The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-16
PROHIBITION COMMISSIONER SAYS
THIRST OF AMERICA Is NEAR END

Kramer asserted. at does not desire
to hamper or hinder its legitimate
use but there are so many persons
who will drink any concoction that
has a Kick that we just have to
be strict
Mr.. Kramer said many manufactur-
ers of patent medicines refude to be-
lieve their productive has become a
popular prohibition beverage. They
attribute the increase in sales to an
awakening of the people to the form
ulae's medicinal value.
But We know differently here" the
commissioner declares. THE alco-
hol and not the medical potion con-
tanned in thtose bottles is the rea-
son for their popularity. So the Kick
must be taken out of such prepara-
tions or they must be indicated to
point where the taste will not be
pleasant"
Our men have compelled manufac-
turers of some such medicines to cor
rect their products already and the
others will be taken care of as fast as
we can get to them"
The consumption of patent medi-
cines with a kick in them, however,
has convinced enforcement officials,
Mr.. Kramer said, that the drinking
done now is simply the satisfaction of
the hang over" appetite. He believes
it is proof that social drinkings, the
have another on me kind of con-
sumption, has definitely passed for
ever into Oblivion.
"Of course" the commissioner con-
tinued. there is still the social drink
ing in the homes wherever there is a
private supply. But the nightly party
drinking is gone.
II have heard men SAY they would
take a drink now when they never
thought of swallowing. a drop while
the saloons were all about them. The
cause for that is found in the spirit
OF adventure born in most Americans.
1t will continue to cause some trouble.
rather indirectly, for a while but it
will gradually disappear"
Disappearance of the Appetite OF
the steady drinker also is predicted
by Mr.. Kramer who foreseees in that
connection practically the end of the
bootlegger. He asserted that while
there always would be some demand
for hard liquor. prohibition enforce
ment in a few years would have re-
solved itself into a simple problem of
duction of moonshine and the pa
trolling of the border and coasts
against smuggling.
Liquor smuggling like the produc-
ton of moonshine whiskey has de- |
veloped into business of high profits |
since the advent of prohibition. In
fact, revenue officers assert that the |
value of LIQUOR thus brought in ex- |
ceeded the estimated worth of all |
other struggled commodities.
Mr.. Kramer said the enforcement /
agents problem with respect to liquor |
was in the Great Lakes 1
area and along the st. Lawrence river
section of the Canadian border. It has
been difficult to curb and the end is
not vet The profits are increasing
as the local supplies decrease and
his condition, the commissioner be-
ieves, means that greater effort at
must be concentrated /
along borders of the country.
Port cities, especially along the At
antic coast, have given the bureau
rouble for foreign mariners are will
ng TO help Americans obtain quaint
les of any kind of beverages no longer
sold here. But a wedding out of the
staff, the elimination of
such men who have not resisted the
smuggling of liquor from foreign
ships. is expected by officials to cor /
rect that condition eventually.
AS for the moonshiner, Mr.. Kramer
,andidly stated that I'VE always will
nave some of him with US" Operat-
ng in the mountains fastness, his still
will spring up again and again, but
he head of the dry forces is optim-
site. He declared the sentence had
been read for the moonshiner too and
hat the combined forces of prohibi-
ion and internal revenue could keep
IN his trail as long as Congress au-
horized employment