Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-22

whose business takes them into the sparsely
settled sections, have found this out. The
work of all sorts of government helo OIL
GERS has been crippled by the suspicious at
titude of the natives. Thus the BIOLOGICAL
survey, in it's work of trapping predatory
animals, finds that its first and most dill
cult Task in given region is to convince the
natives that tn trappers are not looking Tor
stills. The veterans bureau in it's roundup
of men who were entitled to compensation,
met the same obstacle.
The stills seem to have first multiplied
within the mountain sections, and then TO
nave slowly crept down into the valleys near
the cities. There have Always been few
moonshine stills in the Blue Ridge noun
tains near Washington, bu now there are a
hundred in the woods along the Potomac
river for every one that was hidden in the
! mountains ten years ago. The mer VINO
operate these stills are fol the most part OF
the mountain type. 1t seems to be literally
true that the mountaineei of romance has
come down from his wooded heights bring
ing his art of l4quormakins with him.
The Rise of the Mountaineer
And in coming down physically he has
gone up socially and financially. That lean,
hawk nosed, sockless man has become d
prosperous fellow with good car ana a
bank account Many mountain boy and girl
is getting better education and better food
! and clothes by reason of prohibition" There
are no more staunch supporters OF prohlp1-
| ton than these artists of the White Mule.
1t has been boon o them. They are back
| of the Anti--Saloon league to man.
| There are risks, of course, but they can
not be great In the cities the police fire.
quently arrest bootleggers but in the wild
| rural neighborhoods, where White Mule is
made, the loca- officers are seldom hostile.
| In fact, it is not unusual to find the sheriff
| a part owner of a still and the local store
keeper supplying the sugar for share OF
the profit, and in some cases even the
preacher has been known to partake OF the
Iabors and the profits of the venture. In a
word, the whole neighborhood is pretty sure
to be in cahoots, and the way of the str~nger
| there is apt to be hard. 1t was published
not long ago that the prohibition enforce
| melt department was sending hundred
men into the Appalachian region to com
out the stills" Probably thousand could
not have done the job
| Meantime the market for the product
| steadily widens. 1t has always been used
| largely in the southern cities, such as Chat
| tanooga and Birmins ham, and the moon
| sinners found a ready market in those
places as soon as prohibition went into effect.
| w ashington has also been a steady user of
White Mule for long time. New York, it
| is said, is just beginning to acquire a taste
| for it, but the market there is growing, de-
spite the competition of imported stuff.
Moreover, white corn whiskey, while ter
rible thing at it's worst, is by no means I'M
palatable at it's best. There is reason
why the moonshiner's field of activity should
not widen, as he learns how to cater to the
better trade.
Perhaps next this infant industry will
have it's lobby in Washington, and will CO.
operate with the Anti-Saloon league for leg
islation to prevent the importation of liquor.
White Mule l., 100 per cent American, so it
must be good.