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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21
Time Never Hangs Heavy on
Mrs. TOHiYer'S Hands

OF all the ToIlivers, including even the bread
winning Plutarch, Mrs. Tolliver was the most
indispensable. She performed the household
laundering, cooking, carpentry, and then found
time to exercise herself in the field. She at
tended 10 thc small truck garden which supplied
the Toliycr table. Shel!ed corn VIII fattcu
mujc or SOW. Ground corr cooked into bread,
viii feed a family. Corn-oa-the-cob is a Broad
way dish.
But it requires a greater acreage Of corn to
feed mule or family than to supply dis
tillery. Pluto Toliver has only forty acres.
So in order to scrape living from the crumbs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21
Pluto Now Goes TO Town
at His Own Expense

Pluto has donned celuloid collar and snre
clothes string tie, and, in frequent instances
socks. He has cultivated the luxuriant cheroct'
and eschewed chewing tobacco because OF It's
social drawbacks. The COW has been roped to
stake in the barnyard and her still converted
into a garage for PIutarch's automobile. NO
longer does Pluto wait to be sent to prison 10
visit the city, but he often packs up the FANNY
and motors it to town without expense TO the
government.
He has had shave since we saw HIM las~
and his hair was shorn in bartr SHOP
though hitherto it had been clipped by the
versatile Mrs. Tolliver, who placed an eartnen
crock over his skull in order TO trim the edges
with the same shears she used for p 4nlng inc
veranda honeysuckles and for home sowing
He is sending the eldest daughter to school
that she might prepare to read him the marker
page wherein he will, in future stages Of bis
prosperity, prospect for investments. lie has
repudiated the shotgun as means of engaging
the law, and retained the more civilized process
of a counsellor-at-law.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21
MAKING MOONSHINE WHILE THE SUN SHINE
With the Importation of Package Goods Groving
DaiN More Difficult, Home Industry, 1t Has Beer
Discovered Is Well Worthy of Patronage. And if
Revenue Men, Marching Through Georgia, Get
PAP Where They Want Him, There Is Alzcays Maw

honoreo custom of doing as the Romans when.
ever visiting Rome.
OF all its virtues. the noteworthiest recon-
mendation Of mountain dew" is the absence Of
after-effects. If Plutarch found headache
among his clientele he would wear out the
knees of his homespun breeches in atonement
For then he would have sinned.
So it is readily understood that when Georgia
went dry it's thirst turned 10 Plute's brewery
in the hills. Polite society drinkers took up
mountain dew" first as a fad-then it grew
upon them. Here was home brew from their
own red hills which was stronger and more
distinctive than the fiery Scotch.
Added to this was the pride Of serving
strangers with a distinctly native beverage
Also, there was the fascination of serving and
drinking contrsband brew; the romantic tales
of the "moonshine" industry TO be told around
the dining table at which "mountsin dew was
served. No wet" banquet in Georgia is Ia
mode without "cawn Ticker"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21
TOIIiver Has a Brand
New Set of Troubles

The wagon yard, the mountain centres PCT
uresque gathering place Of rustic tourists, has
lost sight of Plutarch, for he now puts Up az
the hotel. Soon he will become patron OF suen
arts as the moving picture and burlesque snow
just as soon as his transformation reaches the
point where he can keep astir beyond the trsdi-
tional retiring hour of 9p.m.
His worries are confined to the question OF
supply-Will it meet the new-grown demano'
His sole tribulations are due TO new shoes, ms
irritstions TO union suits, his apprehension 70
untried suspenders. His dscomforts are solely
sartorial.
Hardships are buried with his foretsthers
Could they behold Putarch in the fulhment Q.
their visions of wealth and plenty, theirs would
be a slumber in eternal contentment
To wealth, position, fame, Plutarch has even
an addition to his name. II is now Plutarchraey
Tolliver.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21
"NO COIOring Matter Used"
Is True of Mountain Dew

No coloring process is used. There are no
ingredients other than those stored in the grain
by nature. "Cawn Ticker" resembles water in
hue, and can be distinguished usually only by
are known as the sinners rosary
If patron of Plutarchs moonlight malt
gets into trouble by it, it's his own fault-not
Plutarch's He has nothing to blame but his
own temperament. For mountain dew" acts
upon a man entirely according to that mans
innate disposition. It follows the ancient and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21
ffDRoHIBITION means prosperity" ar
CUES the Prohibitionist.

