The Connecticut labor news., 1921-11-11
UNLIMITED NUMBER OF PRESCRIPTIONS
 FOR BEER ALLOWED
Physicians Are Not Bound by Haynes 100 Quarter Order,
 Bureau Rules

l Washington, Nov. 11:-Prohibition ] Commissioner Haynes suffered defeat ] this week in a further effort to surround 1 the medical use of beer with rules that l would increase the difficulty of obtain l ing supply.
 l MT. Haynes announced physicians would be limited to 100 prescriptions l per quarter, but the Bureau of Internal 1 Revenue promptly stated that with the
 amount of beer that can be prescribed
 at any time limited, no limit can be 1 placed on the number of a physician's l prescriptions.
 l This is regarded as only another ] chapter if the diffirulty MT. Haynes
 is having with his superiors. High ] officials of the Internal Revenue Bureau
 assert the Palmer opinion takes preced- l enCc over all Treasury regulations, there { by annulling the rules that were standing when 1t was promulgated. The regulat- l ions then merely limit the amount of any l one prescription to two and one-half gallons.
 It was then stated at the Internal Revenue Bureau that of the limitation of 100 prescriptions per quarter IS to severe and objections are raised, the number will be increased
 Mir. Haynes said the permits of drug gists for the sale of medicinal beer were in the hands of the State directors The Permit Division declined to give out form of permit that will be required, but 1t is understood the prcmits of most of the druggists who have been selling whiskey for medicinal purposes do not bar the sale of malt liquors for the same use
 Senator Stanley Saturday afternoon on the floor of the Senate urged that the personal rights of citizens be protected in
 administering the Prohibition laws. He
 suggested that those who now speak for
 the bill of rights vote according to their declarations when the test comes, saying:
 Local achievement, State Sov-
 ereignty are but means to an end The
 authority vested in the county, the au-
 thority vested in the State, the strict
 delegation of power to the Government
 itself, were but means of maintaining in
 ciolate the independence of the individual.
 Within this circle, so long as he did not
 invade the rights of his neighbor he was
 absolutely secure from any Government,
 State or Federal, to worship God as he
 pleased to speak as he pleased, to live his own life, master of his own fate, his own appetite, his own habits
 And. yet, today, with sad heart 1 see these precious barriers broken and shattered by an irresistible trend toward centralization of power, Federal aggres- sion and Federal usurpation. 1 see the last vistage of States rights and State sovereignty gone. I sec the individual stripped of admittedly constitutional rights. I see his home no longer sacred, his person no longer secure. I see sleuths and spies and inspectors authorized, by law if you can call it law, authorized by a thing you mean to make a statute, to run their hands over the bodies of women in search of contraband goods without an affidavit, without a charge. Your home and mine today is about to be in- vaded by men who have no other auth ority than their own curiosity of their own evil susDiciOns."