Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-19
Many Believe Court Ruling
May Hamper Home Brewing

Most Of the public comment ON the
latest decision Of the United States
Supreme Court affecting enforcement
of the prohibition law indicates be-
lief that 1t win give force to the law
Significance is found In the fact that
Justice Holmes wrote the opinion put
ting kegs, barrels, bottles and other
paraphernalia useful to the home brew
er under suspicion. Some dissenters
from the unanimous action OF the
court feel that It Is too far-reaching,
q second group halls It rs beneficial,
while o third contends that authorize
ton OF seizures win have no effect On
the existing situation.
EFT may prove TO be knockout
blow to home brewing, In the opinion
Of the Ann Arbor Daily News, which,
however, suggests that ut Is even pos
sible to sympathize somewhat with the
home brewer who has labored 30 low
ingly from year to year to provide Q
beverage for self-consumption." That
paper adds that "there can be little
sympathy for the purveyor Of home
brew equipment, whose offering Of the
materials for sale has always seemed
like a frank houting Of the law" The
Ann Arbor editor concludes that about
the only laome-brew apparatus that Is
not liable TO seizure Is. the family
cellar"
Belief that nobody surely will say
now that there Is not enough law 70
make the country as dry as q very dry
old bone" Is expressed by the Savan-
nah Morning News, with the advice
that II prohibition does not prohibit
now It will not be the fault of the law;
there Is certainly lots Of that: that
1.-The law machinery seems to be
moving nicely In high gear" The
Little Rock Arkansas Democrat is i'm
pressed by the fact that Justice
Holmes, that grand old dissenter, be-
lieves that bottle peddling Is . crime. +"
The fact that the decision was writ
ten by Justice Holmes, according TO
the Los Angeles Express. must ada 70
its sting, In the minds Of those who cry
so loudly for their personal liberty to
have booze In any way they can obtain
It," and the Express Is convinced that
"bootleggers who manufacture their
own wares are going to find their In
dustry greatly handicapped" The Har-
risburg Patriot declares: 1.-THE Supreme
Courts opinion applies to the sale OF
such articles which are clearly dis
played and intended to be used In the
violation Of the law. Every person has
6Scu tktScc AAW.ucAyAlS Q1cpldycs 4ACy
were q constant challenge to the law
and 1t was time, If only for the sake
of decency, that 20 Haunting de-
fiance Of the law should be called to
account"
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"A stunning effect upon the enemies
of prohibition" 10 seen by the Altoona
Mirror, while the Jersey City Journal
remarks that successive decisions "re-
mind the Nation that the Constitution
is the voice Of the people and therefore
the law of the land" The Charleston
Evening Post views the decision as one
which may be In practical effect one
Of the most far-reaching the Federal
courts have thus far made In the pro-
hibition situation":: that cit strikes o
body blow at both home brewing and
moonshining," and that 1.-THE whisky
manufacturing business Is certain to feel
It's effects"
As the situation Ia summed up by the
GAINESVILLE Daily Gazette: when stores
sell TASKS, malt, mixtures for brews,