CAS- true as gospel" afirms the
Georgia "moonshiner," one of prohibitions
gravest impediments.
Despite the fact that he is considered an
almost insurmountable obstacle in the path of
prohibition, the "moonshiner" is as ardent an
advocate of the cause as ever took the stump in
its behalf Because prohibition has lifted him
to an era Of prosperity which promises to give
him ranking in Bradstreet, Wallstreet, Easy
street. AS yet, Bradstreets knows nothing Of
him. Wall Street would look into the sky for
some symbol of your meaning If you spoke OF
a "moonshiner."
Prohibition drove out OF Georgia all legalized
liquor sources, creating a statewide demand
for the product of the mountain brewer. Con-
seuuently, he has acquired commercial, social,
financial footing. Tradesmen no longer hest
tate 10 credit hi;a. Communities no longer
shun him. The LEGITIMACY of his craft has
been submerged beneath newly started f'ow Of
wealth.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21
In the Days Before
Georgia Went "Dry'

Georgia went tee-totslly dry on May /. 1916
although prohibition lin name) had prevailed
since 1906. The locker club system took the
Mace of the open bar from 1906 TO 1916, and
Georgia got its drink virtually as freely as
during the unrestricted reign Of Barleycorn.
I'm those days corn liquor. the "moonshiner's'
product. was consumed in only the remote rural
regions. particularly the Blue Ridge Mountain
territory in the northeastern part of the state.
Competition was so keen, and consumption so
limited. that the "moonshiner" of "wet" days
was an impoverished, iIl-kept sort of illegti-
mate brother of the hardscrabble farmer.
He lived a hand-to-mouth existence. Pleas
urcs, comforts, luxures were unknown. Life
was restricted to the forty acres on which he
grew the grain and to the woodland dale IN
which ne brewcd it into mountain dew" And
life was struggle from day to day, constant
season of worry, want and travail.
Sometimes the revenue agents came, demoi-
ished his distillery and, perhaps, carried HIM to
prison. The wife and children were left to
their own devices If the distilery were not
DESTROYED by the revenue men, and father
"moonshiner" was carried to Jail, the cold
woman" and children continued the manufact-
urc Of liquor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21

Of his mountain existence, he Is compelled to
follow in the footsteps of his forefathers and
lquefy his corn 10 greater pecuniary advan-
tagc.
The "moonshine" craft is more than pro
fession in the hilis-it is q creed. The vocation
has been handed down to Plutarch from fore
bear after forebear. And the only crime
attached TO it would be the making of bad
'Hcker" So long as it is good "licker," neither
heaven nor humanity has, in the mind of the
mountaineer, cause to complain. That's the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21
MOOnsEine Brew Has AC-
quired Medicinal Properties

Physicians suddenly denied lawful source
discovered the medicinal advantages Of unadul-
terated corn liquor. The CAFES at which liquor
is served have recognized the mountain product
as an even more popular drink than the costly
wines served in the days of the open bar.
Because of its lack Of coloring, corn liquor
when drunk in public can be made TO msSquc-
rade as water, and glass of it sitting upon
cafe table does not incriminate the consumer as
do most all other alcoholic drinks. There IS a
law in Georgia prohibiting the carrying Of
more than one pint of intoxicants on the per-
son. Corn liquor Is an ideal evasion Of this
law, for the carrier may pack as much as a
gallon bottle Of It On his shoulder, and declare
it in as kerosene, Hthis or plain aqua without
fear Of contradiction.
The Plutsrch ToIIivers Of the hills have
risen above the struggles and Impoverished
of bygone days. The undercurrent tickers Of
the mountains are nervous with the upward
trend of "corn" quotations, and, in addition,
Pluto Tolliyer is SO hard pressed by demands
of the market that he is finding his lincolnshire
distillery unable to produce an adequate supply
He is thinking Of clearing an extra ten acres
of woodland adjacent to his corn-grown forty
acres for the purpose of planting more corn
next season. He has acquired hired man to
relieve his wife and daughters Of their tasks IN
TIE field. Mrs. Tolliver now has to perform
only the laundering, housekeeping, cooking
carpentry, child raising aud few other fune-
tions
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21

mountain CODE Were it observed by the recog-
nized distilleries the future of the prohibition
lists would hardly look as bright as the new
dollar they now resemble.
Saturday night Of almost any week in the
winter season Pluto will turn loose upon the
undercurrent markets Of mountain dew" gal
Ions Of bottled temperament, but Sunday morn
ing, soaped and secured shoes washed and
hair untangled as though by currycomb, he
will lead his family to favorite corner in the
community church.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21

