New Britain herald., 1919-05-23
MOONSHINE POPULAR WITH THOSE IN ORE.
Those Who Want Kick and Fear
 to Smuggle Make Their Own
N F. A SDecia1 to the HeralO)

(N. F. A. Special to the Herald)
 Portland, Oregon.-We've had 1t more than two years. YouH get It July 1, if President Wilson's recon mendation for amendment Of the war time prohibition act is ignored oy congress. What?
 Bone-dry prohibition!
 And yet
 We're bone-dry in the Pac1nc Northwest only in a manner of speak, ing. True, the beer of commerce IS unknown to us, and the whiskey or commerce is becoming harder ana harder to get. But if it's the KICK you want
 There are two ways: Make it or smuggle it. We smuggle whlskey from California. It's a game. IL we win, we get rich. Bootleg fetches SEQ per shy quart. If we lose we pay heavy fines and go to jail.
 We smugtgle it in fast automobiles on dark nights over mountain roads. We smuggle it by rail and Water-ln crude oil tanks, and hotwater bags, and in suitcases and trunks with false bottoms Women smugglers wear dresses with many pockets cunningly contrived to hold fiat 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 trunk and hear the gurgle-g -gurgle which the untrained ear cannot detect. They can shake suit case and hear the tinkle-tin1le. They look into the travellers eyes and know there is bootleg in his baggage. It's a hard game to beat.
 The officers bounce on our trunks and open them with violence, which they have no right to do. And some times we miss silver toilet articles and other things of value. And we cant 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 nnessee-genuWine hill billies, but with the commercial in- stinct highly developed. Moonshine never fetched $2O a quart in Kain- lucky.
 There's many still hidden away
 
 ton.
 Note for housewives: In five min utes you can construct a small-capa- | city still and make whiskey in the l kitchen. All you need are a large l 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. It strikes the pan J | The steam congeals and falls into the l pie tin. It trickles through hole in l the pie tin into the tin cup beneath. | And that's moonshine! A queer psychology has been at work among us since, with our eyes l open, we voted the Northwest dry. l We are--or were-law abiding peo- l pie. Now we scheme to break the law. The best people do it. Every 1 third house in Portland is distillery, ! a winery or a brewery. l We make "dago red' from Zinfindel grapes which are shipped to us from | California. We make loganberry l wine, and raisin wine, and appIe-and- ] honey wine, and dandelion wine. You | can even make wine from carrots.
 Good beer is hard to make. Every once in a while the neighborhood is shaken by an explosion. Windows rattle. The earth trembles. But we 1 merely smile and go about our busi- ! ness or pleasure. We know what has happened. Some amateur brewmeis- | ter has put too much yeast in his beer.
 It's all very wrong, of course. Our 1 consciences prick. Nevertheless, we find a perverse enjoyment in breaking the prohibition law. And this we know-that prohibition never can be l bone dry.
 Fermentation makes alcohol Most everything ferments. Alcohol pro- vides the kick. And it's the kick we
 want.