Evening Star Newspaper, September 17, 1925, Page 24

FAR LESS LIQUOR SOLD IN U. S. SINCE PROHIBITION, REPORT SAYS Home Brewing Unimportant, Most of Whisky Con. sumed Is Made Here, Bootlegging On Wane, Church Council Survey Shows. Prohibition has reduced enormously the amount of liquor sold in the United States. The home manufacture of wine and beer is of comparatively little sig- nificance and the grape growers of the Paclfic coast, who Increased their acreage in anticipation of an in- creased demand, have been disap- Ppointed. ? Not more than a quarter of the wine withdrawn for sacramental purposes is so used, and the with- drawals have increased enormously since prohibition. Bootleg whisky has a surprising © sale, but health education is making some headway against M. A relatively small amount of the 1llieit whisky consumed in the United States is smuggled over its borders. These are among_ the of Rev. F. Ernest Joh the educational and research div of the Federal Council of Churches, on the actual extent to which pro- hibition has been enforced in the United States. Definite Figures Impossible. It is impossible to obtain definite figures, Mr. Johnson admits. He estimates the cost of prohibition enforcement to the Government con- servatively as $19,319.817 for the fiscal year 1926, as compared with $2,059,744 for 1920. Mr. Johnson says: “The situation In New York City is perhaps the worst in the country from for example, present a different pic- ture. There the Federal court calen- dar {s well up-to-date and the district attorney has no complaint to make, although he has a very limited force. The Federal director has maintained a high degree of morale in_his orzaniza- tion. The prohibition forces in the State are well satisfled with the sltua- tion, the school system reflects a wholesome condition among the young people, and the people’s Legislature has recently shown its devotion to the prohibition policy by enacting a ‘bone- dry’ law—going the Volstead act ‘one better'—which the populace seems in the mood to accept. Indiana has pro- hibition problems, plenty of them, but there the prohibition policy would at least seem to be firmly established. Home Brew Failure. “It seems to be generally admitted that the home brew industry has fail- ed both as a natlonal sport and as a commercial enterprise. The beer prob- lem arises rather from the fact that| makers of ‘near beers' are allowed to | manufacture ‘high-powered’ beer sub. ( Ject to the requirement that it be sub- | sequently dealcoholized and sold a: non-alcohc beverage. While nically so called, there were in 1924 | 483 dealcoholizing plants, commonly | called ‘breweries,’ from some of which | real beer too readily finds its way to an fillicit market There is, however, no visible reason why the illicit re: moval of alcoholic beer from ‘brew- eries’ cannot be effectually controlled. | The beer problem would seem to be wholly soluble, although it has been one of the scandals of the prohibition regime. “It s commonly asserted that prohi- bition has given a very great impetus to the wine industry. Unfortunately, owing to the fact that the United States takes only a decénnial census of grape production, there are no au- thentic figures for the industry since 1919. We are dependent upon cfop estimates and reports of car-iot ship- ments. “It may be said with a great deal of assurance, however, that the state. ments with reference to the growth of an illicit wine industry have been much exaggerated. The grape indus- try is distinctly on the defensive and has been for a considerable number of years. In California, which has pro- Quced the largest part of the wine grapes used in this country, the plight of the industry Is aggravated by the fact that much new acreage has been planted since 1920 on the assumption that the manufacture of wine was go- ing to increase very materially. Grape Production Declines. “The ground for this hope was the unexpected market for wine grapes which developed following the adop- tion of prohibition and the announce- ment of a liberal policy on the part of the Government with reference to the home manufacture of ‘“‘non-intoxicat- ing fruit juices.” The crop reports, however, show that the production of wine grapes in California was 350,000 tons i1 1924, as compared with 400,000 tons in 1919—a deécrease of 50,000 tons for the period. The production of ta- ble grapes, which are not uncommon- 1y used for wine making, is reported Poili 8 o 814 at 480,000 tons in 1924 as compareéd{would seém, to health education and with 200,000 togs in 1919. The 1924 |the ‘v:umi:"'xun . It is possible figure, however, includes 180,000 tons|that a co: lerable part of the in- raigin grapes which were marketed | creass in grape consumption follow- fresh because of the slackened mar-|ing the war was merely the normal ket for raisins There would seem to|reflection of'the general increase in be no evidence here of any consider-|the consumption of fruits. able inflation due to an {llicit demand.! “Fwom the point of view of law pa. t of e | enfarcement the home manufucture of has Sstimated the grape productten |wine, particularly in alien communi- for the entire country in round figures [ ties, 