The Cordova daily times., 1920-08-19
ALLOWS HOME BREW OF OVER
 l-2 PER CENT

ciated Press).-The timid housewife who has been making raisin wine and other home brews with one eye on the brewing jar and the other on the front door in fear that prohibition en- forcement officer might appear need have no further qualms The Inter nal Revenue Bureau has rendered decision which practically lifts the ban on "home brews for home con- sumption" which may contain more than F per cent of alcohol.
 Nevertheless, the home brews must be "non-intoxicating. The Internal Revenus Bureau holds that "non-in- toxicating" as laid down in the Vol stead act means non-intoxicating, in fact, and indicates thereby that some drinks that contain more than the prescribed onehalf of one per cent, while they may cheer, will not ine- briate
 The decision applies especially to cider and fruit juices. Nothing is said about home-brewed beers. Home brewed cider may be sold to any per son having permit to manufacture vinegar and it is also provided that home made cider and fruit juices may be sold.
 The decision suggests an effort to make practical application of the so- called moist plank contained in the first draft of the Democratic national platform. This draft was prepared by Senator Carter Glass, chairman of the committee on resolutions, which pre-. pared the platform. It declared in part that the party was opposed to Fvexatious invasion of the privacy of the home in prohibition enforcement law.
 The ruling announced today is ex- pected to raise anew the question of how much alcohol must be contained in a home brew to give a kick
 The text of the decision follows:
 |'Section 29 of Title H., of the na- tional prohibition act provides that the penalties imposed in the act against the manufactu of liquor with out permit shall not apply to a per son for manufacturing nonintoxicating cider and fruit juices exclusively for use in his home, but such cider and fruit juices shall not be sold or deliv- cred except to persons having per mits to manufacture vinegar.
 ''The bureaus interpretation of the foregoing provision is as follows: Any person may without permit and with out giving bond, manufacture non-ir- toxicating cider and fruit juices, and in so doing he may take his apples or fruits to cider mill and have them made into fruit juices. After such non-intoxicating cider and fruit juices are made, they must be used exclu- sively in the home and when so used, the phrases misunderstanding means non-intoxicating in fact, and not necessarily less than one-half of one tion1, Title II of the said act.
 Or, if the person making such cider and fruit juices desires to do so, he may CD sell such cider and fruit juice at any time to persons having permits to make vinegar; this he may do under provisions of said Section 29; (2) if he preserves such cider and fruit juices at the time they are made, he may sell same to the public in general; this he may do under the provision of Section 4, of Title II, of said act; (3) or he may sell said cider and other fruit juices so long as they contain less than half of one per cent alcohol, but the purchasers thereof cannot use or posses the same after they contain more than one-half of one per cent of alcohol; this he may do un- der the provisions of Sections 1 and 3 of Title II of said act
 ''The cider in the home may be allowed to turn to vinegar if the owner desires, provided he adds no sugar or other fermentable substance to the cider or fruit juices to increase the alcoholic content thereof, inasmuch as such practice is held to constitute a mash fit for distilation within the provisions of Section 3282 revised sta tutes; he may sell said vinegar to anyone who may desire to purchase it; this he many do under the provisions of Section 4, Title I of said act.