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Show LIQUOR SUPPLY FALLS, QUALITY ALSO LOWER AFTER TWO DRY YEARS Federal Agents Rapidly Becoming More Efficient in Combating Bootlegger, Moonshiner and Rum Runner At Least 250,000 in Nation Arrested for Violations South Predominates Pre-dominates in Distilling Its Own. Two years of prohibition have served to build up in this country a great new Industry bootlegging and to create a now and numerous class1 Of criminals purveyors of liquor. This newspaper. s survey of conditions tho country over establishes theso facts beyond doubt. As was stated previously, tho business of bcotleggfpg is carried on wherever renditions are propitious; that is, wherever It is possible to obtain liquor, transport it and sell it. Judging from special reports, the number of tuch places is astonishing and growing. Despite enforcement measures, the bootlegging industry Is flourishing. Seaboard and border States obviously offer the best facilities for runners of liquor, which originally orig-inally has Ix en Imported. The Southern Slates abound in Illicit stills and the manufacture of moonshine, from an infant industry, appears to have grown bo man's estate under prohibition Vph in of Crlaslnale lions i nnndinn Border, North Dakota has been a dry State since it achieved Statehood, yet the correspondent at Bisman-U wires: "There nas arisen in the State a new class of criminals rum runners and 'high Jackers,' the former hauling booze from Canada and the tatter preying on the rum runners. in spite of stringent laws and Stato enforcement liquor is still plentiful, though higher in price than two years ago. Moonshlning flourishes." Working westward from North Da-icota Da-icota there Is found in Montana, which went dry bofore the Volstead act. this situation : "In Montana there arc a number of persons selling liquor of an inferior quality where but one was soiling before be-fore prohibition It is easy and a great temptation for our citizens to make 550 a d.iy bringing in liquor from Canada, Canada Is securing ai! of our money. In return we have only empty bottles. ' Tr.o foregoing Is by Warden Potter of the State prison. Gov. Joseph M. Dixon says: "Prohibition has undoubtedly largely reduced the consumption of llquor. At the same time there is an enormous amount of bootlegging going on In various sections of the State." The correspondent In Boise. Idaho, the next State westward, wires: "There are still many arrests for operating Illicit stills, and there Is much homo brewing going on The greatest difference during the two years Is In bootlegging. Before the passage of the national law i dal o was dry before tho Conptltutlonal amendment was passed) bootleggers transported liquor from the neighboring neighbor-ing wet States. Thrlr efforts are now directed mostly to tho Canadian border." 'People Baelf nootlonKeri.' Washington Is not us wot as Oregon, Ore-gon, to whicb reference has been made, and California Is more wet, as was noted yesterday. Along the southern border, ns was told In the case of Texas, there Is smuggling from Mexico In addition to moonshlning In Mississippi, Mis-sissippi, according to the Jackson correspondent, cor-respondent, this is the situation: "Since the adoption of tho nntlonal prohibition law a great many men have been making moonshine whisky, and In some localities the sentiment of the people soems to be with them." The writer follows this with a statement state-ment by Mayor Scott of Jackson, who says : "I really believe that there is more whisky being sold In Jackson than ever before, and the worst of it Is it Is oelng manufactured all around U9." In Florida the sltuntlon Is improving, improv-ing, thus. "No figures are obtainable for the State as a whole on bootlegging nnj illicit distilling For the last year, however, there has been a great falling fall-ing off in both, because of the vigilance of State and national officers." From Georgia, however, comes a report re-port quite to the contrary is was noted previously. The correspondent at Atlanta observes: "It is estimated that there arc now L000 bootleggers In Atlanta alone. . . . A recent Chamber of Com merco Grand Jury declared that 90 per cent of the crime In Atlanta is due to bootlegging and ilquor." 