The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-03

USING WH|SkEY
SUBSTITUTES
Extracts, Dandruff Killer,
Lemon Oil, Etc., Contain
Much Alcohol
OPIUM ALSO FOUND
IN PREPARATIONS
Treasury Department Has Long List of
Alcoholic Medicinal Preparations
Used in Evading the Bone Dry"
State Laws-Big Increase Feared.

WASHINGTON, March 3.-The
records of the treasury department.
show that the s'bone dry territory Is
not ''dry" at ALL Thousands of sub
sttutes are being used. for whiskcy,
beer and wine. In every prohibition
state in the union patent medicines,
flavoring extracts. toilet preparations
and ''soft drinks are being seized by
revenue officers because the thirsty
hordes are using them as beverages.
Recently in a Pacific coast state n lot
of dandruff killer was seized and the
manufacturer hailed into court because
barber bought the stuff to drink. An
examination revealed that the dandruff
oil contained more than 30 per cent of
alcohol.
Halitual drinkers left dry by the
prohibition laws in various states,
are consuming great quantities of
lemon extract, violet or rose, or some
kind Of favoring matter, hair oil,
lemon ell, weak bay rum.
1t is not so much the patent med
icines that we fear in the prohibition
regions, said government official tb-
day, ''but the flavoring extracts. the
toilet preparations, and the alleged
soft drinks. There are hundreds of
these things, and some Of them con-
tain 90 per cent alcohol "
! The treasury department people are
being overwhelmed with medicines, ex.
tracts and soft drinks, alleged to be
manufactured and sold in violation of
u The law. When the war prohibition
measures go into effect in July and thu
prohibition amendment becomes opera
tive next year it will require mil
lions of dollars and armies of mer
and women to keep down the traffic II
drugs and tlavoring extracts.
III BY "doetoriug some of the popular
flavoring extracts, used for making
trimmings for cakes and pies, one ear
have q first class toddv, with q ros,
or violet odor thrown in for good meas
ure, and a wholesome breath. It is thes,
concoetions that the government OIL
eials dread.
Representative Henry T. Rainev. VIII
has made a special study of the farce
of prohibition, thinks that alcohol i
| being used in extracts and medicines {
4 a shameful degree
H q have little bottle of cough ncd
H ieine, he said. This alleged remed
lis made in many places in the Unite
II States ANY one can make it and am
II one can sell it. The bottle have cor
II tains Is per cent in volume of pur
4 alcohol, and il also contains I9 grain
II Of opium. | have another make willie
III ooDtainu nF nlo
Ii grains of opium. Another make of thes
Il drops contains IS per cent of alcoh,
II and per cent opium A little bottle i
II my possession labeled .paregoric col
II tains al per cent of alcohol and is
u opium. A bottle of cordial-one hay
! in my office-eontains for each hui
ounce ) per cent Of alcohol in volnn
and 1.6 grains of opium. Each Of the:
bottles contains one good drink
whiskey. and in addition, nearly tw
D grains of opium,
} "Under the permission granted |
congress in the Harrison act, the
eoml nations of whiskey and opiu
can be sold by any person without r
straint in any section of the Unit,
States, whether that section be dry
a wet, and in dry sections the sale OF
I is steadily increasing.
v The manufaeturerers of these drn
will increase their output if the count,
soes dry. Not one of the concerns TIL
:, make such things protested against Z
II Increase in the drug tax in the revcn
II bill. All they want is to be permitted
continue to manufacture the alcohol Al
II opium combinations.
II The treasury department has a lol
II blacklist of alcoholic medicinal PREF
II rations which have been examined
u the chemical experts of the bureau
= internal revenue and "'heldst to be
sufficiently medicated to render the
unfit for use as beverage The
: struetions to the collectors and reven
agents are tint they should .senntin