18 a serlous obstacle to 100 per at 4,152,000,000 pounds in 1922; 4,454, | cent efMiclency, but more and more it 000,000 pounds in 1923, and 3,654,000,- | is becoming evident that this phase 000 pounds in 1924. Thus the whole | of the problem is of relatively little industry slumped 20 per cent in 1924, | significance. And this holds true even the last period for which statistics are |if it be admitted that the, amount of available. wine made and “These fuots would seem to Indicate | increased. T Ay that the manufacture and consump-| “The manufacture of cider tion of wine are not very greatly on | the mame catepors © e eres 1 It the {ncrease. A careful study 18|isunknown and is iess important than needed, however, of the grape industry | it was once supposed to be. In fact, in California in order to speak With|wine and cider occupy & sort of assurance on this point. More Fruit Eaten. “It Is intéresting and important to note in this connection that statistica show a remarkable increass in the consumption of citrus fruits during the last few years, due largely, it Cuticura Talcum | shadow zone with reference to pro-|ate committee which investigated the hibition. The law allows a good deal | Bureau of Internal Revenue, had been of leeway and there appears to be no |found engaged in fraudulent schemes great official concern over the rural |to secure the release of ‘sacramental’ cider mill or the domestic winery. wine. “One phase of the wine question 8| “This 1s a type of violation that is undoubtedly serlous. The withdrawal | diff.cult to measure and to control. No of wines on permit from bonded ware-' one knows how much there is of it, houses for sacramental purposes but it is extremely prevalent in some amounted, {n round figures, to 2,139,900 | sections. It is probably the most sig- gallons in the fiscal year 1922, 2,603,500 | nificant phase of the problem of en- allons in 1923 and 2,944,700 gallons in | forcement from the standpoint of ulti- 924. There is no way of knowing|mate success. It is well known that in what the legitimate consumption of|the commodity market a scarcity fermented sacramental wine is, but it | brings into operation the ‘marginal’ is clear that the legitimate demand |producers—those who, when the mar. does not increase 800,000 gallons in two | ket is normally supplied, cannot oper- years. It {s probably safe to say that|ate at a profit. Thus in 1920 the coal not more than one-quarter of this|scarcity created a phenomenal market wine is sacramental—the rest is sacri- (and farmers were ‘mining’ on the sur- ‘Literally hundreds’ of fic-|face of their land with shovels and titious Jewish congregations, Commis- | wagons, and ‘anything that was black sioner Haynes testified before the Sen- | ¢old as coal.’ ““The situation {8 somewhat similar with reference to the illicit whisky business. With the supply of good quality liquor becoming exhausted there s an increasing effort to supplv the market with ‘moonshine’—the only limit being the capacity and will ingness of the consumer. A very con siderable retail trade in distilling ap- paratus has been built up. The sur prising fact is that low-grade and highly injurious stuff finds such an extent and varjety of patronage. There is reason to hope that the dangers connected with drinking ‘moonshine’ will tend more and more to confine the traffic to habitual drinkers. This is an evil against which health education should make rapid headway. There is, however, an obvious danger that wi increased efforts to stop smugglir and the diversion of alcohol this elusive type of violation will increase.” We never quote com- parative prices because of their tendency to mislead. of Courtesy Unadulterated Exquisitely Scented boril ELEVENTH ST, In the Inexpensive Dress Dept.---for Friclay onderful Frocks the point of view of the administra- tion of the law. It is stated on the |-~ highest authority that complaints of violation of the Volstead act have been coming before the United States Commissioner from the police depart- ment alone at the rate of 15,000 a month. It became a physical impos- sibllity to deal with these cases in the courts, whose corridors abounded in “fixers” and bribe takers. Men were | haled into court and cited to appear | without any way of compelling them to appear, and without any assurance that their cases would be remembered | if they did. It has even been known to happen that in order to avoid for- feiture of & bail bond the surety com- pany would put up a fake defend- ant to plead guilty and pay a fine at the surety company’'s expense, ‘when the real culprit had long since disappeared and was probably plytng his trade elsewhere. This practice | came to light when an irate judge de- parted from pr dent and exceeded legal penal by sending the substitute defendant to jail, only to re- ceive a querulous letter from him pro- | testing that he had nothing to do | with the case and that a jail sentence was not in his bargain. | Small Sellers Tmmune. “The new United § District At- torney has been obli;§ 1 to sweep out of his office all such minor cases in order to make any progress at all ‘with the business of enforcement. 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