The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-07-27
BAN IS RAISED
& ON HOME BREW
I.nternal Revenue Bureau
I Decision Allows Max
! ing Home Drinks
MAY SELL TO PUBLIC
Those With Permits to Man
ufacture Vinegar Can Buy
From Brewer"

WASHINGTON, July 26--Thc in
tArnal revenue bureau rendered
decision to the effect that II itfts
the government ban on the manu-
facture of drinks brcwod for hom"
cpnsumpiion that may contain more
than the f-2 per cent OF alcohol thar
the Volstead act allows.
( But while those home hrcws may
not be limited In alcoholic contents
10 one-half OF per cent OF KICK
they must he Notwithstanding" bcv-
cragos. The Internal revenue bu-
reau holds that "nonintosicating" os
laid down In the Volstead act means
Misunderstanding In fact. ana indicates
thereby that some drinks that con-
tein more than the prescribed ono.
half OF 1 per cent, while they may
dhecr. will not inebriate.
Tho decision applies especially 10
cider and fruit Juices Nothing is
taid abort home -brewed beers lio7
fore going further II should be
Understood that the home brews COW
bred by the decision must be drunk
at home. Home brewed cider may
DE sold, however, to any person haV-
tng a permit to manufacture yinegar
nnd II is also provided that II cider
lind fruit Juices made at home are
brcseryed AT the time they are made,
II will be permissible TO sell them,
Cites Democratic Plank.
4 Tho decision suggests an effort to
fmake a practical application OF the
ko-caled moist plank that wns con-
hnincd in the first draft OF tho DEM
soocratic party's national platform
iadopted at san Francisco.
1 This original draft was prepared
Thy Senator Carter Glass, chairman
fof the committee on resolutions,
(which prepared the platform adopt
led, II declared In part that the
lparty was opposed to 'vexatious In
Evasion OF the privacy OF hte home"
lin prohibition enforcement law.
4 The text OF the decision follows;
section 80 OF title OF the ma
stional prohibition act provides that
1.-THE penalties imposed In the act
sagainst tho manufacture OF liquor
without a permit shall not apply to
Ia person for manufacturing nonin-
Aoxicaiing cider and fruit juices. hut
sHuch elder and fruit juices shall not
sbe sold or delivered except to per-
tsons having, permits to manufacture
ivinegar.
l The bureaus Interpretation OF the
sforegoing provision Ia as follows:
ANY person may without permit
bnd without giving bond. manufac-
sture Misunderstanding cider and fruit
kjuices, and IN no doing no may take
This apples or fruits TO custom mill
land have them made into cider and
fruit Juices. After such nonintoxi-
scating cider and fruit juices are
amade. they must he uscd sxsiusiveiy
ln the home and when 80 used, this
sphrasc non Intoxicating means nom
Intoxicating In fact. and not necos-
tsarily less than " Of 1 per cent Of
lnlcohol. as provided In section OF
ptitle 2, OF the said act.
May Sell 10 Public.
\ "Or, II the person making such
scidcr and fruit juices desires to do
Ao. he may % sell such cider and
tfruit juices at any time to persons
having permits to make vinegar
fthis he may do under the provis-
s,ons OF said section 80: CD II no
Apreserves such cider and fruit Juices
lat the time they are made he may
ysell same to the public In general
sthis he may do under tho provision
Eof section of title 2. OF said act.