The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-04-27

Another story, also from the Atlanta
Journal, shows what many Georgians
are doing to beat the bone dry" law.
The Attorney General of the state has
held that a strict Interpretation of the
law absolutely prohibits the sale Of all
kinds OF extracts containing alcohol.
But the Journal says:
Attorney General Clifford Walker,
after comforting with Governor Harris
and members OF the legislature who
aided in drafting the "pone-dry% pro-
hibition law, Thursday ruled that the
law strictly construed, absolutely pro-
hibits the sale of all kinds of house
hold extracts cont aiming alcohol.
Included in the list are vanilla, lem
on, pineapple, orange and similar ex-
tracts, such as are used for favoring
cakes, pies, ice cream, etc. These ex-
tracts are handled by practically every
druggist and grocer in the state.
Extracting the Alcohol.
Attorney General Walker says he
has been advised members of the COM
mittees In the legislature which
framed the law that they intended that
extracts containing alcohol should be
banned. He said that Representative
Herman shruptine, of Chatham coun-
ty, himself a wholesale druggist, had
declared that extracts could be made
without alcohol and that within the
past few days a salesman had called
on him and exhibited complete line
of extracts which contain no alcohol
The Attorney General says that the
new law prohibits the manufacture
and sale Of any kind of concoction con
tanning alcohol which can be diluted
and made into an intoxicating bever-
age. Extracts now sold, he said, con
tain large percentages Of alcohol, some
of them as high as 80 per cent.
He has also been advised that In all
parts of the state there has been q
tremendous increase in the sale of ex-
tracts since the enactment of the pro-
hibition principally lemon, or
ange, and vanilla extracts-and that
numerous instances have been report
ed where individuals desiring an alco-
holic drink have purchased a bottle
of extract and emptied same into a
glass OF ginger ale, or some other soft
drink
"A mean drunk can be obtained
from such a mixture" said the Attor-
ney General.
Many wholesale and retail druggists
disagree with the Attorney General in
his statement that extracts can be
made without alcohol
May Search Any Home.
Governor Harris has changed his
mind about the right of sheriffs and
other officers of the law to search pri-
yate homes for liquor. He now agrees
with the Attorney General that under
the general law, invoked by the bone
dry" law, search warrant can be ta.
ken upon proper affidavit for liquor as
we'll as stolen goods or other contra.
band
Asked IL he thought public sentb
ment was in favor of such q drastic
law, the Governor said:
/ don't know l hope so. A good
many people are dissatisfied with It.
This fact was made plain by the strong
fight in the legislature on some OF It's
provisions.
The people wanted bone-dry pro
hibition and now they've got it. They
can now try it, and If it Ia good law
they will want to keep It. If 1t Is a bad
law, they will know how to get rid og
it.
Replying to question as to whesh
er he would in his farewell message
to the new legislature in June urge the
creation of the Office Of prohibition
commissioner, the Governor said:
/ don't know about that. Wen ha
able to see how the new law Ii wosh
ing by that time"
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