The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-09
DRY FORCES IN
SHAPE TO WORK
Haynes REPORT
Analysis Reveal Severa! Kind
of Poisons in Bootleg
Liquor; Ways of Making
Revealed.

OKLAHOMA CITY-Director Millard
F. Meadows announces that advices
from Washington are TO the effect that
the new fiscal year finds Commission.
er R, A. Haynes attacking enforce.
ment problems in a fully organized man.
ner on a basis approaching maximum
efficiency.
The past fiscal year having recessar-
ily been devoted to reorganization work
the forces in various parts of the coun.
try have been augmented until the or
ganization is now practically ON the
basis of the fiscal years appropriation.
Commissioner Haynes states that the
patriotic, law.abiding citizenship of the
United States interested in law enforce.
ment and good government never had
more reason to be optimistic over the
progress being made in this partcu-
lar branch OF law enforcement work
than at the present time. Seldom If
ever has greater progress been made
in such short length of time by any
government in so large a task. The
commissioner states that many who
year ago were antagonistic have now
come To he point where they see most
clearly hat respect for law lies at the
very basis of orderly government and
any disrespect shown toward one law
must of necessity undermine the au-
thority of all laws and especially when
the particular law held in contempt is
part of our constitution.
Analyses liOOtch
Experiments in the industrial alcohol
and chemical divisions due to the use
of poisonous alcohol by bootleggers,
have resulted in regulations which ma
terially checked the condition.
Commissioner Haynes advises that
analyses made Of 'moonshine" revealed
that liquor penetrating under the por-
celain caps of Mason jars. corrodes the
zinc lining. with the result that the
| liquor contains poisonous zinc, which
though N quantities. can not be de
tected by taste alone.
| In relation TO home brew fast
dying FAD experiments reveal that poor
materials. unclean utensils. INSANITY
damp dark surroundings, mostly cell
lars, easements, sheds and stables, re
suit in Notwithstanding concoction,
! the kick" in most instances being due
TO the off products of fermentation or
ptomaines
Poison In IL. Too
Analyses of synthetic whiskey, the
present source OF bootleggers supply,
show the favorite mixture 10 contain
acetone and lsopropyl alcohol added
TO pure ethyl alcohol, the first OF which
lacerates the stomach and the other
paralyzes the nerve centers. Various
methods of coloring are employed, TO-
! dine in some instances being used, and
| while the resultant fake whlskey does
not necessarily kill. blind or paralyZe.
| the tissues of the stomach are destroyed
and organs generally so affected that
disease is certain TO ensue. In view of
the fact that the PROCESS OF denaturing
alcohol requires either bichloride of
mercury. ly sol, formaldehyde, carboic
acid or similar disinfectant. and that
The process OF compounding bootleg
whiskeN ccrtemplates the use OF lead
coppcr lnl zinc poisons, TO say nothing
of fusel OIL II naturally follows thai
drinkers Of IT are taking long chances
on their health II not their lives.
schools oc instruction In many states
in which the general principles of en-
forccmcnt are taught TO agents. have
proved most helpful.