The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 3, 1929, Page 12

{4 WASHINGTON LETTER y DUTCHER \ Serv yriter) the Washington— king wets of | nearl ohibition America a iz onto rr la home brew-moonshine basis neariy verywhere. The averege drinker, if he is not bee | | ket for straight alcohol is found in where the law is most ing to the greater ing alcohol. In agricultural states ansas, alcohol is hed py tae ultimate consumer to pike” near beer. re not surprised to ars to be the gen- popularity of gin, for ain that gin is much easier than whisky if the maker alco! fin illicit still. For some time his c ting the “real stuff” to what seems to be "These facts one £ from thorities in the Prohibition Bures At one time a tremendor 1. rvision of alcohol be- more effective and as our meat of it becomes more diffi- 4 prohibition offi- spondent, “the hisky stills will pondingly larger business. © are “nuch harder to - | control n we get down to a ment has tightene 5 St moonshine proposition it is up to the vision over and it al authorities to help suppress the has become 7 t ic. The federal force simply The Stills Are Busy But the r the fic dustrial the greater the production of alcoho! from moonshine still And the moonshine alcohol enforcers admit, pure It does not contain the admit that most of ine liquor now being made thing al the kind of | coctions liquor we're seizing today is that it’s which the government ha raw.” putting into industrial al der to keep it out of Smuggling Is Diminished Smuggling has been cut down as as alcohol diversion, but a cer- tain amount continues. Canadian ports officially cleared $18,000,000 of recooking. worth of whisky for the United States ‘The great proportion of booze seized | in 1928 and the prohibition officials in the country as whole, ac- | admit that trickles continue over all cording to government chemi: s |borders and coast lines. They don't |know how much comes in, but they're sure it isn’t anywhere near as much as used to come in. Other sources of “real stuff” are found in medical prescriptions and mental wine permits. There ly in large eastern stat were 11,737,000 prescriptions written ‘dustrial alcohol is more readi ‘ail- in 1928—maximum one pint—covering able, the percentage is considerably | 1,375,000 gallons of whisky, 11,600 gal- higher. lons of brandy, 3000 gallons of gin, Throughout the south, the middle 2750 gallons of rum, 30,000 gallons of west and the mountain 5 vir- wine and 1330 gallons of alcohol. and all the al- Wine shipped or delivered for sacra- to have come mental purpose totaled 750,000 gal- straight from the still. The best mar- lons. Only about five per cent of tie n what In some locations, of cou A ew YorK gow New York, Oct. 3.—Belicve it or not, | air becomes electrically charged-mak- but something like 72 per cent of the | ne eked dere ek uae and ‘i \other phenomena of the air. ee ee of Americ Chance and luck are, after all, their particular opportunities to shecr | merely synonyms. “luck.” | * oe The “breaks” have figured to a As for our famous people, listen in phenomenal cegree in the | for a moment: portant people. One could take out| When John D. was a mere job- such names as Edison, Rockefeller.| hunter himself he was turned down | Raskob, Ford and many another and / 17 times before he found a concern f'nd “luck” at the beginning of their; that offered him work. This was a fortunes. | company. He hesitated about This is not the mere hi ‘ding of | taking it. By chance he didn't. If | ® personal opinion, but information | he had—well, he might or might not obtained from a careful researcher | be where he is. who has spent much time and effort; Perhaps you've never heard the “in- in tracking such matters down. This of how Charles Schwab a start. Well, he worked in books devoted to race prob! who has which he ¢) Li From Stoddard and searches revealed in his for instance, that o presumed to bo and the sneerers at fortune —admit that scientific dis olume | had a fine voieer. One day Andrew ‘arnegie, the steel king. heard him inging and liked Schwab's voice. Car- neie asked the youth to come over to the house and sing for him. That was the beginning of Schwab's climb s|up the ladder. And what a break! Carnegie, himself, wasn't interested haye been notoriously licky steel—in the beginning. He was Morgagni might never haye dis: ‘on magnate. But while in Eng- covered the secret of muscular reac- | land, a friend showed him a. process i had not his | of producing |. and though Car- an electrical | negie was particularly interested, th alab-' the friend all but. foreed steel upon t of the him. ‘The day came when steel took X-ray came as the resitlt of the ac- the place of iron and Carnegie was cidental presence in a darkened room “on tie ground floor.” Before that of some fluorescent material when! siecl had been too costly. And the Roentgen was experimenting with | shrewd Carnetir built his steel plants vacuum tubes. And Goodyear's dis- | and his millions thereaft eovery of rubber vulcanizing came az x * * the result of an upset on the kitchen | Ford, as the world probably knows, 5 j was truggling engineer gettin y ‘The chances that you would be born | on eid the person you are, rather than some- aker decided to back him at a time rrowed money when John Wan- ; one else, are something like a hun- en a patent fight was giving Ford dred million to one. The chances of | plenty of trouble. Wanamaker in- being born at all are against an in- serted an advertisement in a New ‘dividual. | York paper guaranteeing Ford's auto Dr. D. W. Swann, the eminent invention. This resulted in public scientist, has pointed out that it’s confidence. ... Talk about “luck!” purely chance that one clectric| GILBERT SWAN. Molecule out of a vast number in | (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) \ YOUR i aie People, grownups and children | alike, “How can I teach my children to be unselfish?” is the question asked training. Because it does seem to be | part of childhood to be selfish. But . | not necessarily so. Children wouldn't a Gerveainn ; be so selfish if everything on earth If we wish our children to avoid the Wasn't done to start with to make ‘amhappy emotions such as Jealousy, he very selfish if he is humored In anger and hate, there is il ne gen- | everything he wants. sai . eral pe. app! to carly 's Tang! ; » A word co’ it—unseif- H's Xanaht ot Rome Belfishi Ge selt-ioee Children naturclly must be taught sensitivencss, and from that comes eee sort of trouble. of 4 peop! ily t pie. people, People who hate | utely what they I “to expect, childre e 4 Sate is too mucl el n ‘casily and long, are all primarily self-| who are spoiled and humored and — ~ fussed over at home to go out and be generous and sporting with their friends. If we want them to be fine and likable in school and on the play- ground, we must teach them to be fine and likable at home. specialist erilisris, Sat Paty li ay | more often by mothers then almost | any other in this matter of child; THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1929 ARE YOU GOING WITH ME TO BUY THAT FUR COAT OR NOT? Youve TEASED FOR IT FoR A MONTH -AND "VE BEEN STANDING HERE 1F YOURE IN 8UCH A HURRY AND ARE GOING To BE SO CRABBY ABOUT IT - 'D RATHER NOT WAVE THE Coat re, but I don't think any of it is | c: % ts rood as if it had been distitied and || Freckles and His Friends ed four or five 3 rhe most in- | WwuaT TIMES IT GETTIN To BE By TAT TURNIP oF EXACTLY ELENEN LL PULL A FAST ONE. OW HIM=PUSH HIM OFF HIS FEET, MUST THINK UP SOME REASON FOR BEING IN A + HURRY.MY OLD BEAN HAS NEVER FAILED ME YET. UM, LET'S SEE = OCLOCK WITH JUDGE — THE MAZE OF LEGALTERMS, HAWK HAS: INSERTED A TRICK HERE HE GOES AFTER SUD'S SIGNATURE ~@o— SALESMAN SAM cues WE GOT ALL “TH FURS WE. 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