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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
Home Brews That Kick

brown sugar or molasses is added. It
is then thoroughly mixed and strained
into common heavy beer key. Through
the bunghole is poured small guam
tity of yeast The mixture is allowed
TO work" for several hours, after
which the bunghole is carefully
plugged. In couple of days the beer
is ready for use.
There are, of course, persons VINO
have thirst for something stronger.
Various methods of home distilling are
in vogue already. Chief among them
is the washboiler still" A common
washboiler with an inverted top Is
used. In the bottom of the boiler IS
placed small stand, upon which .
dish is set to catch the distilled prod
uct which drios from the peak Of the
inverted top. a mixture of molasses,
potatoes, malt and barley is placed in
the boiler and set over the fire. As
this mixture bells the steam strikes
the inverted boiler top upon which
ice has been placed. The result is
rapid condensation, the condensed
steam dripping into the dish. This
liquid is OF high alcoholic content and
the color of New England rum.
Still another method in vogue, bat
one that requires a longer period TO
produce results, is that OF shreddiag
potatoes into barrel and burying the
barrel in the earth. TIE barrel IS
allowed 20 remain buried for frola
three to six months. and when opened
contains several gallons Of practically
pure alcohol. Dozens Of barrels con
tanning potatoes are said to be buried
on farms in this section.
Siios are common on farms, but II
was not until few years ago that az
lnouisitlve farmland with thirst dis
covered a byproduct which IS uo~
eagerly sought after in the spring. lae
silos on most farms are filed IL TIE
autumn with ensilage corn. which s
allowed to ferment, and which IS fe1
out 20 the cattle during the winSo'>
There is certain amount OF roistu:~~
in the corn, and this d-ics to the bor-
tom OF the silo, where it remains whes.
all the fodder has been removed. tbs
liquid contains a high percentage CT
alcohol and its taste resembles that Of
new corn whisiey.
Ne ,ertheless. medically and rot So
cially or morally speaking, distilled
vegetation is an abomination. You
often hear the remark that "there IS
no harm in glass OF wine per Sc
Per Sc means By itself. Certainly
there is no harm in a glass of vino
by itself.
Place glass of wine on a shelf ard
let it remain there, and it is per sc'
and vii! harm no one. II, howe~or. you 2
take it from the shelf or the table anJ 6
turn It inside man, then it y 20
longer pey Sc. Do you see? isas
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

"The child's demands are very
simple; it subsists entirely On it's
mothers milk and wants nothing
else. Weaving has always been a
tragedy for the child as we'll as the
parents. The child .resists every
new article Of food and has to be
more or less forced to partake of it.
AS he grows older his taste becomes
correspo ndingly broader and he
gradually shows a versatile attitude
toward nourishment, which is more
or less determined by his environ
ment. A cosmopolitan can eat clans
and Holsters in New York and snails
and frogs IN Paris. Indeed, it has
been said that the civilization of a
nation Tan readily be measured by
its manner of preparing food.
Compare, for example, the mani
fold varieties of foods offered on the
menu cards in any first class restau-
rant in Paris or New Y orlS to the
food consumed by the average Rus
sian peasant. If one goes down still
further in the line Of civilization the
differences become even more
marked. The Esquimau lives on the
simplest kind Of food and the South
American poems, according to Mil
Ter, 'subsist everlastingly on boiled
corn and penella. Here, as in other
respects, the child Of nature, the
savage, behaves like the real child {;
his consumption Of food is of the
simplest variety, and as he advances
in civilization his tastes become cor
respondingly broadcned."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
Earoy With Vodka!

