Bisbee daily review., 1921-01-15
America s Dry, But Hardly
 Bone Dryg
BY E. M. THISRRY


 NEW YORK, Jan. l4.-Ne tional prohibitions first official birthdaS occurs Sunday, Some will celeb. ate It: others will commemorate it.
 Prohibition, as wartime measure ~SS a year old last June 90. 1hs eighteenth amendment, however. wen. into erect Jan. 16, 1919.
 The amendments first birthday dl rects attention to, some ntereStins situations. For instance.
 Forty-eight million gallons of liquor in bonded warehouses. cost ing Uncle Sam S1.000, 900 wear to guard.
 Withdrawals on permits of l. OS0,G00 gallons month. whtch will exhaust the bonded supply in four years,
 Additional withdrawals Of 4,- O0O.00O gallons a month Of non beverage" alcohol. manufactured by 7S diStilleries, paying govern ment tax Of SS.SOO.OO0 a month.
 Much liquor being SmusSled over Canadian and Mexican bSr- ders.
 Much liquor being manufSetur- ed illicitly ia this country.
 Liquor on sale by the drink. quart and case in most cities.
 Bill pending in Congress to in veStigate prohibition enforcement.
 Charges of liquor graft, bribery and corruption pending in many cities.
 Ambiguous rulings by gOVcrn- ment departments resulting in legal and illegal manufacture of intoNicantS.
 Quest for Stills
 Commissioner Williams of the ln- ternal Revenue department, says dur ing the year his agents destroyed 6.SSs illicit diStillerieS. 7S06 illicit stills. SS7S worms. sS.74S gallons spir- its. 4O.1I6 fermenters, e,T1s,O19 gal Ions fermented mash. 1S1.SS0 gallons wine and cider-and seized but not destroyed-le2.S65 gallons of spirits Yet paraphernalia for diStilling whisky - especially She important sworm'-are openly displayed for sale in many cities.
 The commissioner report shows II .565 persons have been arrested in the United States for having violst- ed the prohibition law. Of whom It, 4sS-nearly 100 per cent-haye been for prosecution.
 Total penalties and taxes under the Volstead act of sss.571. .sS9.Ss have been assessed against violators of the law
 Here are some serio-comic angles to prohibitions birthday:
 Rulings permit a man who owns a grape arbor to make 200 gallons of wine year-w1ne with kick. But a woman who owns a box of raisins may not make cV- cn a fruit drink from them
 A farmer may make all the hard cider he can drink: but city man may drink only sweet cider doctored to prevent fermentation.
 < manufacturer may put KICK in mincemeat, but a hotelkeeper or housewife is not permitted to do it.
 Moro than l50 rulings and regula- tionS have been issued, many conflict inc. by Attorney General Palmer, Commissioner Kramer auG Revenue Commissioner Williams. Prohibition Is more destructive 10 life and morals than tircarmS," says Hudson Maxim, famous inventor. Tho eighteenth amendment Is 2 school for crime"
 The crime wave cannot be hlam' cd on prohibition" says William !. Burns. famous detective.
 prohibition has made America a better. countrylin which 10 live" says General Booth of the Salvation Army.
 Consumption Drops
 Commissioner Kramer says 6S.0c0,- poo gallons of liquor were consumed every six mouths before prohibition. aud that it has now dropped to lS,, OO0.Oo0 gallons in six montbS. However. this does not include the hOotch struggled iuto tue country aud here.