The Washington times., 1922-06-27

ion of certain prominent OFFICERS OF
the Anti Saloon League.
Congressman Hill. having been
greatly shocked by those opinions
las delivered in his own State OF
Maryland), has set out to equalize
the apple orchard and the home brew
vat: and the more this gallant effort
OF his is examined the more clearly
il seems likely TO produce large
amounts OF trouble for prohibition
in this whole country.
Congressman Hill was giving a
lot OF his time to fighting the Ger.
| mans in France while the Anti
Saloon League was enacting legis.
lation in favor of apples and against
hops and malt at home. Mr.. Hill
lives in Baltimore. where apple
orchards are relatively speakingI
scarce. His constituents are for the
most part quite unable 10 go out
into the back yard and pick an
/ apple and transform II into a suf
ficient beverage for slaking their
inherited and confirmed thirsts. In
the agricultural districts. however.
II is well known that there is a
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and also Of prohibitionists. This
coincidence between the presence
Of such trees and the flow of con.
tributions to the Anti. Saloon League
struck Mr.. Hill forcibly as soon as
he noticed that in the Federal pro
hbition enforcement act there was
a notable absence of the word
cider" from the list OF condemned
beverages in Title Two, Section One
and a notable mention OF the word
"ridcr" along with the words fruit
juices" in connection with the spe.
cial exemptions and privileges
granted by title >. section 2e.
h'that moment letter was writ
ten 70 the Baltimore American by
a J Williamson, assistant super
| intendent OF the Maryland Anti
Saloon league. Mr.. Williamson
wished to show that the Federal
prohibition enforcement act was a
mild and considerate piece OF legis.
lation. One OF his ways OF show.
ing ii was to say:
"Thp present regulations made, in
purslIa nee Of the Nolstea act permit
the farmer to make cider and let II
ferment and become intoxicating.
home or give it TO his friends when
they drop in. In fact. these regula-
tions lay only one prohibition upon
him-whiCh is that he must not sell
The same after it becomes hard
Reading this statement, Mr.. Hill
felt that he began to be able TO see
why abstinence from beer was tolera
BILE in the country districts. An apple
produces sofe cider. Soft cider. II
one turns ones back upon ii and
walks away. produces hard cider
Hard cider, IL the barrel containing
it encounters the rigors of winter,
becomes apple jack. A few minutes
of apple jack is the equivalent of
long weary hours OF beer. Mr.. Hill
began writing to Prohibition Com
missioner Haynes.
Mr.. Haynes replies-and the pro
visions OF the prohibition enforce
ment act. and the regulations based
on that act-reveal the following
facts:
You must not make beer in your
home even If you faithfully intend
to keep the alcoholic content OF that
beer down below the Nolstead limit
of one-half OF per cent.
You may make cider in your home
and let it go beyond one-half OF ]
per cent of alcohol and all the way
up to 2% per cent without annoying
the prohibition enforcement act or
Mr.. Haynes.
In fact. Mr.. Haynes has fixed no
upward limit whatsoever for the
alcoholic content OF cider.
Thus IL an American will stick to
! .l,; hntInHinO he
ouench his thirst from one Of the
Shipping Boards excellent buffets
and II he will stick to the apple
growing regions OF the United
States he can quench his thirst from
his own or his neighbors thor
oughly legalized cider-pfesses; but II
the misfortunes OF his life keep him
in a neighborhood where ships dc
not sail and where the apple tree
does not thrive. he is the man for
whom the prohibition enforcement
act was intended.
Mr.. Hill Is accordingly today writ
, ing another letter to Mr.. Haynes
inclosing the little piece of supple
mentary legislation which Mr.. Hi
has devised for equalizing and stand
ardizing the drinks.of the mainland
Of the United States. BY the termt
Of this bill-and really also by Ger
tain terms Of existing law-the priv
leges extended to cider shall be ex
tended also to beer, or else the dis
ordinations visited upon beer shat
be visited also upon cider. Thus W,
shall all rise to the status Of tht
farmer. or else the farmer. besidei
fixing our status, shall himself come
, along down and join us in occupy
ing It.
The Anti-Saloon League is alarmed
by Mr.. Hill. II may well be. Tht
vets in Congress used to be domi
mated by the liquor interests anC
used to conduct a purely detensiv,
warfare. Now they begin to have
leaders like Mr.. Hill, who represents
no interests, but only his own view
and convictions, and they begin Il
conduct a warfare of attack. Th'
prospect 10 that now they will keeI
on going over the tor till they pro
duCc new general engagement OF
some new field Of their own .choosing