The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-05-30
PORTLAND BONE DRY

PORTLAND BONE DRY
IN NAME ONLY
Portland, Ore, May 25.-We've had
it more than two years. You'll get it
July 1, if President Wilson's recon-
mendation for amendment of the
wartime prohibition act is ignored
by congress. What?
Bone-dray prohibition!
And yet
We're bone-dry in the Pacific north
west only in a manner Of speaking.
True, the beer of commerce is I'M
known to US, and the whiskey of COM
merce is becoming harder and harder
to get. But if it's the kick you want
There are two ways. Make it or
smuggle it. We smuggle whiskey
from California. It's a game. If we
win, we get rich. Bootleg fetches 500
per shy quart. If we lose, we pay
heavy fines and go to Jail.
W. smuggle it in fast automobiles
on dark nights owe mountain roads.
We smuggle it by rail and water
in crude oil tanks and hot water bags,
and in suitcases and trunks with false
bottoms. Women smugglers wear
dresses with many pockets cunning
ly contrived to hold flat pints. They
go south thin and return fat.
No matter how clever we are, the
officers of the law keep pace with us.
They can tip a trunk and hear the
gurgle-gurgle which the unframed ear
cannot detect. They can shake a suit
case and hear the tinkle-tinkle. They
look into the travellers eyes and know
there is bootleg in his baggage. It's
a hard game to beat.
The officers pounce IN u trunks
and open them with violence, which
they have no legal right to do. And
sometimes we miss silver toilet ar
ticles. and other things of value. And
we can't say a word!
It's safer to make than smuggle.
There has been an influx of strange,
sullen men, who wear hickory shirts
and chaw tobacker. They do not take
kindly to strangers. You've guessed
it. Moonshiners! They've come all
the way from the mountains Of Ken
lucky and Tennessee-genuwine hill
billies, but with the commercial in
stinct highly developed. Moonshine
never fetched 500 a quart in Kentucky,
There's many a still hidden away
in the hills of Oregon and Washing.
ton.
Note for housewives: In five min
utes you can construct a small ca
pacity still and make whiskey in the
kitchen. All you need is a large pail
a pan, a pie tin and a tin cup.
Put the still on the stove. The
steam rises from the mash in the bot
tom of the pail. 1t strikes the par
on tip, which is filled with cold wat
er. The steam congeals and fall
into the pie tin. 1t trickles through
a hole in the pie tin into the tin cul
beneath. And that's moonshine!
A queer psychology has been a
work among US since, with u eye
open, we voted the northwest dry.
We are-or were-law-abiding PEG
pie. Now we scheme to break tn
, law. The best people do it. Ever,
third house in Portland is a distillery
a winery or a brewery.
We make "dago red" from Zinfin
:. del grapes which are shipped to u
from California. We make loganber
nv wine, and raisin wine, and appl
, and honey wine, and dandelion wine
!. You can even make wine from car
: rots.
. Good beer is hard to make. Ever
once in a while the neighborhood i
shaken by an explosion. Window
rattle. The earth trembles. But w
merely smile and go about our busi
ness or pleasure. We know what ha
happened. Some amateur brewreiste
has put too much yeast in his beer.
It's all wrong Of course. Our cor
sciences prick. Nevertheless we fin
a perverse enjoyment in breaking tn
prohibition law. And this we know
that prohibition never can be bone
dry.
Fermentation makes alcohol. Mos
everything ferments. Alcohol pre-
vides the kick. And it's the kick "
want.
MODEL WOMAN.
Mr.. Jones came home at an unseen