Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-13
MEN F|GHT
NEAR-BEER BILL
Declare Alcohol Clause Of Tip
pins Measure Means Ruin to
Trade in Georgia.

Unless amended to meet the require
ments of the drug trade of the state,
the famous Tippins bill. the first bill on
the house calendar for consideration by
the Georgia legislature at It's forthcom-
ing summer session, will be bitterly
fought by the druggists
The Tippins bill is primarily aimed
al the near-beer dealers and manufac-
turers of Georgia. Under its provisions
no beer or liquid compound manufac-
tured for sale as an Imitation" beer
could be sold in any event, and no
compound whatsoever containing more
than one per cent of alcohol could be
marketed, either in wholesale or retail
quantities.
The passage of this bill, with the
governors signature attached, inevita-
bly, would close every near beer bar in
Georgia. 1t would also absolutely stop
the manufacture of beer or any imita-
ton thereof
Druggists Ready For Fight
The druggists of the state do not OPP
pose those things so strenuously as
they do oppose the provision of the Tip
pins bill which prohibits the sale of
any liquid compound containing more
than one per cent OF alcohol The
druggists of Georgia appointed a com
mittee to confer with legislative com
mittee looking to the amending of the
Tippins bill in such wise as to remove
that Objectionable feature, but the COM
mfttee from the druggists claim that
the bill was not so amended, as the leg
islative committee said it should be,
hence the druggists will fight it, as it
stands
Druggists. returning from the annual
meeting of the Georgia Pharmaceutical
association, now in session in Savan-
nah, say that the Tippins bill has been
topic of continued discussion during
the progress of the convention. They
say that the druggists will oppose it
virtually to a man, in its present form.
The druggists claim that the Tippins
bill would drive the sale of drugs abso-
lutely from the state, If enacted in it's
present form. They point out, for in
stance that paregoric, one of the com
monest articles Of sale in drug stores,
would be barred from the market under
the operation of this bill. because it
contains necessarily a high percentage
of alcohol They cite scores of other
drugs that would be eliminated from
the trade by the Tippins bill.
Early Vote on Bill Expected.
The Tippins bill will come up for ac-
ton early in the summer session of the
legislature. It, has been read in the
house twice. and can hardly be kept
from a vote long After it passes the
house, If it does pass, and it generally
is predicted that it will. it must go to
the senate, If the senate passes it.
there still is the chance that the gov
ernor will veto it--that, in all likeli-
hood will depend upon the shape in
which 1t gets TO the governor.
Already there is talk of amending it.
before it leaves the house. An amend =
ment providing for the abolition of
locker clubs" is being talked Of an
other amendment to meet the objec-
tons of the drug trade has its advo-
Gates: while still another amendment,
vague and indefinite as yet, Is being
thought out, whereby it may be re-
ferred to the people for approval or re-
lection, as the case may be, after 1t Is
passed hy the legislature