. Then if you nro trying to repeal the Volstead Act why so solicitous iibout1 Its enforcement," asked Representative Representa-tive Tillman, Democrat, Arkansas. "As long ns we have the law It ought to be enforced," ho declared. "But when you hate a law that is a national nation-al joke because of nonenforcement, It Is calculated to bring all laws in contempt." con-tempt." While the Vnltitend law was being shot nt and defondod, members of the committee claimed It was not nearly f,i frnstlc as Illinois und Maine prohibition pro-hibition statutes. Reprcsentntho Horsey, Republlcnu Maine, referring to sixty years of prohibition pro-hibition in his state, told how It had worked. "All I have to sny about the Malno that my great-uncle helped to framo It nnd ho died regretting it. |
