Evening star., 1920-01-14
COUNTRY RENDERS
FINAL TRIBUTE TO
JOHN BARLEYC0RN
PopuIous Centers of America
Reported "In Mourning"
for Departed.

IOI OSpdl lCu.
Muffled drums are beating funera
marches to the grave where at mid
night tomorrow the obsequies Of Co
John Barleycorn are to be held.
Mondays adverse decision of tn
Supreme Court of the United State
In the case brought on behalf of tn
OF New Jersey for permission to fiji
an original suit to test the constf
tutionality of the prohibition amend
ment to the federal Constitution mad
noise like the expiring groans o
mourners at a wake.
Last rites are to be held in severa
OF the larger centers Of population to
morrow night, according to news stories
New York is to revel through the fina
hours before national drought, accord
ing to the Constitution, begins: SO il
Chicago and ST. Louis and Cincinnati
The National Capital will not join il
these last sad rites, 1t bade an Off
| cial farewell to hard liquor and its soft
er brethren one chilly October night two
years ago. Official. that is: brief ant
surreptitious visits of the departed spir
| its to the baliwick of Congress ant
Maj. Pullman don't count
Prohibition Forces to Rejoice.
Ceremonies locally are to be confined
to rallies of the prohibition forces, sew.
eral of which are scheduled to be hell
before and after the date that foreve,
| Will be black bordered in the calendar.
/ OF the bibulously inclined. The mos1
| important of these gatherings is to be
| at Liberty Hut tomorrow night, wher
A. Mitchell Palmer. Attorney General O.
the United States, is to speak. William
j. Bryan. foremost apostle of cold water
Tor beverage purposes, is scheduled tc
speak at 4 rally of prohibitionists al
| night.
Hopes that few cases might be
| estaollshed to mitigate for a time a,
| least the rigors and hardships of the
| long dry spell here have been dis.
! s!pated. The clubs of the city, an6
| the country clubs as well. have noti.
| ned members that with the dawn OF
the constitutional prohibition mem.
| bers no longer will be permitted te
store the stuff that cheers in clothe,
lockers, liquor lockers or other place.
OF concealment in the clubhouses. ever
| Tor strictly personal use All sucf
| caches, the various boards of gov.
| ernors have ordered. are to be re.
| moved before tomorrow midnight
The orders issued by the boards OF
governors of the Chevy. Chase ant
| columbia Country clubs inform mem.
bers that if any liquor is kept in the
| lockers of members after tomorrow
1t will be done unlawfully
Dry Since November, 1917.
! The big downtown clubs, including
the Army and Navy. Metropolitan
and Cosmos clubs, have been dry
| SINCE washington was made bone.
| dry" city on Halloween in 1917
| Storage warehouses of the city II
| which supplies of hard stuff have
have. been stored for personal use
have notified owners of all of the
liquid refreshment that it must be re.
moved. taken or hauled away OF
otherwise gotten out of the storage
| rooms before tomorrow midnight.
Congress already is planning to con-
vert the huge piles of brick and
| mortar and steel formerly used az
bonded warehouses for the storage OF
booze to uses more likely to win the
approval of white ribboners. These
| government bonded warehouses would
be used for storage warehouses fol
! those of the still, and farmers
| wouldn't have to pay for using them
| if bill introduced by, Representative
McC1intic Of Oklahoma becomes g
law. Non-producers using then
| would pay fees fixed by the Agri.
cultural Department, which would
! maintain a sales organization to dis
! pose of products at a satisfactory
price" to the producer.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
zion also would be directed to estab-
lish a new schedule of combination
railroad rates so that the rate to the
government warehouse and recon-
signment to final destination would
not be higher than a through rate
direct from the farm to final destina-
ton.
Maj. Pullman Denies Report.
Public statemen, made that the
police were unwilling to cooperate
with. hospitals in furnishing them
confiscated whisky" said Maj. Pull
man, superintendent of police, to a
Star reporter this morning, "are both
untrue and absurd.
LAS a matter of racr the police de-
partment initiated two years ago
during the influenza epidemic, a move
! ment to turn liquor over to hospitals
for use in cases where doctors said
spirits should be used as stimulants
/ for patients.
Both the superintendent of police
and Commissioner Brownlow were in
favor of this action, but. reference
to the law on the subject shows that
lit is absolutely impossible to turn
liquor over to any Individual, insti.
tuition, public or private. for any pur-
pose, and that liquor seized as a re-
suit of violation of law must be de-
stroyed in accordance with the pro-
visions of the law of Congress.
"The corporation counsel notified
the Commissioners and this depart
ment that for any liquor not turned
over in accordance with law the chief
clerk, who is under a bond of 1000
would be held absolutely responsible
as well as all of his superiors in the
District government"