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Show I SKULL-AN D CROSS BONES. The thirsty earn for Havana, where all kinds and colors of hooch await the tourist. But before reserving boat or airplane air-plane transportation to the Cuban oasis, drinkers should know this: Doctors are discussing the increas ing number of Americans who are coming back homo and dying in a few-weeks few-weeks from poison liquor they got in Havana. It works slowlj , so it isn't wood alcohol, al-cohol, s Probably it's just green whiskv Tho liquor seller isn't interested in anything any-thing except profits And there's a bigger profit in gTeen whisky than in old barreled goods. All whisky is green "moonshine" before It ages in the cask If you ever meet an old time distil lery chemist, he will tell you tins Alcohol In all forms, is a ccrlain poison. When whisky is aged in the wood it develops compound high ethers which (to a varying extent neutralize the al-I al-I cohol Raw whisky kills faster than mor j phlne. That is why the bartender at the corner saloon used to apologize for whisky less than seven years old He thad to be au extremely disreputable '"barkeep" io dispense anything under three years. The worst drunkard in Ihe old days the one who weut fastest to the undertaker's un-dertaker's cooling board, was the rhampagne or wine souse. He rarely lasted more than four years, if he were a steady and hard dnnker That was because wines, re- Igaidleaa Of age, contain alcohol in the impure pure form." with no counter acting compound high ethers. It Is chemically impossible to develop ihese ' in wines. People who are poisoning them- ! selves v. nh the raw alcohol of home I made wines might ihink that o er Here Is something interesting to watch Keep track of the victims killed by alcohol and you will notice 'that the danger age is 0 io 45 For some mysterious reason alcohol's mor kaliCy ,sle Is highest at that period of life Another Important observation you can make, is that alcohol kills bo many men of intellect and high skill lcohol goe after big game i.tke ihe royal mounted police, U always gets what it goes after OO |