The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-05-19
| HAYNES HAS DESIGNED
new WITHDRAWAL PERMITS
New Permits Made From Spe-
cially Prepared, Sensitized,
Mathematical Paper
NEW DOCTORS BLANKS
Believed New Plan Will Greatly
Facilitate Dry Law Enforce
ment

With a view to eliminating what has
been in the past one of the most diff
cult problems of Prohibition enforce
ment and the cause of much liquor be-
ing withdrawn from bonded ware
houses for beverage use, Commits
sioner Haynes has designed a new and
unique withdrawal permit and also a
new physicians prescription blank.
These new forms are printed on spe-
cially designed, sensHized, water
marked paper, and from an engraved
plate Such forms will bear water
marked seal of the Treasury Depart
ment and the word Prohibition" will
be watcr-marked III each form many
times.
For still further protection the Com
missioner has had an ingenious ma
chine manufactured which resembles
check protectors, which machine en-
ploys the most modern principles of
the safest possible check writer. An
impress from such machine will be
made on each withdrawal permit show
ing the amount of liquor authorized
to be withdrawn in manner similar
to that in which banks use a check
writer for impressing the amount of
the check. In the past it has not been
uncommon to have withdrawal per-
mits raised after issuance but with the
use of this specially designed machine
the raising of permits will hereafter
be impossible.
In addition to the use of specially
designed, sensitized, water-marked pa
per for the withdrawal permits and
doctors prescription blanks, there has
also been designed a new verihcation
blank which the various state directors
will use in confirming withdrawal per-
mits. Each withdrawal permit is
numbered and the new verihcation
form will also be printed on the spe-
cially designed, scnsitized, water
marked paper, and will be numbered
to correspond with the number of the
withdrawal permit. When the vendor
or the permit holder, that is, the owner
of the distillery warehouse, receives
a withdrawal permit it is incumbent
upon him to ask the state Prohibition
director who issued such withdrawal
permit for confirmation or vertical
ton of the permit, and if the permit is
genuine and authentic, verihcation OF
the withdrawal permit will hereafter
be made on the new verihcation form.
The manufacturer of the specially
designed, sensitized, water-marked pa
per has agreed not to make the paper
for anyone except the Prohibition unit
and the manufacturer of the check
protector has likewise agreed not to
make such machine for anyone else.
While these changes it is believed
of withdrawal permits on distillers for
liquors, and likewise on physicians
prescription blanks for intoxicants, yet.
it is understood that it is quite proba-
bic that Congress will shortly pass
legislation making it penitentiary Of
Tense to manufacture or in any way be
connected with the manufacture, sale
or use of forged permits, physicians
prescription blanks, or letterheads,
envelopes or other stationery used in
connection with the enforcement
work.
The new form of prescription blanks
makes it incumbent upon the physician
to indicate the name and address of
the druggist who will fill the prescrip-
ton. These changes together with
other constructive work of the present
administration, show conclusively that
the government is in earnest in its
efforts to enforce the Prohibition law.