'SMlls Mkc Mushroom. In other Southern States the situation situa-tion varies, but everywhere there Is bootlegging and Illicit manufacture of liquor. From Virginia It Is reported "illicit stills sprung up like mushrooms mush-rooms in practically all parts of the State Federal ofllcois are destroying an average of lOO stills a month ' Nor Is the situation very different In some of the States that merely touch the border, such ns Illinois, whore Chicago is notoriously wet. and Ohio, from which tho foHowing report comes : ) "While .-irrrsts are nunx rou- m l the quality of bootleg liquor 1 tfo-j tfo-j tcrloratlng. there Is still u lot of petty I bootlegging going on Any one who ! wants liquor serins lo In- ctblo to get , ;t If satisfied with the quality. Public Pub-lic U was recently nlvcn to tlf- dln-I dln-I covery 01' twenty Illicit sUIIm In ccn-' ccn-' tral Ohio. I-lquor chiefly home made wine -la being served at private parties In homes that never po I led intoxicating liquors In the days of saloon." sa-loon." In the case ot some of the States mentioned there arc mitigating circumstances, cir-cumstances, .such as the recent enact- ; ment of an enforcement law The situation, as Indicated by tho reports, shows somo Improvement Is In progress. prog-ress. Taking the country as a whole, it would seem that the quantity of available liquor Is slowly decreasing and that the quality Is steudlly deteriorating. de-teriorating. Perhaps as sharp a picture of the ' extent of the violation of the law as I may b obtained is contained In a dls- J Ihttch from tho Washington corre- , spondent: "The Federal officials in the fiscal year juxt ended made arrests of 34,175 persons. This Is the only year for which accurate reports are available. It is safe to assume, however, Officials say, that nearly 50.000 arrests will b-made b-made this year by the central Govern-, ment nlono. This Is no Indication that officials believe drinking to be on tho Increase, they explain, but rather an Indication that the law detection J agents arc becoming more efficient. "For tho fiscal year seizures were ' made of 9,"4I dlatflleriee operating In violation of the law. while th.- prohl- i bltlon agents also seized S6.187 private1 stills, worms, fermenterfl and other apparatus ap-paratus intended to bring about law violation. ! "Approximately $10,000,000 worth of ' liquor and other proportj was seized, according to tho Government appraisals ap-praisals of values. These appraisals, however, are generally below tho actual ac-tual market value of property taken. "More than 3.000,000 gallons of wine, beer and distilled spirits were taken from bootleggers and other law vlo- 1 lators during the fiscal year. Th--total for the current fiscal year may run to 10,000.000 gallons. It Is estimated. esti-mated. "Ohio led all other States, even New j York with a much larger population. In the nminber of persons arrested. In Ohio 3.334 arrests were made, while New York came second with a total of 3.0S9. The other States in which the number of arrests exceeded 1.000 , each were California, l,2J; Georgia, Geor-gia, 1.O8G; Illinois. 2.0S6. Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, 1,915; Missouri. 1.186; North 1 Carolina. 1.03C. and Texas, 1,763 "Delaware reported the smallest j number of arrests, the total being Just ! H. "North Carolina qualified as ih? na- tlon's chief moonshine producing State I with a total of 1.661 seizures of Illicit 1 j stills. Next In order was Virginia, I with 1.170 still seizures and Georgia! I with 1,412, Only 17 stills were seized , In New York State, although 220 for- mentors were taken b tho Federal ' agents." It will be noted that reference Is I made to arrests by Federal officials only, the estimated total for the year, , being 50.000. or possibly 100,000 for the two years of prohibition. State and local officials, of courso, made many more. One suggested basis of computation proposed the multiplication multiplica-tion of the number of arrests by Federal Fed-eral officials by five, on the theory that State and local offlcals made four arrests to every one mode by tho Federal Fed-eral officers This basis is arbitrary and seems unjustifiable, In view of the varying conditions. It would bring the totAl of arrests to 600 000 There may bo Justice In salns the total number of arrests for violation of tho prohibition !fw has been 850,000. The activities of th" F---dcr.il olllclnls: for tho fiscal car ending June 30, 1920. Is well shown In tho following tablo taken from the official report: Number of nrresta. 