The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-23
Press Comment
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M MORE PRIME HICE.

A new order has gone into effect
with reference to the enforcement of
the Volstead law. That law provides
that no liquor having more than one
half Of one percent Of alchosol
shall be sold for beverage pur-
poses. The prohibition commits
sioner has recently ruled that Dry
fruits, such as raisins, may not be le-
gally used in the manufacture Of non
intoxicating fruit juices exclusively for
use in the home"
That ruling certainly brings on more
talk and clamps down the lid much
tighter than ever. It directly affects
the housewife and will restrict her
family menu.
No more can the once more or less
popular prune be struggled into the
home. Prunes, In the ordinary course
Of events in preparing them for the
table, are stewed and from that pro-
cess comes a certain amount of fruit
juice. Under this ruling no housewife
will be safe from search and seizure
If by any oversight she orders from
her grocer a pound Of prunes, because
the vigilant prohibition officer, like
Sherlock Holmes. will make the newt
able deduction that prunes mean prune
sauce. and prune sauce, if it has any
juice. cannot be permitted in the homes
of the people.
And then following the once lowIy
but now martyred prune, must go a
long train Of other dried fruits into
state Of innocuous desuetude. as
prominent statesman would once prob
ably have remarked, with feeling. Dried
peachesi The festive peach, even when
made into pie. gives forth during the
process of It's preparation, a juice
which Is now absolutely forbidden by
the majesty of the law and this order
Of the prohibition enforcement officer.
And there Is apple sauce, the delicious
apple sauce of our childhood, which
spread generously on thick slice of
bread, solaced many an hour of
trouble and filled many an aching void
Apple sauce will have to go. for 1t,
too, gives forth the criminal Juice that
is placed under the ban by the eight
teenth amendment. Apricots, pears,
berries, even the humble dried apple,
and all such things are verbotcn. now
that the prohibition law is in full force
and effect
OF course, we knew that the .aisin
was perfectly deviIish and that no one
should look upon it when it movctIi
itself Alright, but little did we think
that from the lowest boarding house
in the land to the most princely home
peach and prune and apple sauce
would be forever barred by the stern
DEGREES of law intended TO Try TIE
land and bar the thirsty from their
ancient springs ~ iay
And this order of the prohibition
commissioner places a heavy duty up
on the press. If The Herald catches The
man Of the house carrying home bum
die that looks as though it might con-
tain either canned or dried fruits Of
any kind, it viii have ample ground
for putting the sleuths Of prohibition
upon the criminals track. II he takes
the fruit home and the good wife
should feloniousIy and with malice
prepense prepare TO convert 1t into
sauce, and one drop of the forbidden
juice results. the house will be search
ed, connscated II possible. and every
inmate loaded into the black Maria
and taken off to Jail where they vlll
so richly deserve to be.
The Herald does not like the law or
the ruling, but SIS 1t is the law. it /
proposes to see to it that no. a cook
In Miami uses any raisfns r. dried
fruit in making non Intoxicating iuicas
In the home. That's that.-Miani Her
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