The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-10-03
The Alcoholic Complex

Httlc OH the normal are APT 10 ID
listed as having a complex" Tn,
pychoanalysts had their days in cour
in explaining the complex" in con
nection with Loeb and Leopold al
Chicago. The alcoholic complex
seems to be the most troublesome
form OF the complex epidemic. A Con-
gresham in Baltimore recently gave
a hard cider party in order to dem
onstrate that the farmers were being
favored because they do not always
throw out their cider before it be-
comes us per cent hard. This Con-
gresham treated his constituents to
hard cider as a method OF trying to
convince the world that il would be
all right TO do the same thing with
barley. hops. and malt used in produc-
ing beer. The Congressman said he
was resisting the so-called encroach-
ment upon his personal liberty" and
his defiance OF the United States Con-
stitution was enriched with what look
ed like an alcoholic complex. Even
a Baltimore Congressman does not
seem TO be very much different from
the men who operate beyond the
twelvc-mie limit, or peddling boot
leg wiskey in the big cities. All OF
them dispute the wisdom, and the
social benefits of the prohibition law.
The Organized Complex
The alcoholic complex is not an in
dividual affair. as is demonstrated by
the determined organized opposition
to the Cramtoe bill, a measure in
tended TO make prohibition enforce
ment a little bit more regular Some
wholesale drug organizations opposing |
this measure are using as their argu-
ments 'thc drastic and unjust methods
employed by the prohibition officers"
They point out that bond warehouse
records have been falsiied in order
to obtain alcohol without a tax, and
they fruitlessly argue that inasmuch
as the prohibition law has been sue
cessfully dehed in many ways, that
the whole administration of the Fed
eral Prohibition Act is a failure. Thus
they explain and extenuate their op-
position to the Cramton act, which is
a measure to effect more certain en-
forccmcnt of the dry law. The al
cohoic complex seems to extend to
all branches of people. Even some of
the churches resent its operation when ,
it inspects communion wine, which,
by the way, has been bootlegged to
an enormous extent
Trade In The Twilight Zone
The United States Chamber OF ,
Commerce, the Department of Com +,
nerce, the Department of Justice, and !;
The Federal Trade Commission, are :
Jointly attempting to settle a policy ?
with reference to the trade associa- r
ions OF the country. A good many O
Of these organizations have found I,
in the twilight zone" +,
when they have attempted to function I
according to the understanding of their !;
tights since these rights" have often
with the provisions of the
Sherman antitrust law. A year or .
two ago Secretary Hoover encour- 4
lged the trade associations and gave I
hem to distribute certain kinds OF ,
rade information among their men, ,
oers. Attorney General Daugher.y
ook the opposite view. In the mean
ime the Federal Trade Commissions
n $ und r I a nding. The United
States Chamber of Commerce has
,een using its efforts in getting the
lifferent groups together.
The Retail Store
Washington has been having a visit
rom the retail druggists of the coun- c
ny who assembled in the National v
Capitol for their Convention. Mr.. '
ohm W. Gamble of Omaha, hit the
'ull's eye, in an address describing
he passing OF the old-timc pharmacy
nd its replacement by what he des-
ribed as "a small department store
instead OF merely a drug store" Ac-
ording to Mr.. Gamble the old bust
ess of selling goods has been revolu
ionized and the drug store is no
onger a place engaged principally in
cling powders, pills. tinctures, sticks
I licorice. and handing out free al
ianacs. The druggist OF today must
amiliarize himself with the method
mail order houses .peddlers. the
arious kinds of healers who claim
, cure the sick without medicine and
c must also consider the influence
I the automobile which makes trans
ortation easy. and diverts what was
,rmerly the local trade. Besides this,
le druggist must famliarize himself
garding the personal characteristics