3I.17G nistlllerloH seized 746 Stills solzod 10.901 Still worms soiled S.182 1 Fermenters seized.. 10,014 Gallons distilled spirits seised.. 41."..!; 1 (Jullons beer solsod 4.963.iWi Gallons wine, elder, &c . selzci 128, SOU Appraised valuo of property j seized J10,5(.iC In addition to showing the actlvltletk , of the Federal officials the table also I Illustrates the extent of the Illicit' traffic. Regarding tho situation as ' generally viewed by officials lit Wash- j Ungton, tho correspondent kiv-: "New York, California, Ohio. North Carolina nnd Georgia, in the order named, are generally regarded by olll Clala as tho States In which it la most difficult to enforce prohibition. Theso would qualify as the WetfjMt sections were a map to be made showing the ' comparative dryness of the different ; sections of the country. Prohibition I officials admit this privately, but pub-I pub-I Ucly they arc unwilling to make comparisons. com-parisons. "Delaware, it would appear. Is the dryesl State. Just one gallon of Illegal Il-legal whisky was seized In that State I last year. No stills were taken and ' but fifty-two gallons of beer Delaware, Dela-ware, It would seem, has nearly approached ap-proached that State of absolute dryness dry-ness Intended by the Klghteenth j Amendment and the Volstead law At least Delaware appears to enjoy this (llstlnctlon in so far as. the officials ure n vn re. I "The exact standing of the States In relation to each other is a m liter of much speculation. Uotween somo the dividing lino Is so faint that It is almost impossible to determine where It lies." It Is Interesting to note In connection connec-tion with tho seizure of stills and tho wets have not overlooked the opportunity oppor-tunity of noting it that approximately approxi-mately S6 per cent, of the total of leisures were In Boutin rn Stnie; that bad been "upposodlv dry before na - tional prohibition. The record as to seizures In these Stafa lollow: Georgia 13.686 North Carolina 19.113 1 Yirelnln. 11,363 Alabama 10,606 ! Tennessee &.317 South Carolina 4.. Kentucky 3.177 Florida 2,891 Mississippi 1 ,9g West Virginia 1.731 Total fc.10; Tn connection with the arrests made all oer the country In the fiscal year It is pointed out that while the Federal Fed-eral officials report 3,089 arrests In Now York State for that period, the newa was printed yesterday that the arrests by Federal officers In Now York in the calendar year totaled 2.838. Flsnire on LnnhroaUlDK, As further showing the extent of the law breaking, as well ns tho activity ac-tivity of the officials, the following extracts ex-tracts from data supplied by the prohibition pro-hibition unit In Washington is printed "There woro 2,348 criminal cases Involving In-volving violations of the national prohibition pro-hibition act ponding in the Federal courts at the beginning of the fiscal year. "Thero wore 10.363 criminal cases Involving violations of said act pending pend-ing at the end of the fiscal year. "Data on criminal cases. National Pro- Internal hlbltlon Act Revenue. Number of crlmi 1 prosecutions comm inced during tho fiscal yenr ending Juno y, 1921 (Indictments) 2.ni r,.i : Pleas of uullty 16.610 2.2S7 Conviction.. 17,86! 4.153 Acnulttals 763 583 I "There were 37.112 criminal m;ci of 1 ell character pending In tho Federal I SOUrta on June 30, 1921, according to figures received from the Department of Justice. Of this number 10.363 were prohibition cases and 6,533 were Inter-no Inter-no 1 revenue cases. "There were .1,723 civil eacs pending pend-ing In the Federal courts on the sumo date. 1.231 of which were Internal revenue rev-enue cases am? 1,(27 of which wore national prohibition cases." . i 1 "Withdrawals for the prohibition! II period are thus seen to be but 12 per R cent of the withdrawals for the cor- I responding period immediately preceding pre-ceding prohibition. 