Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-28

Whale; Pure MORN Lihhe!' W.
harm: made in the mountains OF West
crn North Carolina, by an old-time
Iblockader that don't give a. :.
for law or prohibition. Sold by all
the frst-class 'bootleggers' of n. Z.
for five bucks per pint, and worth
every cent of it; strong enough to
make YOU drunk as the devil in ten
minutes and mean enough to make
baby bullfrog spit in the face OF
whale. Shake well and get ready to
have fit before taking a drink"
Director General Dawes, head of the
budget. will submit to the President
within a week or ten days detailed
statement of the financial condition OF
the Government, showing that despite
the drastic economies imposed on
Government expenditures the financial
condition of the treasury is far from
satisfactory at this time, and will be
less satisfactory on July l and there
after.
Up to March q, the report will
show, the Government had spent an
average of S10,392,510.30 day for
the 264 days of the fiscal year that
ends June 80. This expense is vel!
within the expenses calculated by
General Dawes on Dec. last year
after the economy program had
started to work, and is much less than
the expenses that were estimated for
the fiscal year by former Secretary
Houston and Secretary Mellon prior
tothe time that the budget bureau
started operations.
Nevertheless, the Dawes report will
show that there will be deficit this
year of something like $l0O, 100000,
which must be taken up by the issu-
ance of short time securities to be
added to those now outstanding. In
addition, the report will show that the
Government will face detlclt Tor
next year Of an additional S1G7. .GQD,
600, exclusive of the bonus, which, it
is estimated, would cost in the neigh
borhood of s100,000,000 for the first
year.
Attention of the Anti-Saloon
League and of the national prohibition
commissioner has recently been called
to the fact that while the Government
is spending Sl0,000,000 year to en-
force prohibition, one bureau of Uncle
Sam is still advocating the use OF
various liquors.
This bureau, strange as it may
seem, is the Bureau Of Fisheries,
which, in it's enthusiasm to promote
the cause Of consumption of sea food,
puts out cook book giving recipes for
oysters. Holsters, fish. etc. It's eco
nomic Circular No. IS, Revised" con-
tains two recipes that call for the use
of liquor, it has been ascertained.
One is recipe No. 13, which tells
how to make shirried oysters, which
require the insertion of two table
spoonfuls of brandy. Just where the
brandy is to be obtained, the recipe
does not say.
Another is recipe No. Ia, which tells
how to make oysters la Newourg.
This requires two tablespoonfuls of
sherry, although in this case, as in
the other, no indication is given as to
the whereabouts of the sherry. These
recipes, the cook book says, will make
highly palatable and nutritious
dishes, and little doubt of the fact is
expressed by connoiseurs of seafood.
In fact, if the Bureau of Fisheries is
able to tell some restaurant manager
how to make sherried oysters and
oysters la Nerburg according to this
receipt without bringing forth
shower of prohibition agents. the
opening of the next oyster season
probably will find this restaurant
keeper unable to supply seats for the
crowd that would be sure to swarm
about and inside his doors.
Public hearings on the impending
strike of coal miners will be started
in the House Thursday. two days be-
fore the strike order becomes effective.
Representative of the miners, of
the operators and of the Department
of Labor will he invited to appear at
the hearings. but none of them will
be summoned.
The purpose of the hearings is to
give the public chance to learn of the
causes that lead up to the strike. The
House Committee on Labor has no
authority, other titan its general au-
thority to hold hearings, to compel the
attendance of witnesses, and there is
no effort to make it apnear that the
hearings have been ordered by the
House under resolution passed by
that hndu