Evening journal., 1920-07-01
cider PLEASE,
MR. FARMER Man
No Permit Necessary is Lat
est Ruling of Prohibi-
tion Director
OPPOSE ROTTING OF
APPLES ON GROUND

There's Joy in store for the farmers
bf Delaware
They can make sweet cider-accent
on the -sweet"-to their hearts CON
bent and w. Truxton Boyce, Federal
Prohibition Director, won't make a
protest Director B0yce said so him
self this morning.
Moreover, Boyce added that he
wished The Evening Journal would
spread the news FAR and Wide" add
fng there's no sense in leaving good
|apples TO rot on the ground when
sucious juice, 1T for kings, can be
made out OF IL,
He said all that and he said more,
said Boyce. In the words of one Of
his able assistants he said a mouthful.
The real question is how is one TO
keep the cider from acquiring
Kick"
Since the country went dry many
Farmers in Delaware and without have
been under the impression that cider
could not be made under any cir
cumstanoes. unless for vinegar and
then that a Federal representative
have TO be notified 10 label the bar
cels.
But under a ruling by no less high
and dry authority than John Francis
Kramer. grand mogul or The entire
prohibition works at Washington, inc
Following leeway Is permitted TO those
who have The apples:
section % OF Title II OF tho Ma
ltional Prohibition Act provides that
<he penalties imposed In the oct
against tho manufacture OF liquor
without a permit shall not apply 10
q person for manufacturing non-in-
.NIHrr and FrI1ft lfTIHnl
rauslvay for use IN his home, but
such older and fruit juices shall not
De sold or delivered except TO persons
having permits 10 manufacture vine
'srhe Bureaus Interpretation Of the
Roregoing provislon Is as follows
-Anv person may, without permit, and
without giving bond, manufacture
Notwithstanding cider and fruit juices
and in 80 doing he may take his apples
or fruits 10 a custom mill ana nave
them made into cider and 1rull
&tices. After such NOTWITHSTANDING
Sider and fruit juices are made, they
.u,nsf be used exclusively In the home,
and when so used, the phrase nom
fntoxicatinr means non-lntoXicotine
IN fact and not necessarily less han
nne-half OF one per cent or alcohol.
There's a @ldck" IN this ruling and
Hss IN the last sentence. "Non-intoNl.
eating means Notwithstanding IN FACT
and not necessarily less than one-half
per cent. OF alcohol"
II certainly Is going 10 be a problem
to decide who Is not intoxicated ln
tact, and moreover such a question
should it bo brought 10 show down
would have TO be decided by a lur,
and not by a Judge, being question o.
nact and not Of law and puries arr
likely 10 be liberal sometimes In theii
4 am glad TO say the farmers car
70 ahead and mako all tho sweet eide
fhcy want Ao," repeated Directo
Bovce. tho farmers that l know
Anve a way OF making ~ and putin
eomefhing into 10 which preserves 4
ehat Is prcvents It from getting hard.
Ealioyilo acid was suggested May
be that Is n. but do know they ca
prcserve H." said Boyce.
"What II they don't use any pres
crvative. and the cider acquires Al
ole fashioned Sussex county appl
Jack kick7~
well. that's tho farmers lookout
and he'd better not try to sell any o
It, that's all"
All OF which resolves itself into tn
old saying heard In the corridors o
xhe capital IN Dover that they can
pass no law to keep cider from gitte
hard" Judging from the kramer IN
ferpretation or tho Nolstead Act, IN
saying Is correct.