1 "Under prohibition alcoholic spirits J wore being withdrawn from bond at 1 the rate of 972,000 gallons a month, tho otTlela! reports show. The rate of withdrawals before prohibition was S, 000, 00(i gallons a month. Tho nomr;o monthly wi'hdrnwals '"-4 of 972,00ft gallons under prohibition Include withdrawals of pure grain alcohol, which Is used largely in industrial in-dustrial processes, although some withdrawn from bond finds Its way into thu hands of bootleggers. "Industrial alcohol Is not Included ir tim withdrawals as shown by the oflii Ial reports before prohibition be-rnuse be-rnuse in that period industrial alcohol was not bonded by the Government and mo' of (he alcohol that passed tr-n.ugh the warehouses wont directly Into tho manufacture of whisky, gin and the like. "Of the alcoholic spirits In bond on October 30 pure grain alcohol totaled jl 1,609,888 gallon, or about 9 per cent. j' cf the total of all spirits In ware- mi houses Whisky holdings were T.8,407.- li 219 gallons, rum 19,021 gallons, gin I 78 .77 gallons, bleh wines J C74 Ral- I Ions, brandy 7r,7 .r.r.'.t gallons and Co- n locne spirits, a high grade of alcohol. II nvnli Red need fB "That the withdrawals of whisky H have been reduced materially unde- H made j F il ' began. In March John F. Kramer. I (hen Federal Prohibition Commission- I pr, refused to recognise any permits I for Withdrawals of whiskv. In oilier H i - i in well over 1.000,000 gallons. The I pnk wos reached In July, 1920 when I : i 1 ,726,175 gal- ; ; lens. I "Tho official records show that the I I withdrawals of whisky were slight im- I mi dl tcly ifti r pi ohlbltion l" came ef- Pi fectlveYJTn the first month of wartime H ! prohibition (July. 1919) the total of K nil whisky withdrawals for the entire H country was but 90S gallons. Tho K following year Whc n Bl wil Ml j to Increase until August. 1920, when ey started :o decline M't of whisky w Ith- 111 drawals Is th edtcess of 200.000 gallons -m 1 "It must ho remembered that all whisky withdrawn from bond now Bfl I nay be taken out only for 'non-hover- Btl ?ge' ur.es This, under th law, in- only as 'medicine ' " SnppI) to Last fifteen Yenri Bl' Commissioner HafyneS sas there gBft to 38.000.000 gallons still In lre ware- HQ The W -r. ,,.-,n- iySk. dent says the present rate of with- lllons a it nth. A ' t: Is mi.- of withdrawal tho E . jnd ten , 3B mor.ths When an attempt is made to analyze Bgl home browing and home wlr manu- tVJ 1 ouri- jfl no one can sny definitely. There Is no H way of gauging either the quantity or mH the quality alcoholic content of thv J proauet in s measure the same slate- P men - iply to the home manufacture mVt of wine. Some facts. howrcver, may BB v' enumerated. Bk! A recent Issue of a Philadelphia mW& newspaper carried more than .1 column Blsj of display advertising offering, malt Bid extract, copper can-. Copper tubing, B3! converters intended to ' ag. mellow Baal 1 purify" Junl berrii a raisins ! 1 m BigJ Malt and hop dealers are sellinr Bh ! their products in small packages, am? the assertion Is made they soli enough In a year to make 10,000.000 barrels of Umt tn Growers Prosperous. Wlno grape growers In California. LVaJ instead of being ruined by prohibl-tton. prohibl-tton. sold in 1920 375.2S5 tons of their produet at prices more than double n few yean since. Qrape H L-.- in California ha; been trior- P9B mously increased. LBI Importations of raisins and currant; have Increased. s was pointed out yi sterday, Fed V I ral agems In tin- j:lst n-eal year kB Reports from The Herald's corre- spondents th country over show that km moonshlning, bootlegging and home II browing Is Indulged In only in certain VHI nd localities As fat taB manufacture of moonshine and th illicit transportation and sale of llquo: IH are concerned, a guide to tho extent of the traffic Is contained in the rec- fl ord of the activities ... official 1 horn br wing and UR home wine manufacture arc con- feH earned, it mas be said that 1 rewi u? I interests, which are naturallv biased gH calculate that th... amount of horn. H browed beer now being made is ap- mW proximately two-fifths of the total of mmW beer brewod In this country prior to prohibition PH |