The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-30
ALABAMA LEADS IN
 REVENUE LICENSES Interesting Figures on Internal
 Revenue IN PROHIBITION STATES AIabama's Total Is s3s,000 According to Figures Just Given Out, While
 Georgia Is Second With e S30,58s
 
N PROHIBITION STATES

Washington, October 29.--tSpecial.)- The law in Alabama. Georgia, North Carolina and a part of South Carolina may be dry, just as dry as Blackstone
 is to the average law student, but the dry belt is limited to the law. and the people are wet, as wet as the noun tain dew of "Ole KentuolS," according to the report of revenue collectors in tn ese prohibition states. made to their chief at Washington.
 These reports are fairly steeped in liquor. They tell not only of booze, being made, but of. the sale both in small and large quantities.
 In another month Commissioner Ca bell will make public his annual re- port in which he will quote figures fur nished by collectors of internal rev enue in these states, showing the num- Der of special tax stamps which have been sold in the past year, along with the amounts yielded therefrom. A ma jority of these stamps were sold to re- tailers. The retail stamp costs S25 and the wholesale s100. It Is estimated in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and small part of South Carolina the receipts from the sale from these spe- cial tax stamps will amount to ap- proximately s1o5 1000 for the fiscal year which ended June 30 last.
 Alabama leads in the number stamps purchased. The sale of retail stamps amounted to approximately $31,000 and the combined sale of retail and whole Ia ia n, combined sale of $30,56S worth of stamps. or this amount only about $2500 was received for wholesale stamps. Most of 1t came from drug gists, who are not supposed to sell without prescription. North Carolina will have next owing to it being a whole dry state. South Carolina pur- chased more stamps, but several coun- ties in South Carolina operate dispen- saries, and this naturally increases the number of special retail stamps. It is estimated that s16.0oU worth of both kinds of stamps were sold in North Carolina in the past year. Of this amount s14,500 was received from re- tailers. Again drug merchants were the heaviest buyers. ~
 South Carolina will show a combined sale of about $20,800 worth of stamps Like North Carolina, the bulk of stamps were purchased by retailers. In this case, however, the county dis pensary was the heavy buyer with the druggist next.
 Revenue officials state that the sale of these stamps Is causing friction be- tween tLe state and federal author ities, but point out that nothing can be done to remedy the matter Com missioner Cabell refers all complaints to the legislature, which provides for a collection of a uniform rate. that the tax must be the same in Georgia as in California and Florida as in Washington.
 It Is stated that sase of the stamps aids the county, city and state officials In prosecuting violators of the state laws. The collector of internal revenue in each district is required to post the names of stamp purchasers in a pub lie place. These notices arc generally posted in the corridors of a public building or the building occupied by the collectors office or the postonfice. From this list the state revenue of- ficer can tell who Is violating the law and who Is not.