The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11
MOIST FORCES ARE IN
LINE FOR BEER PROGRAM
WILL DROP LIGHT WINES IN
NEXT MOVE TO MODIFY
DRY" LEGISLATION.
ISSUE In RECENT CAMPAIGN
Wet and Dry Organizations Joined
Forces and Sought to Pledge Can
didates for Congress. Manufacture
Of Home Made Wine on Increase.

vi Home MADE wine on increase.
NEW YORK, N. Y-Some time
after March A. 1925, if fortune favors,
you who are yearning for legal drop
of something with a kick in it will
be able to go to the corner grocery
and buy bottle or two of us per
cent beer.
This is the objective of a great
movement, more or less beneath the
surface OF affairs political, which is
gaining ground chiefly in the eastern
| half of the country The wet and
moist organizations have joined forces
and pledged candidates for election to
the next congress- voted on last Tues
day, to support a modification of the
Volstead act, changing the limit on
/ the alcoholic content of beverages
| from one-half OF one per cent to 2,75
per cent.
Such success attended the efforts
made in this direction that officers of
the Moderation League today predict
ed that the Volstead act will be so
modified in the next congress. The
Anti Saloon League, which is vigor-
ously fighting this move with all its
vast resources, is equally confident
that the next congress will be as dry
as the present one, and, therefore, no
more disposed to lift the prohibition
lid.
Light Wine" Dropped.
The foes OF prohibition have now
virtually abandoned, for the time be-
ing at least, all hope of the repeal or
modification OF the eighteenth amend
ment and have dropped light wine
}from the beer and light wine program.
They are convinced that it would be a
hopeless undertaking to try to obtain
any legislation OF light wine which it
would be difficult to establish as nom
Intoxicating, and that they will be
fortunate if congress goes so far as to
authorize us per cent beer, which
they are confident they can prove is
Notwithstanding
Many candidates for congress in
dorsed by the Anti-Saloon League
have gone on record in letters to the
Moderation League and to the Asso-
ciation Against Prohibition to the eff
feet that they will favor the expert
ment of raising the alcoholic content
in the Volstead act with a view to
satisfying a craving which is now pro-
ductive of most of the home brewing
and Bookkeeping and other forms OF
prohibition law violation.
| While the home brewing of beer
81 &c
the decline the household manufact-
ure of wine is on the increase. Grapes,
Instead of becoming cheaper since the
advent of prohibition, are growing
more expensive all the time as the de-
mands for home wine-making in
crease.
Grape Shipments Heavy.
The shipments of wine grapes alone
to New York and New Jersey from
the Pacific coast this year have been
so heavy that it was necessary Tor the
railroads to place an embargo or
them until the congestion of refriger-
ator cars could be relieved. The grape
market with the New Workers buying
the markings of wine with kick has
become one Of the sights OF the Amer
lean metropolis.
Scotch whisky is more plentiful and
cheaper than ever all along the At
lantic seaboard and in the cities Of
the nearer hinterland. The family
bootlegger is now a recognized pur-
veyor with a regular price list of hard
liquors of great variety, prompt deliv-
cries guaranteed. 1t is SO easy to gel
good hootch that poisonous hootct
has almost ceased to be danger.
The prohibition issue came to the
surface in the campaign in the east
t notably in New York and New Jer-
sew. Colonel Roosevelt, who voted wet
, when in the legislature, came out fol
re-enactment of the New York state
prohibition law, while Governor Smith
stood on his signature to the repea
of the act.