The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-31
CIDER PRESS MAY BE SPARED
IN DRY FIGHT
Overrnan Would Provide Relief for
"Tummy" Ache in Country
Districts.

Washington; d. c., July 25.-The
day of the farmers cider press and
the recipe for making homemade
blackberry, cordial may not be at an
end, despite the fact that the radical
prohibitionists in the House refused
to listen to the many pleadings for
these familiar institutions in the av-
erage American home.
Senator Overman of North Caro-
lima is disposed to be friend to the
mother who wants little medicine
for the day when her boy tells of
having Summer complaint" And he
also is disposed to not consider the
farmer who makes little cider as
criminal. And, being a member OF
the Senate committee now consider
ing the Volstead prohibition enforce
ment bill, he is going to endeavor to
have amnesty granted to these insti-
tutions, now standing as having been
convicted by the House as agencies
of crime.
Representative Webb of North
Carolina held conference today with
Overman and discussed the PROPOSE
ton of having exemption granted for
the making of Misunderstanding cider
and fruit juices for home use"
Both Webb and Overman are prohi-
bitionists, but both also believe the
best way to make prohibition effect
i've is to be sane in considering en-
forcement legislation.
| Cider is cider and that is all. Fruit
juices may be blackberry cordial.
blackberry wine wine, peach juicr, SOUP
pernong wine, cherry mash,. and so
on. And, for instance, peacl juice,
rather inadvertently, might turn to
brandy and some of the other juices
assert their right of self-determina-
ton. But Webb and Overman are
not disposed to worry much over
whether these fruit juices ferment on
the poor housewife and begin to
bubble. ~O1 course, she could not be
expected to throw out all the pro-
ductions of her berry patch, and es-
pecially just at time when only
spring water would be had to relieve
stomach disorders.
A Overman outlined the Amendment
he proposes to offer at the sugges-
ton of Webb. 1t is as follows .
"Nor shall the penalties provided
in this bill against manufacturing
n liquor without permit apply to per-
son for manufacturing nonintoxicat-
ing cider or fruitsjuices in his home
for consumption by himself and his
family, but such liquor, cider and
juices shall only be used for the per-
sonal consumption of the owner
thereof and his family, residing in
such dwelling and of his bonafide
/ ots,ad hvy
him therein, and the burden OF proof
U shall be on the possessor to prove
Mat such liquor was lawfully &C
q,ired, possessed and used
An amendment somewhat similar
to this was proposed in the House by
Representative Steele of Pcnnsyl-
vania, and many of the Prohibition
lists had agreed to support it. But
Representative Blanton of Texas
radical in this case as in all Others
insisted the amendment was out OF
order, and his contention was sus'
tanned.
l Neither Webb or Overman can be
accused of being anti i-Prohibitionists
But Webb advised the radicals in the
House there was such thing as go
ing too far, and Overman is of th<
same opinion.
The conservative Prohibitionist!
are not opposed to the production o
cider and fruit cordials and wines fol
home consumption. They want t
make an end to the many other op
portunites to obtain liquor of any
and all descriptions. and to permi
| 1.-THE home producers to continue il
business for time.
So there may be hope for th'
housewife in her sunbonnet and ging
ham apron, who always had drol
or so of cordial or mild wine aroun.
the house when one of the neighbor'
children became sick. There als'
may be hope for the farmer VIII,
L wants to feed his cider press witt
homegrown apples,