Thus, as DR.. Brill submits, vodka,
so eagerly imbibed by the Russian
peasant, would be rejected by the
average Anglo Saxon who Graves
his whiskey or brandy. Almost
every nation has its own national
alcoholic beverage, which is not
relished by foreigner, though he
may quickly develop a taste for O.
foreign concoction and later crave
1t. AS matter Of fact, almost all
alcoholic tastes are cultivated.
though many begin drinking at diff
ferent ages.
On this matter DR. Brill said: 81
tried to find out at what age it be-
came a habit, i. e., when the indi-
vidual could say 4 take drink be-
cause / like it, and found that
whereas the non-alcoholics did not
experience this feeling before the
age Of nineteen to twenty the al
coholic manifested a strong craving
for even the hard stuff at the age
Of fifteen, sixteen or seventeen.
With very few exceptions l can say
that all OF my chronic alcoholic pa
tents were paychopaths, many were
Rightly subnormal, some we're manic
Oppressive types and some epilep-
ticz.
In other words, years of cxpc-
rienee with alcoholics both in hos
pitais and in private practice leads
me to state that practically all IN
div'duals who chronically indulge
ezcesxively IN alcohol arc emotion
ally moro or less diseased. do not
WISH 10 imply that psychiatrjcal
examination will aha ~ them all to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
DR.. Leonard keene Hir5h-
berg. 4. 8. ". A.. NJ. D.

pWQHERE is potentially as much Of
81 e devil III every berry of the
IL grape and each fruit Of cereal
as there is in the cunning
wrestler wine itself.
Good wine needs no bush. You can
brew it in a teakettle or a soup boiler
beyond the madding revenue and Sc
cret service officers. Wine may take
away reason, engender insanity, lead
thousands to extravaganza, and, at the
last. it biteth like serpent and sting
eth like an adder, yet human nature
is falible and will continue to fall
for it,
connection popularity known as
home brew is probably the most
common cf the locally brcwed drinks.
and persons who have tried this bsv
erage claim that when properly pre-
pared it compares very favorably with
the best of aies. The method of man
ufacturing ''home brew" is very simple
and no expensive equipment is neces-
sacy. the chief thing needed being a
washboiler or large kettle that win
hold from eight to sixteen gallons Of
liquid. In this receptacle are placed
the required number Of gallons Of
water, the malt and the hops.
This mixture is allowed to stcep for
hours, or until the goodness of the
malt and hops sleeps out, after which
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

which reality denies him and which
his organism demands. 1t must be
borne in mind shat the individual
vocation is only sublimaton of his
most primitive impulses, which mod
ern society holds in constant re-
preston and suppression, and that
his pleasure principle as such has
to be constantly checked.
"The tired laborer, like the tired
business man and the tired profess
sional man, must find some means of
making life easier for himself, and,
whereas the latter are helped to it
by their occupations, the laborer is
not, for almost all of his primitive
impulses are fettered, and the only
emotional outlet offered him is
through companionship with his
family and friends. Mild alcoholic
beverages are the most potent fac
tors in the promotion of such pleas
ures. do not wish to be misunder-
stood | am not at all in favor Of
the American bar, with all that goes
with it, but study Of the Individual
shows it is better to give him some
substitute for his primitive impulses
than let him live through them. By
depriving a man of all stimuli, such
AS alcohol, smoking and prizc6ghts,
he is pushed back to the primitive
state and, 1aolsns volens, he will
have to live through those impulses.
Il am opposed to the absolute pro-
hibition of alcoholic beverages be-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

same conditions prevailed in all the
other alcoholics who stopped drink
ing. They always resorted to some
thing vicious, something that in his
opinion was worse for society than
the original vice.
ut is my opinion" said DR.. Brill,
that the alcoholic flight is in itself
an adjustment to some that are
mentally and emotionally below par,
and that taking away the alcohol
only unloosens the other primitive
impulses. And he continued:
when one studies a number of
such cases and compares them with
peculiar cravings in so-called nor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
" hen q Saloon Is No: q
Saloon

a GREGORY HARTSWICK re-
Gently declared that the Sal
walton Army had opened several
Temperance Bars" in which are
preserved all features of the saloon
Except alcoholic drinks), even to
the traditional brass rail. These
bars have been a success with the
returning soldiers and sailors, he
AYERS, and have been commercially
successful. In the hope that moro
Of the same will be instituted
tho writer observes that they
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08