He pravs with fervor, and sings as badly.
lie believes in heaven and hell, and that II ne
makes bad liquor he will go to hell. AS long
ps he makes good liquor and doesn't beat his
wife he is as reputable as any inhabitant in
the community, and as assured Of reservations
in the hereafter
His religion is confined TO the Ten Command
ments, which he knows by rote. And therein,
he will point out to you, is contained nothing
against the manufacture or consumption OF
mountain dew" Pluto would not steal a
neehbor's wife or COW. But he would violate
his commandments by shooting man who I'M
dertook TO steal either his cow or wife-both
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21
. Always a Substitute "St1P
on the Side=LineS

Far-seeing "moonshiners" maintained two
distilleries-one in operation, and substitute
"still": the latter to be resurrected from its
Mace of concealmcnt and put into operation by
the wife or mother or daughter, in order to
provide livelihood during the interim pap
spent in prison
There is the typical case of Plutarch--Plute'
as he is known in the ommunity-Tolliyer a
native Of Hall County which is near the head
waters of the widely-sung Chattahoochee. All
his life Plutarch had struggled and skmped
along with forty acres and nocturnal brew
cry. Life was as unyielding to Plutarch as
some of the rocker stretches Of his forty-acre
corn farm.
But to-day tho vision of his forefathers of
opulence is being fulfilled in the prosperity
that prohibition has brought to Pluto.
I'm bygone days Mrs. Tolliver and the little
Plutes had to help old man Tolyer plough and
hoe the forty scrawny acres Of corn until
autumn limned its tasses with gold Then they
had TO perform all manner of seasonable agri-
cultural duties, including the housing, shuck-
ing and Smelling of the grain
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21
The TOIiiverS See Nothing
WRONG in "Pap'S" Business

The two boy Tolvcrs aided Plutarch at the
d;stil!ery. performing such functions as pound
.,.,. Tho grain into meal. picking it (the proc
ess of fermentation preceding the brewnS)
and then helping make the run They were
unashamed of their occupation; unashamed OF
"pap's" craft. From moral viewpoint 1t
meant no more to the Tolliver young than
fathers cotton gin or -four mill would mean TO
any other family in the community. 1t was
"psp's" sole source of livelihood.
Had Plutarch undertaken to derive legit-
ra,e livelihood from his forty stingy acres by
converting the corn into meal, or stock food, be
could have provided no more than a month";
clothing and food for the hungry mouths and
tattered backs at home. Turned into corn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21
Though 1t Cannot Be Said of Him That He Leads
a jolly Life, Jolly Life, or That He's Free from
Every Care and Strife, Care and Strife, NeDerthe-
less the Blue Ridge MOuntaineer Has GroSvn Com
fortably Prosperous Since Georgia Vent "Dry

liquor as it was, the forty acres scarcely SUI
feed.
In the days before prohibition Plutarch wore
a flannel shirt open at the collar, or tied
around his Adams apple with piece Of Irvine;
a pair Of brogans, to which his unsocked fee
were comfortably calloused; pair Of home
spun breeches, and sometimes hat
His family went similarly clad, except for
Mrs. Tolliver, who wore calico wrapper, what
time it wasn't being Numbered by her own
hands in the wash boiler on the banks of the
creek in the rear of the Tolliver cabin.
Mrs. Tolliver's daily routine would have
served as a convincing argument for sexual
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21

being indispensable.
Plutarch's revenue is not the wages Of sin.
Brewers duly licensed by the Internal Revenue
Department foist upon the public more dia-
bolical brews than Plutarch's "moonshine
malt" "Cawn Ticker" is the genuine extract
from the grain; pure, undilutcd, as clear ir
color as the spring that gushes from the
crevice in stone.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21

