The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-03
H0NE BREWING BAN
LIFTED BY UNCLE SAM
.,,rp AND GRAPE JUICES FOR
,,nrvIDUAL USES DECLARED
,rcA1 ny REVENUE BUREAU.
MIST NOT INTOXICATE

n..;.;on Brings Up Several Import
IN. Questions. Prohibition Officer
plans Flying Squadron for Gather
inc Evidence in Big Cities.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-The timid
housewife who has been making
blackberry and scuppernong wine
and other home brews with one
owe on the brewing jar and the. other
m the front door with uneasy expec-
tation that prohibition enforce
ment officer might appear need have
No further fear. The internal reve-
nue bureau rendered a decision on
Saturday that in effect lifts the gov
eminent ban on manufacture Of
drinks brewed for home consumption
that NAV contain more than the u
Of per cent of alcohol allowed by
the Volstead law.
Rut while these home brews may
not be limited in alcoholic content to
u of l per cent of kick, they must
be notwithstanding" beverages. The
internal revenue bureau holds that
mountaineering" as laid down in
the Volstead act, means non-intoxica-
ton in fact. and indicates thereby
that some drinks that contain more
than the prescribed " of L per cent,
while they may cheer, will not inebrl-
ate.
Beer Not Mentioned.
The decision applies especially to
cider and fruit juices. Nothing is
said about home brewed beers. Be-
fore going further it should be under
stood that the home brews covered by
the decision must be drunk at home
Home brewed cider may be sold, how
ever, to any person having permit
to manufacture vinegar, and it is al.
so provided that if cider and fruit
juice made at home are preserved al
the time they are made it will be per
missable to sell them.
The decision suggests an effort to
make practical application of the so:
called moist plank that was contained
in the first draft of the democratic
party's national platform adopted al
San Francisco. This draft was pre-
pared by Senator Carter Glass OF
Virginia, who was subsequently
elected chairman of the convention
committee on resolutions, which pre-
pared the platform adopted.
Moist Plank Idea.
The first draft moist plank, while
condemning the saloon and favorlng
the enforcement of the Volstead act
with a promise of adequate monetary
appropriations to carry out its pro-
visions, declared that the party was
opposed to "vexatious invasion of the
privacy of the home" in that enforce
ment.
This plank, which was rejected by
the resolutions committee, was IN
terpreted to mean that while the
democratic party acknowledged thai
prohibition had come to stay and
must be maintained by the govern
ment, it should not be so vigorously
enforced as to interfere with the de-
sire of private citizen to make in
tOxicating brews in his own home
with the intention of consuming them
there.
The ruling announced on Saturday
Is expected to bring forward severa!
important questions revolving around
the problem of how much alcohol
may be contained in home brew to
give kick. The effect of the de-
clsion, however, is to suggest that the
government has no intention to make
lnquisatorial to private homes of re-
spectacle people suspected of making
nome brews for private use exclu-
sively.
No "First-Aid" Liquor.
Under ruling of the commissioner
OF internal revenue, William H. VIII
hams, workmen in factories and in
dustry generally must not be given a
drink of whiskey as a "first aid
treatment.
Secretary of the Treasury Houston
has approved the ruling, which re-
peals section IA, regulations 60, au-
thorlzlng procurement of liquors for
use In first aid' treatment at manu-
featuring, industrial and other estab-
ishments.
1t has been the custom of the at
ttendant surgeons at First add sta
tlons at all industrial establishments
TO administer liquor in medicinal
quantities as temporary stimulant
10 the men or women who have been
injured while at work. and who are
awaiting transportation to hospital.
hereafter the patient must wait until
the ambulance arrives.