many of them are that, too, but
judging by a standard Of adjust
ment Of continuous effort, in some
directions they are all deficient. I
have treated them in all sorts of
ways; have given them the So
called specifics, have hypnotized and
analysed them, but the results were
very disappointing"
If person is not extremely sub
normal he can be helped to give up
alcohol for while, but he usually
returns to it. In treating sixteen
cases of psycho-analysis DR.. Brill
obtained some interesting results.
Intellectually, he says, his subjects
would be considered normal, though
emotionally one would. call them
psychopathic. The ages range from
nineteen to thirty-nine years. Nine
Of the patients returned to their for
mer habits, while two drink mod
erately but are considered cured by
their relatives, because for over two
years they have not been intoxicated
in public.
The remaining five have not in
dulged in alcohol since their dis
charge, but, rs Dr.. Brill emphasized,
+boir hoho,y;c,. e c,,ob il,o \ l,a+L ~..1.
tives and physicians regret that they
are not alcoholics.
One, woman, became addicted to
heroin and daily consumes enormous
amounts Of bromo seltzer. She also
has fits of depression, during which
she talks of suicide.
The case of another, man of
thirty-two years of age, DR.. Brill
explains thus:
"He came to me eight years ago
and was under my care for about
six months and I saw him occa-
sionally until about eighteen months
ago. Before coming to me he was
treated for alcoholism for many
years. Although he was brought
up in cultured surroundings he was
often sent to the workhouse as a
common drunkard. incidentally he
was somewhat precocious and emo
tionally he was very unstable. For
over a year prior to his coming to
me he was in sanitarium, where he
was considered incurable. He be-
came drunk on the day he left the
sanitarium, but he gradually yielded
to treatment, and after about six
months | considered him cured of
his alcoholism. About eight months
later he came to me in an excited
condition. TO allay my apprehen-
sions he started by saying: Don't
worry, doctor, didn't touch any
thing That was quite true, but he
had forged a check and asked me
to intercede with his father, for
otherwise he was liable to be i'm
prisoned.
ga few months later he reap
peared and again assured me that
he hadn't touched anything,' which
was true This time he had en-
hezzled some money from the firm
who employed him. Again his pa
rents helped him. Very soon there
after he was again in trouble and
again implored my help. This time
he had married a girl of question:
able reputation.
I'm brief he continued to come
to me every few months, always
prefaclng his story with Don't
worry, doctor, I didn't touch any,
thing until one day I involuntarilv
exclaimed 4 wish you would have
touched something and gone back
to the sanitarium.' This man COM
mitted about half a dozen crimes
any one Of which would have landed
nm IN prison and all these after he
was cured of his alcoholism"
The specialist observes that the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

will fill a shortly-to -be-felt want
But Don Marquis, the incorrigi-
bic humorist on an afternoon con-
temporary, does not agree.
1T is a noble attempt, this one.
to denaturize the saloon" he has
written. but when Saul became
Paul he was Saul no longer; he
was something else again. The
thing that made the saloon what il
was was the good old jazz juice
they sold there, and there is no sub
stitute. Away with this mock.
cry Of our grief"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

cause the average normal person
will be hurt by it, the abnormal
types will be made more abnormal
through it, and society will undoubt.
eddy lose by it, as it will put a pre.
MUM on dishonesty and hypocrisy
of which we have quite enough"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

do people, both normal and abnor-
NAL, indulge in some sort of bever-
age besides pure water? To DR..
Brill the answer seems simple The
wish is the motive force Of life.
The human being begins to wish
with birth, and never stops wishing
That is what makes progress fer it
result in constant improvement Of
things. Our wishing is done
through our senses, and there is
the human tendency toward over
indulgence.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
Many Who Give Up Alcohol Take
to Heroin, Embezzlement,
Etc., Says DIR. Brill

