The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-02-01

imported. it isn't worth Sc or ST quart
from anv standpoint. and it is poisonous.
It cost 81 to 35 cents to manufacture, IN
Guiding bottle and label. Reims wine
isn't Reims wine at all, any more than
Usage oranges are the product of Cali
fornia or Florida orange groves.
LITTLE FROM CUBA
Mr.. Afford who was in the Federal pro-
hibition service in Florida before coming
to Ohio, explodes the story that enor-
NOUS quantities of Cuban and West IN
dian liquors have been coming into Flor
ida. He asks what would be the use OF
risking boat, liquor stocks and even lie
itself to run the gauntlet OF revenue cut
ters and, besides, pay the price CUBAN
and West Indian dealers would ASK Wnen
one could with little danger, manufacture
all the Cuban and West Indian liquors
one could sell, in a shack in the Ever
glades? And, If one wished 10 give a
semblance to rum-running, why couldn't
one load his liquors on boat, and bring
it around to the Florida shore, without
going half a mile out to sea? The answer
is that this is just what happened. or
course, some foreign liquor did land in
Florida, but it was cut, needed, adult
terated and greatly increased in quantity
between the Havana harbor and the Flor
ida mainland. Practically none OF 1t came
in as it left the Cuban booze factories.
Often it was adulterated in Cuba and re-
adulterated in the Journey over to Flor
ida, and further doctored in Florida be-
fore it reached the ultimate customer,
who, not infrequently, after imbibing his
purchase, became the late" customer.
Mr. Afford has developed a process,
known only to himself, by which he can
analyze quickly any sample of liquor that
comes to him, and determine in not more
than an hour, whether or not 1t is genu-
ine The only trouble he is now finding
is that he can't get genuine sample with
which to compare.
Many of the samples in the lot includ-
ing some of the so-called foreign and
Understanding samples, have heavy Sed-
iment in the bottom of the bottles; one
sample contains an entrapped fly; that
sample was obtained in a pharmacy, and
was intended for flu medicine.
Afford says that the corn liquor manu-
facturer makes his product under the
most crude and filthy circumstances. If
he has QUILTED himself with copper
still, the revenue officers destroy the still,
and he then fits up the family wash boiler
or a contraption home made and often OF
tin or iron or zinc. In the diStillerieS it
takes ten or eleven days for the mash
properly to ferment; the moonshiner can
not wait that long, SO he uses other and
cruder means to hasten fermentation. 1t
is common practice, Mr.. Afford says, for
moonShiners to put horse manure or cow
manure into the mash to heat up the
mixture and hasten its fermentation
Others use I've. It is not unknown that
even human eXcreta has been thus used.
WOULD EXHIBIT AT FAIRS
Iodine is now redistilled, Mr.. Afford
points out 1t contains 80 per cent of al
cohol: sometimes the rediStiller gets the
poison out, but more often he does not.
Mr.. Afford is anxious to make his eX-
hibit at county and state fairs, and at
other places where the bootleg customer
or the young fellow going to dance may
learn that he takes 5000 to 1 chance
when he buys booze; the Federal govern
ment is authority for the statement that
less than one per cent of all hooch seized
is genuine; that the bootlegger makes his
hooch for 80 cents and sells 1t for 81 to
Sc; that it may not do the consumer a
great deal of harm, but it may, on the
other hand make him i'll or even kill him.
He suggests that it would be mighty
fine thing if the Federal government were
to make it possible to put into service
large number of men who could arrange
such exhibits and show them at fairs, in
Sunday schools day schools, colleges, uni
verSitieS church gatherings Young DeO-