equality. She essayed 90 per cent efficiency at
the plough, hoe or wash pot And neither was
this the extent of her invasion of mans sphere.
Twice when Pluto had been sent on his vaca-
ton to prison she had resurrected the substi-
tuts distillery from beneath the cabin and car
rcd On N his absence the Tolliyer industry.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-23
ADDRESS SENT
ALL M T|ONS
Copies of Speech Received
Abroad Before Made.
Guarded Against Leak.
az ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Washington, Jan. 22-President
Wilson's address was intended as an
open message to the world. 1t, was
sent to American diplomats in bellig-
erent countries last Monday.
Not until he received reply from di-
plomats abroad that the copy had
been received did he arrange to make
the addpess to the senate. There is
nothing in the message necessitating
an answer.
The address to the senate is taken
as affording the possible means for
continuing the peace movement.
The fear of leak surrounded the
sending of the message. Only Presi-
dent Wilson, Secretary Lansing and
the men who transmitted it had been
aware of it. Count Won Bernstorff,
the German ambassador. declined to
comment.
The German general view was that
the address will strike a responsive
chord in the German people. Presi-
dent Wilson anticipates the address
will provoke indignation from foreign
press.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-23
LIQUOR CASES SET
FOR TRIAL TODAY

Three or four defendants, all
charged with selling liquor without
licenses, and who have already been
given preliminary hearing, will face
a jury in the court of record on Fri
day of this week. arrangements hav-
ing been made to handle these cases
by the court on that day, at the open
ing of the court for regular January
term, yesterday.
These cases are against Meharg
and others. There are already three
set for trial on Friday. The evidence,
it is said. is practically the same IN
each case, and it is believed the en-
tire number may be disposed of in
a single dav. Others who have not
yet been given-a preliminary hearing
may also be tried on that day, pro-
viding preliminary is disposed OF
by Thursday or Friday.
There is much interest in this pro-
secution, as it is said to have in ques-
ton a certain construction of tht
Davis package law.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-23
Think PAPER
FAMINE OVER
Trade Commission Officials
Believe Market VIII Al
just Itself.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Washington, Jan. 22.-Pending the
inquiry of the Canadian govern
ment into the order fixing the maxi
mum news print prices in Canada,
the federal trade commissions re-
port on the paper investigation will
be held up, it was learned today.
Developments bearing on the re-
port are expected Friday when paper
manufacturers and publishers meet
at Chicago.
The Canadian decree provides a
maximum advance in paper prices of
ten dollars ton over old contracts
and limits exports to so per cent of
the mills output, whether the mill is
under Canadian or American man
agement. The decree may not effect
the American market.
Officials close in touch with the sit
uation are hopeful that the market
will soon adjust itself. They say
there actually is now or will soon be
enough paper for Canadian and Am
erican publishers.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-23
WILSON WILL
VISIT CAPITAL
Decides To Go Three Times
Weekly Before Congress
Urging Laws.
81 AssocIATEp rREss.

Washington Jan, 22-President
Wilson has made tentative plans for
spending at least an hour three times
a week at the capitol instead of see
ing members of congress at the
White House.
He is determined if possible to
his legislative program com pIeted
during the present session. The lead
ers of the house and senate gave as
surances today of their cooperation
for speeding of the legislation.
Night sessions are possible. The
president insists on the passage of
railroad bills, vocational educational
measure, general leasing and water
power bills, Porto Rico and revenue
legislation bill.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-23
BIC SUMS ARE
GIVEN TO AID
ALAF LAMISS"
Two Committees Collect
$1,000 To Be Used In Big
Publicity Campaign.
WILL CONTINUE
WORK TODAY
With Bars Check Total of
$4,000 Has Been Sub
scribed By Pensacola.