"HAT the excessive use OF al
cohol is a matter Of devel-
oped appetite on the part of
those who might be classed
as emotionally defective, which, if
repressed or forbidden, will lead
to its equivalent in other abnor-
malities is the belief Of DR.. A. A.
Brill, New York nerve specialist,
eminent psychologist and translator
of Freud. His views are given in
an article in "The New York Medl-
cal Journal"
Man, after all, is dominated by
hunger and love, and the civilization
of the individual, like that Of the
race, is therefore Judged best by
his attitude toward the impulses Of
hunger and love, and it is automatic
that the most advanced races are
those who have exercised the great
est control in their behavior toward
those impulses.
DIR. Brill points out:
"Our civilization is held together
nv the rn1verf,,1 fabric IF snlf-ren1ln-
ciation. The individual is taught
from the beginning to give up or
control his natural tendencies and,
depending on his capacity to adjust,
he either becomes a so-called social
being or he remains eXtrasocial or
even contrasocial. Studies made Of
the highest types Of individuals
show that natural impulses can only
be controlled, never annihilated;
that there is always constant
struggle between them and the
forces of civilization; and that So
ciety must often assist the individ
ual> if he IS not to succumb to this
STRUGGLE,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
AS DR.. Brill said:

"Everything in moderation has
been preached from time i'm
memorial, and it was not addressed
to detectives either. Usually, how
ever, the average normal person
learns to curb his wishes, but allows
himself a certain amount of indul-
Gence which is not altogether harm
full to him. No one can ever abso-
lutely renounce any pleasure once
experienced. 1t is as indestructi5le
as physical matter, it's form only can
be changed. Anything that is as
universally craved as fermented
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

NAL and primitive people, one be-
comes convinced that chronic alco-
holism is a psychoneurotic symptom
usually found in emotionally de-
fective persons, which in the nor
NAL is nothing but a craving or
habit confined to the oral and gas
trio regions.
ut is usually induced by environ
ment, but when that particular
craving is removed by treatment or
force from the defective person
something is bound to take its place,
either in the physical or in the
Psychic spheres. 1t is a we'll known
fact that with the removal Of al
cohol there is a greater demand for
candy and chewing gum, and in the
states where prohibition exists
many substitutes are already in use
which have nothing OF the original
taste, but which stimulate the taste
buds. Detectives, children and
primitives, readily form habit and
can easily become a slave to it,"
Why Won't Water Do?
The question might be asked, Why
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
TRANCE Things May Happen When Fellow Swears Off
A Food Jag That Took Half an Hour

HR. BRILL observed that of his patients
alternated between attacks of eating and
drinking having periods during which he 'gorged
himself with food" Then he cites remarkable in-
stances OF food iags':
acish TO mention The fact that attacks Of operin-
diligence are NOS only confined 20 alcoholism hare
qise number Of psychoneurottcs seko hare reg
ular eating attacks ,chch the n,echansn,s
as drinking.
1he amount Of food consumed during such
tack is Incredible Here is list OF foods consumed BY
tro young lady, ,csiging ninety pounds during
Of her attacks, giuen by her mother:
Three pieces Of toast scith scracberrs :e.:
One egg,
{Scyj-pound almonds,
E1vo cratlers,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
Vhy Won't Water Do?

The question might be asked, WHY
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
The Child

struggle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-03
SHOULD BE SURE TRUCKS
ARE NOT CVERL OADED
So Many in Use in Every Kind of
Business That Experienced
Drivers Are Lacking.

The unusually prosperous condition
prevalent in every kind of business
has developed many new users of
motor trucks, and there are so many
more trucks in operation now than
ever before that there is a conse-
quent dearth of experienced drivers
Concerns which have been using
motor trucks for years have learned
the lesson of educating their drivers
as to the dangers of overlooking
their trucks and abusing them in any
way, but this lis point which the
new users must give serious atten-
ton to II they would get the most
efficient results from their truck
equipment
II owners will take the time to
talk frequently with drivers about
the performance of trucks, the care
they are receiving, the saving they
are making and other kindred SUBJ
jects, the driver will be brought to
realize the responsibility of his po-
sition and will take more interest.
Every man can be made to feel
pride in his work, and If a driver
knows that his executives are in
terested in him and the results which
he Is obtaining the truck will re-
ceive better care and last longer and
produce far better results.
A good way to do this is to have
him keep accurate operating costs,
and compare them month to month,
or, IL the concern operates several
trucks, make little competition out
of 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-03
EXPORTSOF AUTOS
TAKE A VAST JUMP
More Than QuadrupIe From
1912 to 1918, Bureau of
Commerce Report Shows.

