The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-17

pre-; nearly had him sold on the
proposition.
brew, 1 don't know that I care to
come I can't drink the raw corn
whisky they sell out there. wouldn't
attempt to do so. If the governor is
right about it, shall call the trip
| off. JAY E. HOUSE.
Philadelphia. December Y.
Just in order to receive another Wis
it from Jay e. House. Topeka's for
mer mayor and e of her most pop
ular and widely quoted citizens. The
State Journal would be tempted to
discredit the governors statements in
/ the east.
But, of course. this wouldn't be fair.
| To park our feet on the same desk
with this brilliant Philadelphia coll
umn artist at the expense of the truth
in the states prohibition condition
would be in violation of newspaper
| ethics-ethics of a newspaper that
! strives for facts.
| This and the above two paragraphs
are written previous to an assignment
to State Journal reporters to enlighten
Jay House.
| Later: The reporters have turned
in theirN~eopy. Here is what they
have.
MAYOR HERBERT J. CORWINE-
There is certainly a great deal of home
/ brew being brewed and consumed in Kan
/ sas. In some Of our best homes the base
ment has become a brewery Some of our
! best farmers have discovered that they
can sell their corn in bottles at a greater
profit than they can sell it any other way.
Irnf1 Dr for Inv hn aIC 1nutra
returned, so generally, to drinking. | do
! not believe, however. that there is more
! was going on before prohibition
SHERIFF ROBERT MILER-'.If Gov
ernOr Allen referred only to home brew,
| which is beer, 1 am inclined to agree with
/ him But If he referred to whisky-well,
there seems to be a lot of the corn va
riety. in this county at least. We have
/ thirty stills down stairs which we have
captured at various times. In fact, whisky
has been plentiful that we have quit
trying to keep all we capture as evidence.
| We just bring a quart or so to show the
courtand pour the rest out on the ground"
G A SWALLOW, chief of police-'I be-
lieve there is a great deal of home brew
made in Kansas. The 1000 gallons which
was captured in Crawford County a few
weeks ago by federal officers is a good
indication Of this fact. There have also
been several big raids in various parts Of
the state that have been quite fruitful
AL F. WILLIAMS, United States district
attorney for Kansas-"In looking over the
records of my office 1 am inclined to be
lieve that Kansas is becoming drier, as
find that federal officers have seized only
eleven thousand gallons of booze in the
state during the past sixty days"
T. L. CRABBE. president Kansas Anti
Saloon league-"I don't know what to
think about the home brew situation and
the local distilling. 1t is certainly causing
us a lot of trouble 1t is also worrying
prohibition workers everywhere. The other
day we visited n rural community in one
Kansas county and picked up ten stills IN
a radius of two miles. There are certainly
large numbers of people making their
own
GEORGE W. WARK. prohibition en-
forcement officer for Kansas-'We are just
hitting the high spots 1 wouldn't under
who are making their own. We have seized
enormous quantities of home brew and
corn whiskyrmucb of it stuff which I
wouldn't want to try to drink, or recon-
mend to anyone to drink on use for any
purpose. There are undoubtedly hundreds
of people making liquor for their own use
in violation of state and federal laws
DUDLEY DOOLITTLE, former prohibit
ton enforcement officer-"With funds and
forces available it is simply impossible to
do more than keep down traffic in liquor
private still During my administration |
had reports that in some of the western
counties alone there were 200 to 800 stills
privately operated and for home use alone.
In the southeastern counties, where there
is a large foreign population, conditions
are naturally much worse"
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