The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-09-23
EVEN DRINK TIP Is
BARRED BY DRY LAW
CANNOT TELL A FRIEND HOW
TO QUENCH THIRST. BAN ON
ALL LIQUOR RECIPES.


Saloon League of America will assist
the government in the enforcement
of the wartime prohibition act. The
first move in that direction was made
when that organization issued an al
phabetical index of the prohibition
enforcement code, and a summary of
its main provisions, to be used by
federal agents and others.
While the house is preparing to go
through the formalities of resisting
senate amendments, the anti-saloon
league has accepted the action of the
senate as final.
Careful reading of the prohibition
bill reveals additional drastic provis-
ions. 1t has been framed to cover
every sort of manufacture or sale of
Intoxicating liquor. The anti-saloon
league attorneys drew most of the
important provisions and superin-
tended the construction of the amend
ments.
Cannot Solicit Drink.
After the house passed the Vol
stead bill members of the senate jul
dietary committee asserted that they
would construct their own bill, but
they soon turned to the house draft.
The senate made a few important
changes. 1t added a new section to
provide for prohibition in the canal
zone and amendments providing for
the issuing of prescriptions not on
blank forms in cases of emergency,
and striking out the provision put
ting the burden on the defendant to
show the alcoholic content of liquor.
There are many striking provisions in
the new bill.
"No person shall solicit or receive
from any person any order for liquor,
or give any information of how liq-
uor may be obtained in violation of
this act," is the language of the sec
ton 10. Under this, lawyers hold, it
would be illegal to give friend or a
neighbor a recipe for making any
thing prohibited by the prohibition
laws.
Civil damage suits can be brought
by a person injured by intoxicated
p0TSOHS dSdlISI any pCiSOh WI
tributing to such intoXication by sell
ing liquor or assisting in procuring
it."
This is considered far reaching
proposition, broad enough to take in
John Smith if he tells Tom Jones
where an illicit drink is procurable.
transportation of Liquors.
Common carrier must secure per-
NIT and keep a record of liquor re-
ceived for shipment, and deliver it
only to persons presenting a verified
copy of a permit of purchase. A copy
of the permit is to be made part of
the carriers record. Agents of car
riers are authorized to administer
oaths to consignees, who must be
identified, if not personally known to
the agent.
at shall be unlawful" the bill
says, "for a person to use or induce
any carrier, or any agent or en-
ploye thereof, to carry or ship any
package or receptacle containing liq-
uor without notifying the carrier of
the true nature and character of the
shipment.
mo carrier shall transport, nor
shall any person receive liquor from
a carrier unless there appears on the
outside of package containing such
liquor, if the shipment be made by
the manufacturer, label such as is
required by section IL, if by any
other person the following informa-
ton: Name and address Of the con-
signor or seller, name and address of
the consignee, kind and quantity of
liquor contained therein, and num-
Der of the permit under which the
shipment is made"
It is these drastic provisions that
have enabled the prohibition forces
in the dry states to curtail the traf-
fic. They expect to succeed better
than ever under the federal provis-
ions.