From 1919 to 1918 the value OF auto
mobile exports from the United States
rose from s25. 657, 2s4 to s11o,13s.Sa1, ac-
-cording to a report from the bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce. Ship
ments during that period to Latin
America increased 708 per cent; the
value of similar exports to Europe In
1916 was ten times that OF the ship
ments in 1912. The highest point was
reached in 1916. when shipments were
worth over $40. 200. 900 and consisted
principally OF motor trucks for war uses.
Notwithstanding the restrictions i'm
posed by the United States government
during the war. exports during the
fiscal year 1917 amounted to $11S,377. DAT,
in 1918 to s11o.13S,s31. and during the
first nine months of the 1919 fiscal year,
to $75.S0o.0oo: -
While European trade has declined
since 1916, exports to Africa have in
creased per cent: shipments to Asia
and sOceania rose 81 per cent in 1917,
but fell 26 per cent in 1913. Trade with
Canada and other sections north Of the
United States increased 40 per cent in
1917 and IL per cent in 1918 Exports to
Canada in 1918 amounted to s23,6oo.o 600,
or nearly as much as the value of ship
ments to all Latin America Exports Of
cars to Latin America increased 252 per
cent In 1916, 1o1 per cent in 1s1T and AZ
per cent in 1918. The jump in 1916 sue
ceededs the general. depression that fol-
lowed the outbreak of the war.
In 1912 motor cars and trucks sent to
Latin America constituted II, per cent
of all exports of this class. In 1918 the
value of the shipments rose to IA per
cent of the total, but fell to 10 per cent
the next year. and reached the lowest
mark. 3.5 per cent. in 1915. In 1916,
trough exports to these countries were
worth almost twice, as much as in 1913.
they constituted only 6.S per cent of the
whole; in 1917 they grew to IA per cent
and in 1918 to % per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-03
ALL BUT THREE STATES PLAN
|. FOR ROAD BONDS, SAYS EXPERT
W. T. White, Head of Motor Truck Com
mittee, National Chamber, Dis
cusses Prospects.

Every state in the Union, with the
possible exception of three, have or
are going to authorize bond issues for
the building of good roads," says
Windsor T. White, chairman motor
truck committee, National Automo-
bile Chamber of Commerce.
However, the mistake of building
them of too light a construction
should be carefully avoided. They
should not be built as roads were
built twenty years ago, before the
advent of the motor truck, when
horse-drawn wagons were, the sole
users of the highways.
I'VE are not building our highways
to look at nor are we building them
for horses. and wagons. We are
building them for highway motor
transportation, for great lines of
motor trucks which are going to use
them for transporting our commerce
AS feeders for the railroad. the
long-haulage units and for bringing
food in from the farms.
Greater Need Today.
Twenty years ago we did not need
highways as we do today for the de-,
mand was for ordinary dirt, or, at the
very best, lightly constructed mac
adam, because they were called upon
to carry one or two horses and light
vehicle. Today, however, heavy.
hard top is required, and the cost
of it is only economy in;dollars when.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-03

commerce instead of pleasure uses
them.
Think what it is going to do for
you personally in the way of lower
costs, once highway transportation
gets its proper pace-it means that
you are going to get more for your
money. and I will tell you why.
Transportation in the past has been
by our inland waterways and our
railroads. Each had it's capacity for
getting into certain places. But they
have not been adequate to our grow
ing demands-the demands of 100,-
0oo,0 people.
The big demand today is food, and
we are not getting enough of it, and
so, OF course, we are paying heavy
penalty, because the railroads and
waterways do. not reach the farms.
Rural Motor Express Efficient.
NOW, with the coming of the rural
motor express, we are going to reach
out into every hill and valley and
provide. the farmer with quick and
efhcient, economical transportation by
motor truck, so that he will be en-
.couraged to raise larger crops and
send them to you. This will mean
money, the farmer will get greater
return because of the larger con-
sumption, and your city and state
will benefit generally.
The coming of hard-topped high
ways and motor transportation will
usher in new era of advancement,
Will open up new sources of produc-
tion and throw our lines of CONNER
cial influence around the world"