The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-12-28
LIKE FRANCE
LIQUOR CONTROL
Some Returning Soldiers
Say They Will Fight Pro-
hibitiOn at Home
ORGANIZATION
is PLANNED
One Soldier Predicts That 95 Per Cent
of American Expeditionary Force
VIII Oppose Bone Dry Law In This
Country

NEW YORK, Dec 2S.--Intcryiews with
several OF the returning soldiers Indicate
there will be an effort among the dis
charged soldiers TO form national organ
ization similar to the Grand Army of the
Republic TO exert united effort in politl-
cal matters One OF the strongest takers
was Private f. II. Casey Of Boston who
predicted rough treatment of some con
gresham when the soldiers get organized
Speaking OF the prohibition amendment
he said
Some OF these sky pilots who think
the bone dry proposition is settled are
goin to be disappointed We have seen
the way booze is handled m France and
Belgium and know that 1t can be handled
the same way here The French think
any man who would try 70 deprive
them OF their beer aud wine is crazy, and
they treat him accordingly. ] agree with
them.
The people who want to make this
country bone dry, ii they succeed just as
sure as he'll will try TO make smoking a
| crime and regulate everything a man does
| Well, there's about 1900, 900 men coming
around bye and bye who have had all they
wanted OF top scrgeants, in uniform or
out"
Sergeant r. s Morey OF the machine
gun company, l65th infantry, formerly OF
the Goth, agreed with Wagner CASEY.
I've heard lot OF soldiers over there
talk this thing over and | never saw any
one yet who didn't think the French had
the right idea said Morey. "Over there
| everybody drinks his wine or beer, Just
like we drink tea or coffee, and nobody
seems the worse for it. Anybody who
tries TO persuade me that the law ought
| to prevent man who wants ono from
| taking a glass OF beer with his dinner /,
, going TO waste his time"
Id say that about ninety-fi soldiers
| out OF every hundred will he against
national bone dry prohibition. said Ser
| geant Lawrence kerrigan of the same out
TT Although | don't remember seem.
any of the fivcs I've allowed for in any O
the hundreds I've seen. We had n,
trouble getting beer or wine over ther,
and | never saw any abuse OF the prive
ilege. | think the bunch is going TO sit OF
the fanatics on this side who think III
| blciNol SIN " Il glass Oh Deer.
Marion Gage Of headquarters company
llHh infantry, whose home is in Swee
Water, Tenn, never took drink in hi
| life, he said. but he declared himsel
against the bone dry" proposition "a
matter OF principle"
Il believe whiskey is bad stuff SAT-
Gage, but beer and wine the way tn
French drink it wouldn't harm anybody
III my opinion. | predict the soldier vot
viii be almost solidly against prohibition.
Private James G. Oliver Of the l09tl
infantry, whose home is on Sylvester aver
ne. Jamaica, and Benjamin Holiday O
the l29th infantry, who calls Paoli. Ind
home, said the soldier coming back fror
France had new opinion on the liquo
tquest,ion that would inevitably express
itself in the defeat of the bone dry Pre-
ponents
Corporal Alfred Bindel Of Racine. Wis.
Private Faris Allen of Kansas City, Mo
| La member OF the 20th machine gun BAT
| talon: Private Arthur Mccarthy. lost
| machine gun company, of Mount Vernon
| n y, and Private John Brady, Compan
! B. l06th infantry, of Brooklyn, were a
:, OF the same opinion-that the return {
II Pershing's soldiers would halt the bon
II dry movement and give its opponents the
II support at the polls.