One thousand and six hundred dol
lars were signed up in subscriptions
by Pensacolians to the Alaflamiss
movement by the two committees
working in the downpour Of rain yes
terday, which, added to the 81 ,00G
check by H. Baars and Company
given several days ago, ran the re-
suits of the first days actual cam
paign for subscriptions up to $4,000.
In addition TO this a number Of defl-
mite promises were made the commit
tees which will be ratified later in
the week and which amounted to APP
proximately $1,000 more. Those sign
ing up yesterday We're: J r. McLane,
81 900; Knowles Bros. Agency, $3.50;
f. j. and s. H. Bell. $50; II. Lee
Bell, $50; E. c. Maxwell, 500; j G,
Van Pelt, $50; Harrison Bros, $50.
The committees working were: J.
NJ. Muldon and ]. r McIsane with pr
H. w. Taylor, secretary Of the league,
and w. H. Knowles and ]. w. Bullock
with M. B. Irrelevant, field director
Despite the heavy downpour OF rain
that kept up most OF the day these
four Pensacolians, firm believers in
the future of the gulf coast country
and determined to do their share tc
aid in its upbuilding, covered the dis
tricts allotted to them and instead of
working for the one day, as arranged.
will continue until they have seen all
| those assigned to them.
The thousand dollars subscribed by
Mr.. McLane was generally comment
ed upon in business circles yesterday
as being one of the most meritortous
examples of the entire movement. Mr..
McLane, while having his residence in
Pensacola, has practically all Of his
land holdings in Florida far outside
the borders of Alaflamiss, many miles
to the eastward Discussing this with
representative Of The Journal, Mr..
McLane said: THE fact that my lands
of the territory known as Alaflamiss,
it did not take me long to see that
any improvement in tae value Of Ian Is
and in conditions generally, brought
about by this well planned campaign
of advertising, would certainly be Of
/ benefit to me. / know the gentlemen
who are heading this movement and
have confidence in their Judgment.
The fact that they consented n 90
into it only after they had made a
most thorough investigation and
analysis Of the question from all sides.
made its impression upon me, for
know they would not pledge their
money and work and energy to any
proposition which was in any way
doubtful. Ny very deliberate opin-
ion is that this is a good movement,
ought out at the right time and is
/ ing handled in manner calculated
! produce the most effective results.
/ FoT 1ese reasons / can do no less
than wise the business and other IN
/ terests of Pensacola and this section
to invest in an enterprise which, in
my judgment, is the broadcast and
most comprehensive propaganda OF
its kind ever presented to any section
Of the south"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-23
EXPEDITION IS
MOVED
Camp Equipment Taken By
Trucks From Colonia
Dublan to Columbus.
BY AssocIATED PRESS.

Juarez, Jan. ga Mexican cou-
rier from Casas Grandes brought
here tonight an official message say
ing 161 trucks loaded with camp
equipment of the expeditionary force
left Colonia Dublan for Columbus,
New Mexico yesterday.
The courier said the well casing
had been drawn at Pershing's head
quarters at Colonia Dublan and sent
to the Columbus base.
A Mormon settler who asked for
safe conduct to the border but was
refused and referred to the Mexican
authorities. Many settlers, he said
would come out on the first train over
the Mexican Northwestern railway
and many natives are planning tc
come to Juarez.
Nc actual movement of troops
toward the border from field head
quarters is reported in this message
1t is said the Ell Vale garrison start
ed moving hack toward Colonia Dub
Ian yesterday. This movement is con-
sidered only as a concentration out OF
post troops preparatory to with
drawal.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-23
RESIDENT OF
McDAVID is DEAD

Benjamin Sykes, "a years of age.
died at McDavid, yesterday morning,
and the remains were brought to the
city last evening on the 6:15 train and
conveyed to the home of his son-in-
law, j. w. Bray, 1911 West Jackson
street.
Deceased is survived by three
daughters, as follows: Mrs. ]. W.
Bray, Mrs. c. A. Cole and Mrs. H.
Sadlas. He was we'll known through
out the city anu county, and his death
caused universal regret.
The funeral will take place this
afternoon at 8 o'clock, the cortege to
leave the residence or Mr.. Bray
thirty minutes earlier, and proceed
to the West Hill Baptist Church,
where the services over the remains
will be conducted by Rev. E. E. Rice,
the pastor. Interment will take place
in ST. Johns cemetery.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-23
WAR ACTIVITY.
At STANDST|LL
Practically no Operations on
Any of Fronts-Report
Transport Sunk.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Fighting in the war zones even in
Roumania, is virtually at standstill.
Raids and reciprocal bombardments
feature the western front. Artillery
is active at points in the region of
Verdun.
Wireless distress signals picked up
at Rotterdam states that the British
transport and 1900 men, in the Eng
fish channel is sinking. Confirmation
is lacking.
Isolated counter attacks have taken
place in Russia in the region of
Friedrichstadt, Baranovitchi and Ko-
vel without either side gaining inn
portant results.
Both German and French artillery
is active in the region of Chapelotte,
in the Vosges mountains.