Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-09-16
TO REGULATE
BEVERAGE SALE
Every Brewer Will be Re-
quired to Have
Permit
Sale of Stronger Than One-Half of
One Per Cent il Source Of Worry
to Prohibition 0tiicers-Will Clamp
Down
(By Isaac Gregg

(By Isaac GreXg)
Washington, Sept. f6.-Drastic reg
ulations governing the manufacture
and sale of cereal beverages provided
under the Volstead law are being pre-
pared in the Office of Royal 4. Hayens,
L. S. Prohibition Commissioner.
Following up the recent conferences
in Washington between officials Of the
Department Of Justice, Commissioner
Haynes and state prohibition direc-
tors, it is announced that efforts are
to be made to check the flood of beer
certain sections of the country.
Directors from New York, PennSyl-
vania, Ohio. Wisconsin, Maryland, In
diana and Michigan have reported to
the Washington headquarters of the
prohibition unit that beer containing
more than one-half per cent of alco-
hol permitted under the dry" law
is being manufactured and sold in
most of the leading cities the same as
in pre-Volstead days. The L. S. at
torneys and United States courts, it
has been represented, are loath to go
to the limit in the prosecution Of So
called violators OF the Volstead law.
As CONSEQUENCE, when the new reg
ulations make their appearance they
will provide that every brewer, and
there are some 500 operating through
out the country at this time, must
have a permit TO manufacture cereal
! beverages. Only about half the num-
ber are now provided with such per-
mits, the others maintaining that they
ale only turning out soft stuff" and
are not required to 60 to the trouble
to obtain permits in the manufacture
! Of their beverages.
In addition every brewer in the
country will be required to have his
own bottles and to have his name or
the firm name blown into the bottles.
The kegs he sends out must bear his
name or the name o. the firm. In this
way, prohibitions feel they will be
able to keep closer check upon the
operations OF the various breweries
which will result in the revocation OF
/ their permits if they are found guiity
Of violating the prohibition lay"
Reports reaching the prohibition
unit show that in many instances
brewers have failed to extract the
alcohol from their malt and hops prod
ucts as required under the law but
have sent broadcast real beor IN pot
+les other than their own. When they
have been called to account for such
alleged violation, they have always
coptendsd that the bottles did not De
long to thens and that they Aad no
part whatever in such vio!aUo" u
law.
In other words, manufacturers OF
cereal beverages are to be subjected
to the came stringent regulations AZ
now apply to the manufacturers OF
industrial alcohol, all o. whoIn are re-
CURED to 2bt1in permits from tho pro
hibition unit before they can 90 ''S'-
ness.
There is no doubt that the sltuStioH
affecting the sale Of beer contalH.ns
an alcoholic content greater than one, II;
half Of one per cent IS the cause " VI
much worry 10 those IN cRItko "a
.nforcenent Of the prohloitloh iaH'
| Ccmr,issioner Haynes, despite al tne ne
~ styn-tions to his band OF SleuthS al. an
nxcr w the country. feels that 5on'ethInE 4
is wrong with the whole sys.em -n;th;n G';,
h. i, goinx to see to it, il it is wltnI1 n
his hi 80 mower that the lid is clampea
Jowp tight upon these un'crupuiouSs ~ :
by,w.rI who are defying the law .... anu
supplying to the thirsty clt'ze''S So''''
thing h more than "near beer
While a number OF brewers nave nav
been dragged into court for alleged
violation of the Volstead act very
few II any Of them have been CON
victed and most Of the alleged yloi.a1t
crs xre still doing business at inc
same cd stand 1t IS much easier We?
for them TO make re-l beer ana ,j, gls
nose Of it without going to the addea
trouble of extracting the alcohol from
= Rut il Commissioner Haynes mas
~. -sv about it every brewery, II the
country that does net respect the ia| T
~ ths future will be closed down. ~
bono, TO have the cooperation OF the
Jsna rtmaat of Justice in his erusao1
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