The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-04-16

cohol redistillers and the crookedness
of many druggists and physicians. He
said that captures made by his agents
show that SO per cent of the whisky
Americans are drinking today is fixed,
doped, poisoned, split. and otherwise
adulterated.
At one point in his testimony Cen
eral Andrews blamed politics, the
churches, the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union and the Anti
saloon league" for the presence
in the federal prohibition enforce
ment organization of men either
corrupt or stupid and inefficient.
He was not, of course, friendly wit
ness for the vets, and declared that
with more legislation and additional
forces he believed he could finally
control the situation.
United States District Attorney
Buckner Of New York followed with
disclosures Of the enormous quantities
of industrial alcohol. much Of 1t poi
sonous, diverted to the bootleggers
and to the stomachs Of the people. He
estimated the total to be 60,OO0O 600 gal
Ions year. Other parts Of his testi-
mony may be summarized thus:
Twelve hundred drug stores in New
York city are selling 100000 gallons
of whisky year, and that is precisely
twice as much as could legally be sold
If all the prescription blanks which
the law allows the 500 physicians in
that area were legitimately used.
Analysis Of $4,000 samples of boot
leg whisky captured by federal agents
in New York city in two years showed
the captures not to be whisky at all.
but redistilled denatured alcohol with
traces Of the poisonous Genaturing
fluid still in it.
So large and so fragrant Is the d.
version of industrial alcohol from le-
climate channels that now it is being
bootlegged into Canada, where the tax
on alcohol is very high.
Thirteen months ago, when Buck
ner took Office as United States dis
trict attorney for the Southern dis
trict of New York, he found the fifth
floor of the federal building in New
York city seething mob of bartend-
ers, walters, liquor peddlers. petty
bootleggers. f1xers. and bond sharks
openly trafficking with justice. They
tried to bride the jurymen even in the
building.
Alfred ]. Talley, former Judge Of
the court of general sessions, New
York city, swore that his court ex-
perience convinces him that prohibit
ton is ''the greatest single menace
confronting the United States and the
greatest cause of lawlessness among
the most lawless people in the world"
and that "for every saloon abolished
three speakeasies have sprung up"
Among the many other witnesses
heard were Hudson Maxim, Congress
man Ware of Pennsylvania, DIR. Will
liam C. Woodward of Chicago repre-
senting the American Medical associa-
ton and Anton ]. Cermak, speaking
for delegation of Chicagoans.
HORN-BELT leaders In Washington
~ announce that the cotton growers
Of the South will support the surplus
control bill designed to raise the
prices of farm products on the domes-
tic market above the export market
price, and believe they will overcome
the opposition of the administration
to the measure. Secretary of Agricul-
ture Jardine has been drafting bill
which makes some important conces-
sions to the demands of the corn
growers. His measure will provide
for the creation of farm board to
deal with the surplus problem, as pro-
posed by the farm organizations, but
will omit any provision for collecting
equalization fees from the producers.
The corn belt would finance the price
boosting operations from $250,000.-
600 revolving fund advanced by the
government. Secretary Jardine will
not provide for a revolving fund, but
is working out plan for loan
either by the government or private
capital for financing operations in the
orderly marketing of surplus products.
A CCORDING to report of the De-
"A partment of Agriculture, the
farm population Of the United States
decreased nearly half a million during
1925. 1t estimates the number of per-
sons living on farms January l, 1926,
to have been 30.655,0O0, compared
with 31,134,O00 January 1. 1925. The
estimated net movement away from
farms last year amounted to 901 900
persons, but there was an estimated
excess Of farm births overl mR