The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1916-11-28

I twenty or thirty drinks are consumed.
The treating system ought to be pro-
hibited.
Il am spending s135.Ooo to build
Deutsche wirtschaft at Gravois and
Morganford roads to demonstrate that
an institution at which only beer. light
wines and temperance drinks are
served can be made a success l am
going to call this the Bevo Mil. 1t
is to be constructed principally pS
vari-colored stone. most OF which. with
my own hands. l gathered from my
place the Grant Farm.
! There Will be no bar in this estab-
lishment. There will be a hign-class
cafe. which have engaged Henry
Dietz, former chef and manager OF
Faust's. to conduct for me. All drinks
will be served at tables.
Busch Is building $S.000.000 plant
fronting on Broadway, Immediately
ment, which will be used exclusively
for the manufacture OF Bevo. the new
temperance drink he has put on the
market He was asked II he was manu-
featuring the temperance drink in an
ticipation OF prohibition in Missouri.
NO. he sad. Il conceived the idea
that the people wanted beverage con-
tanning less alcohol than beer contains
There IL per cent of alcohol in beer,
and less than one-fourth OF ! per cent
in Bevo. / think the real remedy for
the drink question is education. BY
education all the evils of drinking will
be gradually eliminated. II l forbade
i my children from drinking. they prob
ably would develop strong desire for
1t and get it anyway.
Warning to Cafe Owners.
My father was very strict with me
about smoking. Every time ne met me
he would smell my breath to see
whether I had been smoking The re-
suit was that used TO take his cigars
and hide myself away and smoke until
was satisfied. Now my family can
have anything in the world IT wants
In the drink line. and I do not think
there is a family in America where
i there is less drinking"
During the past few days Busch has
published advertisements in st. Louis
newspapers warning cafe proprietors
and saloon keepers that the brewery
would refuse TO sell its products to
those who sell strong drinks on sun
days under the guise OF Bevo.
AT some place." he said. in explana-
Il
bottle. which in no wise resembles a
beer bottle. has been set on tables as
blind. Then all kinds of drinks were
served. To an observer 1t would APP
pear that Bevo was being served. and
that there was no violation of the
| law
I'VE will not tolerate these prac-
tees. There must be no use of our
products to evade the law
IF any saloons wno are customers
of this brewery are violating or evad-
! ing the law we do not know II. II
any committee OF citizens interested
In the enforcement of the law will
point out to me any saloon that is not
obeying the law, will do everything
I can do to close it. want this business
IN which L am interested to stand for
morality"
Have you ever considered what use
will be made OF your properties If a
prohibltory amendment should be voted
| or law enacted In this slater
las time goes on the sentiment of
the people changes. I want to say that
IL this organization with which 1 am
connected is forced to go out of the
brewing business in ST. Louis it will
be here and I will be here as a factor
in something else. OF course. I think
1t would be a sad world where such
harmless stimulants beer and Bevo
could not be sold. but our great plant
here, in which about $7o.000.OO0 has
been invested, would be wonderfully
well suited for an ammunition factory,
such as the United States will have
need OF in carrying out it's plan of
preparedness. or it could be converted
into the greatest meat packing estab-
lisnment in the world"
Need of Meeting PInces.
DO you think. Mr.. Busch, that there
will come a time when the people will
tire of prohibition and permit the sale
OF beverages for consumption in the
home. but not in the saloon?"
II do not expect such conditions"
ne said las said before. l think the
saloon. with the bar eliminated and the
sale OF stronger drinks prohibited. will
not be Objectionable. / think that is
the solution of the question. I do not
think the middle-mans club should be
taken away from him. There ought to
be place where people can meet. ex-
change views and be served with light
1 beverages. People would not care to
transfer this sort of pleasures to their
! homes. There ought TO be an institu-
| ton peculiarly for such purposes.
And now" added Busch. in conclu-
sion Of the interview. III / had before
me a convention of the brewers Of the
United States, 1 should say to them
that II they wanted to render the
greatest possible service to their own
/ interests they would insist upon the
strict enforcement of the dramshop
laws and cooperate with the proper
authorities in closing every saloon that
has not been conducted strictly ac-
cording TO these laws"