The Washington times., 1923-10-16
WET FOX FINDS
CORN HERE
|SDEADLY
Wallace Perkins Washes Var
nish off Dresser With Sam
pIe-Raps Volstead Law.
GEORGE FRANKLIN.

Wallace Perkins, the Swamp
Fox" of the AUTHORIZATION League,
is in Washington. He arrived few
DAYS ago to listen in at the hearings
of the charges made by the ponce
against dry enforcement agents:
While here Perkins has been
demonstrating that following the
filing of the charges and the conse-
quent ending of dry raids local
moonshiners have resumed act1vi-
ties exhibiting every indication or
determination to flood the city
while the flooding is good.
"You can buy all the corn whiS'
key you want here at from 81
pint upwards" said Perkins. tndi-
eating collection of fifteen sam.
pies arrayed on the dresser in his
hotel room.
Zach of those bottles illustrates
the distilling ability Of q moon
sinner mostly operating tea kettle
Stills" he continued. 1.-THE collec-
ton represents an investment Of
SALTS. There is about two gallons
of liquor there which suggests corn
whiskey in Washington can be
bought at about $40 gallon.
Eats Off Varnish.
Perkins withdrew the cork from
one Of the TASKS.
Smell that Then he poured a
small quantity on the dresser top.
After waiting a few minutes he
suggested wiping it off. It wiped
off easily enough and with 1t came
the varnish from below.
snow suppose you had few
l-.s~ 90
belt! You would be in the hospital
with the specialists trying to find
out what kind Of rat poison you
had taken and looking up the
address Of your nearest of kin.
Then there would be a job for the
undertaken and the tombstone
maker, and you WOULD be the in
nocent cause Of their activities.
"It is one Of the conditions re-
sulting from the effort to force
prohibition on a reluctant public,
and should be accepted as ed&ca-
tional. What goes on here goes on
all over the country all OF the
time"
Boston. according to Perkins, is
so wet residents go round in. rub
Der boots. All of the New England
towns are described by MIN as be-
ing in the same condition. Penn
sylvania is a deep bogland. New
Jersey. he paints, as little drier
than the Atlantic ocean, suggesting
Senator Edwards has made good on
his pledge given in his race for
governor to make the State as wet
as the ocean. Sections of Maryland
are depicted as being covered by
an alcoholic mist which last summer
exterminated the mosquitoes. Re-
verting to Washington he~ said.
Conditions i'm Washington.
Conditions here are continually
before the country. People look to
Washington, the national head
quarters of the enforcement agents.
as furnishing an example of the
possibility of enforcing prohibition.
when a stencil arises in the ita-
tional Capital it permeats the whole
country If the enforcement agents
assigned by Commissioner Haynes
to work here cannot get along with
the police and become involved in
controversies the broad impression
is they cannot get along together
elsewhere.
1T came here expecting to listen.
in at the hearing of the charges
made against the dry agents by the
police. Evidently the situation is de.
veloping into a closed incident.
''In the meanwhile the bad effect
Of the expose of alleged corruption
on the part of the agents, broad
casted by the press, remains in eff
feet all over the country.
THE whole situation sums up into